We all get in positions at times when we need some money now.
Here are some things you can do to raise some Now Money :
First things first. Cut out all unnecessary spending and buying crap you do not absolutely need to live with. No more new clothes or even used ones, unless you do not have a shirt on your back. No more eating out of any kind, not even McDonalds. Rice and Beans will keep you alive until you can start adding some better foods.
Cut out all things like cable TV, cable Internet, DSL Intenet, movie rentals, and such junk. The things that you will learn here you can do from a free computer at your local library. Once you get back on your feet and have your bills paid you will want to consider improving your at home Internet access because that is where you stand the very best chance of making some steady income.
There is no cost to sell stuff on Craigslist (dot org.) Just sign up, get an account, post your free classified ad and your phone will start ringing real soon. I have sold simple little collectibles, old computers, old books and even a car on Craigslist. All of the business is local to your area and you usually do business face to face with the buyer, so there is very little fraud.
Craigslist also has a barter section, and though it might not put immediate cash in your pocket, maybe the junk that you get rid of and the stuff that you take in trade might be able to generate some much needed cash.
You may also sell stuff on ebay. It will take a few days to get organized and get your account noticed, but it will generate a steady stream of income after a while. I would suggest starting small and working up to better things. There is a great deal of fraud on ebay and you have to watch yourself.
You might consider taking in a roommate or border to help share some of your living expenses. You will be giving up some privacy but desperate times require desperate actions.
If you are in a major metro area and you like animals, you can walk dogs for a small fee. A friend of mine does this in Manhattan and actually makes a sizable income, enough to maintain a comfortable apartment in Battery Park. Actually the more affluent the community and if the clients like your style you can make a ton of money. You can usually walk from four to six dogs at a time, rinse and repeat a dozen times a day. No reason you can’t build this up into $400 to $600 a day in the big cities. If you don’t live in the ritzy section, take a bus down there on the weekends and talk to dog owners that are out walking their puppies and hand out cards that you make on your own printer and you will pick up business.
You might consider day care or babysitting other people’s kids. Working couples and single parents need someone good that they can trust to take care of their most valuable assets. This will take a little while to get going in a profitable manner but you can start right away to babysit for some of that now money.
You might have to swallow your pride and ask some friends or family for a loan. No matter what, do not do this if you do not have an exact plan as to how and when you are going to be able to pay them back. Do not borrow money just on the chance that things are going to get better.
Only YOU can make it better. You have to change the situations that got you in this mess in the first place and make the modifications necessary to get yourself out of this bind and never to return.
If you have your own children that you have to take care of you might have to ask friends or family to care for them while you take a part time job.
I saved the best for last, because it will take a couple of days to kick this off and there is a small amount of money needed to get it going, but there is no where in this universe that there is a better opportunity to make money at then the Internet. For a small investment of 10 bucks you can own your own domain name, then for about a hundred bucks per year you can get a hosted server and you will be on your way to becoming a tycoon.
There is no better choice than to learn how to install, modify and add content to a WordPress Blog type website. Once it is installed you just keep filling in content and the search engines will find you and you will get traffic. That traffic equals dollars. The more visitors to your site the better. Big numbers equals big bucks.
That character that calls himself Perez Hilton has millions of unique visitors per day and he went from a broke, out of work gossip reporter four years ago, to earning over 50,000 dollars per day with only one employee!
You may not make that much but you absolutely can make a ton of money with your own website. WordPress does have free hosting at wordpress (dot com,) where anyone can get started blogging for free, but then you are not allowed to do anything commercial or run any advertising on your free hosted site. It is OK to learn the basics of blogging there but you will want to have your own domain and website as soon as possible.
For information on how to make money online and learn how to use WordPress and set up a website I can recommend very highly some of the following websites: The University Kid (dot com,) Link Money (dot org,) the Net Fool (dot com.) and Garry Conn (dot com.) There are many others that you will find out about after visiting those four.
Here are the direct links to the websites mentioned above:
Craigslist.org
ebay.com
wordpress.com (for free non-commercial blogging)
wordpress.org (to download software to build your own hosted website)
TheUniversityKid.com
LinkMoney.org
TheNetfool.com
GarryConn.com
Go for it. Let us know how you make out.