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Bamboo Placemats that I am planning on deconstructing and making jewelry out of!!! When I get some time!

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Sell Sterling Silver Jewelry

Wholesale Silver Jewelry featured by Plum Island Silver Company



Make money selling silver jewelry!

They have over 6000 in-stock sterling silver jewelry items. A 108 page catalog. Same day shipping. They have a great drop shipping service. They have been in business for 12 years. You can sell the items online at auctions or on your own site( or create a free store at ecrater.com) , have home or catalog parties, sell at flea markets, and the ideas go on.

Check it out - You can create a new account for Free and they will send you one free catalog.

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A True FREE Home Business

I know that everyone has heard of drop shipping products. You see people at online auctions, like eBay!, selling drop shipped items all of the time. Drop shipping is where you sell an item that the wholesale supplier has in stock and then they mail it for you. This is awesome for people who do not have a lot of space. There are many drop ship programs out there that charge you fees and cost you a lot , but I am going to give up my secrets of the FREE way to do it. I have used several drop ship companies for the last several years and they do not cost a thing! Why pay for a drop ship membership when you can get it for free and I am also going to share my favorite FREE online auctions and marketplaces! You will be up and running by the end of the day and it will not cost you a dime!
A TRUE FREE HOME BASED BUSINESS!

The first thing is to find the companies that will drop ship for you with no fees. It took me a while to find these companies and a lot of people would not tell who their suppliers are, but I feel confident in telling my blog readers my suppliers. These companies have such a variety that we will be still selling different items.
LIST OF MY favorite DROP SHIPPING COMPANIES:

Empire Pets they sell a huge variety of pet supplies for wholesale and they will drop ship. Just pay shipping and free sign up.

IWDSC Drop Ship This is one of my faves! They have a huge variety of items that are neat. You will see what I mean when you check out there site. Free sign up and free drop shipping.

Polka Dot Petals has the best handbags there are at low wholesale prices.

A1A Gifts Online is the best of the best. They have over 3,000 items for you to sell, free sign up and free drop shipping. Just pay the low shipping. I love this company and have used them since 2002! I have sold a lot of their items! I have never had any problems with them and they have very fast shipping. I love them . I really cannot say enough about them, they are great!

Nugin
is an awesome dropshipping program. You sign up at the wholesale program link. They have free sign up and no drop shipping fees. They offer really neat and unique items ,like swords and more. THE ONLY BAD THING ABOUT THEM IS THAT THEY JUST RECENTLY RAISED THEIR SHIPPING PRICES. SO YOU HAVE TO FIGURE THAT IN. I have used them a lot though and love them. Their swords are so unique that they sell really well.

MayDay Industries survival supplies sell well. They have a $20.00 minimum on their drop ship orders, but that is easy to overcome.

Trademark Commerce has the best poker supplies, billiard supplies, sporting goods, swords, and more. Free sign up!

Gems on Display supplies for the jewelry selling person. Free sign up and no drop ship fees.

Stealth Wholesale has great items for you to drop ship after you sign up for free.

Dhanish free drop shipping of jewelry

Purse Sale has great handbags for you to sell. I have used them several times.

Now that I have given you most of my suppliers , I am now going to give you some free places online for you to start selling them!! You can sell them anywhere online, but right now I am wanting to give you free places to sell them!

Ecrater is the best free online marketplace. You can set up your own store, add your own items with pics, they have paypal and google checkout integrated into their shopping cart software, and they are free! I have used them for a while now and love them. My store is For The Birds

Goth Auctions is totally free and really a niche auction site , but I have had great experience with it.

Gothic Auctions is another free auction site that is a niche one. I have sold a ton of items on this one!! I love it. Swords, handbags, books, home decor , and make up sell great on this one. My daughter also sold a bunch of clothes and shoes on there!

HomeSchool Auctions is a great place to sell textbooks. I have sold a few on there,but not in a while.

EPagan Auctions a new age and pagan geared auction site. I have sold some books on there and some herbs.

There are more free online auction sites out there,but I only listed the ones that I have personally had experience with and that I know anything about. Some of the FREE auctions sites out there just look too new and I feel a little nervous about. But these that I listed have been around for years and i have had experience with and love them.

WELL NOW THAT I SPILLED THE BEANS ON HOW YOU CAN START A FREE HOME BASED BUSINESS - I GUESS THAT YOU NEED TO GET TO WORK !!

AFTER YOU ARE DONE COME BACK HERE AND IN THE COMMENTS SHARE YOUR LINK TO YOUR NEW STORE OR AUCTIONS!

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Sell Candle Making Supplies

Do you like candles and making candles?? Do you have a website or blog where you think that you could sell candle making supplies? Do you have an eBay account where you think that you could sell candle making supplies ? Than this drop shipping account might be one for you to try - Creative Illuminations. They have no minimums and it is an easy format to use. You can sign up for free. I love this program because they have all kinds of different kits to choose from and you can also get just the candle wax if you want. They have a great selection.

