With summer approaching and new fashion and beauty beckoning from store windows, you might be wondering how you are going to afford all these little luxuries. Rising household expenses, interest rates and all the news of economic doom need not cramp your style. Money Maven has six innovative ideas to make a tidy little sideline income from tried and true sources.
Advertise: Signrider.com.au gives you the chance to earn some extra cash simply by driving around in your car. Register for free by completing the online driver application form and you will be matched up to the perfect advertiser for your area. Signrider designs and installs adverts on selected and depending on the campaign, drivers can earn around $40 per week for following their usual driving patterns Once the campaign is over, the advertising can be easily removed with no damage to your vehicle. A simple and easy way to make money!
The Beauty Business: You don’t have to look too far if you want to make a few extra dollars and perhaps create a new career for yourself. Becoming a beauty consultant or representative for brands such as Nutrimetics or Avon is a great way of injecting glamour into your life and helping those around you join in too. By selling cosmetics to your friends, family members and co-workers, you can work in an industry you love and perhaps even look into launching your own beauty business! Successful sales agents have been known to make thousands of dollars a year from building their business one flyer at a time.
Arts and Crafts: A great way to make some extra money and showcase your creative side is through jewellery making, clothes making or even jam making! You can learn how to create your own jewellery and clothes on sites like lovetoso.com and jewellerymakingprofessor.com and sell your talent on Ebay, invest in a stall at your local markets or even have a garage sale. If you advertise well and sell your pieces at reasonable prices, making sure you not only get out what you put in, but also make a profit, you’ll have that extra spare cash in no time!
Sell Unwanted Items: Spring is fast approaching so that yearly spring clean is definitely on the cards. Why not take this chance to really go through your belongings and sort out the items you want to keep and the items you’d rather throw away. Hold a garage sale, sell all those items you no longer want and make some extra cash. One person’s trash is another person’s treasure!
Invest: Investing is a great way to make some extra money and investing in shares is a fantastic way to start small and move onto bigger things. Our finance section has some great articles, tips and tricks on how to launch yourself into the share market and get some great results. Start by reading How To Succeed Financially Part 1 in our Money section.
Outsource Yourself: If you’re a mum working in the business world then Clever Mamma is a great way for you to expand your business and as a result, earn some extra cash for your hard work. Clever Mamma is an online directory connecting Australian mums in business, allowing them to outsource and call on fellow talented business mums to enhance the services they themselves provide. It’s a way to support and encourage the growth of one another’s business. Each business is listed in the online directory and categorised by industry type, from Admin and Office Support to Photography to Communication Technology and more. You can join the directory free until 30 September 2011 on a trial membership, and from then on can choose between a six-month membership for $80, or 12 months for $120. For more information visit: www.clevermamma.com.au
Happy earnings! Money Maven. x
