[amanda hor$t]

actually it's more like the crack game: buy in bulk and break it down. my first pile of stuff, i had coupons at the coach outlet, i bought whatever was worth more on ebay, and listed them. whatever didn't sell i returned after a month. a lossless venture.

ebay's a lot tougher now, but it was a great case study on running an end-to-end retail business.

also, have you considered selling houses? that would be my fallback. pretty easy to get a license, cruise around town and check out houses. all upside. sell a $1m house and that's enough cashflow for a year.

[BMW F22]

Originally Posted by yeung330xi

You can re-sell things on Amazon.com

I know many people that buy from wholesalers or distributors and just have them drop ship the items for them. You never have to touch the product, just paperwork of keeping track of placing orders with them and making sure they ship the items on time.

I've heard people selling things on Amazon but never understood how it worked. I'm just looking for something small on the side to do for fun/pass the time.

[pgviper]

I play piano/organ on the side. My old teacher plays at church so when he wants to go on vacation or something comes up I fill in.

Church is located in a wealthy area so I get paid well and it's something I enjoy doing.

If you have any musical abilities, you could join a band or if you know how to work a computer you could dj lol.

[RandomHero]

Originally Posted by pgviper

If you have any musical abilities, you could join a band or if you know how to work a computer you could dj lol.

I'm starting to sound like a douche, but I did the whole DJ/Promotion company thing about 2 years ago. It's actually a very lucrative side job.

Oddly enough the idea got started by me asking a bar manager if I could put my ipod on their stereo (it was dead that night). We asked her if we could try to put on an event to get people to come in (for free at the time). By our second event we had 200 people in the bar with 30 people waiting at the door (before that a good Thursday night for them was maybe 30 people).


It's very easy to do, but it's very hard to do well. When we started, we were all very shitty DJs. I still am to be honest, but my partners actually became very good. I was mostly in charge of scheduling/negotiating the events which I was very good at.

If you're good at networking (I'm a salesman and always will be), you're basically getting paid to party. You don't necessarily have to be good at DJing.

We started with just a laptop and a $100 Numark Mixtrack controller. Within 6 months, we had more than $10k in equipment between two Traktor S4s, two Pioneer CDJ-900s, a Pioneer DJM-900, two Macbook Pros, $2000 in lighting, and a $3000 sound system.

If you can get good looking girls to come you’ll make money. We had dance competitions, wet t-shirt contests, costume contests, DJ battles, and all kinds of different ideas to keep things new and to keep people coming.

If it interests you at all let me know. I'd like to think I have some good ideas to help get you started. You don't have to be a club DJ. Weddings, houseparties, and promotional events (we did one at a car dealership once) all pay pretty good too.

[UncleWede]

I run an IT department during the day
At night I fix/build/remove virus from computers
I get cash, the wife gets half, and I exercise my skills by providing a much more reasonable service than things like the Geek squad.

It's extra "mad money" that I don't depend on. Last weekend I made $90 for about 2 hours work. I have another $50 in the pipe once I reload Windows on a laptop. I see a new bottle of Aberlour in my future soon.

[upstatedoc]

Originally Posted by UncleWede

Last weekend I made $90 for about 2 hours work.

Here's one:

mobile small appliance repair. we had a guy come out to the house to fix the broken dryer. took him 10 minutes and he charged us $90.

[mccannable]

Animal trapping? I have to get raccoons trapped from time to time. Some guys charge 100/a catch. Very easy works. Minus rabies

[RandomHero]

Originally Posted by mccannable

Animal trapping? I have to get raccoons trapped from time to time. Some guys charge 100/a catch. Very easy works. Minus rabies

LOL, a perfect example of how you can make money off of anything.

You can chase racoons under a house, fix iphone screens, pick up dog shit (I know someone who makes about $75k doing this), or wash windows (Also know someone who makes close to $200k in this business).

Pretty much the sure way to make money (for life in general):

-Figure out something that no one wants to do, but has to
-Figure out something that people need and do it better than anyone else
-Offer a product/service that no one else offers
-Possess a skill that very few people have that is in high demand

[dreamingat30fps]

I have several drop ship companies I run on the side. It's great for me because I already have the web skills to build the sites myself so it requires minimal startup costs and basically no overhead. Plus since I'm on the computer all day anyways for my real job it makes it extremely easy to monitor my stores. I also do freelance work on the site but I'm slowly working on substituting that income with my drop ship.

[BMW F22]

Damn...too bad I don't know how to build websites.

[dreamingat30fps]

Originally Posted by BMW E90

Damn...too bad I don't know how to build websites.

You can always do it through Amazon, Ebay etc you just need higher margin stuff to cover their fees. Also many places you can do basic plug and play stores.