I decided to build a top ten list after reading James Altucher's How to be the Luckiest Person Alive ebook. I thought this would be a fun exercise, but I've only gotten to 9. So HN, how would you make $100 today?
Most people who make $100 a day aren't going to come out and tell you exactly what to do. But the simplest method is to come up with, or sell a product with at least $100 profit and then try to make one sale a day, like I said, pretty simple.
I used to do it with facebook pages. I would check out local businesses (any city) that could go for a custom facebook page. I had some templates that I could customize really quickly and would throw up a mock page. If I could get through to the decision maker and show them the example, I was about 20% successful in a sale. Considering the costs were just my time, I was easily profiting $100+ a day by making 10-20 calls and emails a day.
I have another method that is even easier, in case you can't make facebook pages. It's all about arbitrage. Find a person who needs a service (web design, coding, etc) and then pay someone else less to do it. I do this all the time with freelancer.com and odesk for large projects, netting thousands of dollars in the middle, just for overseeing a project.
I recommend you keep it simple and small though, at least at first. There is a website, fiverr.com that has people who list jobs they will do for $5. I have resold some of these jobs for well over $100.
I don't really want to give away my best methods on here and the best gigs, but msg me if you really need some help. I would recommended combining the sales process in my post above with the outsourcing method of this one.
this is probably the most unoriginal suggestion, but you could always have a moderately popular site and get money off google ads or selling ad space to local businesses relevant to the site's subject matter?
Panhandle in an unusual spot with a funny sign - like near a driving range with "need lessons badly".
Fix 1-2 of my friends computers.
Offer a one-day-only special on taking graduation / Father's Day pictures.
Offer tutoring, especially to groups of kids at the same time.
I actually always felt that no one would buy any of my old stuff. And then I stuck them on craigslist and was surprised by how many people bought stuff. Nearly 80% of everything I had put up sold within 5 days. Even old tae kwon do gear which was 7 years old.
I wish I had done this much earlier in my life. I would have had way less stuff. I unfortunately had a "learned helplessness" syndrome about selling old stuff.
The money is of course nice but the things you learn about selling is and negotiating is really cool.
And finally the peace of mind that comes with having less stuff is probably the best part.
Perhaps I've misunderstood the question but surely most people who have a normal job e.g. software development make $100 every day? For example I am self-employed and my hourly rate is $91/hr so today after 8 hrs I'll have made $728 which after the 50% tax in my country is $364. And today wasn't even a very stressful day.
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[ 0.17 ms ] story [ 59.7 ms ] threadI used to do it with facebook pages. I would check out local businesses (any city) that could go for a custom facebook page. I had some templates that I could customize really quickly and would throw up a mock page. If I could get through to the decision maker and show them the example, I was about 20% successful in a sale. Considering the costs were just my time, I was easily profiting $100+ a day by making 10-20 calls and emails a day.
I recommend you keep it simple and small though, at least at first. There is a website, fiverr.com that has people who list jobs they will do for $5. I have resold some of these jobs for well over $100.
I don't really want to give away my best methods on here and the best gigs, but msg me if you really need some help. I would recommended combining the sales process in my post above with the outsourcing method of this one.
Good luck.
Another way would be to get someone to prepay you today for a job you will do over the course of the week or something similar.
We just sold a few things around the house and made about $250.
I wish I had done this much earlier in my life. I would have had way less stuff. I unfortunately had a "learned helplessness" syndrome about selling old stuff.
The money is of course nice but the things you learn about selling is and negotiating is really cool.
And finally the peace of mind that comes with having less stuff is probably the best part.