Working from home can be something of an enigma. With increasing number of high-scam garbage schemes that are around (you know the sort - stuffing envelopes, reading emails etc) the newbie may be forgiven for thinking there are NO decent work from home opportunities.
In fact, nothing could be further from the truth and we'll discuss just a couple of the more interesting and reliable methods of making money from your living room.
1. Yes, The Financial Market CAN Make You Very Wealthy. Learn How To Invest, And Then To Trade - It's The Most Useful Skill You'll Ever Learn.
A few days ago, I told about some wealth generation strategies that I truly believe in. I hope you digested them. This follows on from this - the simple fact is, if you wish to lie about on a beach sipping martini's while your cash generates cash automatically, the answer almost certainly lies in your ability to USE money to MAKE money. That means trading and investing.
When you learn how to invest, and you start accumulating income generating assets as a matter of habit, within a period of time money will start hitting your bank account and you'll be scratching your head wondering where on earth it came from. Your "net worth" will increase on a self-perpetuating basis. Surely, that's got to be worth a little time and elbow grease?
Even if you have no experience, and your idea of stock is an oxo chicken cube, you can still do this. Believe me, if you can put up a website, you can certainly trade and invest. It just takes some time and application.
Interested? I'm going to share with you the names of two books that I find to be invaluable for this. One is called "The Zulu Principle" by Mark Slater (great to understand exactly how to analyze and pick investments), the other is called Rich Dad Poor Dad by Richard Kiyosaki (extremely good for understanding the importance of building wealth generating assets that pay you on autopilot while you sleep). I don't make a penny by recommending these books to you, but I know you'll benefit big time by reading them, and that's my only motivation for telling you about them.
2. Discover How To Play The Arbitrage Game - With Global Markets Opening Up, There's A FORTUNE To Be Had...
Intelligent people have been making fortunes with the concept of arbitrage since the dawn of civilization. Banks do it everyday. Spice merchants used to profit wildly with this - buying spices dirt cheap within the Indian continent and reselling for shocking margins elsewhere where spices were not prevalent (of course back then they ran the risk of being hacked to death by robbers and pirates). Now, thanks to the internet and the collapsing of trade barriers over the years...arbitrage is now open for you to benefit from - without any concerns of Long John Silver slicing off your extremities and stealing your bounty.
What's arbitrage? It's simply an anomaly in price that exists between two locations. There are countless examples of arbitrage going on everyday, and you can indeed profit from this once you know where to look.
Let me give you an example - one of my friends from school made his wealth about 6 years ago. How? He found a huge arbitrage opportunity between China and the UK. In essence he found a source that could provide him with mp3 players (back then they were quite the status symbol). His source could provide them to him for $15 each (about £8 at the time). He bought these in bulk and simply flipped them in the UK for about £100 each. He sold thousands... made tens of thousands. All thanks to arbitrage.
Another source of arbitrage that is far easier to apply is that of betting arbitrage. You may or may not have heard of this - it takes a little time and application to get right, but once you do it's a simple, reliable and consistent way of making anywhere between a few hundred to a few thousand a week.
Betting arbitrage works because of the thousands of online betting companies that have sprung up over the past few years. They offer bets on just about every sporting/political/other event going - and often they have wildly different views on the probable outcome - this means they price the same event very differently meaning you can place bets on all possible outcomes and generate a guaranteed profit. There are hundreds of these opportunities available everyday, you just need to know how to find them.
If this does take your fancy, you can find out a little more about it here:
http://www.freemoneyeveryday.com
Like I said, this is not for everyone - you will need to set-up many accounts to do this, and even though this doesn't cost you, it does take time. Once you get this done though, it's a clear blue sky.
These are just a couple of ways you can generate some cash for yourself without ever having to run an online/offline business, or worrying about getting traffic and so on.
