Governor Palin And The Israeli Fighter Pilot
By Ginger - February 1, 2011 - 07:15 UTC - 16 Comments
Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin With Former Israeli Fighter Pilot Elan Frank
From September of 2008, this is a great article about a former Israeli fight jet pilot who filmed a documentary on three extraordinary women, including then Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin. Here is what I call the money quote:
“I have a lot of authentic footage that shows who she really is. You can tell a lot about her from that. She really is one of us.”- former Israeli fighter pilot turned film director , Elan Frank, speaking of Governor Sarah Palin.
From ynetnews.com
Sarah Palin mesmerizes Israeli filmmaker
Los Angeles-based director Elan Frank met Alaska’s governor, Republican vice-presidential hopeful several months ago while filming documentary about extraordinary women, and was hooked.
by Dana Zimmerman
“Sarah Palin is a very special woman. She has a tranquility about her, no matter what the situation is,” this is how Elan Frank, a California-based Israeli filmmaker, chooses to describe the Republican Party’s newly chosen vice-presidential hopeful.
Frank shadowed Palin, who is the presiding governor of Alaska, for three days some three months ago, as part of a documentary he made about extraordinary women around the world.
Frank, 52, has been living in Los Angeles for the past 12 years. He first visited Alaska in 1983, when he was given a year’s leave from the Israeli Air Force, where he served as a fighter pilot.
“I made it a point to come back to Alaska every three years or so, since. It’s a very hard country. The real final frontier. They have seven men for every woman, so I thought about making a film about women in Alaska. I did some research, and then I thought – ‘well, why focus only on Alaska? Why not focus on women worldwide and make a film about women empowerment?’”
Frank sent film crews to Nepal and the Negev, to follow two extraordinary women, and decided to follow three Alaskan women himself – a teacher, a pilot and the new governor.
“I wasn’t planning on focusing on famous characters, but Palin’s story is so unique I decided to include her. She is the first woman of Alaska, which isn’t something to be treated lightly; not to mention a former beauty queen, basketball player, fisherwoman and hunter – and a mother of four (Frank’s film followed Palin before she has her fifth child). I saw something amazing there,” he said.
Read the rest here.
Watch the video
hat tip – Tammy
TodayWatch: It’s San Diego Ticket Day, Get Your Portfolio Seen In Seattle Day, Save St James Library With Alan Moore Day and Get Your Skullkickers Signed In London Day!
JapanWatch: The Japanese are ridding shelves of comics for ebook scans… and companies who will scan your books for you.
“There are more than 30 or 40 scanning companies and huge amount of books are scanned every day, so I can hardly believe all the scanning is legal,” Higuchi said in an interview in Tokyo last month.
Japanese will buy $80.5 million worth of e-books in the fiscal year ending March 31, most of it comics for mobile phones, Ueno said.
JapanWatch2: How the Tokyo Comics Code works in practice;
Page upon page of black and white etchings of wide-eyed, young people of indeterminate age drawn in that larger than life Japanese cartoon style, engaged in every kind of sexual act, legal or otherwise.
“Normal sex doesn’t sell well,” Komiya remarks.
“School sex, tied-up sex, abnormal sex, sells. So this is what they draw.
“Mangaka don’t draw this stuff because they want to expose children to sexual perversity, they draw it for one reason: to make money.”
JapanWatch3: When foreigners go to Japan to make comics.
German Dirk Schwieger is another artist who came up with an original approach to comic-making. While he spent only one year in Japan, in 2006, he grabbed a lot of attention when he turned his 24-part “webcomic” into an interactive project.
In his blog he chronicled a year’s worth of “assignments” he undertook at the request of readers while living in Tokyo. People from around the world would send him tasks to accomplish — anything from “meeting a traditional sword maker” to “looking for a bosozoku biker gang” — and he would write, illustrate and post a new comic each week based on his experience.
ThisIsGreatWatch: Zach Weiner, web cartoonist had an image used, out of context, to justify ant-gay marriage sentiment by an anti-gay marriage sentiment website. But it’s a hotlinked image. So he changed it from this (left) to this (right).
This is The Bleeding Cool ComicChron Robot speaking. I come for your women. But for now I merely collate comic-related bits and pieces online. One day I will rule. Until that day, read on.
News: Exclusive: Superman’s Undisclosed Character Revealed | Latino Review
1: Lois Lane WILL be in the film. 2: The character these lovely actresses have come out for is none other than a Kryptonion villainess who is going by the name of URSA.
