Making money on the side.

RedRabbit

chrisj1602 said:

I did a bit of matched betting on Profit Accumulator, the free trial will earn you an easy £50 and you can decide if you like it. I earned a few hundred in a few weeks but I got offered overtime at work and that paid more so I stopped. I have thought about starting again since the overtime ran out!

I did this fairly seriously for a few months a couple of years ago and made a couple of grand.  I'd start up again but I've lost track of where I've had accounts blocked.

PolarityMan

Foolish me thinking you would want to buy a course on drop shipping. That's clearly a com to funnel self help whales into ever increasing payments to access more courses.

What I meant to say is do you want to buy some NFT s? I've got good one. So non-fungible.

SPECTRUM001

The optimum (legal) income supplement for musicians and actors used to be market research.

At least it was before I settled into a career.

Easy work, especially when hungover. Of course everyone hates getting your call, but we used aliases to retain our dignity (Graham Green was a popular non de plume - total fiction).

And as a bonus you may get to meet some pretty fun people…

skunkwerx

Cheers all for the ideas. I've spent £32 on pizza so I'll look over everything properly when it arrives.. 
I'm off to a bad start.. but they say you gotta spend money to make money.. 

Caffeine_Vampire

viz said:

skunkwerx said:

I did come up with an idea called Dead on Time. 

I came up with the same idea, but I called it Late.

Me too but mine was called Taxidermy Driver.

sinbaadi

Bet on a 2-1 win for any given football team, they all win two-one at some point, right? 

Start at 50p and double your stake each time you lose, until you win.  You'll make back your losses and then some, just stick at it and keep on doubling!!  What could possibly go wrong?

fastonebaz

Buy some vegetables.  Start your Only Fans channel. 

PhilW1

skunkwerx said:

Cheers all for the ideas. I've spent £32 on pizza so I'll look over everything properly when it arrives.. 
I'm off to a bad start.. but they say you gotta spend money to make money.. 

Fuck me!! £32 for pizza?.

Start your own pizza company .

skunkwerx

PhilW1 said:

skunkwerx said:

Cheers all for the ideas. I've spent £32 on pizza so I'll look over everything properly when it arrives.. 
I'm off to a bad start.. but they say you gotta spend money to make money.. 

Fuck me!! £32 for pizza?.

Start your own pizza company .

To be fair I did order two, 4 dips a couple of cokes and some dough balls lol. 

richardhomer

You need to become an influencer…

Iamnobody

skunkwerx said:

PhilW1 said:

skunkwerx said:

Cheers all for the ideas. I've spent £32 on pizza so I'll look over everything properly when it arrives.. 
I'm off to a bad start.. but they say you gotta spend money to make money.. 

Fuck me!! £32 for pizza?.

Start your own pizza company .

To be fair I did order two, 4 dips a couple of cokes and some dough balls lol. 

  I’ve just spend £17 on three 10” pizzas for 3 adults and 3 kids. Admittedly we were just snacking but there was spare.

I’ve saved my money by never spending £32 on pizza, ever!

Not sure how often you’d spend that but it won’t be good for the wallet or waistline. Even if you can’t find a way to make extra cash - you might be able to make savings. 

meltedbuzzbox

I wouldnt dismiss stocks and shares so quickly (or crypto).
You could read some books and watch YouTube to grasp the basics and evolve from there 

lovestrat74

If you're a bit of a wanker get yourself down the sperm bank 

Jfingers

I've been matched betting for almost a year, also using the tools mentioned above. I'm over 6k tax free up, and I have very little interest in sport. I'm not selling it, that's how my story has gone though.

The trial can easily make 400 to 500. It's quite time consuming at first, and it's a don't run before you can walk thing. I've made 42.75 since 9am and the events don't start until ten past two.

I was massively sceptical at first but it's worked for me.

Bungle1

PolarityMan said:

Foolish me thinking you would want to buy a course on drop shipping. That's clearly a com to funnel self help whales into ever increasing payments to access more courses.

What I meant to say is do you want to buy some NFT s? I've got good one. So non-fungible.

Are you speaking from experience here? I've been aware of drop-shipping for a few years and always wondered whether it was a legitimate way of making some additional income. There are some courses on established platforms like Udemy where the reviews are public but clearly it can't be that lucrative considering everyone who does it also seems to sell a course to share their methods .

LuttiS

Bungle1 said:
...
 I've been aware of drop-shipping for a few years and always wondered whether it was a legitimate way of making some additional income.

...

It's not. The margins involved are miniscule these days. 




I get spending money on surveys and things.. I work at computer all day and am usually logged onto prolific... Throughout the day 3 - 10 minute surveys pop up and I do them.. usually less than £1 per survey but it nicely breaks up my day and I just transferred £150 from my account..  
Not huge money, but enough for a little splurge here and there. 

Bungle1

Thanks for the info.

PolarityMan

LuttiS said:

Bungle1 said:
...
 I've been aware of drop-shipping for a few years and always wondered whether it was a legitimate way of making some additional income.

...

It's not. The margins involved are miniscule these days. 




I get spending money on surveys and things.. I work at computer all day and am usually logged onto prolific... Throughout the day 3 - 10 minute surveys pop up and I do them.. usually less than £1 per survey but it nicely breaks up my day and I just transferred £150 from my account..  
Not huge money, but enough for a little splurge here and there. 

It's also against t&C's and Amazon will shut you down when one of your competitors reports you.

pumkin

I assume you play guitar so would it not be a stupid suggestion to say go out and do that ? You may have to work weekends though and you probably won’t get rich quick  

skunkwerx

pumkin said:

I assume you play guitar so would it not be a stupid suggestion to say go out and do that ? You may have to work weekends though and you probably won’t get rich quick  

I’d only get paid to stop! Haha. 

But still, worth a shot ;p