I need a website to go to to find things to rant about......like a thousand ideas, please help.? -

Go no further. Y!A is a place to rant without limits or gravitas.

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How about www.craigslist.com? Lots of people use it for ranting...

Starting a teen business? -

I m a home-schooled senior looking to start my own business as a personal assistant in CA. I need some advice... I m trying to appeal to local business companies, home business owners, busy moms, disabled/elderly ones. Basic errands, office work, or delivery services within a 10 mile radius. I want to offer different payment options. How should I charge for gas, lets say if they want me to exceed my travel area by 10 more miles? How should I charge for last minute cancellations? I want to offer a flat rate thats also worth my while? Any suggestions?

You can try a completely free home based online business.

well for gas you could charge $5 -home business owners... depending on what business they do you could do about $20-$30-elderly/disabled... depends how long you help them... 1-2 hours: $10... 3-5 hours.: $20... all day: $30-busy moms... if you are talking about watching kids then about $15 for 1 kid $20 for 2 kids $35 for 3 $45 for 4 and $55 for 5-doing chores... dishes and cleaning and laundry ect.. about $20 a day-delivery... $20so on average $20-$30answer mine please!!!http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;��

Your a teen, so generally speaking this isnt a good idea. Errands for strangers. Just not good. BUT, there is a way. Start with family. Let your clients begin with family and their close friends. Like coworkers of like 10 or more years. Mothers and Grand Mothers of close friends. Even choose your local senior citizen center. You can charge $3 for seniors for up to 3 or 5 tasks. If you get 10 Seniors thats $30 and gas is like $3 for 20miles of driving. Thats your best bet. Low on cancellations, good client base. Get an accordion file so you can put envelopes of money and instructions in each area. Clients that come back get their name out on a file area in the accordion file. Get a toll free number from www.onebox.com for like $12 a month an forward that to your cell. Get free business cards at www.vistaprint.com and get a professional brochure for your business at www.stocklayouts.com. You would charge for daily or single errand. Make a list of what you think people need. Get medicine, grocery shopping, personal shopper, laundry drop off and pick up, dry laundry drop off and pick up, babysitting, etc etc Make some things by hour and some by errand. Consider $2.50 for gas and $2.50 for yourself. Then the errand charge. So if Laundry drop off and pick up is $5 then add $5 and the fee is $10. Or make it 8 or 9 and they will give you a 10 dollar bill and you keep the tip. Minimum $5 charge. Daily Errands or DE s (created your lingo already lol) are your bread and butter. If you can get a routine going its gaurenteed income. Lets say 5 clients @ $10 a day thats $50 a week. Or 10 clients or 2 a day for the week @ $10 each is $100 a week. Not bad for a teen. Just make sure to open a bank account and always put 20-30% of what you make in the bank and dont touch it. Save until your 21-22 and you will be amazed. Be your first car money =) Save $25 a week = $1200 a year $30 a week = $1440 a yearAsk your parents about what I said and show them the websites. They might have something to add to what I said. Dont think immediately that you wont ask them. Usually if you have a good plan they will back you up and help.Good luck and be safe. Make sure you have them fill out a application. Includes their name, address, home number, cell number, job number, and on the back of this application without them knowing it put their license plate number get a birth month and day to send them birthday cards. But your getting the information for your safety =) $5 minimum covers your gas and alittle something for yourself. Thats 10miles of driving and $2.50. The rest is profit. So always start you prices at $5 plus whatever your going to charge for the fee. If the errand is $0 add $5 for a total fee of $15. But your clients should NEVER know this. This is a business owners eyes only. When you charge $15 they shouldnt know how your money breaks down. Maybe you can give birthday errands for free IF they are a regular client and you have used them alot before.

What are the payment options available at Freelance Sites? -

What are the payment modes in freelance sites.

Different payment options are available in freelance sites. The options like Paypal or Money Bookers [MB] are safe and best. Other payment options are not as cheap and safe as these two. If Paypal is not supported then you can use MoneyBookers to transfer money to your bank account. It��s cheap and safe way to transfer money from freelance sites to your bank account. When you have created a account at Money Bookers then go to the Profile page and click on address in order to verify it. You must verify your postal address before you can start using MB.

Most of the good freelancing sites that i have gone through has two payment modesPaypal westerunion

Envelope stuffing(look at details)? -

So my mom and I were looking in the newspaper for maybe a second job for her, then we saw this envelope stuffing thing where you get like $10 for every envelope stuffed. So she called, and they sent the letter describing the job and the money you make. Well since the letter didn t give a website, I decided to look up the address. And wouldn t you know it? I found blogs and stuff talking about how it was a scam. For this program you had to send in $45, and If you weren t happy, they would refund your money. Well on some of those blogs I found, they actually did refund some people s money! Which defeats the purpose of scamming people for their money.On one blog the creator was talking about envelope stuffing, and what you re actually stuffing. Which is the same paper they sent to you, I think he said. But has anyone tried this(envelope stuffing) and actually got money?And why would my newspaper allow this to be published? here s the address that i m talking about: 4085 hancock bridge pkwy#111 suite #123North ft. myers, fl 33903google it and see what i m talking about:P

All envelope stuffing jobs are scams. That particular scam has been around for generations before there even was an Internet.Why does the newspaper publish it? Because it s not their job to verify whether anybody who wants to publish an ad in their paper is telling the truth or not. I m sure somewhere in the fine print of the advertising section, you ll see some fine print that says exactly that.

Dr. Deth s response is right on. Most publications do not check the worthiness of any ad. And as mentioned by other forum members, the stuffing envelope opportunity is a scam that s been drawing in new victims everyday!

That scam has been around since the beginning of time.

I actually fell for that scam once. :/It`s a rip.

in order to get paid for any of those things you will probably spend a lot more than you will get back1-you have to buy a mailing list of names to get to mail a letter or something to2-you have to print up letter and mail them - total cost - 50 cents a piece including envelopes and shipping3-for every 100 you get back ($50 in costs) you might get 2 responses ($20? income) and then you have to mail the entire envelope they sent back to you in a another envelope (2-3 ounces of postage) - further reducing your income - you you wind up losing money - not making it

Can you ask the store for a reprint of the receipts to prove that the quantity on black friday? -

well here let me expand a little as you know under law stores have to sell what they say they have like a certain quantity like minimum of 6 well is it true that we can ask to have the a page or reprint of receipts to prove that the minimum was sold since if there isnt then we are allowed to demand the product be shipped, rain checked or prepare for a huge lawsuit which has actually happened quite a few times

Sorry, but your question isn t well-written.If you re talking about a purchase limit ( Limit six per customer ), they have every right to restrict sales. Warehouse stores do this all the time to prevent abuse by people who intend to resell what they bought.If you mean that the store is advertising they only have a certain amount left ( Only six remaining ) then you d probably have to bug a lawyer about it. The store wouldn t give you their receipts, mostly because of privacy concerns, but also because such information can be used by their competitors, and also to prevent accusations of false advertising. Only the legal community can successfully subpoena those records.