i went to a friends house and she was packing fishing tackle in little packets, and also curtain hooks in the little plastic pouches to sell in big shops, she said she is employed by two companies to work from home, and she gets paid ok, which companies are these, i wont ask her, coz she definatly wont tell me.
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do you bright clever people have any ideas what sort of work i could do from home, i need some extra cash
There are many way to start work from home. I can suggest you be:
1). freelance - require good writing skill and programming skill. If you just want to bid for data entry project, forget it. You will never won a project because your bid definely higher than people come from third world country. refer - www.freelance.com, www.eufreelance.com
2). affiliate - require website and computer skill. You have to spent some time to increase your website traffic.refer - www.affiliatetips.com
3). Survey panel - no skill are require. Your income are uncertain. But is a great way to earn Extra money not getting rich. Refer - www.placetofortune.com
You can do a reseller business online to get extra cash from home. For example, you can get a reseller account from http://www.goresellers.com/ . and start earning by selling domain names, hosting plans, SSL certificates etc. This is one of the safe and secure online business.You can do this business from your home itself. You don't need to spend more time for this business. Just bring the customer for your reselling business. They are providing very good customer service and support.