http://www.articlealley.com en-us editorial@articlealley.com There are some jobs that could be considered money making opportunities. Movie star and professional football player come to mind. But if you don't have the talents necessary for those you won't likely get rich with a job. That leaves investing and starti... http://www.articlealley.com/article_1236270_19.html 17th November 2009 The following economic depression survival tips are all about preparation. With a bit of street smarts and a willingness to do what's needed you can survive losing everything. But it is better to prevent that from happening in the first place by being pre... http://www.articlealley.com/article_1215589_19.html 03rd November 2009 We should always be looking for ways of thinking outside the box. It isn't that we will always find a better solution through more creative or non-conventional solutions. But we sometimes will. Maybe that doesn't sound inspiring enough, so let me explain.... http://www.articlealley.com/article_1204920_22.html 28th October 2009 I get a lot of newsletters and other emails on how to make money online. One recent newsletter suggested a technique for stealing the username of blog posters so that all of their posts were then linked to your website. That's just one of the dirty tricks... http://www.articlealley.com/article_1163123_81.html 09th October 2009 Different investors have different ideas about flipping houses for a profit. Simply buying cheap and selling for more is the one of four strategies discussed below. It is the least likely to work in today's market (this is being written in 2009), so we'll... http://www.articlealley.com/article_1147926_33.html 05th October 2009 The following real estate investing secrets are not so much secrets as they are principles that are not widely applied and often ignored. Use them and you will have less risk and a greater chance for success. 1. Speed Equals Profit When investing in... http://www.articlealley.com/article_1147898_33.html 05th October 2009 Years ago I watched a late-night television infomercial selling some course on creative real estate investing. As I recall, the author of the course suggested - among other things - that you could use your car for a down payment and get sellers to finance... http://www.articlealley.com/article_1134637_33.html 30th September 2009 There are always new things to learn about real estate. Hopefully one or more of the following real estate investing tips will teach you something new and useful. 1. Time Your Sale For Tax Savings We once had a December closing on a property that we... http://www.articlealley.com/article_1129683_33.html 29th September 2009 So you're ready to start flipping houses for a profit. How do you find the properties that make sense as an investment? Here are some of the ways others have done it. 1. Check The MLS Listings Browse the MLS listings online at sites like Realtor .co... http://www.articlealley.com/article_1112266_33.html 23rd September 2009 Any time you are flipping houses it is less risky if you can complete the project more quickly. This is especially true now (2009) when prices may fall even further as you wait to sell the home. But at any time there are good reasons to move fast. One obv... http://www.articlealley.com/article_1104807_33.html 22nd September 2009 Of course it isn't difficult to find a real estate agent, but there are good and bad ones out there. The following tips should help you find the right one for you. Your Real Estate Purpose Which agent is best for you depends on your goals. If you a... http://www.articlealley.com/article_1100686_33.html 21st September 2009 A good real estate investment club helps its members find investment opportunities. It also helps bring people together in profitable partnerships. It can be a place to find alternative sources of financing as well. Here are some tips for making your club... http://www.articlealley.com/article_1098211_33.html 18th September 2009 The following real estate investment ideas revolve around the general theme of gaining some special advantage. This is more necessary that normal at the moment (2009) because it is unclear whether home values will continue to fall. Having the right approa... http://www.articlealley.com/article_1055798_33.html 30th August 2009 Where can you find cheap homes for sale? Add "that are also in a nice town" and that was the question we were trying to answer when my wife and I hit the road in 2002. Leaving Michigan early in April, we checked out towns from New Mexico and Arizona to Ca... http://www.articlealley.com/article_1052059_33.html 26th August 2009 When people think of how to sell a house fast, they often think of how to advertise it better, or how to make it more presentable. That can be a good start, of course, but it ignores the single most important factor: price. Generally, if homes are selling... http://www.articlealley.com/article_1006102_27.html 30th July 2009 What are the best jobs in a recession? That depends on what you goals are. Mostly they are the same jobs as at any other time. If you are working to make the most money you can, they are high-paying jobs. If you are working to train yourself for a future ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_996149_36.html 23rd July 2009 There are a number of speed reading techniques that you can learn quickly. The key to their effectiveness is not just in how well you understand the