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Earning extra money through a side business has become quite mainstream these days. If you want to become an entrepreneur, starting a side business is a great way to get started. It also lets you pursue a hobby productively and offers you an opportunity to try something apart from the nine-to-five job. Here are some of the best side hustle ideas you can do on top of a day job. 1. Creating and Marketing Online Courses If you consider yourself an expert in any subject, you can create online courses on that and sell them to interested parties. It'll not only be a source of side income, but also let you build a loyal community of content consumers. Related: Top Platforms to Create and Sell Online Courses You need to choose the course format depending on the platform where you'll be selling your courses. Thinkific is a website where you can start with limited courses and unlimited students for free. 2. Remote Tutoring Do you have a passion for teaching? ...

Editorial Independence We want to help you make more informed decisions. Some links on this page — clearly marked — may take you to a partner website and may result in us earning a referral commission. For more information, see How We Make Money. Investments that pay out dividends — or payments to investors when the company posts a profit — are surefire ways to boost your income. It's essentially "free money." ETFs give you the best of both worlds. They can provide you with dividends and protect your money with diversification. Now you're really winning.  ETFs stand for exchange-traded funds, and they are one of the best and easiest ways for beginner investors to get started in the stock market. But if you're investing in dividend ETFs and getting free money, experts say you shouldn't really pocket it.  Here's which ETFs pay dividends, what you should do with the money, and what to look for to make sure you're buying dividend ETFs....

When we are bored, we all love playing games. We live in a time when everything is online, so why not play some phone games when everything is on our phones? You can also try out some familiar games like ludo, snakes and ladder, chess, and more that we used to play as kids. In recent years, online games have expanded beyond the timepass genre. Online games are available to everyone with very little investment required to start, but you can make a good amount if your brain and luck work well together. There are 5 games mentioned that can give you real cash-  Rummy Rummy is an online rummy game that is offered by Ultimate-Games in India. It is a 13-card game. More than 10 million people trust Play Games 24x7 as a source of earning money during free time. Another benefit of the game is the chance to win a huge prize pool that reaches a whopping Rs. 4 crore. Playing the game starts as soon as one downloads the free app. One needs to quickly sort the cards into two ...

Unlike LuLaRoe, you might not be familiar with a company called Jeunesse. While less well known in the network marketing world than some other companies, they are certainly an MLM themselves, according to Infinite MLM Software. The company was founded in 2009 and is known for its skincare products, health supplements, and cosmetics. Like most MLMs, the sellers of Jeunesse make a majority of their income through recruiting others to sell product underneath them. According to Sommers and Schwartz, a law firm with locations in Michigan and California, the company is being investigated as an illegal pyramid scheme and as a private compensation plan. The latter has to do with hiding how much high-ranking representatives make while convincing low-level sellers that they will reach a similar level of success when the chances are slim to none. Plus, the company has been accused of faking before and after pictures to sell its products and has had several lawsuits accusing them of illegal ...

MOLINE, Ill (KWQC) - The City of Moline announced Tuesday it had received $404,764.59 from its cyber liability insurance carrier, Tokio Marine HCC. This comes after City leaders announced the City was a victim of a phishing scam which resulted in two fraudulent wire transfers totaling $421,119.86 in December 2020. According to a press release, the FBI and U.S. Secret Service initially helped Moline recover $6,355.30. The new payment of $404,764.59 is the remainder of the money, minus a $10,000 deductible. Following the incident, city leaders established several new protocols, including one in which the IT Department will send out fake phishing emails to employees. If an employee opens the email, that person will receive training on how to spot scams. Copyright 2022 KWQC. All rights reserved.

Google may be looking for a way out of its Legacy G Suite shutdown issues. According to a survey the company has posted to its Workspace documentation, "more options" might be coming for some customers using the soon-to-be-dead free plans. Nothing is being offered yet, but the company is at least paying more attention to those affected by the change. Earlier this month, Google announced that its free legacy G Suite accounts were going away. Customers on those grandfathered plans — which delivered Gmail, Drive, and the rest of the Google account goodies to custom domains for no cost — would either have to live with half-functioning "suspended" accounts and migrate to standard Google accounts, or cough up some dough for a paid plan. Google had long since stopped offering the free plans, but the company continued to honor the lopsided agreement for the last decade. The old free plans were set to expire on May 1st. Unfortunately, this action ignored all the cu...

Social network marketing, simply put, is any marketing that takes place on social networks. Needless to say, this is a key tool in every entrepreneur's arsenal these days. Typically, paid ads are shown to new people who do not know about your brand. So, in a sense it is a form of cold outreach. Earlier I have talked about a social media posting strategy. That covered the organic aspect of a social network. In this blog, I am going to talk about how to approach the paid aspect of any social network for marketing. It is important to plan the social media ads properly as it involves spending money. Here are some of the things I advise you to do. Setting your objectives clearly: What exactly do you want from running an ad on social media? This is the first question that needs to be answered. Maybe you want to increase awareness about your company. Or you want to grow your email list. Or perhaps you'd like your social media accounts to generate more sales this year. Y...

It's well worth knowing how to set up a PayPal account if you want to make payments or transfer money online. As one of the most popular online payment systems, PayPal lets you send money between friends, family and business associates without having to share your financial details. It also lets you pay for items. Although you must connect a bank account or credit card to PayPal, the information is encrypted to keep it safe. When you buy an item online using the service, you only need to log into PayPal to carry out the transaction. The online store never gets to see your card details, CCV number or bank account information. As well as adding a layer of security, PayPal also offers additional peace of mind. It has buyer protection safeguards, refunding the cost of items if they do not arrive and protecting you against fraud. It also allows you to spread payments.  There are some fees involved, but that is mainly if you're dealing with a business. Money can be sent betw...

Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing in Lexington, Kentucky, promoted itself as a way for "average people to make substantial income and achieve financial independence." Participants sold Dish Network packages, mobile phone plans, hair products and nutritional supplements. Members were told they'd get commissions on the products they sold, as well as bonuses for recruiting new representatives. But the Federal Trade Commission found that over a four-year period, 98 percent of people who bought into the program as salespeople lost more money than they ever made. 88 percent did not even recoup the enrollment fees. And at least 94 percent did not renew their membership after the initial year. Alleging the program was a "pyramid scheme," the FTC shut it down in 2013. The vast majority of people lose money in pyramid schemes — which the FTC defines as programs that "promise consumers or investors large profits based primarily on recruiting others." Douglas Brooks, an a...

Eliza Briscoe was told that all she had to do was put up $500 and bring in two additional people who would each contribute the same amount of money. In a little more than four weeks, she would get $4,000 in return. Like so many others being recruited for a "sou-sou," Briscoe was nearly duped into a pyramid scheme. It's hard not to be sold on the altruistic and cultural backstory of the sou-sou, also known as "Susu," "blessing loom" or "gifting circle." Promoters pitch the sou-sou as a common practice among Caribbean and African immigrants as a way to help their businesses grow. Briscoe was told she would be helping other Black folks, some of whom may have lost their jobs because of the coronavirus. "It seemed like it was legal," said the Maryland resident, who reached out to me as part of her due diligence research. "I didn't want to bring anybody in unless I knew for sure, because I didn't want anybody to lose their mo...