If you live in the Northeast as I do, you know what a long, cold, precipitous winter we've had. Today, it's sunny and cold, and the spring flowers are starting to pop up through the ground. Which means that spring is just around the corner- yippee! So now that Mother Nature has given us a hint that warmer weather is coming soon, it's time to go through that closet you've been ignoring all winter and clean it out. Find the clothes and items that you didn't wear or use last season. Dust them off and sell them! C'mon, be honest and ruthless in your assessments and just let them go. You know that you are not going to wear them, so give somebody else a chance. It will free up your storage space and help increase your positive cash flow too. As [+]
1- Make your sale a value-added proposition by throwing in something extra for “free”. Gift wrap, gift cards, a gift box, you name it! The perception of getting something for free can loosen the purse strings! 2- Speaking of free, follow the leaders and offer free or discounted shipping options just for today. If it lifts sales, consider free shipping every day. 3- Since a picture is worth a thousand words, include as many pictures as you can in your listings. This will give shoppers the best views of the item and minimize questions about your listing. 4- Take advantage of the deals that online websites are offering, including eBay’s 100 free insertion fees. You only pay if your item sells. 5- Consider offering what matters most to consumers who shop late in the season… expedited shipping options. 6- Vary the shipping option choices so [+]
Need extra cash around the holidays? Take a look around your house as if you are attending a tag sale! Viewing your possessions as if they belong to somebody else will give you the objectivity you need to determine what is most likely to sell. (And you will be minimizing the clutter that accumulates so easily the longer you have lived in your current home.) Here are five starting points for you: 1- Open your kitchen cabinets to survey exactly how many of your “good” dishes, glasses, pots and pans you actually use on a regular basis. Most of us gravitate toward using the same things over and over because they are up front after emptying the dishwasher. So clean out those cabinets! There is a terrific online market for utensils, plates and other kitchen items. And if you have antique [+]
Alright, my brother Eric told me about a new site that he is using to make a few extra dollars a month. Now let me preface this post by saying you are not going to get rich on Amazon's Mechanical Turk site, however, you can make some extra cash. My plan is to make about $50 a month and then use that to make extra payments on my home mortgage. So what is this funny sounding Mechanical Turk website? The actual site is http://www.mturk.com and it is run by Amazon. Mechanical turk allows you to sign up as a worker and perform HITS - "Human Intelligence Tasks." These tasks range from answering surveys to classifying job descriptions to writing short product reviews. I would recommend signing up for a free email [+]
