Starting again, 1% at a time. 100 ways to make £80!

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I whole heartedly agree with Little Miss here!

Little_Miss_Uni-Debt

happytails wrote: »

Afternoon everyone, posted my Ebay parcels today and got 2 more ending today (both with bids :j) The majority of the rest of my items end tomorrow so hoping to photograph all the rest and get those listed tonight to end Saturday.

Not much else is happening but the husband has done near 50 hours overtime in 2 weeks which is VERY impressive! Ive hardly seen him mind

Sarah x

50 hours! :eek: That's amazing!

Little_Miss_Uni-Debt

We're all upto date again now with percents flying in at all angles! Love it!

Big hello to the latest folks that joined while I was on hol!
KKing, FatPuddingMumma, JennyPennySaver, Triangle & Rachel84 you're all on the list with your latest %'s.

Sorry to hear some expenses cropped up Tattycath, least you know you're still at 6%, it's just a step back - nothing more

I'm off to do a bit of ebaying, clearing clutter & sending out parcels helps me achieve a zen-like state of mind :rotfl:

We were going to have a treat and go out for tea tonight but instead I'm going to cook what we would have at the restaurant at home for a fraction of the cost!

Grand total of £12 for a 3 course meal for two, Chez Moi. Will put the extra we would have spent to one side.

Hope you all have a lovely evening!

happytails

Well although ive not achieved a lot today % wise i did fix the washing machine all by myself Relisted the 1 thing i didnt sell yesterday (was waiting until this evening to list so it ends in 3 days time on a Saturday).

I also sorted out my car insurance for next month. Went for the monthly option (i was planning on the annual cost but i need to get 2 rooms plastered before xmas). My original monthly cost was £89 a month fully comp for me and OH (we are both under 25) and just got it sorted for us both, fully comp with £0 vol excess and legal cover incl. for *drumroll* £46.15 a month. Saving over £40 a month there :T AAAAND i had a code for £75 cashback (they were offering quidco cashback at £45 but i have my home insurance with them so entitled to the higher cashback. I will get the cheque in 90 days (making a note in my diary for that! Right before Xmas i think that is :A

Both items on Ebay sold. £3.19 and £5.20, plus the postage. Happy with that These will be going towards my Ebay fees which ive got now They should be coming out soon.

Sarah x

PipneyJane

Little_Miss_Uni-Debt wrote: »

Hmm...I would take the above advice with a pinch of salt.

My spam-sense is on high alert with the numbers too.

My point of view on this is

1)Twitter & FB aren't underused, they're overcrowded with people doing exactly this. Twitter is especially full of spam (fake accounts & spam tweets) it takes effort, content, credibility & marketing to get a worthwhile following.

2)10,000 genuine followers is very hard to reach & a lot of work. I've found if you've got an interesting account & you seem genuine, for every 10 people you follow around 5 follow you back. You'd have to add 100 followers every day for 7 months to get anywhere even close to 10k. That's very boring work. The closest I've got is 8600 followers on 1 account, I've built it slowly since Jan 2011.

If you enlist a paid service to add followers for you, they won't be targeted to your idea, they'll just add a high percentage of fake accounts.

My suggestions the numbers would be closer to this

10k followers -> 1% click on the link (100) -> 1% of them make a purchase (1) if you're lucky you'd probably make £1.50 per tweet and it doesn't scale, so it's not like you can just ramp up the tweets and get lots of £1.50's. Plus you've got to constantly come up with interesting content to put in your tweets.

In those 6 months adding followers you'd be better writing an ebook on a subject that you're knowledgable about and then selling that, once that's complete you can go down the Twitter route but instead of getting £1.50 per sale, you'd get the full price of your own product that you're selling.

I am a lurker on this thread, but I had to chime in because I totally agree with Little Miss. There are thousands (probably millions) of what I call "idiot" accounts on Twitter, who are so desparate to accrue followers that they'll follow every person they find. Case in point: I have over 300 followers on Twitter but I HAVE NEVER POSTED ANYTHING. I only opened my account so that I could read Mark Kermode's Oscar predictions a couple of years ago, when he ran out of time to give them live on the radio.

THEMONEYSPIDER_2

Hello everyone also a Lurker who pops along now and again

Re: Ebay fees.

Are you aware you can pay your Ebay fees straight away, rather than wait for ebay to take them?

If you go into your ebay account & summary it will tell you what your current fees are and give the option of making a one off payment.

I always use this method and it stops money getting tied up in paypal while you wait for ebay to invoice it each month.

Hope thats of some use

Triangle

Hi all, just thought I would post a quick update as its almost 2 weeks since I started the challenge.

Thanks for adding me to the list Little Miss - and a massive :beer: for starting this fantastic thread!

I am currently at 9% - 1% has come from loose change over last week.

I have also:

• Posted books to fatbrain; expecting 2% from these
• Got half a % from money saved out of weekly food shopping budget - hoping to make it up to a full 1% after next week's food shop!
• Posted items on ebay - if all sell, will be another 2% (possibly more)

Aim for this coming week is to get more items on ebay - total starting price combined of £60 (3%). I think I need to start being much more ruthless with clothes

Take care
Txx

tattycath

THEMONEYSPIDER wrote: »

Hello everyone also a Lurker who pops along now and again

Re: Ebay fees.

Are you aware you can pay your Ebay fees straight away, rather than wait for ebay to take them?

If you go into your ebay account & summary it will tell you what your current fees are and give the option of making a one off payment.

I always use this method and it stops money getting tied up in paypal while you wait for ebay to invoice it each month.

Hope thats of some use

Yes, I always pay my ebay fees when it gets up to a certain amount-in fact, I often round it up so I end up in credit of a couple of pounds. I hardly ever wait for the invoice to arrive.

liz-paul

Well still no progress here (will be the end of the month until I know if I can afford another 1% and I still haven't listed any more stuff on ebay/gumtree), but I have started writing an ebook..... I don't think I'll ever make any money (not the attitude, I know, but probably realistic ) but if nothing else it will provide me with a useful resource. Not sure how long it will take me to finish but when it is finished I guess I'll be looking for advice here on the next steps!!

Keep it up you're all doing so well :T

Decluttering

I've walked to work the last couple of days, saving me £2.20 It takes me 40 minutes but I don't mind that much, I'm sure the excercise will do me good. 0.44%

£4.22 in interest from one of my savings account transferred over too, 0.84%

That's a grand total of 1.28% more added today

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