How I Make $150-$200 a Week at Home

How I Make $150-$200 a Week at Home

Working From Home

When I made the decision to stay at home with my twin boys, we knew there would be financial hardship. I was a full time teacher of science and department chairperson. That meant we were giving up a pretty good salary so that I could be the sole care provider for my children. It was not too long into my time as a stay at home that we realized we needed some supplemental income. We tightened our belts but it still was not enough to pay for our expenses and the added preschool expense. I then began in earnest a search to find out how to work from home. I have to say that at first I found more scams than honest work. Here are some of the ways that I’ve used to make sure I bring in $150 to $250 a week.

The first thing I did was open an eBay store. I had twins and with two of everything I knew it would feel good to clean out some of the stuff I had accumulated. A great deal of the stuff I had was new or very gently used. Piece by piece, toy by toy, I started selling. I also worked at a toy warehouse three times a year that sold discontinued new toys. I started purchasing them at a closeout price and listing them on eBay as well. After six months I had earned over $1,500 or roughly $250 a month. I am still selling on eBay and I can say that after profiting this much I will never have another garage sale again. I am now looking at making this a part time job.

I also began to look into writing. I had always been a decent writer, even though science was my major field of study and career aspiration. I found many sites likeYahoo Voices, Helium, Hubpages that would publish my work and sometimes earn me upfront pay or sometimes revenue shares. I also discovered content mills like Textbroker and iWriter where you write for a price. I enjoy writing at night when the twins are asleep and I can collect my thoughts. On average from all of the writing sites I was averaging about $100 a month.

Then I stumbled onto freelancing sites where you can look for more permanent work and search by the type of specialty that you are interested in. The two best sites that I have worked with are oDesk and eLance. These two sites have allowed me to find more projects than I can handle. I have completed two very large projects that dealt with science education on oDesk and then picked up a gigantic one on eLance just this week. These projects are perfect for me as a science teacher and keep me engaged and happy about the work I do. I am averaging $600 a month on these sites to date.

I like to have little supplemental income so I have signed up for surveys and ejury sites. My favorite two survey sites (that are very reputable) are SurveyClub Research and Pinecone. I usually get between 5-10 surveys a month and I usually earn about $30 a month from them. I have only served on two online juries but they paid $50 each time. On average I pull in $30 a month from this type of work.

Finally, I’m a teacher after all. I have signed up at several online tutoring sites. My favorite is one that matches me up with tutees based on the subjects I feel most comfortable teaching. Wyzant has helped me to find a number of tutoring jobs for high school students. This is the only job I have to travel outside the home, but I am earning $80-$120 a month doing this work.

It is not impossible to find work. I do feel that sometimes it is hard to keep them all going and sometimes I let one slow down when others get busy. In all, I am now able to productively stay at home with my kids and earn enough to pay for their preschool and supplement our income.

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Get $500 Per Month From Elance Using These 10 Simple Steps

Get $500 Per Month From Elance Using These 10 Simple Steps

1. Complete Your Elance Profile

Yes, go through everything; including the exams (which are free anyway :)), the phone verification and even identity verification where they call you and take a photo of you via Skype.

Being that it is a professional site, the best clients value freelancers who have a complete profile and a good portfolio, even if you’re a new freelancer so make sure you take this painful, one-time step and you won’t regret it.

Note that Elance support is usually awesome, equipped even with a live chat option. Therefore, if you get stuck anywhere, just contact them and you’ll have a quick answer to get you going.

2. Take an Exam

I know I’ve already mentioned this point…but one funny thing I’ve realized is that sometimes people take a point more seriously when it is put in its own heading. So, go ahead and take an exam.

3. Add a Portfolio

This is another important part of your profile. Make sure you have a great portfolio. For example, if you are a writer, no matter how confident you are in yourself, allow someone else to check out some of your favorite articles and let them inform you which ones would best fit into your portfolio. In short, put a lot of thought into what you add to your portfolio.

