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How To Choose An Online Survey Site That Will Make You Money

Saturday 24 February 2007 @ 12:38 am

Online survey sites are a dime a dozen on the Internet. If you haven’t tried one already, a survey site is basically a data base of companies that will pay you, or give you other rewards, if you fill out a survey about their products. This also can be done by attending focus groups, watching commercials, trying out products and so on. The logic behind this is that these companies need feedback from consumers as to how their products and services are received in the public. These complains are willing to pay for that feedback and that’s where you come in.

You may ask - why do I need the survey sites? Can’t I find these companies by myself and attend their surveys?

The answer is yes. You can find them yourself. But this is very time consuming and difficult, as these companies are not easy to find and the deals are not always good. Survey sites offer you a database of companies that were already checked and were found to have provide good deals, payment on time and are actively accepting surveys. The online survey sites usually charge a small one time fee for joining, and you get life time access to their database. The database is updated a few times a month to include more good offers and take down the offers that are not so good.

So, how should you approach these kind of sites? Are they worth your money?

Here are a few tips on how to test these sites before paying the entrance fee:

Try it out for free - do a search on your favorite search engine for “free survey site”. This will give you a list of sites that list surveys you can access for free. Take one of the surveys and ask yourself - “can I do this over time?”. Some people find filling surveys to be an annoying task. So make sure you can actually do this for the long term.

Look for reviews - for a good data base, you’ll probably want to join a paid site. They have a better and a constantly updated database. So look for reviews about the various paid survey sits. Choose the one that looks the best. You will have a money back guarantee, in most cases, so don’t worry too much.

Set a schedule - You must fill out a certain amount of surveys every month so your monthly income will be significant. That’s why it’s important to set a schedule for filling out the surveys and sticking to it. After the month is over, you will start getting some checks that will justify the work you put in.

Working the surveys is not difficult, but it is time consuming, so make sure you make the time to do it. In terms of return per hour, the effort is worth-while.

Want to learn more about online cash surveys? Visit Alex Dale’s web site. We talk more about surveys for cash and online surveys.

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Making money with eBay

Thursday 22 February 2007 @ 12:38 am

These days, as much as the great google does, eBay colors are hard to ignore. Going eBay is one of the most lucrative business ventures on the Internet that anyone can dip his hands into. You know it better when stores shall have the “moved to eBay” notice plastered on their display windows.

Perhaps every hour of the day, a seller sets up business on eBay. More so, hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of buyers are checking out eBay for their needs and wants of goods. With eBay, sellers and buyers are not seemed minding what’s going on elsewhere. How else, when this kind of network and movement online guarantees one sure thing: easy money. Yes, the ‘fast bucks’ is real quick. But…read on.

It’s no easy field – counting over 100 million members, eBay is, predictably, an assembly of the truly astute businessmen alongside with the ill-advised wannabe entrepreneurs. Yes, not everybody is reaping eBay’s promise of quick riches because not everyone knows the tricks of the eBay trade, that is.

eBay is open for business 24/7/365, hence good business sense applies as much as imprudence is sneered. In eBay, one can be eaten alive.

Let’s take a second look at ‘100 million’ members. The sheer number also speaks of the volume of customer base: 100 million buying people — that can, translate to millions of returns. And because this multitude is checking out — to some degree, frantically — the first task: be known. When eBay users shall have recognized your business, you’re now off to doing things well and good.

Well and good, but the nub of the matter rests in trading the right stuff and trading them right. Here, you need good counsel because…again, that eBay population!

The Internet has a cache of free information on ‘making money on eBay’. (The eBay website itself offers excellent tips to their buyers and sellers.) The ways range from putting up an online garage sale to dispensing retails from a wholesaler. The stuff to trade is anything from selling big and small properties to offering minor to major services. Transactions can run from as low as a dollar, all the way up to business transfers that run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Reason why money transfers business is making a killing, too.

