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Work From Home Completing Online Surveys

July 6th, 2011 5 comments

Many people work from home either completing online surveys or writing articles. This can be a good way to earn money from your computer if you want an income straight away. Building websites and getting ranked in the search engines takes time and if you are starting from scratch you will have to learn all the ins and outs of it too, so for some people online surveys are the way to go.

If you head over to www.newvistalive.com you can start earning once you have created an account and done your profile surveys. You should start getting surveys to your email within 24 hours depending on your demographic. Your earnings will depend on how many surveys you can complete and how many you receive. You can sign up with other companies offering online surveys too and the more you subscribe to the more money you can make. It’s not everyone’s bag though and some of the questionnaires can be tedious. If you can stand answering questions for 10-20 minutes at a time then it might be a good extra income.


Other companies to check are www.toluna.com, www.globaltestmarket.com, www.honestrewards.co.uk and www.mysurvey.com. Payment is often worked out on a points system where points are redeemed for cash and depending which survey company you go for will affect the payment structure. It is well worth signing up with a few though so you will see which ones suit you best. Don’t expect miracles as you will have to complete many surveys to meet the payment threshold which will differ between companies so it will still take time before you actually see the cash.

Like many online income streams you are effectively self employed when earning from online surveys. For this reason don’t expect it to be like a job where you would get a regular paycheck. The less you expect at the start the more pleased you will be when you see the money trickling in. Now get started an earn some money!

 

 

Finding top selling items on Ebay

July 4th, 2011 No comments

Finding the top selling items on ebay is a good way to start when looking to make money on ebay. This picture shows a top selling item in the Health and Beauty range. You can find these items usually at the top of the listing in a particular category. If you look to the right you will see they have sold 740 of these items. This is a great way to make money on ebay. You simply create one listing and sell many products through this one listing. This is a much simpler way than having to list many different items over and over. Once your listing expires simply click on relist and your listing is up and running. You can have a few top selling products and just one listing for each one. Once you have created the listing you are up and running. Just pop your product in a jiffy bag and post an item when you get a sale.

The kind of items you are looking for are low to medium priced non branded items that you can sell again and again.
You will need to source the items of course so you might start looking at these three websites:

http://www.alibaba.com/

http://www.ec21.com/

http://www.madeinchina.com/

Once you have sourced your products you will need to spend some time on your listing and it will be worth paying extra to feature your listing at the top of the page since you will sell more items. With buy it now listings you can sell multiple items through one listing.

If you want to make a business out of ebay there are many courses available through ebay itself.  There are many ‘how to’ guides which will teach you how to make money from ebay –  Click here for search results (UK)  or here for U.S results.