32 posts tagged “employment”
- Swagbucks - use it to search the internet, and you'll be rewarded (they have cash prizes in the form of $5 Paypal plus tons of gift cards)
- YouData - it's so easy to get paid for glancing at ads and I love to get paid every Friday whether I had one ad to view or several
- Mechanical Turk – the website, run by Amazon.com, pays a few cents to a few dollars for small tasks that fulfill a larger job.
- My downloadable seminars – learn to thrive in this jobless economy and re-inflate your investment portfolio
- Twitter – wouldn’t it be nice if you could follow all the freebies, high valued coupons and deep discounts in one place? Now you can!
- ZECCO – trade stocks for free with a $25,000 balance or only $4.50 without that balance.
- Inbox Dollars – make money reading emails, answering surveys and playing games. $5 sign-up bonus!
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If you are looking for side income, join sitters.com. You can choose between baby sitter / nanny, pet care provider, housekeeper, senior care provider, and tutor. Child care seems to have the most need.This site does a nice job of breaking down things by zip code and proximity to that zip code.
A focus group is a form of qualitative research in which a group of people are asked about their attitude towards a product, service, concept, advertisement, idea, or packaging. Questions are asked in an interactive group setting where participants are free to talk with other group members.
You can earn anywhere for $50 to over $200 depending on the length and complexity of the group. Usually the hard part is finding them and qualifying for them. So these 2 sites make that task very easy.
On twitter, check out FocusForward and on the web, check out Find Focus Groups
A T-shirt a day has kept unemployment at bay for an American man who is making about $85,000 a year by selling advertising space on his torso.
Jason Sadler, 26, a former marketing professional from Florida, founded his own company, www.iwearyourshirt.com, in 2008 with the idea to wear a T-shirt supplied by any company and then use social media tools to promote the firm.
General Electric plans to close its only U.S. solar panel factory because production costs have exceeded sale prices.
The Fairfield, Conn.-based company said that silicon panel manufacturing at its facility in Delaware, will stop in January. GE will shutter the factory all together by June. The factory can produce 34 megawatts of solar panels per year and employs 82 people. GE plans to layoff the workers with severance packages.
The move reflects the tough times experienced by solar energy equipment makers worldwide as supply far exceeded demand over the past year. Recession and a big reduction in solar subsidies in Spain - once a booming market - are key contributors. Some manufacturers have seen prices for their products fall by anywhere from 30 percent to 50 percent over the past year.
Earlier this week, Marlboro, Mass.-based Evergreen Solar said it would move panel production from its factory in Devens, Mass., to China next year in order to cut costs.
Earlier this year, BP Solar announced it would close its solar panel factory in Maryland and outsource that work to a contract manufacturer. Last month, BP said it had hired Jabil Circuit to assemble panels at a Jabil factory in Poland.
A governor, or speed limiter, is a device used to measure and regulate the speed of a machine, such as an engine. I have taken that concept and applied it to finance. You put in place a governor that limits the speed at which you could potentially lose money.
Here is how I apply it:
- I try not to buy disposable products. Why throw money in the garbage?
- I place stop loss orders for every stock/ETF I own at 4.5% below its cost basis. My upside is not capped but my downside is.
- I play video poker with a $2 bankroll. If I lose it, I'm done. But I have the potential of winning much more with 4 deuces or a natural royal flush
- I use alternative income streams rather than bet everything on a single business venture. Collecting aluminum cans, getting paid to read email, getting paid to watch Internet ads, getting paid to search, and getting paid to post tweets has no explicit downside risk
For those unfamiliar with this program, you search the Internet and get "swagbucks". Those swagbucks are redeemable for Amazon gift cards, Pay Pal cash, and lots of other prizes.
Like everything else, your success will depend on learning the best strategies. So here is what I've learned:
- Start searching on Swagbucks at the beginning of the day. Search until you win one Swagbuck.
- I don't search again on Swagbucks for another 12 hours. (less searches the better).
- Between your searches, check the toolbar, the swidget, and SCSpoiler for swagcodes. These are extra swagbucks.
- Refer lots of friends to Swagbucks, this helps you get to your desired level quickly.
