I Wanna Drop Out

I want to make enough money while I am in college that I don't even have to finish going to school.

Sunday, December 18, 2005

“Just Like Home”

College students are always trying to make their
campus housing feel more like home, or the home that they
want. This offers a great opportunity for someone with
home decor skill and creativity. Just think of a regular
house, and then think of a regular college dorm. What is
missing? At first, to keep overhead at a minimum, you just
concentrate on providing one item and then move on. An
example could be providing small speakers for surround
sound entertainment or providing small indoor trampolines.
Concentrating on one aspect gives you a better chance a
grabbing market share in a specific area. You just have to
see which product would be better to supply and how many
people would be interested.
This business could also branch out to or support a
dorm décor service. This would resemble the traditional
services of interior design, but take it the level of college
dorm rooms.
Dorm rooms are different from regular houses due to
design constraints caused by lack of room, housing
associations, and roommates. However, there is a greater
potential for creative work due to the artistic minds of youth.
Some students may like a room dedicated to their favorite
sport or some may like a room designed on the principles of
feng shui. Students will be charged for cost of amenities
and labor. Contrastingly, you could market the service to
the school itself, enabling them to use your expertise as a
perk of campus housing.

Saturday, December 17, 2005

Taking Risk

A risk is what sets humans apart from each other. The risks that one person is willing to take determine their value in society. We see high-risk individuals in Hollywood all the time. These "action heroes" are idolized in society because of what they appear to be willing to do that we aren't.

On a more personal level, risks build our personalities. Your choice of risks that you take decides the path of your life. Without risks, your life would be meaningless and static. This is because, like many board games, you cannot move ahead unless you roll the dice.
Organize workshops

When people want something, they want it now! This
is also true with information. Because searching for the
right information can be very time consuming, people are
willing to pay good money for the right information at the
right time. This is why producing seminars and workshops
can be a great source of income. Public speaking is an
excellent profession to get in if you enjoy attention and
know the topic you are speaking on. Making money from
public speaking can include producing seminars, workshops,
meetings, or more.
Everyone has something that they are good at. What
experts. It will be a win-win situation, if you help produce
seminars do you know that I don’t? If you choose to talk
about a basic human want in a different and unique way,
people will pay you to tell them something they probably
already heard. We humans have the same desires today as
we had since the beginning of time. These desires are just
hidden in different forms today. When you are marketing
your information, find where it fits within the traditional
desires. These desires include more money, envy, and more
time.
Even if you cannot think of something to talk about,
you can organize seminars and workshops for other and
workshops for professionals such as consultants. This way
they can take a small percentage of door fees and gain
promotion, and can take a small percentage of the sales
they make off any publications they offer the audience. You
take most of the door fee revenue because you take most of
the risk in producing the seminar.
Dear Friend sales letters are old and cliche. Almost every sales letter you see advertising an eBook on Internet begins with Dear Friend.

Seeing it every time on site makes me automatically feel like I am being sold. It seems like another one of those cheesy salesman tactics that everyone knows.

Friends don't let friends use "Dear Friend".
Quick Money

This is an eBook I found on the net. It is called Internet Million Dollars.

I like the blatant title, it gets straight to the point. Now you can't expect anything to make you money so quick and easy, however books like this change your look on money and how to make money.

Making money in a short time. Sounds good to me.
“Reaching References”

Without a doubt, one of the most hated parts of writing
a research paper is actually finding the research. It can be a
tedious and frustrating experience when you are trying to
find credible and appropriate references, especially for
obscure topics. That is why people will pay for it to be done.
What you need to ask from the customer is their topic
and a broad requirement of the resources they need (some
teachers will only accept peer-reviewed documents or some
will not take information from websites). Then you can use
a variety of your resources (libraries, databases, and
internet) and find what they need. In addition, you can
have set prices based on the amount references required, or
since you never know how much you will be able find, you
can base the prices on your perceived difficulty of the
project. If you do a good job, they can be one of your
references.
“Creating an Image”

Presentation is very important when it comes to selling
real estate. Agents want the potential buyer to “see their
selves” living in the house. This imagery is of course
facilitated through having actual furniture in the home. You
can facilitate this by renting out furniture to builders. You
could either buy or lease the furniture from furniture
dealers. Then you would rent it out to home developers for
a profit over you own leasing fees.
“Model Money”

Staged photography is being used for all sorts of things
nowadays. Also, there are many forms of modeling that can
done. Small businesses and organizations can benefit from
staged photography and/or modeling for products or
services. The two most important resources for this idea are
models and a photographer. Once you have the resources,
you can create a portfolio of model photos and approach
clients. Possible clients could be colleges (college
brochures), local clothing retailers, and basically anyone that
can use the images and styles that your business creates.
“Net Lessons”

Tutoring is no new way to make money and it may be
one of the oldest; besides you know what. However, when
enhanced with new capabilities provided by the Internet,
tutoring can become a lucrative source of income. Thanks
to the niche friendly environment of the Internet, you can
tutor in whatever you feel you’re an expert in.
Communication is an important aspect in tutoring and
the Internet does take away some of the personal
interaction. However, clever use of technologies such as, email,
VoIP, video conferencing, chat, and instant messaging
can substitute if not enhance personal communication.
Many websites have interfaces that can be used for tutoring
programs. Try Yahoo’s Yahoo Groups
Groups. This setup has
message boarding, e-mail list capabilities, and chat.
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“Baby-Steps to big Profit”

Micropayments or payments of small amounts are
being used to pay for content on Redpaper.com
com. On this
site, participants are encouraged to post their works of
intellectual property they want for other users to download
for small fees, usually under a dollar. The user the post the
piece gets to choose the price, however, the prices stay
pretty low because each post is just a small bit of content.
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Common posts selling are essays, poems, pictures, songs,
and other stuff to that nature. It is free to set up an
account and sell something, and a profit for Redpaper is
taken out of the final sale. This once again allows users to
make money without any initial investment. Real money is
made when multiple users download each of your posts. All
you have to do is post something people will want to read.
A 45 cent post downloaded by 500 of Redpaper’s many
users, you make an easy $225.
“Become an Internet Bestseller”

Publishing your own book has never been so easy.
With the Internet around you could always publish your own
eBook, but now with on demand publishing, sites like
Lulu.com
allow you to make many physical publications.
You upload the content on Lulu.com and you are only
charged when you sell something. This allows you to get
into the game without having to pay a cent, and it allows
Lulu.com to make a profit. Everyone wins. The site allows
for the publication and order fulfillment of many intellectual
properties, thus making it easier for you to do business.
This includes music too.
“Storing it Online”

eBay is steadily growing as a way for hundreds of
people to make money; whether it’s just selling something
they no longer want, or making a business out of it. The
ladder is even easier to do now with low monthly fees to
open a store and online help everywhere. Drop shipping is
when you sell a supplier’s products without having to touch
them. This works well with people trying to start selling with
extremely low overhead, because they do not have to pay
for inventory or handle the shipping. eBay is very user
friendly so jump and start selling something.
“A Chance at Freelance”

People hire freelancers due to the high cost of taking on
an additional employee and due to the temporariness of a
task. Freelance jobs offered on the net can range from
website design to document translation. The benefit of the
freelancer is that they can make some quick money on the
side. A site that offers services for freelancers to find work is www.elance.com