Come and work for me - I'll give you $600 a month if you work 5 days a week. If interested -> max@cubeofm.com.
Ask HN: Fastest way to make $300-400 a month online?
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#13Come and work for me - I'll give you $600 a month if you work 5 days a week. If interested -> max@cubeofm.com.
I would rather be paid by the task and not by the amount of time worked.
This seems to be beneficial for both parties:
a) Payer sets value for the service he wants and has that service delivered by a specified time (or I don't get paid)
b) I deliver as quickly as I am able to, thus achieving my desired goal of minimizing time spent earning the money
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#14First, a Web service that "meets an unmet need." Back in 2005 I built a "code snippets" site using the then-nascent Rails in just over 24 hours. I then spent a second day making the design more "Web 2.0" a few months later, but otherwise did little except mention it here and there and add my own code into it. It made ~$800 a month from Adsense for a couple of years and then I sold it to DZone for $30,000. Perhaps the lowest time vs money work I ever did.
Second, sell a killer screencast or e-book. You'd need to actually be good at making one of these, of course, and have a very good presentation. If you have domain specific knowledge, though, you may have something valuable.
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#15here's how I made $300 last month (working 4 hours a week)
- Write articles (around $150).
- Make something (script, firefox addon) for a client (around $100)
- Google Adsense (around $50)
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#16- Build a product worth $97 in value (I like teaching, so information products works best for me), then sell 3-4 a month. - Find other people who want to know what you know, then charge $97-497 a month to coach them. - Do NOT start a blog for advertising dollars or do mechanical turk - your ROI will be extremely low vs. the time and energy you spend. Instead, use a website to sell your products or services, whatever…
I like this route. I can write well and I'm well-educated, so I feel like I have information that MUST be valuable. I just don't know how to identify / sell it. I know it's probably hard to give specifics without knowing what I want to sell, but can you give me any advice on how long generating such a product might take (how long it took you in the beginning, perhaps?) and how you might pick such a product?
"I feel like I have information that MUST be valuable"
I dunna about that, information is pretty FREE these days
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#17here's how I made $300 last month (working 4 hours a week) - Write articles (around $150). - Make something (script, firefox addon) for a client (around $100) - Google Adsense (around $50)
How do you make money by writing articles, and what kind of articles? Are you talking tutorials on some tutorial site that buys them or are you writing journalistic reports for blogs/news industry?
Or something else entirely?
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
I like this route. I can write well and I'm well-educated, so I feel like I have information that MUST be valuable. I just don't know how to identify / sell it. I know it's probably hard to give specifics without knowing what I want to sell, but can you give me any advice on how long generating such a product might take (how long it took you in the beginning, perhaps?) and how you might pick such a product?
"I feel like I have information that MUST be valuable" I dunna about that, information is pretty FREE these days
But people will pay copious amounts of money to not have to read that information themselves, in other words; teaching and coaching that information can certainly be valuable.
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#19Come and work for me - I'll give you $600 a month if you work 5 days a week. If interested -> max@cubeofm.com.
I would rather be paid by the task and not by the amount of time worked. This seems to be beneficial for both parties: a) Payer sets value for the service he wants and has that service delivered by a specified time (or I don't get paid) b) I deliver as quickly as I am able to, thus achieving my desired goal of minimizing time spent earning the money
For that type of stuff, I use rentacoder, because the tasks are usually different and require different skills. So rather than using one person for the same task, can always get the best person. Also, the problem with working with people trying to optimize time is that they don't want to add the polish. If the project is technically done, they don't see the point in spending time polishing it, since they want to get paid immediately.
For someone who works fulltime, however, one can invest time showing how to do some things that require a long ramp-up period.
If you really want to make money fast, then rentacoder is a good choice, though it does not scale.
If you have a couple of month ramp up time, then you can look at making simple shareware - but this is not a good idea for something to do in panic mode.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
I like this route. I can write well and I'm well-educated, so I feel like I have information that MUST be valuable. I just don't know how to identify / sell it. I know it's probably hard to give specifics without knowing what I want to sell, but can you give me any advice on how long generating such a product might take (how long it took you in the beginning, perhaps?) and how you might pick such a product?
"I feel like I have information that MUST be valuable" I dunna about that, information is pretty FREE these days
Only some types of information.