Ebay is clearly an irresistible money making opportunity. One profitable strategy — the eBay way! — is selling for a wholesaler. This is where an eBay member/trader promotes other peoples products and sell them for a cut of the profit.

After determining what product sizzles and sells, one should find a wholesaler that agrees to a best deal. As soon as the contract with the wholesaler is ready – and all trust built in, of course — it is time to draw market strategies, making sure they conform to what the wholesaler finds acceptable. And because this is largely an online thing, marketing and advertising your product online is all about having a website available for the buying public to view.

Meanwhile, statistics reveal – and it may benefit to know – that the most successful eBay sellers started out as buyers. Hence, it is important, as the business progresses, to really pay attention to customer service.

To get the most out of your newfound venture, you need to weigh out some of the business expenses such as website maintenance, storage/rent and shipping costs and insurance (as a measure of protection for you and the wholesaler). To do away with the latter, you can choose to have the wholesaler keep the product, and ship when necessary to the customer when purchased. Carefully check your operating costs. This will more or less guarantee that you are not spending more than you are making — you chose to go the eBay route in the first place.

Get started with a money making eBay business of your very own. Read all of the information and practical eBay selling tips on how to make money on eBay. Visit author George Lindemann at http://www.auctionfusion.com/. The information is free and frequently updated.

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The Richest Men in Florida

Tuesday 20 February 2007 @ 12:38 am

“I wanna be rich”, says a line from a cheesy 80’s song, sung by a band whose name escapes memory at the moment. Apart from the song’s outward cheesiness, one really annoying thing about it is the way it repeatedly states the obvious. In today’s material world, who doesn’t want “money, lots and lots of money”? Monks perhaps, but they comprise just a tiny fraction of the world’s population. Everybody else wants to be rich.

Unfortunately for about 95% of us, only a fortunate few ever get to become that rich. Among those fortunate few are these gentlemen from Florida who have consistently made it to Forbes’ list of richest men.

With a net worth of over $3 billion, Micky Arison is the wealthiest man in the entire State of Florida. He took over Carnival Cruise Lines, which his father founded, and turned it into the largest cruise operator in the world. Daniel Abraham, on the other hand, created Slim Fast, one of the most successful weight-loss supplements of all time. He has helped millions of people all over the world lose weight with his creation, fattening up his net worth to about $1.8 billion in the process.

The oldest member of Florida’s elite rich list is Robert Edward Rich Sr., whose accumulation of a $1.8 billion fortune started with his development of a soybean-based whipping cream in the 1940’s. He is also a minor-league baseball team owner.

Wayne Huizenga, meanwhile, literally started from scratch—or garbage to be exact. As a teenager, he worked for a friend who operated a garbage service, and eventually started his own waste management company. Now running AutoNation, the world’s largest new and used car dealer, as well as owner of the Miami Dolphins, Huizenga is worth around $1.7 billion.

Another Floridian consistently making it to wealthiest men lists is James Martin Moran, the largest privately held foreign auto distributor and dealer with Southeast Toyota. The same goes for George L. Lindemann & family, a self-made billionaire who first hit it big with his soft contact lens patent, then went on buying and selling companies for the past 30 years. Currently the chief of natural gas company Southern Union, as well as the owner of Lindemann is the sixth richest man in Florida with a net worth of about $1.2 billion.

Rounding up the top ten wealthiest men in Florida are Arthur L Williams Jr., who built his fortune around the insurance business; Brothers James C. France and William France Jr., who control stock car racing’s Nascar circuit; and 71-year old Mark McCormack, who acquired his $1-billion fortune by founding International Sports Management, or IMG, a giant in the field of sports management. Among the talents in his roster are Tiger Woods and football star Peyton Manning.

More information about the richest men in Florida, such as George Lindemann Sr. & George Lindemann Jr., can be easily accessed by visiting author Neil Crespi at http://neil-crespi.blogspot.com. With its frequent updates, his site will certainly keep you abreast of events that concern Florida’s richest men.

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