4. Don’t Quit Your Job First

Whether you do a day job or are a freelancer in other platforms such as iWriter, Freelancer etc., don’t quit first. This is because you don’t want to get into Elance totally hungry and desperate. It is better to join this site when you already have something else running but want to up your game.

5. Send Numerous Proposals

Elance gives you 40 free Connects per month. Most proposals will cost you one Connect. Therefore, make sure you use all your 40 Connects each month. I advise you do 2 proposals a day but give careful thought of what you put in your proposal. Make sure you put something professional and persuasive in each.

6. Don’t Start Too Small

Whenever I advise people to join Freelancer, I tell them to start small.

The same advice goes for Elance. However, one factor to consider is the fact that you’ll be dealing with professionals who will also expect you to be professional.

A very low bid may show desperation and some people may not choose your proposal, fearing you are not serious, you give low quality work, you don’t respect deadlines or just have some hidden flaw that is making you bid so low.

7. Ask for Escrow or Use WorkView

This is self-explanatory. To protect your payments, make sure you ask your clients to fund anescrow for fixed price jobs. For hourly jobs, it is hard to get scammed so just use their Tracker and send accurate timesheets in good time. I always warn freelancers not to work outside Elance or any other site for that matter since working outside will get you less protected and make it easy for you to get conned (take it from me, I was conned off a lot of cash this way when I was still green in online business).

8. Have a Brilliant Proposal

Don’t just wake up and do a proposal.

Make sure your proposal is well thought out. Feel free to bounce it off someone else to make sure its convincing enough to the clients. Note that this is one of the most important parts that will enable you to get good jobs.

9. Always Use a Sample

This is sort of an unwritten rule in all freelancing websites; Elance is no exception.

Make sure you use your best samples when you send out proposals. For example, if you are a graphic designer, use 2 or 3 of your favorite graphics.

A little secret that always works for me is I choose a sample that fits the client’s niche. If the client wants a writer to do weight loss articles, I pick 1-3 of my best weight loss articles and use them as my samples.

10. Be Patient

Patience is a virtue that many people don’t possess. We love sites like iWriter where you get in now, write a quick article and get paid.

Unfortunately, all quick things have their flaws e.g. iWriter will keep banning you and it has the highest rejection rate compared to other freelancing sites. Additionally, there are many times when there are no articles in the queue for you to write, therefore wasting your time and potential earnings.

On the other hand, if you land an Elance job like the ones I have, you have a guaranteed number of articles that you can write per day and ALL of them get accepted depending on how much your clients believe in your work

In short, be very patient in Elance. Note that even experts sometimes send proposals for weeks before they get their first jobs. The good thing is that when you start getting jobs there, you can easily forget about other sites.

$500 Per Month Plan for Freelancers in Elance

I’ll use the example of writers.

From my personal experience, there are many clients in Elance who are willing to pay between $4 and $8 per article. Therefore, you can use $4-$8 as your minimum proposal amount.

Once you get your $5 per 500 words job, make sure you write 5 articles a day. Assuming you work 5 days a week, that will give you $25 per day, meaning $125 per week and $500 per month.

And that is how you can make $500 per month on Elance.

Of course you should strive to work more than 5 days and do more than 5 articles per day. Additionally, always deliver quality work, otherwise, none of the above will work.

Bonus Tips

You can link your Payoneer card to Elance and use it to withdraw Elance cash for negligible fees. Since Payoneer is the best withdrawal method from online sites, make sure you take advantage of this.

Some clients may ask you to print and sign some Non-Disclosure Agreements or other contracts then upload them. These are the best clients there so don’t hesitate to do this.

Unlike Freelancer, you can withdraw your cash any day. The Payoneer card (or Elance card) requires a minimum of $20 USD per withdrawal but if you have the card and want to withdraw smaller figures, you can still withdraw to PayPal and then withdraw from PayPal to your US Payment Service by Payoneer. I still advise you just wait till you hit $20 and withdraw via Payoneer.

