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How To Flip Houses Successfully And Make Money

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(Uriah Dortch) House flipping shows are all over HGTV, where you can see pros with entire teams flip homes using seemingly unlimited resources to turn huge profits. But you don’t need a TV crew and an on-camera personality to be a successful house flipper. GOBankingRates spoke to four flippers, many of whom have turned six-figure profits on their investments. See their incredible before and after home transformations, and find out their best tips for how to start flipping houses yourself. He used online marketing to find his flip (Brian Rudderow) Brian Rudderow, CEO and owner of HBR Colorado, has successfully flipped homes throughout Colorado. “I use online marketing and search engine optimization to drive leads to my own personal website,” he said of how he finds his flips. One of his most successful flips was a Colorado Springs home he purchased for $75,000. “It was in a great neighborhood where the real estate values were skyrocketing,” said Rudderow. How he f

This Week In Credit Card News: How To Make Money While You Shop; Amex Paying Businesses To Accept Its Cards

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How to Use Cash Back Portals to Make Money While You Shop Cash back rebates are another way to save when you shop online. Thousands of online stores, from Amazon to Zale's, will pay you to buy from them. To claim your cash, you need to become a member of a cash back portal site and make that purchase using the portal. You can join for free and in most cases, you'll get a sign-up bonus, typically $5-$10. A cashback portal gets paid a commission from an affiliated retailer every time a member clicks through an offer on its site and makes a purchase. The portal splits its commission with the member. [NBC News] Shopping on a cash back portal site may help you make some money while you shop Getty AmEx Is Paying Up to Get Businesses to Accept Its Cards American Express wants more businesses to accept its cards. So it is paying them, sometimes in amounts approaching a half-million dollars. The company is offering sign-on bonuses to some businesses that don't take its car

How Influencers Use TikTok To Make Money And Launch Careers

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Many young people are on their way to careers entirely focused on the web—and making money on TikTok is no exception. A recent survey from Morning Consult found that a whopping 86% of young people want to become social media influencers, CNBC reported. Careers built on platforms like Instagram, Twitch, and TikTok are becoming increasingly common. As teens lay the groundwork to pursue these extremely modern careers, however, others are concerned by looming questions. Is a career on TikTok lucrative? How long will a job as an influencer last? Can you really make money just from goofy videos? Without a traditional 9-to-5 workweek or regular pay schedule, it seems like a career on TikTok would be inconsistent at best. Despite lingering questions about such a career’s viability, people continue to flock to the app. Teens in particular hope to establish followings to carry into careers, which may or may not involve becoming an influencer. Grab your calculator: Here’s how TikTok user

Nigeria-How To Make Money Online Without Paying Money To Start In 2019

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July 25, 2019 • Finance, Sponsored Youths in Nigeria are faced with several problems and one of them is unemployment. The United Nations announced that Nigeria has overtaken India as the poverty capital of the world. Which means that an estimated 90 million people are living in abject poverty. This has a serious implication for the youths as it means that getting a job in the current economic climate is very hard. According to statistics from the National Bureau of Statistics, about 21 million youths are currently unemployed and it does not take into account the number of students in University who might graduate anytime soon and join the labour market. As bleak as the future looks for most youths in Nigeria, all hope is not lost as there is a way out of this vicious cycle and it’s entrepreneurship or self-employment. Been self-employed in Nigeria is one-way to beat this ugly trend of unemployment. One might wonder with the state of things how possible is it to be an entrepreneu

How To Make Money While You Sleep

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© Provided by The Motley Fool, Inc Earning passive income Ahh making money while you sleep… it’s the dream of every working human (no pun intended). CONSTELLATION BRANDS, INC. To have the choice to work or not work and have cash coming through the door regardless is really what retirement is supposed to be about. Whether that happens at 65, 40 or 25 is the question that most people debate when it comes to passive income. For most of us, our current system of 9.5% compulsory superannuation (plus assistance from the Age Pension) is enough to arguably sustain a comfortable retirement once one reaches the age of 65–70. However, most of us who invest hope that doing so will allow an earlier retirement, if we so wish. If you ask your average person on the street on their thoughts on passive income, you will probably hear about ‘drop shipping’, online businesses, affiliate marketing or ‘something on Amazon’. I’m not casting dispersion on any of these paths, but there is an easier wa

How to Make Money Traveling, According to FlightHub and JustFly

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MONTREAL, Oct. 30, 2019 /PRNewswire/ - Working Abroad You don't have to wander the world broke and aimless. The poor backpacker life isn't for everyone. Luckily, expats have been finding work overseas for decades. You can do it too. Will you become CEO of a billion-dollar company? Probably not. Will you find work to fund continuous travels? Absolutely. The point is, you can make money traveling. We've created a short list of jobs you can do abroad. Check them out below. Travel Hack: If your passport is lost or expired, all hope is not lost. Offer to volunteer. You can sometimes get cash and a place to stay in exchange. Be an Au Pair An au pair provides additional help to a host family. How they help changes from country to country. But there are usually a few constants. First, the au pair is normally a foreigner. Next, they usually help with childcare and housework. Third, they're typically treated as an extension of the family. They're also given r

How To Use Your Credit Cards To Make Money — and To Save Money, Too

Even though credit cards offer convenience, they often can be a trap, leaving you with mountains of debt. Rather than thinking of your credit cards as a way to spend, you can turn them into money-earning — or saving — devices. As long as you make your payments faithfully, the judicious use of credit cards can be quite profitable. Take a look at these 16 ways you can make your credit cards reward you. Last updated on July 26, 2019. Get Money With Discount and Cash-Back Credit Cards To make money with credit cards, get cards that offer rewards programs that pay you to shop. These types of cards are called cash-back credit cards. Capital One’s Quicksilver card gives you 1.5% cash back on every purchase you make. If you tend to shop in one store more than others, consider a store card. The Kohl’s credit card, for example, gives you between 15% and 30% off of most purchases you make at the store, even online, and gives customers at least 12 special offers every year. The more yo