How to Make money from Nothin (Making money from home)

Crash-course to smart investments

When you are working hard to make and save money, one of the most important elements to any financial plan is how to make smart investments. Check out our article on Financial Literacy is just as important as Sexual Discipline. Of course in today’s economic climate, it is difficult to make smart investments that are fruitful, moreso, it is difficult to make the money to invest.

Contrary, the most risky sectors are where all the money is at, but the twist is, you must be prepared to lose. So it’s never really a good idea to spend the little bit that you have in hopes to strike it big – thats gambling, not financial investments.

What’s the difference between high-risk investment and gambling? People who take high risk high rewards investments do so through years of research, experience, expert advise, studying routine patters and ofcause, only invest what what they can afford to lose. Gamblers say a short prayer, hold their breaths and wish the odds are in their favor. Most of the time gambling does not reap positive rewards. It is highly addictive and leads to financial problems.

Smart investments in general are not always easy to come by, especially for those who want to make money from nothing. One of the ways to save money without sacrificing your lifestyle is to invest in yourself. You can do this in two ways:

Sacrifice your lifestyle

The first of these two ways is to start your own business. This requires some planning and thought. Take into consideration The Roadtrip: A Self-guide to Success Chapter 1: Prepare for the Trip and Chapter 6: Patience & Persistence. These two chapters highlight the basics that you will need to get started on this journey well equipped with every possible obstacle that you may come across.

The second way is to do something… Anything. Doing something is a greater achievement than doing nothing at all. You can sit around and be miserable all day and complain about how life is against you. Or how people are bringing you down. Or how bewitched you are or you can pick yourself up and do something about your situation. When you focus on what you want to achieve instead of what you do not want to do? When will you start doing activities that are more challenging and thus more meaningful to you and your career? Because let’s face it; we build our careers in order to expand our horizons. How are we intending to grow if we do not build and expand outside our comfort zones?

Invest in Yourself

If you are self-aware, you can begin to set goals for yourself in areas where you may be weakest.

Start doing the small things, small investments, to build up your confidence and skills in the areas where you need help. All this can lead to you becoming a more successful person.One of the most effective ways is to use your passion for something to get more involved with it.

If you are a great cook, then that can become a very profitable business.

• Draft a menu
• Draft yourself a cook-book with your special recipes
• Give our samples to neighbors to taste
• Gather presentable equipment for a pop-up shop at your street corner, local complex, or busy but safe intersections
• Stay consistent
• Approach the local spaza shops to offer your meals for sale every day at their stores. They buy from you at a discount. You deliver every morning.
• Have delicious meals or foods available for fast purchases
• Advertise on social media daily.
• Sesrch for local events and make sure your pop-up restaurant is visible and ready to serve
• Invest in branding (business logos, pamphlets, business cards, gazebo and banners) email us on services@YFAPRODUCTIONS.co.za
• Approach employees that work at factories and have your food delivered to them during their lunches or make sure that you set up at a convenient location for them to buy from you.
• Invest in and establish a client-base

If you are good at applying make-up or nails:

• Start a YouTube channel
• Build a follower-base
• Do bookings for people attending events
• Advertise on social media. Remember sexiness sells.
• Use your friends and peers as leverage to showcase your skills. Do their make-up for free when they are going out on weekends, work or random days.
• Invest in branding (business logo, business cards)
• Stay consistent
• Start a training session subscribtion for those who are interested in knowing how to do make-up.
• Later, start up a beauty parlour and eventually an accredited beauty and cosmetics school/college, maybe that will grow into you having a research team and facility to create your own cosmetic brand.

You are not shy in front of the camera?

• Be a content creator on social media and the internet.
• Create your profile and start sharing authentic or hilarious content.
• Your content must be relevant and cater to the mass audience
• Make sure your camera qualiand sound quality is good and also teach yourself proper editorial skills.
• Stay consistent
• Social media pays loads of money when you have many followers so make sure that the content is unique and exactly what the public want to see.
• People love using their cellphones and videos are one of the stress relievers and distractions that people look for to get away from their reality, to learn and also to satisfy their addiction to relevant content. Use that.

These are merely examples. Just don’t expect anybody to tell you this information because we live in a world where we rather watch somebody waste all their potential because we refuse to see them become better versions of themselves in fear that they might surpass us. Also, don’t expect any help from anybody either. People have their own problems to deal with. Learn to figure things out on your own. Once you accomplish that, you will be the master of your own experience.

Revisit the previous article on Re-think, Re-evaluate, Re-calibrate to refresh on the steps to achieve this.

Revitalize Your Business

It is easy to invest in a business, as long as it can be tracked. A company can use their accounts receivable as a means to develop new products, improve the current products that they have in hand, or simply to pay for advertising. It is one of the least risky ways to generate income.

Revitalize Your Community

In times of recession, we all need a little support. One way to help this support is to establish a project in your community that will assist in providing job opportunities for those who are looking for work. This can inbe done through charitable organizations, colleges, universities, government agencies, local businesses, or other like minded individuals. You could even do it yourself by starting your own movement to assist the community. My personal ambition is to purchase a large enough property or apartment building where each room can be converted into a living space for the homeless. Within the same property I wish to have various facilities where there is skills development, basic schooling for children, technical skills, business training apprenticeship and productive market.

The primary objective into doing this is to create a sense of sustainablility and a skill-set that the less fortunate can use in the outside world to generate income as a foundation for a better standard of living. I know I am a long way for this task, but it’s worth a shot.

Before you begin your journey, it is important that you have a clear understanding of what the problem is. When you have a concrete idea of what you want to do, you will be able to choose the best method. You will need to determine your goals and find out where you can find inexpensive ways to accomplish your goals.