This book includes proven ways to make money quickly, success stories, what to do the first 24 hours of the lay off, how to cut expenses immediately, how to keep stress from robbing your time and energy, tips for the spouse of the unemployed or retired, free and inexpensive entertainment, and lay-off proofing your life.
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46 of 48 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
BUYING THIS BOOK WAS WORTH THE MONEY A HUNDRED TIMES OVER!,,
By Denise Abernathy (New Orleans, LA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: 75 Proven Ways to Make Money Between Jobs (Paperback)
Although my husband Andy and I both work, we still had bills we couldn't pay. Reading this 75 Proven Ways to Make Money book has changed that. We tried and are still doing all the many ways the author suggested to save money--even using those "dastardly devils" (her nickname for grocery coupons!). We cut our out-go of money by 19 percent!
We also encouraged our two teenagers to read the book to learn ways to make money. Our son loves to drive so he talked a restaurant owner into letting him make home deliveries. The idea has mushroomed and now it takes two drivers to deliver all the food orders. Our daughter loves the outdoors and believe it or not, she even enjoys mowing yards. She advertised in our little neighborhood paper with a "Help Me Go To College" ad. She listed in bullet form all the things she can do to earn money: Mowing, raking and edging, weeding beds, planting flowers, caring for pets and lawns for out-of-towners. She got so many calls that she invited several of her friends to join her and make money. Now for Andy and me. Using the technique described in 75 Ways to Make Money, we delivered phonebooks and made $1,117 in four days. Working as a team made the job go a lot faster. We made all the following phonebook deliveries too. At Christmastime, we gave copies of this book to friends and relatives. My sister opened an image consulting business and my aunt, who stays at home with an invalid husband, now runs a clothes laundry in her home for retired or bedridden people and also for college students. Andy and I also started a handyman business. We had magnetic signs made for our truck and also business cards that listed all the services we provided. We gave the cards to everyone we knew and put flyers on every bulletin board we found. On weekends we drove around neighborhoods, stopping when we saw debris on rooftops or sticking out of gutters, anything in need of painting, driveways that needed cleaning, etc. While my husband cleaned roofs and gutters, I cleaned windows or painted things. We soon invested in two pressure washers and hired someone to use the second one so my husband and our helper could clean fences and home and building exteriors. We also bought a power paint sprayer that paid for itself on its first job. Now, two years later, I've quit my job so I can run our business. We employ 16 fulltime men and women to do these various chores. Andy and I can afford to take two vacations a year now. Life has never been better.
29 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
disappointing,
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This review is from: 75 Proven Ways to Make Money Between Jobs (Paperback)
This book was a major disappointment. It is little more than a wish list of ideas with no hard data or really useful information. It varies from a few lines to a few paragraphs on each job idea, with little or no information about legal issues, taxes, licensing, zoning or other basics of running some of these businesses. Can you make money doing the things listed in here? Certainly. Will you have a good grasp of how to do it safely and legally? No.
If you have absoutely no clue about what a person can do for a business, this book might be of some small assistance in getting you started thinking about it. I don't find it to be of much more value than that. I would recommend instead one of the more detailed books, like "The Best Home Businesses" by Paul and Sarah Edwards, or even a look at the Yellow pages of a large city. Then, do some serious research on the actual businesses that you think you would like to do.
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
A Misleading Title,
This review is from: 75 Proven Ways to Make Money Between Jobs (Paperback)
This book has two major constructive points that I think is more common sense than anything when dealing with the situation of being laid off. It talks about trimming the fat in your budget by using coupons and eradicating luxuries. Also it suggests that you could make enough money to take the edge off by having a yard sale. But even though the book keeps the promise to deliver 75 ways to make money; perhaps, more appropriately, it should be called "75 Ways to Get Your Teenager Off Their Butt and Make Some Money During the Summer Break." The reason being, this book shows jobs such as detailing cars, delivering phone books, and doing yard work for money. These seem more like teenager summer jobs than jobs to take off the financial burden of being laid off. It would be unrealistic to think that most of these jobs listed could really maintain a household between jobs. Get it if you want to give your children some ideas for summer work. But don't be disappointed at the content if you buy it for other reasons.
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