Start Your Own Craft Business

Alissa Harvey quit her boring job and decided to start her own business, 'Mew Paper Arts', where she makes and sells stationary.

Turn your craft into cash by creating it, then selling it online.  Places for you to sell your products are Craigslist, eBay, Amazon, and Etsy.  You can even build yourself an easy WordPress site and put your products up for sale on it.  Although being online can be a very lucrative for your business, don't forget about all the shops around your town that would like to carry your products in their stores.  I would suggest making a list of stores that your crafts would fit well in (product wise), and then approaching the store owners to carry your hand-made items.

If your having a hard time coming up with craft ideas, I would suggest perusing Etsy.com.  It is a popular site for the creative community, and you will definitely see some cool things that you could make yourself.

Once you have the product ready to sell, you should create a Facebook Fan Page for your product and market it to all your Facebook and Twitter friends.  If you don't know how to do that, then head over to Fiverr.com and find someone to do the work for you.  Best of luck!

Write An eBook

One way to make some cash online, is to write an eBook and sell it.  People everywhere are looking for all kinds of information on the web, and at times, good, quality information is hard to come by.  So maybe there is a topic that you know a lot about, or a hobby that you have had for several years.  If you want to see what eBooks are selling online, then go to eBay.com and type in "eBook" in the search bar.  Once you click the search button, go all the way over to the right and click on the word "advanced."  This will take you to an options page to sort out the listings.  Go halfway down the page and select "Completed Listings."  Again go click "Search" at the bottom of the page, and only the completed listings of eBooks will be on the page.  This is a great way to see what kinds of eBooks have sold and how much they have sold for.

If you really don't have anything to write about, then start researching an area of interest you may have.  Research and then write your eBook.  It's not that hard.  It may take a little time, but after it is done you will have a sell-able product.

You can also set up a simple blog and sell your eBook from your blog.  But Please!  Get off your butt and DO SOMETHING!  Use your brain to help make you CASH!

Flipping Laptops on Craigslist

Here is an idea you can use to make some quick cash! Go down to your local pawn shop and see if they sell used laptops. If they do, then ask the owner/manager if they have any laptops that are broken or that will not turn on. Tell him or her you will take that broken laptop off their hands for $100. Then fix and sell it on craigslist. Chances are....that there may be a YouTube video on how to repair your broken laptop. If you have no luck fixing it yourself, do some internet research on the problem. If all else fails, then find someone you know who fixes broken computers and pay him to fix it. You can even find guys on Craigslist who fix broken electronics, AND THEN turn around and sell the item on Craigslist. You could also do the eBay thing, but I like Craigslist because I always get cash for the things I sell. Good luck to ya.