‘Cowboys & Aliens’: Jon Favreau’s campaign trail and popcorn primary | Hero Complex – Los Angeles Times
“This is our Iowa caucus,” director Jon Favreau said as he climbed into a waiting black SUV with Ron Howard, the two-time Oscar winner who is a producer of Favreau’s “Cowboys & Aliens,” scheduled to hit theaters July 29. “This is like the primary. Our election night is that opening weekend this summer.”
Editorial: 2011 to Infinity and Beyond — Graphic.ly CEO Micah Baldwin
The comic industry is not in peril, it is in transition. We are learning that to move forward we must first open our arms and minds not only to the new technologies, but to the new way people create, consume, enjoy and share content.
MediaPost Publications NBA Gets Simply Marvel-ous 02/07/2011
The line will include apparel and accessories, with artwork featuring the likes of Spider-Man, Iron Man and Captain America dressed in NBA team colors and logos.
Will the Cloud Be Comic-Con’s Superhero? – NYTimes.com
In an attempt to ensure the servers keep up under extreme traffic, Comic-Con has partnered with Philadelphia-based startup TicketLeap, which moved its platform to Amazon Web Services in August 2010. If all goes well when tickets go on sale at 9 a.m. PST tomorrow, it will be a huge proving point for the TicketLeap platform, and further validation for AWS and cloud computing, in general.
Failing Better – The Dial-a-Marvel Superhero Messages You Never Got to Hear
I’ve been going through my stash of Marvel memos to pick out ones that might be useful to Sean Howe (who definitely needs a Marvel nickname), who’s writing a history of Marvel in the ’70s, and while doing this I came across one of my many suggestions to Stan. I had the bizarre idea that we could start a Dial-a-Superhero service than would allow fans to hear pre-recorded messages from Marvel’s greatest. Check out my note to Stan below
A Not-Brief Reaction To A Video That’s Already Been Taken Down
History tells us that the big comics companies have acted as bad industry partners since their inception. We’re even now coming out of a period where a series of furtive, overlapping agreements between certain industry players and Diamond threw up structural barriers that kept smaller publishers from opportunities they might have used to make a bigger plash in comics’ primary market, a web of arrangement that helped seal into amber a status quo that placed greater value on short-term profits from fees and privileged hierarchies and goosing certain titles than onto long-term profit from partnership and information-sharing and allowing for title development. Comics blew some major opportunities there.
MTV Geek Exclusive: A Talk With Wizard World Inc.’s Gareb Shamus » MTV Geek
And when it comes to ex-employees, you’ve got to understand that they’re ex-employees: they’re people who have just lost their jobs. And it’s very unfortunate, but unfortunately you’ve got to take what they say with a grain of salt. You’ve got to understand where it’s coming from. It doesn’t diminish their contribution to what we’ve done, it doesn’t mean that I didn’t appreciate their hard work – but when you look at the landscape of comic books today, a lot of these people wouldn’t even be working in this business if it wasn’t for Wizard giving them their first start.
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By Ginger - February 1, 2011 - 07:15 UTC - 16 Comments
Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin With Former Israeli Fighter Pilot Elan Frank
From September of 2008, this is a great article about a former Israeli fight jet pilot who filmed a documentary on three extraordinary women, including then Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin. Here is what I call the money quote:
“I have a lot of authentic footage that shows who she really is. You can tell a lot about her from that. She really is one of us.”- former Israeli fighter pilot turned film director , Elan Frank, speaking of Governor Sarah Palin.
From ynetnews.com
Sarah Palin mesmerizes Israeli filmmaker
Los Angeles-based director Elan Frank met Alaska’s governor, Republican vice-presidential hopeful several months ago while filming documentary about extraordinary women, and was hooked.
by Dana Zimmerman
“Sarah Palin is a very special woman. She has a tranquility about her, no matter what the situation is,” this is how Elan Frank, a California-based Israeli filmmaker, chooses to describe the Republican Party’s newly chosen vice-presidential hopeful.
Frank shadowed Palin, who is the presiding governor of Alaska, for three days some three months ago, as part of a documentary he made about extraordinary women around the world.
Frank, 52, has been living in Los Angeles for the past 12 years. He first visited Alaska in 1983, when he was given a year’s leave from the Israeli Air Force, where he served as a fighter pilot.
“I made it a point to come back to Alaska every three years or so, since. It’s a very hard country. The real final frontier. They have seven men for every woman, so I thought about making a film about women in Alaska. I did some research, and then I thought – ‘well, why focus only on Alaska? Why not focus on women worldwide and make a film about women empowerment?’”