Never leave your day job or other freelancing jobs till you’ve secured one or two good clients on Elance.

In freelancing, never depend on one site only; make sure you still work on other sites such as Fiverr and iWriter, just to make sure you have backup earnings.

Avoid writing unpaid samples – unless the client requires one general one. For example, if a client asks you to write a sample on “5 Foods That Kill Fat”, turn it down since they may use it and never pay you for it.  But if they say, “Give me a 300 word sample on any topic so that I can see your writing skills”, feel free to give them that sample.

Elance Takeaway

$500 per month is less than average pay on Elance. If you follow these 10 tips, you can easily start earning this amount through your freelancing efforts. So go ahead and sign in to Elance and apply the above tips. Make sure you also do your own research to get more tips on how you can increase your Elance earnings.

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How to Earn From Forex Trading

How to earn on Forex

Most traders who participate in the currency market pursue the same objective – to make money by trading forex. 

It all seems simple at first: working on forex is not much different from trading other markets (commodities and financial). The main thing is to buy cheap and sell dear. The difference between the buy and sell price makes your profit. The goods traded on forex are currencies or rather currency pairs. For example, EUR/USD or GBP/JPY.

Anyone can participate in the currency market, it is not limited to banks, large companies, funds, and millionaires. Even a modest sum of, say, $100 is enough to start making money on forex. You first need to choose a broker and open a trading account. The broker will provide you leverage.

Definition of Leverage:

"Leverage is an interest-free loan provided to a trader by the broker. So using 1:100 leverage a trader can purchase a contract worth $ 100 000 with just one hundredth of the sum - $ 1 000. Therefore the profit will be one hundred times bigger compared to trading with just your own money. Learn more about leverage and margin trading."

Therefore, although it is hardly possible to manage with literally zero investment you can start trading with minimum initial deposit.

And now we have approached the question of whether a person with no special qualifications  or large sums can profit from trading forex.

Working as a Trader on Forex

Many people think that being a currency trader requires a degree in the field of finance, advanced mathematical and economic skills etc. But that is not so. In fact the key to open the door to making money on forex is the ability to predict the direction of future price movements. Modern analytical tools built into trading platforms help make the process of analyzing the market much easier. No degree in mathematics is needed to use mathematic tools for analyzing price moves, all it takes is just clicking a few buttons in trading software.

Definition of Trading Software:

A trading platform (trading terminal) is the software that allows traders to participate in the forex market via the Internet. The software is installed on your computer and allows you to monitor the situation in the market, analyze it quickly and efficiently, receive latest news and analytics and, above all, to buy and sell currencies online from home. The most popular platform for internet trading is MetaTrader.

Everyone regardless of education, age and experience can master the ins and outs of trading forex market as well as stock and commodities markets. No matter how much money you have. with enough effort and discipline anyone can learn to earn money on forex. 

People who actually made money on forex do exist. And the list is not limited to world famous billionaires like, for example, George Soros, but also includes ordinary people who know how to trade on forex. The daily turnover of currency market has seen dramatic growth over the last decade as internet technologies advanced significantly to allow private investors to actively participate in trading. Simultaneously steady income from forex became available to most people worldwide.

And naturally nowadays the available profit opportunities are not restricted to forex trading. Brokerage companies also provide access to stock and commodity  markets. But still, trading stocks and commodities turns out to be less attractive for beginners for a few reasons:

• Exchange trade requires having a considerable amount of trader’s own money due to significantly lower leverage  levels.
• Forex, as opposed to stock exchange trade, promises fast income. Forex market operates 24 hours a day, and exchange rates fluctuate considerably. 

It is not a question any longer for investors from mature economies whether it is possible to earn on forex. Yet another question that had been praying on novice traders’ minds was also answered long ago: How much can one earn on forex? The profit opportunities are not limited. The global currency market offers mind-blowing possibilities. The key is to know how to trade wisely and make money on forex.

How to work on forex

It is possible to profit from both exchange rates rises and falls. While there are dozens of forex trading strategies, and as you gain experience you will learn many of them, in fact they all come down to just two basic methods relying on  either rise or fall of prices.

