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Making Money through Garage or Estate Sales

Making Money through Garage or Estate Sales

We got some feedback about the article I wrote regarding how to attend live auctions to make money, so I decided to expand on the series and write an article about how to make money by purchasing items at garage or estate sales and later reselling those items on [...]

How to Make Money Selling Comic Books as… an Investment?

Comic Books as… an Investment?
When you say “comic books,” most people get an image of ten-year-olds reading a worn copy of a Superman comic book they just bought at the drugstore, that they probably roll up and stick in their back pocket after reading, and eventually abandon comic books when they grow up some more [...]

Turning John Hancocks into Benjamins; Easy money by getting stuff signed

Autographed memorabilia is a multi-billion dollar industry around the world, that exists in several categories. Signed entertainment memorabilia, historical memorabilia, sports memorabilia, collectibles memorabilia, and author-signed books are just a few of the biggest genres of autographed memorabilia. So, the question becomes, how do I turn this desire for people to own a “piece” of [...]

Five Easy Steps to Make Money Teaching Anything

Do you have a certain passion for something? Are you always explaining to other people how to get a certain thing done, or relaying your experience in an area lots of people want to learn? If so, and you don’t have a fear of public speaking, you may want to consider the business of running [...]

Flipping Real Estate is Dead, but Craigslist Flipping has Just Begun; $500/mo from free books and more…

Imagine, a free directory of stuff you can have just by driving around and picking it up. You might as well turn your ability to drive and lift into a money generating hobby. If you get serious though, you can easily turn this into a real business. I’m going to tell you [...]

eBay is so Yesterday. It’s All About Real Live Auctions

When people hear about using auctions to make money, they normally think about using eBay to sell things to the public via auctions or fixed price. However, there are other ways of using auctions, and the one I’m going to discuss is going to live auctions to buy things for resale. Even with eBay and [...]

How To Start a Collectibles Convention

San Diego just hosted Comic-Con International with upwards of 150,000 attendees, exhibitors, and guests–most paying $75 or more to attend (2007 had over $5.2M in revenue tax free )
Anime Expo started in a small hotel and today takes up the Los Angeles Convention Center with 103,000 attendees getting their fix of Japanese animation. Even [...]