Frank sent film crews to Nepal and the Negev, to follow two extraordinary women, and decided to follow three Alaskan women himself – a teacher, a pilot and the new governor.
“I wasn’t planning on focusing on famous characters, but Palin’s story is so unique I decided to include her. She is the first woman of Alaska, which isn’t something to be treated lightly; not to mention a former beauty queen, basketball player, fisherwoman and hunter – and a mother of four (Frank’s film followed Palin before she has her fifth child). I saw something amazing there,” he said.
Read the rest here.
Watch the video
hat tip – Tammy
TodayWatch: It’s San Diego Ticket Day, Get Your Portfolio Seen In Seattle Day, Save St James Library With Alan Moore Day and Get Your Skullkickers Signed In London Day!
JapanWatch: The Japanese are ridding shelves of comics for ebook scans… and companies who will scan your books for you.
“There are more than 30 or 40 scanning companies and huge amount of books are scanned every day, so I can hardly believe all the scanning is legal,” Higuchi said in an interview in Tokyo last month.
Japanese will buy $80.5 million worth of e-books in the fiscal year ending March 31, most of it comics for mobile phones, Ueno said.
JapanWatch2: How the Tokyo Comics Code works in practice;
Page upon page of black and white etchings of wide-eyed, young people of indeterminate age drawn in that larger than life Japanese cartoon style, engaged in every kind of sexual act, legal or otherwise.
“Normal sex doesn’t sell well,” Komiya remarks.
“School sex, tied-up sex, abnormal sex, sells. So this is what they draw.
“Mangaka don’t draw this stuff because they want to expose children to sexual perversity, they draw it for one reason: to make money.”
JapanWatch3: When foreigners go to Japan to make comics.
German Dirk Schwieger is another artist who came up with an original approach to comic-making. While he spent only one year in Japan, in 2006, he grabbed a lot of attention when he turned his 24-part “webcomic” into an interactive project.
In his blog he chronicled a year’s worth of “assignments” he undertook at the request of readers while living in Tokyo. People from around the world would send him tasks to accomplish — anything from “meeting a traditional sword maker” to “looking for a bosozoku biker gang” — and he would write, illustrate and post a new comic each week based on his experience.
ThisIsGreatWatch: Zach Weiner, web cartoonist had an image used, out of context, to justify ant-gay marriage sentiment by an anti-gay marriage sentiment website. But it’s a hotlinked image. So he changed it from this (left) to this (right).
This is The Bleeding Cool ComicChron Robot speaking. I come for your women. But for now I merely collate comic-related bits and pieces online. One day I will rule. Until that day, read on.
News: Exclusive: Superman’s Undisclosed Character Revealed | Latino Review
1: Lois Lane WILL be in the film. 2: The character these lovely actresses have come out for is none other than a Kryptonion villainess who is going by the name of URSA.
‘Cowboys & Aliens’: Jon Favreau’s campaign trail and popcorn primary | Hero Complex – Los Angeles Times
“This is our Iowa caucus,” director Jon Favreau said as he climbed into a waiting black SUV with Ron Howard, the two-time Oscar winner who is a producer of Favreau’s “Cowboys & Aliens,” scheduled to hit theaters July 29. “This is like the primary. Our election night is that opening weekend this summer.”
Editorial: 2011 to Infinity and Beyond — Graphic.ly CEO Micah Baldwin
The comic industry is not in peril, it is in transition. We are learning that to move forward we must first open our arms and minds not only to the new technologies, but to the new way people create, consume, enjoy and share content.
MediaPost Publications NBA Gets Simply Marvel-ous 02/07/2011
The line will include apparel and accessories, with artwork featuring the likes of Spider-Man, Iron Man and Captain America dressed in NBA team colors and logos.
Will the Cloud Be Comic-Con’s Superhero? – NYTimes.com
In an attempt to ensure the servers keep up under extreme traffic, Comic-Con has partnered with Philadelphia-based startup TicketLeap, which moved its platform to Amazon Web Services in August 2010. If all goes well when tickets go on sale at 9 a.m. PST tomorrow, it will be a huge proving point for the TicketLeap platform, and further validation for AWS and cloud computing, in general.
