As we are nearing the end of this painful recession, some of you may still be unemployed and so back by popular demand comes our “how to make money without a job” article.

This month, we discuss how you can start your cleaning business.
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We discussed ways you can get money without a job, and here comes one more way for you to start making money. Six years ago, many people made a killing in real estate and since the recession we have seen only the best survive. A new era of foreclosures and short sales came about and once again proved that real estate never dies but simply slows down.

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Opportunities are all around us, there are many chances for all of us to get in on certain ventures before they boom, and or buy investments at the right time and hold them long term.

Today we are going to discuss one of those opportunities and what you can do to prepare for the next one. The stock market is known to have its ups and downs and we all know that everyone wants to get in when its low and sell when its high, but are we ready to act when the right opportunity comes along?

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Life is like a box of chocolates but it is about control of your own life. In many of our previous articles we discuss the importance of control and discipline over your feelings, emotions, money and family but we have never taken the time to discuss the discipline we all have with ourselves. In the game of life, there are two types of player, the driver and the passenger. Both types have their pros and cons but only one is usually associated with successful entrepreneurs; and that would be the driver.

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A day doesn’t go by where someone doesn’t ask me this question. Getting promoted at work is much easier than you think and doesn’t require you to do any crazy tasks to get there but simply care.

Work is all about attitude, engagement and delivery.  If you can remain motivated, you can deliver on those three items daily. To stay motivated, you can use some of these tips.

1. Put a picture of something you work for (vacation, car, family) on your desk

2. Create a social network for yourself at work, but remain distant and professional

3. Increase your skills by helping out on projects or another department

4. Leave your office for lunch and enjoy the weather

Now that you are motivated it is important to understand what I mean by attitude, engagement and delivery.

Attitude: This is your ability to have a real smile, and a positive attitude about work no matter how bad it gets. You must remain positive that you can achieve goals you are assigned everyday and make sure that your attitude is contagious. Others will notice your can do attitude and you eagerness to take on challenges but more importantly your ability to work well under pressure.

Engagement: Be corporate with your boss, meaning make sure they see that you are living the brand and values of the company through your work daily and that you are passionate about your work. Most of those that don’t get promoted are due to their lack of engagement, they feel like they are there to get a paycheck and go home. Make sure that your boss and their boss sees your level of commitment to their organization and believes that you can influence others to do the same. Engagement can be seen through simple gestures like taking a shorter lunch in order to get more done, or offering constructive feedback.

Delivery: This is the hardest and to me, probably not the most important of the three but still a must to get promoted. Deadlines, project goals, sales goals are all part of what makes a company profitable and are necessary in order to pay your salary. The more you contribute to that the more profitable you look to those you don’t interact with daily or weekly, such as CEO’s or CTO’s. The major part here is to show that you pay for yourself by bringing good profits to the organization. In other words, you are worth the money and will make an asset if moved up the ladder. This isn’t as important unless you are in charge of the profits and losses of your group, branch, office, as you will not directly report out the profits you were able to attain.

Combining the three while keeping yourself motivated and challenged will be the reason you are noticed by the key players in your organization. These same people will remember your name and will make it easy on you when you are looking to transition to their teams.

We have discussed many new ways to make money in the past few weeks and now look at one idea that has many trying to make money with no real results to be reported which leaves the question: Do Online surveys really work?

Well, that can be a tricky question as there are millions of different surveys out there and it makes it hard to simply answer. So lets discuss which ones work and which ones don’t.

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Its obvious that we are facing bad times, but some places are feeling the pinch much more than others. So we are bringing you the areas that have been most affected and those that are in the clear.

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So you saved a bit of cash and consider yourself very good at Ebay or Craigslist and find yourself to be an expert in selling on the web. Well time to make money doing it for others. There are two ways you can go about this, one has greater risks but carries much greater rewards, the other is the turtle approach but works very well if you are good enough at it.

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We discussed in our previous posts a few labor intensive ideas that were geared closer to teenagers and folks that do not have a relatively large amount of experience. What if you have been working for a while and feel like your time is worth more than mowing lawns or finding cute ways to make 10-15 an hour.

This next segment is for you then, you have worked in most cases in the same 2-3 fields your entire life and posses a ton of knowledge in your field, you find it easy to guide others in doing what you do and usually think other companies are running way behind in efficiency. Time to start you own consulting job!

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Lets make more money this way. We discussed the ability to start your own costless small business right from home last time and discovered that with the simple use of office and a PC, you can make money and that can add up to a bit, but this time lets look at another option in case you decide that handyman work was just not for you.

For this particular one, all you need is a long list of friends and some networking skills.

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