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Dreamseeds

Dream Seeds has some of the most beautiful jewelry, wands, keychains, and more. They are all one of a kind and hand made. I just love them. They have an awesome wholesale/dropshipping program. The very first order has to be more that $100.00 though, but then after that initial order you can order as much or as little as you want. Unless you sign up just for the dropshipping program and your credit card gets charged for the wholesale price plus 15% and the shipping. Great for selling on ebay. Their wands sell great. I guess because of the Harry Potter craze.

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Gift Baskets For Babies

Everyone is having babies! It must be something in the water! One of the best dropshipping programs that I have found is this one that sells gift baskets for babies. Go To Baby Wholesale has some very unique and stylish gift baskets, personalized items, and more. I love them. I have been a dropshipping member for almost 2 years now and love them. Their items are great for any new or expectant mother. You can sell them online or buy them yourself and resell them in your own shop, flea market, or out of your home. Sign up for a free account.

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Multiple Streams Of Income!

I think that this is the only real way to make money at home. You have to have multiple ways that money is coming in. You can work online and make money a ton of ways. You can get paid to write, sell online on auctions or even open an e-store! You can have several blogs that make money from writing and affiliate programs. Making money from Google Adsense is another way to monetize your online presence.
There are just so many ways to make money online and if you utilize every single one of them , than you will not be too long away from making some real money online. You can also make money at home with other ways while making money online. It is getting warmer and warmer, so I will be soon setting up at flea markets on the weekends. I do not do this every weekend, but I do it enough that I make money with it. With gas prices like they are though , I will most likely be staying close to home.
If you check out multiple ways to make money at home you will be soon making money and having it come to you in many directions.

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Selling On Ebay

I took the leap and started selling on ebay and have sold a few things. I can already see that you have to have a really unique item to sell to get any bids. There are a lot of sellers on ebay and you have a ton of competition. One good way to do good is to charge actual shipping. There are so many sellers on ebay that charge way too much for shipping. Like , $30.00 for shipping a handbag!! Come on! I also noticed that there are a ton of sellers on ebay who are saturating ebay with a ton of cheap items that are worth nothing. I am just trying to clean out of storage and maybe make some extra money. You could make some really good money on ebay if you treated it like a full time job. You have to have a great camera too. I have had a couple of things listed that did not sell and I know that it is because of the pictures. I just do not have a good camera right now and will relist the items when I can take better pictures.
If you have the time and patience than ebay might be a good home based business for you. I am just doing it part-time right now and hope to do it full-time soon.

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Have A Yard Sale

After you’ve been through the house and closet and have boxes of stuff to get rid of, you might want to have a garage sale to recycle some of those things, and maybe even make a little bit of money. It’s a terrific way to dispose of some of those unwanted items, either the things you put in the trash, or the charity boxes.
Steps to a successful garage sale:

1. Check with your local government to determine if you need a permit. I know that in my town you don’t, but just a couple of miles away in another town, one is needed.

2. Put together the items you want to sell.

3. Advertise: Put an ad in the local paper, as well as any supermarket shoppers, and put up fliers at the laundry-mat, supermarkets, the library, and anywhere else that has bulletin boards. Also, put signs on bus stops, trees, telephone poles, and other such locations. Check first to make sure that it’s legal in your town. Also, in my town there are three places where everyone puts their notices for garage sales, look around yours and find those places. Be sure to include the location, dates, and times, and in the paper and fliers be sure to put the alternate date for if there’s rain. On the posted signs, be sure to make the word “sale” and the address LARGE - stand 30 to 40 feet from the sign and see if you can read it easily, that’s about how far people might be from the sign when they first see it. The dates and times should be legible from about 15 feet.

4. Directions: In advance, make some signs with arrows on them, with the words “garage sale” in very large letters, visible from at least 100 feet - people will be driving along, so they need sufficient time to see the sign and know where to turn, have your address on the sign too, legible from about 15 feet. Make the arrows large also. Make up some left arrows, some right arrows, and some straight ahead arrows. You might make all the signs in a particular color so people will recognize your garage sale as they drive around. Maybe purple on a yellow background, or some such unique color scheme. When a person must drive for a long distance down one road, maybe a half mile or more, you should do a couple things, first, on the arrow sign, put the approximate distance to travel, and put straight ahead arrows, with the distance remaining every 1/2 mile or so. The distances need only be legible from about 15 feet. Don’t put 3 tenths of a mile as .3 miles - it will be read as three miles, instead put 1/3 mile, or 1/2 mile, or 3/4 mile. Put the direction signs up the evening before your sale starts, and be sure to take them down, as well as the postings, immediately after the sale ends.

5. Labeling: Price goods with tags or tape - if there are different owners, use different colors. If you’re not sure what to charge, think lower is better - the purpose of a garage sale is to get rid of stuff, not turn people away because it’s too expensive.

