How I made more than $500 in 1 week

Before I start, I just want to add that this is not a spam or a get-rich quick scheme to make million within 5 mins kind of thing.

With experience, I will tell you how I made $500 just last week.

I took a 5 days leave and with a little planning by last friday, I got my $500 and a little more.

All it took was a little planning and the saying "If you fail to plan, you plain to fail." is very true

I did a little research and found that companies pay $100-$$150 on flyers distribution.

Since I had no overheads to pay, I called up a few Small business and offered to do it for just $30. I targeted Food catering,Pets store, Hair Salons, provision stores and restaurants.

Although the result was not exactly how I expected but I got about 8 customers- mostly food catering and small provision stores. It took me over 7 hours worth of work and on the first day I made $240.

I tried to repeat the process on the second day but only had 3 customers and figured I did not want to waste my time doing it.

So I called up small business firms and SMEs and offered another service. I told them that I will advertise their products, websites etc.. on classified ads, add their company profile on Forum Signatures and even mention about them on popular social networking sites all for a fee of $20.

I told them that if they do not have costs to advertise, this will be duly effective. At the end of the day, I will show them what I did and which sites I went to advertise and they were pretty happy about it. (I just love the internet)

There were a lot of rejections at first but eventually a few small business firms did consider it. I had 6 clients. It took me the whole day and I worked till the night. On the 2nd day, I made $120. In total, $360 within 2 days (You can PM me to know what websites to use)

In my area, Car washing is expensive as it could amount to $50 to $65

Thus, on the 3rd day, I went to houses offering to wash their cars for only $10 and the response was great, of course your hands will ache but hey I think I had made about $65 for that day (I gave discounts to old folks)

Total after 3 days: $425

The next day, I went through some ads in the newspaper and found lots of house cleaning firms charging from $300 to $1000

Now this takes dilligence and the ability to handle rejections. I went door to door within my residential area as I was armed with brooms and mops and cleaning utensils.

I charged $40 for 4 hours of cleaning and I managed to get 2 houses (my neighbours)

Total after 4th day: $505

On the Fifth day, I was not in the mood to think what else I could use to make money so I repeated the flyers distribution
I had 5 customers

Total after the 5th day: $655

I know that these are hard works but if you are truly desperate need of money by end week, well it pays the bill.

Its just my 2 cents worth of sharing...

thanks, i like your ideas of advertising small buisnesses.

Hey bea2ls,

Yes, it work.

There are rejections at first but if you target to get even 6 customers per week, you will make a small profit.

(1) Do your research
(2) Plan your actions
(3) Execute your plan

But it only works for small business though..

Good luck and let me know yea?

Great job and good ideas.

My sister-in-law did something similar for a while -- some company was paying her to drive around and put signs in peoples front yards (I'm assuming they gave permission ??). She would have to take pictures and submit them as evidence she placed the sign, then they would pay her like $5/sign. She would take a day or two per week and just do this, and I think she said she made like $5-600 per week.

The only problem was they had her going into some pretty bad neighborhoods (by herself), so my brother made her stop doing it.

Great ideas, the only problem is in some cities you cannot distribute flyers unless you put them in people's hands; which I know from experience that does not happen often. Where I live in CA the police can actually get the flyers you have placed and fine the company for EACH flyer...sad but it happens. So just be careful if you take that route.

I tried the car/house cleaning and got 0 responses from more than 75 houses...I gave up.

I'm not savvy enough to talk small businesses into letting me advertise for them, I don't think.

Again, thanks for the testimony I'm sure some folks will get some $ from these great ideas.

Hey gamer,

Sorry to hear that.

Maybe, I could list down a few Home based business that would hopefully be of interest to you

Virtual assistant-There are a few SMEs that need to hire a support person on an as-needed basis or per hour basis

Photographer- There are various companies looking for photographers. If photography is your passion, well go for it

Cleaning Service- You can target House cleaning, Office cleaning and even Restaurants are in great need of daily thorough cleaning and can be a great source of steady clients.

Good Luck

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I'd stay away...most people on this board can't afford high risk investments....

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Did you have a question,ARUN? I noticed you posted the response from Shazzers in your reply several times and was wondering if you had a question..

i wish i could get some of these ideas to work for me, but i doubt i would get any buisness.. money has been so tight lately, i need rent in like two days but i have to face that or getting my lights turned off (which, per my lease is also a reason for eviciton). my phone is already shut off, my cable goes off tommorow.. lol sorry for complaining.

yes these are some great ideas but sadly with the economy in the crapper no one is paying for this sort of stuff right now. All winter i cleaned houses and all of them couldnt pay me any longer the small fee i charged (20.00). businesses are closing left n right. All the other cleaning ladies i know have ran out of work also and the poor kids trying to fundraise by washing cars are standing in empty lots.

Great ideas, but no one is paying for anything these days that they could do themselves atleast not in this area anyway

same here, love my things.. it is sad, i know a lot of my co wokers clean houses on the side but their jobs are getting smaller and smaller (people use their services less often or they stop all together).
i basically gave up on my part time job hunt.. nobody is hiring.. and i just became skilled at convincing companies (electric, etc. or my landlord) to wait a bit longer for their money, i do not know any ways to make more money in this economy really.. just a little bit here and there. that stuff does help but seems never enough

it really stinks last winter i was picking up the slack with small stuff like that but it all slowly dwindled away. Im not sure what im gonna do for that extra cash but i will have to work something out. even that 20.00 a week cleaning for the old lady next door really made a difference. she felt so bad and i felt so bad for her she really cant do it herself and she is too proud to let me do it for less. she said she already feels like shes ripping me off. heck id do it for free for her but she must be on to me she dont even let me check up on her anymore.

thats so sad, love my things.. a lot of people are hurting right now, it just is so frustrating.. i see alot of people who worked their entire lives lose almost everything and can no longer afford stuff they actually need.

thats the thing honestly i would do it for free for her because i know she really needs the help but her pride has gotten the best of the situation. It has gotten so bad my mom could not afford her medication any longer(the co-pay) and wasnt taken it. I finally talked her into a medical trial that i had heard of so that she could get her medication for free. its sad because without it she could die. Its a shame that things have gotten to this point but this is were we are. and its not just some people its everyone i know right now. My grandparents let there house go back to the bank because they couldnt afford it.