Ways to boost your income

Being paid to deliver parcels and other items

2011-03-13T14:02:00.000-07:00

Some private car owners are using websites like anyvan.com to earn money carrying parcels etc earning perhaps £20-£300,I give no guarantee what what you might earn.
Private car owners should make sure they are covered by insurance.

Tax relief,uk

2010-10-12T05:41:00.000-07:00

If a company pays less than 40p a mile when a workers uses their own car(not a company car),a worker can claim tax relief on the difference.

selling your unwanted electricals

2010-09-13T10:41:00.000-07:00

http://www.cash4gagdets.co.uk/ hair straighteners and laptops etc
http://www.weeebuy.co.uk/; as above

money making holidays

2010-06-27T06:37:00.000-07:00

If you can solve the puzzles set by treasure trails,you will be entered into a draw.

tradeyourgames.co.uk

2010-05-07T11:25:00.000-07:00

http://www.tradeyourgames.co.uk/
you could sell your video games,consoles and blu-rays to them for cash

Turning your home into holiday accomodation

2010-03-26T08:49:00.000-07:00

http://www.bedandfed.co.uk/ helps you convert your home into a b and b by advertising any spare rooms you have plus breakast.

You mustn't charge more than £35 per night.
costs £70 to advertising every year

crashpadder.com

selling your own designed clothes

2010-03-12T11:41:00.000-08:00

http://www.spreadshirt.co.uk/ helps you create and sell your own designed t-shirts,sweatshirts etc etc

zazzle in another post

Human intelligence tasks(HITS) and innocentive

2010-03-12T10:00:00.000-08:00

HITS are little jobs that a person can do better than a computer.eg descriding a photo etc

http://www.mturk.com/ ownedd by amazon is the place to visit

http://www.innocentive.com/
offers cash rewards for solving problems for businesses and charities etc
Successfull ideas could earn up to $1million

site-flipping

2010-03-12T09:28:00.000-08:00

This is where you buy a website,develope it by giving the website a better look,adding forums and other features and then sell them for a profit.

Websites like http://flippa.com/ give more details.

selling your own cds and dvds

2010-03-12T09:02:00.000-08:00

You can sell cds and dvds created by yourselves as well as calenders on http://www.lulu.com/

selling advertising space on one's websites

2010-03-12T08:47:00.000-08:00

http://www.projectwonderful.com/
advertisers bid to appear on a spot on your website.

Perhaps off topic, I have had an unusual idea for an advertising website.

paid for answering questions

2010-03-12T08:26:00.000-08:00

www.mahalo.com/answers
If you answer a question posted there,you get paid what the person thinks your answer is worth.

selling paintings and art on internet

2010-03-12T07:41:00.000-08:00

http://en.easyart.com/
pay one -off fee to list artwork and photographs

paid to do surveys

2010-03-12T07:23:00.000-08:00

How authors could boost their income

2010-01-24T15:42:00.000-08:00

Amazon has said that authors that self-publish through their website will be offered 70% royalties

Becoming a mystery shopper

2010-01-22T12:18:00.000-08:00

Mystery shopping: results can shape your future. (conducting mystery shopping surveys): An article from: Bank MarketingThe Secrets of Mystery Shopping RevealedMystery shoppers are basically offering a kind of survey and research service.

You will need to initially seeks out potential customers to get started.

Draw up a list of potential customers with say a 30-40 miles radius,perhaps less if you have no car.
Potential customers are retail shops,restaurants,garages,hotels etc
Send a sales letter to a potential customer,telephone hem if you don't hear from them for a while.

In this present recession,price competiitively,find out what your competitors charge(usually mystery shopping service are advertised under market research) and try to undercut them.

You could offer your services initally for free to build up a reputatiion.

Some services that you pay for a fee to supposely find work are scams.

http://www.retaileyes.co.uk/ pays £5/£10 per assignment

Paid to tweet/twitter

2010-01-14T13:03:00.000-08:00

I believe some local authorities/papers are paying people to tweet about local events.

Not sure if legit sponsoredtweet.com it think i will check with twitter some time

Improving and advertising one's website can seriously boost one's income

2009-12-27T10:02:00.000-08:00

Black text on white background,images can help,not white on blue or yellow or green.
Asking for details like date of birth or other information can be off putting to customers.

Leaseback property investment

2009-12-18T10:31:00.000-08:00

In france,the government gives incentives for leaseback properties.

Internet income detective

2009-12-09T14:44:00.000-08:00

This is by Jonathan street.

Making money from music

2009-12-04T11:25:00.000-08:00

http://www.ooizit.com/ lets bands stream and sell their songs for a small monthy fee(£9.97.

http://www.peoplesmusicstore.com/
you can set up your own mp3 store and sell music from the site's own catalogue.

http://www.slicethepie.com/ may help you make money by rating music

Making money from winking

2009-10-31T12:12:00.000-07:00

Feelunique.com, an online beauty retailer,says it will give you 10p per wink on a pay-per-wink(PPW)basis up to a maxumim of 1,000 winks(£100)FOR SPORTING ITS LOGO ON YOUR EYELIDS.

They want photographic proof of the winks.

Wayleave payments

2009-08-25T10:50:00.000-07:00

This is where an electricity company pays for a pole or pylon to be/or that is on your land.

Payment might be £20 0r £220.

Contact the wayleave department of the energy company concerned.

More information from cla and nfu

Making money from flea markets and car boot sales

2009-08-22T09:38:00.000-07:00

One would need to study(write down in a notebook) what things are being sold and how well items sell.

If you do sell,you will need a stall or something siniliar to put the items on.

You may be able to source products to sell.

Car boot sales may work on a siniliar basis.

Leaflet distribution

2009-08-18T09:36:00.000-07:00

This business can be started by say, asking takeaways if they would you to leaflet an area.
Normally,takeways have their own leaflets and menus to deliver,so you don't normally have to mess around designing and printing leaflets.