Failing Better – The Dial-a-Marvel Superhero Messages You Never Got to Hear
I’ve been going through my stash of Marvel memos to pick out ones that might be useful to Sean Howe (who definitely needs a Marvel nickname), who’s writing a history of Marvel in the ’70s, and while doing this I came across one of my many suggestions to Stan. I had the bizarre idea that we could start a Dial-a-Superhero service than would allow fans to hear pre-recorded messages from Marvel’s greatest. Check out my note to Stan below
A Not-Brief Reaction To A Video That’s Already Been Taken Down
History tells us that the big comics companies have acted as bad industry partners since their inception. We’re even now coming out of a period where a series of furtive, overlapping agreements between certain industry players and Diamond threw up structural barriers that kept smaller publishers from opportunities they might have used to make a bigger plash in comics’ primary market, a web of arrangement that helped seal into amber a status quo that placed greater value on short-term profits from fees and privileged hierarchies and goosing certain titles than onto long-term profit from partnership and information-sharing and allowing for title development. Comics blew some major opportunities there.
MTV Geek Exclusive: A Talk With Wizard World Inc.’s Gareb Shamus » MTV Geek
And when it comes to ex-employees, you’ve got to understand that they’re ex-employees: they’re people who have just lost their jobs. And it’s very unfortunate, but unfortunately you’ve got to take what they say with a grain of salt. You’ve got to understand where it’s coming from. It doesn’t diminish their contribution to what we’ve done, it doesn’t mean that I didn’t appreciate their hard work – but when you look at the landscape of comic books today, a lot of these people wouldn’t even be working in this business if it wasn’t for Wizard giving them their first start.
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By Ginger - February 1, 2011 - 07:15 UTC - 16 Comments
Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin With Former Israeli Fighter Pilot Elan Frank
From September of 2008, this is a great article about a former Israeli fight jet pilot who filmed a documentary on three extraordinary women, including then Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin. Here is what I call the money quote:
“I have a lot of authentic footage that shows who she really is. You can tell a lot about her from that. She really is one of us.”- former Israeli fighter pilot turned film director , Elan Frank, speaking of Governor Sarah Palin.
From ynetnews.com
Sarah Palin mesmerizes Israeli filmmaker
Los Angeles-based director Elan Frank met Alaska’s governor, Republican vice-presidential hopeful several months ago while filming documentary about extraordinary women, and was hooked.
by Dana Zimmerman
“Sarah Palin is a very special woman. She has a tranquility about her, no matter what the situation is,” this is how Elan Frank, a California-based Israeli filmmaker, chooses to describe the Republican Party’s newly chosen vice-presidential hopeful.
Frank shadowed Palin, who is the presiding governor of Alaska, for three days some three months ago, as part of a documentary he made about extraordinary women around the world.
Frank, 52, has been living in Los Angeles for the past 12 years. He first visited Alaska in 1983, when he was given a year’s leave from the Israeli Air Force, where he served as a fighter pilot.
“I made it a point to come back to Alaska every three years or so, since. It’s a very hard country. The real final frontier. They have seven men for every woman, so I thought about making a film about women in Alaska. I did some research, and then I thought – ‘well, why focus only on Alaska? Why not focus on women worldwide and make a film about women empowerment?’”
Frank sent film crews to Nepal and the Negev, to follow two extraordinary women, and decided to follow three Alaskan women himself – a teacher, a pilot and the new governor.
“I wasn’t planning on focusing on famous characters, but Palin’s story is so unique I decided to include her. She is the first woman of Alaska, which isn’t something to be treated lightly; not to mention a former beauty queen, basketball player, fisherwoman and hunter – and a mother of four (Frank’s film followed Palin before she has her fifth child). I saw something amazing there,” he said.
Read the rest here.
Watch the video
hat tip – Tammy
TodayWatch: It’s San Diego Ticket Day, Get Your Portfolio Seen In Seattle Day, Save St James Library With Alan Moore Day and Get Your Skullkickers Signed In London Day!
JapanWatch: The Japanese are ridding shelves of comics for ebook scans… and companies who will scan your books for you.
“There are more than 30 or 40 scanning companies and huge amount of books are scanned every day, so I can hardly believe all the scanning is legal,” Higuchi said in an interview in Tokyo last month.
Japanese will buy $80.5 million worth of e-books in the fiscal year ending March 31, most of it comics for mobile phones, Ueno said.
JapanWatch2: How the Tokyo Comics Code works in practice;
Page upon page of black and white etchings of wide-eyed, young people of indeterminate age drawn in that larger than life Japanese cartoon style, engaged in every kind of sexual act, legal or otherwise.
“Normal sex doesn’t sell well,” Komiya remarks.
“School sex, tied-up sex, abnormal sex, sells. So this is what they draw.
“Mangaka don’t draw this stuff because they want to expose children to sexual perversity, they draw it for one reason: to make money.”
