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Old 02-14-2008, 08:55 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Small income (couple hundred) home based business?

I am 17 years old and I need some help deciding on something I can do to make a couple hundred dollars a month. Im not trying to make a fortune and become famous.

I am pretty good at photoshop and pretty computer savvy so a website would not be out of the question. I have looked at dropshipping but it seems to me the only good source I have found requires a tax ID, credit application, and an up and running website, not just ebay store. I am not even sure if I can get a tax id being only 17.

I don't know much about stocks and I think my age might limit me there also.

Any suggestions on dropshipping or ideas I didn't mention would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

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Since your pretty savvy with photoshop, how bout starting a website selling templates? You could even expand this further and offer logo design. Get your name out there, set up a website, and go business to business if need be until you have some websites in your portfolio.

Take action and do something you love to do.
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anybody have any comments on dropshipping?

im really interested in this sort of thing, or do you think it would be better to just focus on one product and buy it in bulk?
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Old 02-15-2008, 11:05 PM   #4 (permalink)
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anybody have any comments on dropshipping?

im really interested in this sort of thing, or do you think it would be better to just focus on one product and buy it in bulk?
I have never dropshipped, but I wouldnt suggest it, I have never heard anything good about it.
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anybody have any comments on dropshipping?

im really interested in this sort of thing, or do you think it would be better to just focus on one product and buy it in bulk?
The Dropshipping is hard to do when you have everyone else go through the same company.

Focusing on one product and buying bulk gives you another set of headaches, which is INVENTORY and PRODUCTION. 1) You don't want to keep inventory for long so you have to move them fast by having a regular set of buyers 2) Production is a problem because once you have your goods moving at a schedule, you want to make sure you always have something stocked.
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Well, I too have been in this for quite a few times and it really pays you to spend some quality time. There are many sites offering you online jobs but I created my own video sharing website couple of months ago. It is very good idea to earn money. You also made a site with help of omnisoftsol.com. I do suggest this for everyone who has or is trying to make money from the net. OmniSoftSol develops web solutions designed to make you serious profits.His VidsharePro is a video sharing script that not only allows anyone to start a video sharing website, but also allows anyone to sell digital as well as physical products on their video sharing website.


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find buynick he is a guy on here send him a pm for a side project to make a couple hundred a month
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If you are good at photoshop, you could restore old photos. Design a good looking business card for your self and charge at flat fee of $30 a photo or so.

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