6. Arrangement: Put similar items together - all books together, clothes together, etc. Put clothes on racks - they’re easier to see - you can rent racks, or make some simple ones up out of wood. Put books in boxes, with the titles up and easy to read. Put miscellaneous stuff on card tables - don’t put them in a box, people won’t see them.

7. Get ready to bargain. If someone offers 1/2 of what you’re asking, counter with 3/4 of the asking price, see what they say - be willing to take less, but not a whole lot less, remember you are trying to get rid of this stuff. During the last half of the sale, lower the prices 25%, during the last 1/4 of the sale, lower them to 1/2 of the original price. When you’re down to the last couple hours, be prepared to just give the stuff away - continue to ask for money, but just be prepared - it might be better to let someone have it for nothing than for you to try to find a place to put it, or have to have another garage sale, or transport it to the goodwill.

8. Whatever is left over, go ahead and give to charity. You don’t want to put it back in your home, you’re trying to organize your life, not clutter it back up.

9. Take down all the posters, direction signs, and any other advertising you put up.

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Starting A Home Sewing Business - Take It One Stitch At A Time

If you want to work from home, you will soon find out that paid home employment is very hard to find. How about starting your own business from home? If you are good at sewing, you could use your skills to start your own home based sewing business. There are all kinds of sewing from tailoring to delicate embroidery and most of them can be used as the basis for an enjoyable and profitable home based business.

In the past, home sewing work consisted mainly of women at home working on industrial sewing machines assembling ready cut garments as outworkers for local factories. This was “piece work” ie the woman was paid per finished piece of work. The big sewing machines were noisy monsters, so it was impossible for a woman to sew and listen to music or carry on a conversation at the same time. It was hard work but quite well paid if you could work fast. This type of working at home job is less common nowadays because it is cheaper for factory owners to send the work abroad where wages are lower.

Doing sewing as a home business, does not involve a return to monotonous, noisy piece work; there are far more pleasant and creative ways to earn a living with needle and thread where you can be your own boss and not a wage slave for a factory owner.

The first thing that springs to my mind when anyone mentions sewing as a home based business, is dressmaking and wedding dresses obviously take top place. The vast majority of brides planning a white wedding want a dress (and bridesmaid dresses) specially made for their big day. If you have a talent for dressmaking, bridal outfits will certainly offer a good way of earning a substantial income.

A less glamorous but equally necessary service is in garment alterations. Shops used to offer this service, but nowadays it is usually only possible to find someone to alter or repair a garment by making enquiries of local dry-cleaners. It is a sad truth that we live in a wasteful society where perfectly serviceable garments will be thrown away because of a broken zip. However, there are still people around who will want to have a zip replaced in a favourite garment, so a business in repairs and alterations can be profitable, if your local dry cleaners do not offer this service they might be prepared to send customers to you.

Making soft furnishings to order is a good money earner. The people who can’t even sew on a button far outnumber the people who are good at sewing and enjoy it. The people in the former group will be eager customers for someone who can make cushions and covers and curtains in exactly the right colours and styles. The ability to design, make and hang fashionable window dressing is practically a licence to print money - at least it will seem that way if you ever receive a bill for this service!

One of the nicest ways to earn money from sewing is by making soft toys. Somehow cuddly creatures have always managed to stay in fashion and there is a market for everything from stuffed rats to dinosaurs to floppy rag dolls. It must be very satisfying to earn money at home from making items that will be cherished by a child, from infancy into the teenage years.

Starting a home based sewing business requires little in the way of financial investment. If you intend to do dressmaking, you will need a robust sewing machine and an overlocking machine. Don’t let anyone try to convince you a pressing machine is essential, it won’t do anything you can’t do with an iron and a damp cloth. These tools of your trade should last for many years and will earn what they cost you many times over. If you have a room that can be dedicated to sewing, that is great but in reality, you can run a sewing business from your kitchen table. If you want to build up a stock, for example of toys for a Christmas fete, you will need some storage space but the stock is not perishable so any dry clean garage or shed space would be fine.

Apart from the obvious tools and accessories, your expenses will be for materials and advertising. Always take a deposit to cover the cost of materials before beginning work on anything made to order so you won’t risk being left out of pocket. Advertising is essential to any business that is just starting up. You can circulate fliers, buy advertising space in local newspapers, put up a website and all sorts of other things which are fairly low cost. A good way of becoming known is by advertising in targeted magazines, eg if you are making toys, place your ads in mother and baby magazines and advertise a local play groups. If you are making wedding dresses, advertise in bride oriented publications and try to do some sort of joint venture or reciprocal recommending with the local florist or wedding planner. Once you have a few satisfied customers you will benefit from repeat orders and your reputation will become known via the all important word of mouth. When this starts to happen you are well on the way to having your home business all sewn up.

Elaine Currie has a Work At Home Directory Full of Ideas, Programme Reviews, Articles, Tips and Free Resources for everyone who wants to work at home. Hunting Venus

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