Let’s consider the following easy example of trading basics.

1. The price goes down

Suppose, you have opened a trading account and deposited an amount of, say, $2 000. You decided to trade EUR/USD currency pair and expect the EURO to go down. What is your next step?  

Step 1 

Place a sell order in the trading platform.  For example, you have ordered your broker to sell one lot of EUR at, say, 1.43380. If your leverage is 1:100 you needed 1433.8 of your own funds.

The size of a standard contract on the forex market is 100 000 units of base currency, which amounts to one lot. For example, one lot of EUR/USD is equal to EUR 100 000, and 0.1 lot is equal to 10 000 EUR.

Step 2 

Wait till the price goes down to, for example, 1.38640.

Step 3 

Close the trade.  You have bought one lot of EUR back at  the new price – 1.38640. With the leverage of 1:100 you needed only USD 1386.4 of your own funds.

Step 4

 Calculate your profit: You gained $4740 – the difference between the sell and purchase prices for one lot of EUR/USD. Not too bad for 4 days, isn’t it? This is how you can profit from the currency rate drops on the forex market.

2. The price goes up

To get an idea of how to earn on forex when prices go up, let’s consider another example. Suppose, the euro is about to rise:

Step 1 

Buy 1 lot of EUR/USD at 1.38640. You will only need  USD 1286.4 (remember about leverage!).

Step 2 

Wait till the price goes up to reach the level of, for example, 1.40620.

Step 3 

Close the trade. (You are technically selling EUR 100 000)

Step 4 

Thus, within just a few hours we have earned $ 1 980 (the difference in the value of the contract given that the price rose from 1.38640  to 1.40620). Both examples show how much profit an experienced forex trader can make.

How to Gain Real Profit from Trading Forex

Many people think that after acquiring basic knowledge of how to earn on Forex one can immediately start trading and get huge profits. This is not quite right though, as real trade takes a lot of effort. When analyzing the historical data everything seems far more obvious, as you can see all the price changes. Trading in real-time mode turns out to be much more complicated.

The key factor determining trader’s success or failure is his ability to forecast the direction of price movement. Our example clearly demonstrates how a novice trader can make profit on forex. However, to really have sustainable income one has to learn how to apply instruments of fundamental and technical analysis and how to control emotions.

Technical analysis relies on mathematical calculations to predict future price movements. Fundamental analysis is more about psychology. It allows a trader to predict how political and economic events affect the market. And here analytical reports compiled by market experts, major news feed and economic calendar come to aid. The combination of these two types of analysis will provide the most clear vision of future trends.

The basic principles of trading on the currency exchange market are familiar to almost everyone nowadays. You probably even know someone who has made money on forex personally. Thus it becomes clear that profiting from trading currency pairs on-line is, indeed, possible. However your personal potential income  depends solely on you.

Complete a training course to learn about the basics of trading, practice on a demo account, pay special attention to funds management principles and psychological aspect of trading, and do not forget to keep working on yourself! With the insight into how to start trading on forex and make the most out of each and every trade you will become a real expert of financial markets. And soon, probably, you will be telling your friends how to earn a million on forex!

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How to Earn Money Using adfly $500 a Week

How to Earn Money Using adfly $500 a week

Hello everyone this is your host Faizan Parsa. Today i'm gonna show you how you can earn from adfly. How to attract more people to click on your links, how to make big internet traffic, how to earn more money from home!

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NEW Neobux Daily Cash Method!

NEW Neobux Daily Cash Method!

Many individuals spend the majority of their time in front of their computer system due to enhanced innovation. You can earn extra income by using this online time for this you require to just click and a PayPal or Payza account for the withdrawal of the income. There are lots of sites which provide pay to click service but among them Neobux is preferred of all.

