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Clinical trials have several phases - Phase 1 involves testing the drug on healthy patients to check whether it is safe for humans (only later is the drug trialed on sick people). If you are healthy, you can make some money participating in these trials.Healthy men between ages 18 to 45 are most in demand, and they usually pay £100 to £300 a day, some residential and some non-residential. Note

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Financial markets around the world have been crashing and bon market vigilantes have been stalking sovereign governments, forcing them into cutting back on public spending. Whenever public spending is cut, the economy slows down a little. This doesn't matter much during boom times, it just slows things down and prevents the economy from going white-hot. During period of weak growth, cuts can make

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Yes I know it's not yet December 31st, but I thought I'd write my year-end summary now.It's been an interesting year for me. I've branched out into setting up fashion websites, and it's consumed so much of my time I have neglected this blog a bit.I hope to post more in the new year, and in particular will post about the value of becoming self-employed in the current economic climate. In

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We are nearly at the end of the first recession year we've had in Britain since the early 1990's. According to the Guardian, householders have reacted to the downturn by repaying mortgage debt - by £7bn in each of the first and second quarters, and £4.9 billion in the third quarter.Which brings me to a post I wrote about repaying mortgage debt back in early 2007 when it looked like the good times

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It's interesting looking at Google Analytics to see which are the top articles on this blog. They tend to change with time and give you a real idea of what readers are looking for.Here's the top five articles this year:How to survive without any moneyYour rights when you lose your job and are made redundantWhat to do if you can't repay your credit card debtHow to survive and prosper in a

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I've been following the fascinating 30 day challenge held every August by Ed Dale (and Australian Internet Marketer) who helps people (especially small businesses) to set up and optimize websites. His credo is that no matter what your business, whether you are in the industrial safety supplies business or perhaps a pop band looking to break out, you will benefit from optimizing your site for

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For those of us who have been making money online for a few years now, it's tempting to capitalize on our hard-won knowledge of how search engines work to set up a business offering seo optimization services. But it's pretty clear that everyone and their dog has had the same idea judging from the results when you plug that keyword into Google, and it's not clear that all of them know what they

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It turns out the online world is just like the off-line one, with stores such as Circuit City (which sold electronic goods) closing their doors. I think part of the problem was that they specialised in a product group that was vulnerable to the recession. After all nobody needs to buy TV's or plasma screens - these are purchases that can easily be postponed. By contrast the online stores that are

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It looks like the fight between Microsoft and Google is hotting up, with Google moving into the operating system business and Microsoft challenging in the search business with Bing.Microsoft plans to go further - they currently offer advertising on Bing, displayed alongside the search results, but have never allowed small publishers to put advertising on their websites they way Google does.

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Since the recession started up last year, a whole host of job board sites has sprung up, mostly specialised ones catering for particular industries such as software or accounting. However people looking for simple administrative careers haven't really had their own board till now - a new American job board called AdministrativeJobs.com has sprung up listing all sorts of admin and clerical jobs.

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Our family is having a rubbish weekend - my other half's motorbike has broken down, so of course he cancelled everything to try to fix it himself. Only he doesn't have a decent motorcycle jack, so of course he struggled to get anything meaningful done. I'm working on persuading him to let the experts take over Monday morning - but it all adds up to another expense. Sigh.

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There are faint signs that the housing market is stabalising in the UK and that in a few months time it might start to gently rise again. Of course this could be a false dawn - in the early 90's housing crash, there were several false dawns only for houses to go back down again.If you are desperate to move house, you need to take advantage of any rise in the market however short-term. Spruce up

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There are essentially two ways to set up an ecommerce business - the first is to go into affiliate marketing, where you don't actually hold any goods but merely redirect customers to the retailer's webpage, and the second is to set up an internet store, where you own the goods and sell them on your store, including accepting payment.The second is an option for those who own brick and mortar

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Part of the art of making money online from Adsense is choosing high-value keywords where the cost per click is decent. But is it sensible to choose the very highest value keywords such as Mesothelioma lawyers? If you check the search results, there are so many websites competing to rank for that word that chances are that anything you write containing that keyword will get buried deep in the

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It's about three weeks since I signed up with Commission Junction, and it's working well. Have made three sales so far. A note about applying to join new merchants - while some of the approvals are automatic, others require manual approval. Therefore I would stick to one merchant to start with so that you can build up a reputation. Commission Junction assess each publisher on their 3 month EPC

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Product reviews are big business online, with many people refusing to buy anything unless they have read a review on the subject, preferably a consumer review. This means setting up review blogs with book reviews or diet pill reviews or whatever can be profitable, especially if you then add an affiliate link for the product you are writing about at the bottom. Some tips: when writing product

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How much office furniture do you actually need for your home office? At the minimum a decent desk and chair that swivels. When I first started I used a chair from the dining room, which of course didn't move, and I ended up with considerable back ache. As to other office furniture - being self-employed means you can go paperless if you want, which means you can store all you need online (eg on

