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Re: Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home without pay?

#61

1. Teach English by video to children overseas. 2. Get a remote call centre job. 3. The DoorDashes and Uber Eats of the world are doing tremendous business right now, as is Amazon (and they have the Flex delivery service). Instacart was also hiring some 300,000 people. 4. If your friend is the creative or innovative type, there are a ton of competitions being hosted by various companies. You enter enough and the inco…

Isn't freelance writing a saturated market even at the best of times?

Re: Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home without pay?

#63

Get rid of old stuff on ebay/cl/fb marketplace. Or buy stuff from ebay/cl/fb marketplace and sell on Amazon. and plugging a friend: https://www.flipmine.com/ scrapes arbitrage opportunities b/w ebay and amazon.

Word of warning on Ebay tho, and this comes from someone who's been flipping stuff there for 20 years: There's a hold on your funds for around 21 days, depending on how fast the item is shipped out, and registered as delivered (hint: Always use tracked shipping) Second, there's a limit on how much you can list / sell as a beginner. So don't count on being able to liquidate collections or extra stuff in a flash. And t…

Also: Ebay takes 10%, paypal takes 4%. Shipping and tax aren't free either.

If you sell something expensive, ebay will usually give you a "5 listings with halved or waived final value fees" a few weeks later. Strategize accordingly.

Re: Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home without pay?

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Day trading

In this market over the last two months, that's how I've made more money than I have in the entire last 3-4 years combined. Crazy. ...but that opportunity is probably overish. Also, "day" trading is usually bad - buying the dip and selling the excitement on a week/month basis takes much less time and is much safer.

I don’t think so. I don’t see how the Fed can do anything about demand or a second virus wave or delay in vaccine. The market is pricing in a perfect recovery. Will likely be a decent short opportunity soon.

Re: Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home without pay?

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Have they considered teaching their skills online for money? If they worked in a call center, they probably know how to deal with some really hard things. I'd love to learn how they have patience when dealing with angry customers.

At http://joinstream.io, we're building a super easy way to host a monetized livestream using Zoom. We generate a marketing page for you, handle billing, attendee management, and notifications. All you have to do is focus on selling your unique skills.

Re: Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home without pay?

#68

Get rid of old stuff on ebay/cl/fb marketplace. Or buy stuff from ebay/cl/fb marketplace and sell on Amazon. and plugging a friend: https://www.flipmine.com/ scrapes arbitrage opportunities b/w ebay and amazon.

The best way to make money in this way is by finding items that have been incorrectly listed (and thus undervalued) and listing them with better keywords, accurate information etc. The tricky part is finding those listings in the first place because they will often be at the bottom of many searches due to poor relevance. Searching by "ending soonest" on eBay can bring up many hidden treasures. You then need to have a…

There used to be a browser extension that would search common misspellings of things on eBay to find undervalued items. “Kat Spade” instead of “Kate Spade”, for example. I built quite a collection of shoes and handbags with this method in college.

But I’m sure eBay’s search has gotten better at delivering misspelled listing in results over the past decade so perhaps it’s not as useful as I remember it being.

Re: Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home without pay?

#69

content generation. you have no idea how many marketing companies need content writers for their clients. typically you can make between $5-$25 an article with an article being 300-2000. most articles don't have to be great, they just want articles written for a specific keyword.

I started a little economics experiment on Fiverr a few months ago (to try to figure out how much the market is willing to pay for a native English speaker with technical knowledge) and I've had a surprising amount of success at the $0.05/word pricepoint. When you charge a little more, the worst of the worst buyers are scared away by the price.
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