idea, though, but in how much you actually practice them. Here are two to get you started. Forced S... http://www.articlealley.com/article_992093_22.html 21st July 2009 Typically wilderness survival kits have first aid items, ways to make fire, a blade of some sort, and some water purification tablets. That’s the minimum in any case, and there are certainly other items in almost any kit that you buy. But of course not ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_987757_29.html 18th July 2009 As I write this (mid 2009) home prices appear to be falling still and, of course, recent experience shows us that they do not always rise from year to year. But not even the most pessimistic analysts think they can keep dropping for too many years. So wer... http://www.articlealley.com/article_976461_33.html 11th July 2009 There is an old joke that starts by asking you, “Have you stopped beating your wife yet?” Whether you answer yes or no it sounds like you are admitting to being a wife beater. It’s a practical joke based on the use of an implicit premise - that you ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_954700_22.html 28th June 2009 The very concept of retirement is flawed. It is based on several false premises. First is the premise that at a certain age you are no longer able to provide economic value. That is clearly nonsense as shown by the many millionaire entrepreneurs and busin... http://www.articlealley.com/article_950002_19.html 26th June 2009 Just so readers of my blog (www.999ideas.com/blog/) don’t think that I do nothing but dream up ideas without ever putting them to use, I’ll tell you what I am doing right now. I am putting to use the idea (not entirely my own) of giving away books to ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_940512_80.html 17th June 2009 Coming from a philosophical background which sees self interest as both natural and even the basis of morality, it was difficult for me to understand how transcending the “self” might actually be a good thing. For years I hesitated to even give any cr... http://www.articlealley.com/article_933904_24.html 12th June 2009 Regular readers of my blog and subscribers to my Brainpower Newsletter know that I’m a believer in safe self-experimentation. In fact, I regularly recommend trying things out that do not yet have scientific evidence proving their effectiveness. After al... http://www.articlealley.com/article_925987_22.html 11th June 2009 The most common suggestion on how to save money on heating bills is to turn down the thermostat. That certainly works, and it is true that you can put on a sweater to keep warm. On the other hand, some people feel the cold more than others, and among all ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_911073_27.html 01st June 2009 The average article on how to save money on food might mention coupon shopping and stocking up during sales. This article, however, is about some of the lesser known tricks for spending less. Here are three to try. Eat Less Okay, I am not suggesting... http://www.articlealley.com/article_904626_27.html 21st May 2009 Anyone who ventures out into the wilderness in the colder months of the year might want to know how to construct a few basic winter survival shelters. We can probably rule out the most famous of these, the igloo. It's difficult and time consuming to build... http://www.articlealley.com/article_897187_29.html 18th May 2009 Thousands of people every year find themselves in a wilderness survival situation. Fortunately most are rescued alive and well - but not all. If you hunt, hike, canoe, backpack or do other activities that involve the possibility of getting lost in the woo... http://www.articlealley.com/article_895547_29.html 15th May 2009 Anyone who might someday get lost while hiking, hunting, canoeing or backpacking should know the basics of how to build a wilderness survival shelter. There are several types, ranging from snow caves to poncho tents to modified rock-ledge shelters. They a... http://www.articlealley.com/article_894065_29.html 15th May 2009 The following creative marketing ideas are specifically about finding new places and ways to advertise. This has always been an area ripe for new ideas. What prompted me to write this page is an article I recently read on a company called Show Media. S... http://www.articlealley.com/article_892663_15.html 15th May 2009 If you want what may be the simplest innovation process, here it is: Find the things that others are not doing well, or just not doing. Once you identify these deficiencies, design a better service or product based on what customers really want. Then sell... http://www.articlealley.com/article_868630_15.html 26th April 2009 Getting the best price on your next car just got easier. Just read over the following car buying secrets and put them to good use. 1. The Dealers Real Cost The Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) is the price that consumers supposedly are m... http://www.articlealley.com/article_867230_63.html 23rd April 2009 This is not an article about new job ideas for those who simply want to do something different for a living. It is about changing our ideas about the meaning of employment. I was inspired to think about this by an article in Time Magazine in March of 2009... http://www.articlealley.com/article_866235_36.html 22nd April 2009 Of course there are opportunities during a recession, including those listed below. In fact, many "lucky people" will prosper in these tough economic times. If you want to be one of them, you have to start to think like them. To begin with, you might w... http://www.articlealley.com/article_863552_19.html 17th April 2009 Luck is not always as random as it appears. There are things that lucky people do differently from others, and ways that they think differently. These "good luck habits" explain much of their good fortune. This is evident even during an economic recession... http://www.articlealley.com/article_862248_19.html 17th April 2009 Perhaps you want to promote your website or get paid to write for other webmasters, but you don't know how to write an article for online use. Don't worry. The following three formats make it easy to put together articles that readers will want to read. ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_858835_16.html 16th April 2009 As children, we were always looking for creative ways to make money. One of my brothers collected golf balls from the bottom of a pond and sold them back to the golfers. Another sold candy in school from a hollow book. I ran casino and carnival-style game... http://www.articlealley.com/article_841294_27.html 30th March 2009 Lying with statistics has always been part of politics, but it has perhaps become more prevalent as we have become more mathematically illiterate as a people. In fact, 65.7% of statistic are just plain false. Okay, I invented that one - but to make a poin... http://www.articlealley.com/article_841250_22.html 30th March 2009 It's a constant question now in the real estate market: Is it a good time to buy a house? Of course it is difficult to answer in an article since you may be reading this years after it is written, when conditions have changed. But whenever you find this a... http://www.articlealley.com/article_840031_27.html 27th March 2009 The television program, "Flip This House" was very popular for a while. Each episode usually followed a new investor or couple as they bought a fixer upper, renovated it and sold it - hopefully for a profit. That strategy worked well when prices of homes ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_840001_33.html 27th March 2009 A dozen years ago I went from using hiking boots to lightweight hiking shoes. It was a part of my move from mainstream backpacking to lightweight or "ultralight backpacking." I stopped getting blisters and have perhaps one or two in the years since. Ap... http://www.articlealley.com/article_838794_29.html 27th March 2009 There are hundreds of money saving tips I could offer, and many of them might be useful in your particular situation. But there is a strategy for spending less which will make you far more secure than any number of tips on how to buy things for less can. ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_838649_19.html 27th March 2009 Here are some of the best test taking tips for students facing an exam. They cover memorizing the material, getting ready, and what to do while taking the exam. Develop a routine that works for you using one or more tip from each category. 1. Better te... http://www.articlealley.com/article_829022_22.html 17th March 2009 Why look for easy meditation techniques? After all, doesn't good meditation practice take time and effort and self discipline? Perhaps, but before a person is ready to make that commitment he or she may want to have a little taste of what the results migh... http://www.articlealley.com/article_822941_24.html 13th March 2009 How many ways do you know to find cheap real estate? Whether you are looking for a home, rental house, land or other property, at least a couple of the suggestions here can help you pay less for it. 1. Talk To Your Bank Now more than ever (this is b... http://www.articlealley.com/article_822043_27.html 12th March 2009 I am a follower of hidden trails. In fact, on at least half of the hiking trips I take lately, I'm off the trails altogether, bushwhacking into the unknown. What do you get for doing as Walt Whitman suggested, and taking the "road less traveled?" A bit of... http://www.articlealley.com/article_820135_29.html 11th March 2009 Surviving hard times is not so much about learning how to be tough or eating cheap noodles as it is about careful planning and self control. First, lets consider a worst-case scenario. Suppose we are entering another great depression. It's worth noting th... http://www.articlealley.com/article_819071_27.html 10th March 2009 Before you start that job search, let me ask you a question: Why would you want a job? Just for a paycheck? Instead of assuming that a job is a necessity that we all must have (it really isn't), consider what is actually important to you. Once you have... http://www.articlealley.com/article_817859_19.html 10th March 2009 Buying insurance for everything from automobiles to mortgages has become so commonplace that it is natural to assume insurance is a necessity of modern life. But is it really? Is there a better way to guard against life's unexpected occurrences - and save... http://www.articlealley.com/article_816478_47.html 10th March 2009 The easiest route to creative product innovation is to start with something we already have and ask some simple questions about it to suggest new ideas. For the sake of demonstrating how this can be done, we'll suppose that we want to design a new kind of... http://www.articlealley.com/article_813818_15.html 10th March 2009