Operation Bob

Do you want some quick cash now, or maybe a sustainable part time or full time income?  Chances are if you are reading my blog, the answer is YES!  So I’ve got something to tell you about that might help.  It has helped me and I’ve used in several different ways.  I’ll tell you now it’s not free, but it’s worth it.  Regular readers know that most of what I tell you about is free to get started with.    This is one of those exceptions that costs a few bucks, but I’m suggesting it because I believe in it.

What I’m talking about is a book called Emergency Cash Generators.  It contains 101 money making ideas.  Sure, you’ve probably heard of a few of them but with 101 there’s a good chance that there will be more than a few ideas that you’ve never thought of.  I bought an earlier version of this book about 5 years ago.  It did several things for me.

• First, and most obviously, I put a couple of the ideas to work and made some money.  Real money.
• Second, after putting one of the ideas in the book to work, I wrote my own mini ebook that expanded on that idea and how I had implemented it with a lot of detail.  I made a few bucks selling that ebook. (no it wasn’t plagiarism, because it was actually a combination of two ideas from the book with some major differences I had implemented on my own.  Plus, it was a full out instruction manual for my newly created single specific idea.)
• Third, it really changed the way I looked at making money for myself.  After reading it, rereading it, and using some of the ideas I was able to see the common thread amongst all money making ventures AND the ideas got my creative juices flowing so I was able to use some of those ideas as a launching point for other ideas.  It just got my brain going in the right direction.

When I first bought the book 5 years ago, I downloaded it and read it front to back.  I haven’t regretted spending the money for one split second.  In fact, I had since changed computers (several times), lost the book and couldn’t recover it so I went back and bought it again recently.  There are alot of things I regret buying once, but this one I’ve bought TWICE and don’t have any remorse.

The author of Emergency Cash Generators is James Jones.  He’s a real straight-shooter and writes in a way that’s easy to understand and with NO HYPE!  Once you buy the book, you sign up for free updates and he’ll share with you changes or additions to the ideas.  (in my case, I also changed e-mail addresses and lost touch – not his fault, all mine)

NOTE – this book does not contain step by step detailed directions for every single idea.  It tells you more than enough that you should be able to put any one of them to work immediately, including the needed resources or links for some specific ideas that might make it easier for you to get started.  But if you are looking for “step 1, turn on your computer; step 2, open internet explorer; step 3, …” that isn’t what this is about.

NOTE #2 – Many of the ideas in this book are not “online” money makers.  It contains a combination of money making ideas both online and off.  Whichever way you want to make money, there are more than a few ideas covered.

Hey, don’t take my word for it, go check out Emergency Cash Generators for yourself.  I’m not getting paid for this post, but I do get a commission on sales.   I wouldn’t recommend it if I didn’t believe in it, and like i said I’ve bought it myself – not once, but twice.

Nick, from TungstenRingsOnline, has stopped by the blog here several times.  He asked me to check out their site, and I did.  Now I’m not a huge jewelry nut.  In fact, every time we’re at the mall my wife stops at every jewelry store window and every kiosk and I groan with boredom.  I’m sure she’s looked at every piece of jewelry within a 100 mile radius of our house.  Nonetheless I went and checked out the site and found myself very interested in the styles and types of tungsten wedding rings and wedding bands they offer.  They have some really stylish and classy stuff.  They have rings made of different materials, some of which I had never heard of – like ceramic.  Who knew?  Anyway, if you’re looking for a ring or wedding band, check them out at TungstenRingsOnline.com

In a recent post I mentioned that I’ve learned when it comes to making money online or entreprenuership in general you can’t put all your eggs in one basket.  I think that’s a topic that bears repeating and a little bit of expanding.  It’s certainly not a new concept and definitely not one I came up with it on my own.  I think I probably first formally encountered it was on some tapes by Robert Allen, I remember him using the phrase “multiple streams of income.”  Anyway the theory was that if you only made a few bucks a month on something but multiplied that times a bunch of somethings, it would add up.  Simple math and simple numbers.  Numerous other people have purveyed the concept and many more actually work it.

Bottom line is that I still haven’t found that one thing online where I could make a big comfortable living.  But I have managed to find a bunch of little things that bring in a little $$ each.  Seriously, if there was one thing anyone could to make a six figure income in their pajamas, wouldn’t everyone be doing it?  You’ll notice that here on OperationBob I don’t give you any “start this thing and quit your day job” type of hyped up “opportunities.”  Instead I focus on real things that pay real money, however small, and pass on as many of them as I can find.  You don’t have to do everything, but hopefully you can find a few that get you thinking or get your snowball starting down a covered hill.

I think the trick is to find the ones you enjoy doing.  If you don’t like it you’ll resent it and/or stop doing it.  The second thing is to look at the things you enjoy and focus on the opportunities within that list that require the least time to do with the best reward.  Third, keep at it.  Fourth and finally, keep expanding – always pay attention to what else is out there and what’s working and what isn’t.

Awhile back I started a series of pet peeves and kicked it off with my gripes about Television.  It was nice to hear from you all via comments that I’m not alone in the little things that irk me.  This weekend I’ve been out and about a bit and noted several more pet peeves to share.

People who mow their grass and shoot it out into the road! Especially here in the neighborhood.  Do they not realize that if they would just mow in the opposite direction, at least for a pass or two, the grass would stay in the yard where it belongs!  It’s never the folks who regularly mow their grass either, it’s the one or two houses that let their grass get a foot high and then make hay and blow it all into the street.

50 Registers and 2 cashiers! If you didn’t already guess, I’m talking about Wal-Mart.  Can somebody tell me why they have all those registers when only a couple of them are open at any given time?  Today we did some grocery shopping there and on the way in I noticed the lines were a mile long.  Further back I saw two managers chatting in one of the aisles and as another employee walked past they asked him to go find some people who could go up front and work the registers.  Seems to me it would have been more efficient to send that guy up to a register (along with one of the two managers) and then have the other go round up more help.

Drive Thru Misfits! If your drivers window doesn’t go down, maybe the drive-thru isn’t the best option for you.  I’ve seen it more than once, the person that pulls up and opens the door and leans half-way out to give their order and then shuts the door, pulls around and has to open the door and lean out again to pay and get their food.  The worst drive-through offender is the one who is ordering lunch for 20 and every single item is a special order.  I don’t have anything against someone getting what they want, but go inside already!

Well, I feel better now.