JapanWatch3: When foreigners go to Japan to make comics.
German Dirk Schwieger is another artist who came up with an original approach to comic-making. While he spent only one year in Japan, in 2006, he grabbed a lot of attention when he turned his 24-part “webcomic” into an interactive project.
In his blog he chronicled a year’s worth of “assignments” he undertook at the request of readers while living in Tokyo. People from around the world would send him tasks to accomplish — anything from “meeting a traditional sword maker” to “looking for a bosozoku biker gang” — and he would write, illustrate and post a new comic each week based on his experience.
ThisIsGreatWatch: Zach Weiner, web cartoonist had an image used, out of context, to justify ant-gay marriage sentiment by an anti-gay marriage sentiment website. But it’s a hotlinked image. So he changed it from this (left) to this (right).
This is The Bleeding Cool ComicChron Robot speaking. I come for your women. But for now I merely collate comic-related bits and pieces online. One day I will rule. Until that day, read on.
News: Exclusive: Superman’s Undisclosed Character Revealed | Latino Review
1: Lois Lane WILL be in the film. 2: The character these lovely actresses have come out for is none other than a Kryptonion villainess who is going by the name of URSA.
‘Cowboys & Aliens’: Jon Favreau’s campaign trail and popcorn primary | Hero Complex – Los Angeles Times
“This is our Iowa caucus,” director Jon Favreau said as he climbed into a waiting black SUV with Ron Howard, the two-time Oscar winner who is a producer of Favreau’s “Cowboys & Aliens,” scheduled to hit theaters July 29. “This is like the primary. Our election night is that opening weekend this summer.”
Editorial: 2011 to Infinity and Beyond — Graphic.ly CEO Micah Baldwin
The comic industry is not in peril, it is in transition. We are learning that to move forward we must first open our arms and minds not only to the new technologies, but to the new way people create, consume, enjoy and share content.
MediaPost Publications NBA Gets Simply Marvel-ous 02/07/2011
The line will include apparel and accessories, with artwork featuring the likes of Spider-Man, Iron Man and Captain America dressed in NBA team colors and logos.
Will the Cloud Be Comic-Con’s Superhero? – NYTimes.com
In an attempt to ensure the servers keep up under extreme traffic, Comic-Con has partnered with Philadelphia-based startup TicketLeap, which moved its platform to Amazon Web Services in August 2010. If all goes well when tickets go on sale at 9 a.m. PST tomorrow, it will be a huge proving point for the TicketLeap platform, and further validation for AWS and cloud computing, in general.
Failing Better – The Dial-a-Marvel Superhero Messages You Never Got to Hear
I’ve been going through my stash of Marvel memos to pick out ones that might be useful to Sean Howe (who definitely needs a Marvel nickname), who’s writing a history of Marvel in the ’70s, and while doing this I came across one of my many suggestions to Stan. I had the bizarre idea that we could start a Dial-a-Superhero service than would allow fans to hear pre-recorded messages from Marvel’s greatest. Check out my note to Stan below
A Not-Brief Reaction To A Video That’s Already Been Taken Down
History tells us that the big comics companies have acted as bad industry partners since their inception. We’re even now coming out of a period where a series of furtive, overlapping agreements between certain industry players and Diamond threw up structural barriers that kept smaller publishers from opportunities they might have used to make a bigger plash in comics’ primary market, a web of arrangement that helped seal into amber a status quo that placed greater value on short-term profits from fees and privileged hierarchies and goosing certain titles than onto long-term profit from partnership and information-sharing and allowing for title development. Comics blew some major opportunities there.
MTV Geek Exclusive: A Talk With Wizard World Inc.’s Gareb Shamus » MTV Geek
And when it comes to ex-employees, you’ve got to understand that they’re ex-employees: they’re people who have just lost their jobs. And it’s very unfortunate, but unfortunately you’ve got to take what they say with a grain of salt. You’ve got to understand where it’s coming from. It doesn’t diminish their contribution to what we’ve done, it doesn’t mean that I didn’t appreciate their hard work – but when you look at the landscape of comic books today, a lot of these people wouldn’t even be working in this business if it wasn’t for Wizard giving them their first start.
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bench craft company Everyone needs to make money whether you're a trust-fund baby or just lost your job, money makes the world go 'round. Living in small towns presents a challenge unique to the economy as well as the job market.
Below are ten ideas to create an income from any location but work especially well in smaller towns. Check with your city hall, but most rural towns don't require a business license or have a very small fee to start.
