supplemental income?

[jonw]

What are some of the things you guys do for supplemental income? exclude blogging, because im sure that will be 90% of the replies.

trying to get some ideas of what else people do.

[technologyslice]

Try doing some surveys on the internet, or freelance writing.

[Kiba]

I make money from selling ads on my websites. Blogs are just one of my revenue sources.

[Ninja]

I get yearly royalties from creative work I've done. Not much, but it's nice

[codefreeze]

I earn my living from a freelance writing business (started 2003) and an info products business (started 2005). Side income also comes from investments and property.

[investorblogger]

I've been building a slowly increasing passive income for the past two years, and I'm still in the early stages.

I set up a goal: a month's salary plus a variety of income sources. I'm about 1/3 of the way there. You can read more about what I'm doing, but I'm definitely on the look out for additional ideas to supplement my initial ten!

Hope you find it of value.

kenneth

[Amandaaa]

What are some of the things you guys do for supplemental income? exclude blogging, because im sure that will be 90% of the replies.

well I'm not a blogger! (thank god, because I would have too much competition here. )



One of my biggest side projects is artwork. I love fine art (all forms), but drawing and painting are my specialties. especially people & faces. I've been doing it since I was in second grade...and in high school, people started noticing, and my 30-year-old cousin asked me to draw a picture of her 1-year-old little girl. So I worked on it for a few weeks, gave it to her for Christmas, and she loved it. Her and her husband framed it and started raving about it to all of her rich friends... so she kind of built up my clientele for me... and somehow, I got sucked into selling drawings & paintings. It works though, because people are obsessed with their kids... (especially new parents)... and a lot of them are willing to pay $1-2,000 for a picture that I work on for about 4 or 5 days.
(I've actually seen a lot of older people pay upwards of $10,000 for artwork though... If I ever have the confidence to put that kind of price tag on my "work," then this could be an even better source of income...! )



I also sell a few health products, like Aloe Juice, Juice Plus, and OPC-3. but I don't really do that actively. I only mention it about once a month-- and only when someone comes crying to me about their health problems.
(But this isn't a significant source of supplemental income at all. I could probably make more doing this, but I don't want to seem like a pushy salesgirl... so I only make about 1 sale every couple months. )


Other than that..... ummm..... does the stock market count?




I've had a lot of big income ideas, but haven't acted on them yet. I'll let you know if I do.

[jonw]

Originally Posted by Amandaaa

well I'm not a blogger! (thank god, because I would have too much competition here. )



One of my biggest side projects is artwork. I love fine art (all forms), but drawing and painting are my specialties. especially people & faces. I've been doing it since I was in second grade...and in high school, people started noticing, and my 30-year-old cousin asked me to draw a picture of her 1-year-old little girl. So I worked on it for a few weeks, gave it to her for Christmas, and she loved it. Her and her husband framed it and started raving about it to all of her rich friends... so she kind of built up my clientele for me... and somehow, I got sucked into selling drawings & paintings. It works though, because people are obsessed with their kids... (especially new parents)... and a lot of them are willing to pay $1-2,000 for a picture that I work on for about 4 or 5 days.
(I've actually seen a lot of older people pay upwards of $10,000 for artwork though... If I ever have the confidence to put that kind of price tag on my "work," then this could be an even better source of income...! )



I also sell a few health products, like Aloe Juice, Juice Plus, and OPC-3. but I don't really do that actively. I only mention it about once a month-- and only when someone comes crying to me about their health problems.
(But this isn't a significant source of supplemental income at all. I could probably make more doing this, but I don't want to seem like a pushy salesgirl... so I only make about 1 sale every couple months. )


Other than that..... ummm..... does the stock market count?




I've had a lot of big income ideas, but haven't acted on them yet. I'll let you know if I do.

funny you mention your cousin. mine started her own photography business about a year ago and she gets tons of requests for portraits of people's kids. you might want to look into pets as well. personally, i can't think of a better form of income than selling your own art (music, writings, etc). expression is needed in this day and age, which is probably why blogs are so popular.

[run_fly]

Did you look into network marketing?

I've managed to trickle in another stream of income through network marketing

[finandom]

Other than blogging, affliate programs can be my supplemental income although I haven't make any money from them...

[BamBam]

I play drums at weddings and parties. Pretty good paycheck doing that.

Pretty fun, taxing on the joints, and Fridays and Saturdays are unfortunately booked. I don't plan on doing it forever because I would like a life. Unless, of course, the Fridays and Saturdays are booked playing in front of 10,000 people.