by Donna Freedman on September 3, 2010
Last week’s prize, a $25 Mastercard gift card, drew nearly 200 comments — the most ever. Let’s see if we can top that with this week’s swag, a $50 Amazon.com gift card.
It doesn’t have to be books, you know. I’ve bought everything from Pokemon cards to powdered milk from the online retailer.
To enter:
If you do any (or all!) of these things, please leave an additional comment for each entry so that you’ll be fairly counted.
Because this is a bigger-ticket item than usual, I’m going to open the window of opportunity a little wider: The deadline to enter is 9 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Sept. 7.
As always, I’ll be using a random number generator.
by Donna Freedman on September 2, 2010
Becky Blanton wrote introductory letters to women who answered a dating ad. Kerri Hopkins analyzes names. Dimitri LaBarge shoots videos with titles like “How to Start a Glee Club” and “How to Play Bingo.” Stefanie Strobel will sells personalized messages drawn on the beach.
The one thing they have in common: All four found and/or deliver these gigs online.
Selling yourself on the Internet is the topic of my most recent Living With Less column on MSN Money. “Need cash? Make extra money online” is a peek at some, uh, unusual jobs as well as the usual writing and editing freelance gigs.
“Freelance” is often construed to mean “writing,” but it ain’t necessarily so. For example, Web design is a very hot skill right now. But you probably have something to offer even if you’re not familiar with Strunk & White or HTML. Somebody will pay you to translate a document from Danish to English, knit a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, act as a virtual assistant or roll around in public screaming his name.
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