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    How To Make An Extra Dollar
    How To Make An Extra Dollar
    How To Make An Extra Dollar
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    How To Make An Extra Dollar

    By John Stilwell

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    Money is critically important to you as an adult. Protect the cash flow at all costs. But when it shrinks, you only have two options, spend less or make more. All of the following ideas are how to make extra money on the side short of changing careers or starting a full time business. They are presented like popcorn, small, easy to chew and lots of them. Not all may be appropriate for your circumstances. The running theme is to suggest ones that you can use to start generating income in six months or less. They stop short of starting a real business though most could be the first step in just such a direction. I'll also provide answers to questions such as, "Do you need a license?" and "What about income tax?"

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn Stilwell
    Release dateDec 30, 2013
    ISBN9781310672033
    How To Make An Extra Dollar
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    John Stilwell

    John Stilwell was born and raised in the midwest. From 1982 through 1985 he was regularly published in several popular computer magazines such as Compute!, Compute! Gazette, Powerplay and RUN. He has two drgrees in Electrical Engineering and practicing his trade on the East Coast.He has traveled extensively overseas with his hobbies being various and regularly changing. They have ranged from studying massage to bungie jumping. In the 1990's he learned to draw and produced a respectable quantity, selling an occasional piece.In 2010, he re-entered the world of writing,

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      How To Make An Extra Dollar - John Stilwell

      How to Make an extra Dollar

      By John Stilwell

      Published by John Stilwell at Smashwords

      Copyright 2013 John Stilwell

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

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      100 Ways to Save a Dollar without Lowering Your Lifestyle

      The Independent Author’s handbook - Second Edition

      The Stilwell Family Cookbook

      Tech Watch: The Future is being Built Today

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      The Puppy of Doom and Other Stories

      In the Image of Gods

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      Blogs:

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      With the modest success of my first money book, focused on spending more efficiently, I have wanted to do another. I wanted to write a book about how to increase one’s income. This is a subject highly dependant on one's life situation and interests. How could such a book have any chance to be useful to every reader? I had to shrink the scope drastically. Then one day I was thinking about how we all used to make extra money as children. We would go outside to the sidewalk in front of our homes and sell lemonade. Or we’d ask mom for a chore and spend the next hour ironing shirts. What is the adult equivalent? The more I looked into it the more I found. I stopped counting when I reached fifty ideas. I have done many of the things in this book myself. The following are ideas, advice, tips, tools game plans and the occasional personal story.

      Money is critically important to you as an adult. Protect the cash flow at all costs. But when it shrinks, you only have two options, spend less or make more. All of the following ideas are how to make extra money on the side short of changing careers or starting a full time business. They are presented like popcorn, small, easy to chew and lots of them. Not all may be appropriate for your circumstances. The running theme is to suggest ones that you can use to start generating income in six months or less. They stop short of starting a real business though most could be the first step in just such a direction. I'll also provide answers to questions such as, Do you need a license? and What about income tax?

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Make an extra dollar at work

      Other duties than assigned

      Professional don't have the same opportunities.

      Get a part-time job.

      Income Taxes

      Resume and Job Interview Tips

      Information that must be easy to find.

      What will hurt you?

      Some things don't matter.

      What will help you?

      Interview Tips

      14 Ways to become a favorite Employee

      Turn your Home into Income

      Build a Real Estate Empire!

      You can rent a vacation house part-time.

      What to do with an empty lot.

      What to do with empty land.

      Income Taxes

      Getting started buying Stocks

      Make Money from your Hobby

      Make Money as an Author

      Make Money by making Movies!

      Make extra money by providing a service

      About the Author

      Appendix A: Useful links

      Introduction

      When you are a child and need a couple of dollars, you either ask your mother for a chore or you set up a lemonade stand. The following is the adult equivalent. Although any one could turn into a new career, the intention is to make some extra money on the side. The assumption is that you are reasonably happy with your job and only want to make a little extra money. Maybe you would like your hobby to pay for itself. Perhaps you are between jobs and need to make some income while you wait for that great new opportunity to materialize.

      Success is paying all of your own bills

      while maintaining a life style

      where you are happy

      a reasonable amount of the time.

      Your finances amount to a triangle. How much you make, how much you spend and how you invest the difference. This list of ideas is focused on how to increase the amount of money you make short of changing careers.

      The ideas we will talk about fall into the category of part-time. Some require for you to be twenty one or older. Many are fine for an eighteen year old. They all stop short of starting a real business, no bank loans, accountants, papers of incorporation are needed. But some will require a license or certificate. If training is needed, it can be acquired in 6 months or less. A few of the ideas will require a couple hundred dollars up front depending on what you already own. Most have no cost, requiring only your time. The goal is to get you to that extra stream of income in as soon as six months.

      All of the ideas are honest. None are get-rich schemes. This book is light on philosophy and heavy on ideas. They are presented like popcorn. They are small, easy to chew and lots of them.

      Thoughts to keep in mind:

      What is your goal? Is it to not lose your house? Or is it to make beer money? Some of the ideas may be no fun but they can quickly get you extra cash. Others are fun but the income is less certain.

      Compare profit you can and will make to a minimal wage job. If your success is worse than minimal wage you are best to stop and try a different idea. I've seen too many people over the years loose everything following a dream long after it was obvious that it wasn't going to pan out.

      No gamblers math allowed. Gamblers brag about their winnings but won't admit their losses. Profit is income minus all costs. An example of costs or overhead would be transportation and material costs and fees. What counts is how much money is in your pocket at the end of a given time period. After all of the overhead bills are paid. Divide this by the hours you spent working.

      Be honest to yourself. Everything will be some variation of a business. I know somebody who raises chickens in their backyard and sells the eggs. His income is a hundred and fifty dollars a month. The chicken feed is $300 a month. He is losing money every month. They have been for two years. That is a loss of about $3,600! If he sold the 79 chickens to a butcher he'd only get $150. Trying and failing is fine but be ready to cut your losses if you get in too deep.

      I know another person who bought fish tanks off Ebay and tried to resell them at a profit. He ended up with a house full of fish tanks. An idea like this is fine

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