The Turn £100,00 into £10,000 by the end of 2010 all dribble unofficial Thread

lanzadreams

Hi everyone, is it too late for me to join you?

alyssa_liss

hello welcome to the thread

dillidalli

After having a pretty unproductive weekend, I had a bit of a star turn yesterday.
*I have finished making the last of my products for my portfolio site.
*Finished all the photography just doing a little bit of retouching in photoshop.
*Just need to update the rest of the flash coding for my main portfolio site.
*Got my business cards printed up vistaprint have a sale on at the moment with discounts of 30% off at the moment!
*Updated my blog with four new posts so it will be ready for unveiling a little later on this week.:)
*Started laying out my portfolio as suggested by hypno in the other thread. I have copied and pasted hypno06's orginal suggestions because I thought it was a really helpful post.

I'm not officially part of this challenge, but I do the "make £10 a day" challenge every month on DFW, and had already decided to set myself an annual target rather than a monthly target this year.....and have been lurking on this thread as it is obviously similar....

Over the years I have done a number of things as part of my own challenge.....as well as the usual ebay/amazon/bingo/mystery shopping stuff, these are some of the things we have done which have brought in good money for us.....they may give some of you some useful ideas for this challenge:

- Take in foreign students....we have done long term students and put them up for a full school year.....they become part of your family, and you have to include them in everything you do, so not for everyone....but if you have a spare room free and are happy to have someone else live with you in term time, find out from your local education authority if they have visiting students that need host families. I played host mum to foreign students for 5 years - each one doing AS/A levels at a local school. In return for sharing our home, we received £128 a week in term time.....a nice amount when you add it up.

- you can do the same for uni students if you live in walking/easy bus journey distance of a uni.....have a word with the housing officer on campus. Maybe too late for the current academic year, but people will very shortly be looking for accomodation for 2010/11 year....

- short term exchange students also need host families - have a look in your local yellow pages or google any companies near you that sell language holidays to foreign kids. We have hosted lots of children between 13 and 18 in the summer holidays for 2-3 weeks each, in return for £98 a week each.....we don't have more than 2 stay at a time, but I know a family with several spare bedrooms who have hosted 5 or 6 at a time......

Remember, all these will be subject to things like CRB checks, home visits, and boiler inspections, so don't forget to factor those costs in.

- Weddings........people spend a ridiculous amount on their weddings, and are often not prepared to cut costs on their dream day.....I set up a small business doing helium balloons for wedding receptions........I started off by spending £40 on a tiny cannister of gas and a bag of balloons, and doing trial and error stuff in my front room. When I got something decent, I photographed it, and voila there was the start of my "portfolio".....birthday parties, retirement dos, golf club Christmas balls, blah blah blah.....if you can get a decent product, they will pay you a good amount of money for something that will transform a venue.

- bouncy castles......for several years we hired out bouncy castles. We bought our first one for £250 from the freeads.....and hired it out for £25 a time.....when we made enough, we bought another one, and ended up with about a dozen castles, two giant slides, a couple of ball pools and an assault course.....we hired them out for parties, summer barbecues, corporate events, and also accompanied them to school fetes, local marathons etc where we charged 50p for 3 minutes or whatever.....if you have a family who are waiting for dad to run a half marathon, they will be grateful for the chance to bounce about for a few mins and let off some built up energy!

Remember to factor in appropriate insurance - it is really important that you do not skimp on this.

- workshops....find a subject that you have a genuine passion about and give workshops in it. I have taught things from Assertiveness at work, to Indian Head Massage, and Hypnotherapy......

- Pamper evenings/therapy fayres.....if you have a "hobby", but it is not enough to do a whole event from, then get other likeminded people together, rent a hall, and charge each "exhibitor" £10.....then charge the public £1 to enter. Each exhibitor can then sell their own "therapy" or whatever, with taster sessions of massage for £5, or sell aromatherapy oils etc......you get to sell your own therapy/whatever, plus you get the profit on the exhibitors fees you have charged plus the entrance fee from the public.....less the cost of the venue you have hired. Village halls and school halls are ideal for this type of thing. Market it well, and you can do really well with a bit of effort and the right target audience.

It is a case of thinking outside the box a bit, giving things a try, not stressing if they fail, but instead look at them and work out why, and whether you could do anything different to make them work or whether they are just best put under the heading of "not worth it". Don't expect it all to happen overnight - some things take weeks of planning, but then reap excellent results.

Remember, PPPPP - prior preparation prevents poor performance.

Good luck!

dillidalli

lanzadreams wrote: »

Hi everyone, is it too late for me to join you?

Never too late! Welcome

lanzadreams

thanks you have all given me so many ideas already

munchki

moneymakestheworldgoround wrote: »

Work out how to get to Milton Keynes !

LOL, now that made me giggle!! That is where I am right now!!! lol

dillidalli

If anyone needs free accounting software here is a linky

Rosie

Morning all,
I am declaring at £456.30 for January
My commitments for Feb
Learn about and try match betting
Join Dooyoo
Register for mystery shopping
List more bits on ebay
Start planting my vegetable seeds
Going away next Monday for 5 days so dread to think how many pages I will have to catch up on when I get home.

moneymabel

natnat13 wrote: »

Hey anyone up near Barnstaple, I know there's a few of us in Devon but Barnstaple is a tad to far for me. Have a look at this:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/OVER-200-HOUSE-CLEARANCE-HB-FICTION-BOOKS-95-1st-EDS_W0QQitemZ140373065001QQihZ004QQcategoryZ26185QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp3286.m7QQ_trkparmsZalgo%3DLVI%26itu%3DUCI%26otn%3D3%26ps%3D6

I hope that link works, first time I've done that. You might have to C&P! It's 200 fiction books, 95% first editions, £75 BIN, local pick up in Barnstaple.

Maybe worth a go if you're nearby?

Hi Nat-i'm in Barnstaple but havent got £75 or a car big enough to pick them up lol!! looks like a good deal though...except..this is gonna sound odd ..but I've got a really strange bad feeling about them?!! (It's ok amber I'm not usually like this i'm not after your job!) really cant explain it but I think even if I did have the money I wouldnt buy them. Perhaps I need a cup of tea or something stronger lol!!

also i'm sure I listed a certain item on Ebay on Sunday but its not in my listings, it hasnt been sold,and ebay havent removed it (it was only a toy car nothing dodgy or smelly!) perhaps I didnt press the list button before I went on to the next one......?

everythings gone all strange!!!!!!

nikki2804

Anyone else wake up to loads of snow this morning?