1. Start a dog grooming business. Go to your local library, check out a book on dog grooming. If your library doesn't have anything, they probably do a book exchange with other libraries in the area. Gather your supplies. Buy supplies online at eBay or through sites like Ryan's Pet Supplies - http://www.ryanspet.com/. Make fliers or use your community bulletin boards to advertise. Limit the amount of dogs groomed in a day or at a time. Most people have their dogs bathed and trimmed. If you need dogs to practice on, the local animal shelter is always in need of grooming services. You'll invest around $200 or less. Consider starting out with dogs to bath and trim rather than full-blown styling services at your salon. Use Craigslist and eBay to find used kennels, tables, tools, etc.
2. Babysit. Children of working parents need care during the day either before and after school are for the entire day. My mother used to babysit a couple of children while we were growing up. She provided good meals and playtime, nap-time, etc. while we were doing the same activities. Some restrictions apply depending on where you are. Most areas allow 4 children or under without having a day care license. Babysitting in the evenings for a Parent's Night Out is also a great occasional service for those who do not use a regular sitter. Children can be dropped off at your house and picked up when the parents return home. A Guide to Babysitting
3. Lawn Care Services/Snow Removal is a much needed service for everyone. You'll need a mower at the minimum for the summer and a shovel for the winter. For those who want to get a little more detailed, add an edge trimmer, hedge clippers or a weed whacker. During the snow season, people need walks and drives shoveled especially after the snow plows go by. 100 Tips for the Lawn Care Business
4. Delivery Services are a great way for restaurants to sell products to those who are either shut-in or too lazy to drive over and pick up their own meal. Make contact with the local eating establishments as well as any other businesses who might want products delivered - pharmacies, convenience stores, etc. and see if they will add a small fee, or work for the tips. Most drivers for delivery food make $5 a trip. Limit the hours of delivery service to evening hours only or weekends. Check with the local motels and put fliers in the rooms for delivery services.
5. Make something! Many local retail stores pride themselves in locally made products from jams and jellies, breads and cakes to wooden items made from area scraps. There are cookbooks about the local crop ( raspberries, chokecherries, crab apples., etc.) If your town is crowded in a certain season compared to another season, you might consider making souvenirs from Christmas balls with the town and the date on them. Many people collect items from the places they visit regardless of how remote. Remember the yard stick that tells you the weather? It's a stick that comes with a little paper telling you how to read it. (Put it in the yard or on the porch. If it's wet, it's raining. If it's white, it's snowing. If it's cold, put on a sweater. Etc. - Make up your own sayings) The more unique and the cuter the better so make it count!
6. Buy delinquent storage units for little to nothing and sell the goods. In rural areas, usually no one comes to buy the storage units abandoned by people and the owner ends up with a bill and a bunch of stuff they can't use. One time I was able to clean out a storage unit containing $30,000 worth of artwork I didn't have to pay for. I sold the items on eBay and made good money. I didn't have to pay for it because I wasn't sure if I would be able to sell the art. Most of my clients didn't even know what a COA was and didn't appreciate the quality of the work. eBay was a great outlet for this. You can also sell on Craigslist. There's usually a washer or a dryer or both which can be sold for $100 each.
7. Online selling is a great way to make a living. Use eBay and Craiglist as primary sources for listing items as well as Amazon.com. These are the top three online buying and selling communities on the web. Use the eBay's Pulse to find out what's hot and what's not.
8. Avon is a great money maker for those who don't have a locally dedicated representative. Many women love the products, they order from catalogs placed in high traffic areas (beauty shops, grocery stores, convenience stores, etc.) Once you are reliable with the delivery of the products, you'll find very loyal customers. With Avon it's about customer service and great products. If you don't mind going door-to-door which I did as a teenager, it's really good. Chances are you already know people in your town you'll be able to work with. Avon
9. Computer repair and appliance repair services are so limited in small towns usually it's difficult to find a competent person who can fix things. Put out a flyer, contact local businesses and within a few days, you'll be having a word of mouth business you can charge $35 an hour or more just for looking at the machine. If you're really ambitious, try charging $75 just for a service call to diagnose the problem.
10. Writing is global. With an Internet connection, working from home is a great way to make perpetual money. For example, this particular article will generate revenue for years to come. Use places like Associated Content and Helium to get paid to write. eLance is a web community where people hire freelancers in all kinds of fields to work by the job. Look online for reviews. Offering services in editing and copywriting locally can be done either in the community or online as well. If you're also a photographer, you can add photos to your writing making more money.
