Make Money Basics

I use eHow to bring in some cash. On eHow, you write some articles and post them, and then you get paid a percentage of the money made on advertisements found on your page. (The downside to this is that it can take awhile for money to build up.) I only made $50 last month- it was my second month on the site AND I got featured, so that really boosted traffic to my articles. I've got 50 articles, but they don't take all that long to write, 15-60 minutes or so. Some people are making $1,000 a month- really.

The second way I've seen people make money is by selling e-books. Basically, you write about something you know well, make a website about it (or a informative webpage), offer your book as a pay-to-download, and promote the hell out of your book. Here's an example and here is an example of the sort of pages I'm talking about.

Something else I use isn't a money-maker, but you can earn prizes (which you could sell) just for searching and that's Swagbucks. Instead of going to another search engine, you go there and get awarded points every now and then that you can cash in for prizes.

There's also affiliate sites. The ones to note are Amazon (whose commission percentages suck, but they're so very well-known), ClickBank and Pepperjam (although, I've had a few problems signing up for a lot of the companies on Pepperjam). I've been just attaching affiliate links to the end of my eHow articles, but there are all sorts of options- even having a livejournal where you post about things and include affiliate links to promote them.

Another one I recently came across is ExpoTV. Basically, you make a short video about pretty much anything (I think it's tailored towards product reviews- I haven't looked around too much), and you get paid $5 for your video. You can upload up to 20 videos a month. I haven't played around with this one, because I'm video camera-phobic =(

And finally, there's Squidoo. That looks like a really cool concept, something a person could have A LOT of fun with. You make a webpage about something, put some pictures up- there's all sorts of neat extras you can add with a click of the mouse- and you get paid 50% of the money they make. (You can also make your proceeds go to a charity)

I've never made money doing the survey thing. I've found them to be a big waste of time.

There's also buying stuff and selling it on Ebay and Craigslist. There's all sorts of information out there about this, but I have minimal knowledge of how to actually make money doing it.

If craft-selling is the way you want to go, I highly recommend Etsy. Etsy is a really awesome site, and it's very popular. There's some amazing things on it, and just about anything a person can make can be sold there.

Hope that was helpful! Feel free to PM me if you (or anyone else) has any questions. I've devoted a lot of time into looking into options to make money from home with minimal commitment, as my disabilities hinder me from holding a normal job- even most work-at-home jobs. Most of the things I've mentioned can be approached from a do-it-when-you're-up-for-it kinda perspective.