Ever since our economy started to go down, I seriously started thinking about doing something else for a living. I’m a computer programmer and I love it, but it seems like nowadays companies are not wiling to create new systems and want to stick to what they already have.

Leveraging my computer skills, I decided to turn to the Internet and look around for an online or home based business. After doing some research I found literally hundreds upon hundreds of offers and opportunities.

A lot of this offers got me really excited because they all promised me to make a millionaire in 72 hours!

I won’t lie to you, I fell for some of them only to find out that all the wanted me to do was buy their secret which is what makes them money in the first place. Since I’m being sincere here, I must tell you that I have spent around $7,000.00 in such Millionaire in a Day programs.

All this buying, trying to implement programs and reading all the secrets they offered did “make me a lot wiser”, I started to see a pattern in all of those programs, they all offered to make you thousands of dollars a day and millions within weeks.

One day, when i was trying to figure out why I wasn’t getting rich in 3 days it came to me:

What would happen if instead of trying to make thousands of dollars a day, I found a way to honestly and with a little effort strive to make from 30 to a 100 Dollars a day One Dollar at a time.

Well, guess what, It works!  I joined a program called The Power of a $1 Dollar. When I read it, it made a lot of sense to me because it didn’t make any outrageous claims nor offer to make me $1000′s of dollars a day.

The premise was a very simple one. Invest 1 or 2 hours a day and make up to $100 a day, your effort is the limit of your earnings.

After spending thousands of dollars on a myriad of programs, I decided to give it a try, so last week on Wednesday I signed up and paid my $3.00 Dollars, $1.00 went to my sponsor and another dollar or so went to administrative expenses, I spent a total of $3.00 including Paypal fees.

To make a story short, it has been a week and 4 days, I’m writing this article on a nice Sunday afternoon and so far I have made about $375.00 far from the millions promised by other programs but I feel so happy to finally have my first real income from the internet that I feel Elated.

If you are lile me or feel somewhat like me, I really encourage you to follow this path, it really works, just think which would be easier to do?

1) Invite people to invest $3.00 dollars with the promise to earn between $30 – $100 per day

2) Convince someone to spend $97, $77, $197 or $1000 and a promise to be a millionaire in 73 hour?

I leave it up to you, but if you really want or need a steady down to earth income, give my plan a try, I assure you you won’t regret it, and if you have any questions or doubts, just leave me a comment and I will personally contact you and help you in any way I can.

If you want to learn more or just Sign up and Start making a steady income just CLICK HERE .

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Have you realized just how much fundraising is going on these days? There is fundraising for little league, school fundraisers, and the college fundraiser, as well as  church fundraisers. Day cares need more funds, hospitals need new equipment, and cheerleaders need to fundraise for their costumes. And to think up new fundraising ideas that will be successful is becoming more challenging every day.

On a good note, it shows that people do care how others live and cope with their lives. However, it also means that, because we are always being asked to donate to one good cause after another, we are not always able to help. Despite our best intentions, our own funds simply will not stretch that far.

However, if we request the donation of items instead of cash, that is often a relief to a potential donor. People will often gladly donate a can of food for a food drive, or a kitchen item they have never used for a sale, whereas they would not donate cash. And there are many kinds of fundraising ideas you can use to hold sales based on items collected.

For example, you could hold a toy drive that would give your organization toys to sell to support your work. Or what about a gardening sale? If you have some volunteers with green thumbs, they could easily grow some plant cuttings or start some seeds or bulbs growing ready for a plant sale in the spring or early summer, when the general public is looking to restock their garden after the winter.

Book sales are always well attended, but of course you will need to collect a lot of donated books to make this a success, as books do not generally sell for a high price. You could approach local publishers to see if they have any books that they could donate to support your cause. If they do give you some books, don’t forget to write them after your event to thank them and also to let them know how successful you were and how much their donation helped you. Donors like to be thanked, and they are more likely to support you in the future if they know their gift has been appreciated in the past.

Some groups like to ask for donated items and then they use these to make up some themed gift baskets which they then raffle, usually at another fundraising event. For example you may make up a bath basket containing some soap, hand towels and bath salts from your donated items. The trick here is to keep raffle tickets affordable, especially if you are expecting those that donated the items to be buying the raffle tickets!

You may find that some people are willing to volunteer their time rather than funds. For example an electrician may prefer to spend a half day checking the wiring in the new offices your non-profit group just moved into, rather than donate cash. As long as this benefits your non-profit organization, any donation is welcome, whether it is time or money, but make sure your donors know what the goal of your organization is, and how their assistance will help you. They may then mention it to their circle of friends, and this kind of promotion is very valuable.

1- Have a written project plan
Run your fundraiser like a small business. Have a written project plan that spells out all roles and responsibilities.
Slot motivated individuals into those roles and equip them with everything they need to do a great job.

2- Use your website
If you don’t have one, get one. Use it to communicate goals, thank your sponsors, highlight periodic offerings, recognize successes, honor individual contributors, etc.  Promote your web site on all your materials.

3- Review previous records
See what’s been successful before. Look for ways to improve upon the past.
What items sold best? Get more of them.
Has your gift-wrap sale lost its luster with declining revenues?
Jazz it up with newer offerings.

4- Set a specific timeline
Make sure that your start date and end date are both firm.
The best selling period is 17 days, including 3 weekends.
Any longer and the drive runs out of gas; any shorter and you limit your prospects.
Avoid any scheduling conflicts.
Plan ahead to avoid overlapping other important community events, holidays, etc.

5- Actively recruit volunteers
Get more and better volunteers by going after them. Don’t wait for them to come to you.
Use a calling tree to root out prospects.
Ask for dads, older siblings, and grandparents to get involved.
Advertise for specific help via newsletters and word of mouth.

6- Identify needs and define roles
Do it ahead of time and match your group’s needs to each volunteer’s skills and availability by including it in each position’s description.

7- Use different people
Double up, particularly for key positions.
Fill organizational  roles well ahead of time with different people than on the last fundraiser, unless there is a good reason not to switch.

8- Start early to broaden participation
Put the word out early and often about what volunteers you need.
Get plenty of them so no one feels overworked.
Offer a volunteer sign-up sheet for different events at every meeting.

9- Have a master sergeant

Use a strong communicator to help group and assign volunteers.
Some people are a natural for this key role.

10- Set small group goals
Break overall goal down into what’s needed from each sub-group.
Set up each unit with their own goal and translate that into what’s in it for them.
Reward each sub-group based on their own success.  That will reinforce the correlation between funds raised and their own efforts.