NeoBux is a paid to click site that pays its individuals to look at routine net advertisements. Neobux is similar to a small company that pays for your viewing. NeoBux allows you to make a hundred dollars each day, with the correct method and patience. It’s a hundred percent legal PTC website which could be leading premier in PTC websites online. NeoBux is a good system for all because marketers are totally mindful that members are being rewarded to look at the advertisements.

NeoBux keeps the right association guidelines to avoid individuals developing several accounts and spamming their website and costing you money. You’ll create this money at any time, whereas you sleep, whereas you view TELEVISION or go check out friends. The truth is you don’t have to work much and you will have the ability to get above $1,000 per month.

To end up being a member it’s entirely voluntarily and no personal information like Mastercard numbers or bank details will they ever want. Now 2 types memberships are available: standard subscription that is a free subscription and a gold subscription which is a purchasable subscription. An individual must create a basic subscription account for joining in Neobux. Standard members will update to gold subscription once they complete fifteen days as soon as sign on and a minimum of fifty clicked advertisements. Golden subscription is just available for a year (Cost $90).
3 fundamental streams of monetary gain from NeoBux consists of monetary gain from your personal actions on the website e.g. seeing ads, Commissions paid to you for Rented Referrals, Commissions paid to you for Direct Recommendations.

The essential method to accomplish with NeoBux is referrals, which suggests referred members. Recommendations are people simply like you who have actually joined NeoBux. You earn for each ad click your recommendations make. And you’ll have the ability to have plenty of referrals.

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How to Do Natural SEO on Blogger

How to do natural SEO on Blogger

Although many insist that blogs hosted on free servers, such as Blogger, are not ideal for performing a correct positioning of your web site, the truth is that a blog hosted by Blogger can be really well positioned and quickly on the Internet if you are using the right SEO tools.

Now, given the latest updates from Google, the best would be hiring a specialized person, however, if we don't have the resources or we want to learn doing this job alone, we can choose to begin with the natural positioning. Here are some tips to start a SEO work (Search Engine Optimization).

The first thing is to pick a correct domain

We must try having our keyword included in our domain name, of course, this may sacrifice our branding but we can use the redirection.

Create Value Added Content

Not only rewrite articles, or write like they would be intended for us. While writing our posts we should consider our target audience, i.e., giving advices, tips, suggestions or guidance on specific topics and, aside, place links, use anchortext and keyfrases.

The topic of the links is important

They should be of quality and while, is no longer required to place five or ten links within the text of your website, now what matters is that the link is relevant to the context.

Finally, the domain, in value-added content and a right use of the internal and external links, will not be useful if we don't try to update our blog constantly.

How often should you update your blog?

This is not necessary to be done on daily basis, although this may be ideal as in this way we could achieve a greater relevance in search engines, but has to be a constant work. Let's say, two or three times a week would be enough, what should not happen is updating only three times a week and doing nothing next week.

Keep in mind that search engines happen to pass daily on our blog in order to index our content.

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How to SEO you Blog

How To SEO Optimize Your Blogger Blog Titles For Higher Search Results

This is called "Blogger/blogspot Title Swapping". Swapping blogs title can help boost your position in search engine results page listing and also increase clickthroughs. From an SEO (Search Engine Optimization) perspective, page title is the most important element in your blog in terms of ranking well in search engines. If you look at your browser's title bar you will notice that Blogger's default templates display your blog title in front of each page or post title. So page title would normally be displayed as:

After swapping the blog title, it will be appearing like this:

This kind of placement will be also appearing in google search results. The reason why you should put post titles at the beginning is because users are more likely to search for specific post content rather than the actual name of your blog. So having the post titles at the beginning increases your chances of being found.

How to optimize blogger post titles

Step 1. Log in to your Blogger Dashboard and go to Template > Edit HTML 

Step 2. Check the "Expand Widget Templates" checkbox

Step 3. Find (CTRL + F) this code:

 <title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>

Step 4. Replace the code above with this one:

 <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<title><data:blog.pageName/> |<data:blog.title/></title>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title> </b:if>

Step 5. Click Save Template and you are done.

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