Make Money from Home; to Supplement Your Retirement Income: 10 Tips

Making money on the internet is a good way to supplement your retirement pension fund. The average pension will not go as far as we once hoped it would.

Some of us will have to wait longer, much longer than planned, before we can start receiving our state pension. In the UK, Women’s pension will undergo huge changes; millions will see their state retirement age extended from 60 to 66 years, and even longer.

Women, generally finds it more difficult to save for their retirement because they tend to take time off work to have and to raise their children, this, in most cases, prevents them from building up sufficient national insurance record of over 30 years’ service.

Taking time out also mean, they are set back on the career ladder, with a reduced income and less money available to put away for retirement pensions and investments.

In the private sector pension, final salary schemes are almost a thing of the past; companies can no longer afford to continue doing them. People are living longer, and will need more money to ensure a happy and worry free retirement. But unfortunately, we are coming to the realisation that the money we’ve diligently paid into our pension schemes, may not be sufficient to finance the comfortable retirement we imagined. Until Britain can solve the problem of an aging population and a lack of savings, we must look at ways to make up the deficit in our retirement fund.

We have to be proactive, in the current economic climate. We can no longer relax in the knowledge that we are paying our national insurance contribution and that will provide sufficient money for our future retirement, for those of us wanting to do more than exist in our later years, we will have to start thinking outside the box, and look at different ways to earn money. This is where the internet will prove invaluable. Age is no barrier to using the internet, if you can use a keyboard you can learn to use the internet to work from home and make money online.

Here are a few ideas:

· (1 ) Make money with videos; You tube can earn you good money, if you have skills, where you can video yourself demonstrating or explaining these skills, you can upload your work on you tube displaying your contact details, people will be contacting you for your services.

· (2) Make money cataloguing videos, If you’re good with dvd’s and videos, you can make good money cataloguing special events such as weddings, birthdays and christenings, depicting an individual’s history through the special times in their life, people will be happy to pay for this service.

· (3) Make money selling on eBay, for this you don’t even need much initial capital. You can become a seller by signing up on www.ebay.com and post most of your unwanted belongings for sale, this you can do part-time or full time, you can sell for other people, and you can also buy cheap products in bulk and sell individually.

Start with a few items, note which ones are your best sellers and concentrate on those.

· (4) Make money from your hobbies, Look at what you already love doing, if you love gardening and flowers, why not start a business as an online florist, or sell dried or wild flowers, however, you must be aware in the case of wild flowers there may be laws protecting them, but you can grow your own. Wild flowers are in high demand, you can make money by selling them, for decorating places like craft displays. If your passion is food why not start a restaurant business.

If you are interested in bees, help the environment by encouraging the return of the bees, keep bee hives and sell your own brand of honey. If you’re good with people and like to sell but you don’t want the hassle of working from an office, work from home take a look at becoming an independent distributor for companies such as the Utility warehouse where you sell utilities at a low price saving money and also earning, find out more at www.utilitywarehouse.org.uk/joals

· (5) Make money writing lyrics, if you have some talent in this direction. You can earn some money writing musical lyrics and poems for greetings cards, you can publish eBooks, write your own or pay someone to write and hand over the copyrights to you, and you can then publish and sell the eBook. Look at writing for kindle.

· (6) Make money writing Articles and web content, if you are skilled at writing, you can earn money as a freelance writer for magazines, website owners, for individuals and for companies. You can sign up with sites such as www.elance.com, and www.guru.com, write hubs with www.hubpages.com where you can make money with Google AdSense, Amazon and eBay with a little know-how you can make money. .

· (7) Make money writing book reviews, there are sites that pay to have people write book reviews. www.constant-content.com, here, you can set the price at which you wish to sell your review, www.helium.com gives you the chance to make a good income writing and selling book reviews

· (8) Get paid for advertising local businesses, every business needs advertisement to survive, but the small business owners are normally restricted on how much they are able to spend on advertising, and are unable to afford the high cost of TV and media ads. You can make money by promoting their businesses within the local community, verbally through word of mouth or through postcards or on your website.

· (9) Earn money with Affiliate marketing, this is one of the big money making idea on the internet, you can sell products on behalf of other businesses or manufacturers, this can be done by placing links in articles which are posted on article directories, directing the reader to the relevant website. If a purchase is made, you can earn an agreed percentage from the sale of the product.

· (10) Make Money with your local estate agents, the property market is still a lucrative business always on the lookout for properties to buy and resell. If you can find property for sale and you can refer the owners to the estate agents, having agreed on a price, you can make money.

There are many ways of making money on or off line, I will be revealing more money making ideas to supplement your pension or maybe just to earn a little extra income, so if you found this useful please leave comments