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From 20th July, Squidoo are making changes to the types of material they will be allowing on their lenses as well as to the number of times you can link out to the same domain. They are banning certain elements of the weight-loss genre as well adult material, so if you have a lens called the best diet pills on the market or something similar, you need to export your material to another domain

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Further to my previous post about Nationwide mortgages, the Financial Times is reporting that Nationwide is now offering 125% mortgages to those with negative equity.Should you take one out? Well if you are desperate to move house (perhaps due to job relocation), it might be the only way you can do it if you are currently in a negative equity situation (where your existing mortgage is worth more

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One aspect of personal finance that is not mentioned at all is the amount of money women spend on cosmetics and skin care. And the money doesn't feel negotiable in a budget - given the choice of being rich from not spending but ugly as a result, or poor but beautiful, all women choose the latter. However it is possible to reduce the amount spent by simply being careful about not buying creams and

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Following my intro to affiliate marketing using Affiliate Window, I thought I'd try to target the US market too (Affiliate Window only has UK retailers on their books). I've signed up with Commission Junction to use them in conjenction with Squidoo lenses. The sign up process was fairly simple - you had to tell them which website you were going to be using to promote goods and it helped if you

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It's the height of sizzling summer now, so of course people give you weird looks if you talk about planning for Christmas. But it remains true that you can get many electronic goods and games for consoles such as the XBox cheaper now if you buy them in high summer than if you wait till the run up for Christmas. It looks like this recession has a long way to run, which means changing habits - and

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Back in March I wrote an article saying I was experimenting with Hubpages. Just to recap, Hubpages are a bit like Squidoo, but they prefer it if you write informational hubs, and you monetise using your Google Adsense ID (which they display 60% of the time).Anyway, I've written a few hubs and I have to say that I'm impressed. Part of it is that the Hubpages get indexed very quickly - they are

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The Home Office has designated the week 8-12 June 2009 as National Tackling Drugs Week where they are seeking to raise awareness of local and community efforts to tackle drugs abuse and drug-related crime. A series of events are being held to raise awareness, which include open days and exhibitions, visits to drug rehab centres, raising awareness in schools of the dangers, and raising citizen

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Now that house prices are beginning to pick up, lots of people will be considering moving house this summer. With that comes the need to pack up everything and transport it. It used to be that removal companies provided you with cardboard moving boxes but now they only provide them on demand for an extra fee. Therefore see if you can buy these at a discount from one of the online stores, or at a

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From time to time I write articles and earn from them, and I thought I'd publish a summary of the best writing sites I've used:1. Helium This is my favourite site, which allows you to sell articles to publishers in their marketplace as well as earn a revenue share for articles published on their site. I've earned circa $412 with them so far. 2. Bukisa. This is a fairly new site that pays per

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I recently had to access old stuff that I'd stored on floppy discs way back when my old Windows 95 computer was still alive - but my current computer doesn't have a floppy drive. Luckily I was able to use friend's computer which had both a floppy and a CD drive and I was all set copy the material and burn some CDs when he suggested I copy the data onto a memory stick instead. I'd never used

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When shopping for prams should you go for a three-wheel stroller or a sturdier four-wheel pram? It all depends on your lifestyle. Three-wheelers such as the Bob stroller have a swivel front wheel which makes it easier to manoevre, especially if you are in narrow spaces. You can even power-walk or jog while pushing it. The choice of pram is pretty much the most important a new parent makes, apart

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DailyArticle.com is an article directory that sells articles to website owners who are looking to purchase articles to either place on their sites or for article marketing.For writers, it's free to join but they want good English speakers. You simply write what you want, post it up on their site and see if there are any takers. Do note however that they check all articles against Copyscape to

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One way to save money in these recessionary times is to give gifts that are low-priced but unusual, so that the recipient is focused on the gift rather than wondering how much it cost. For instance, rather than buying traditional lingerie,(which your wife or girlfriend will know pretty exactly how much you spent), consider something like a full body stocking which seems exotic but which is

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Textbroker is an article writing site which acts as a broker between writers and those commissioning articles. They are free to join, you do not need to be a professional writer and you can write or not depending on what is available in their marketplace and whether you choose to take assignments.The payment offered depends on the quality rating demanded by the company commissioning the writing.

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I have been trying o use Google's Adwords tool to choose high paying keywords for articles, and stumbled on the ubiquitous best weight loss pills and other diet and weight loss related keywords. But how sensible is it to try to use these? In my opinion, not very smart as the competition to rank for these keywords is fierce. In my experience, it's much easier to go for those keywords where there

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Google Knol is similar to Hubpages and Squidoo. They let you join for free and create single landing pages on any topic you want. However do note that Knols are meant to be informational (this is Google's attempt at creating something similar to wikipedia) - the "knol" is supposed to be shorthand for "knowledge". Note that this is not meant to be a place for commercial activity. Therefore they

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Another method of making money online is to set up a site with reviews of products. It could be book reviews or it could be reviews of the best diet pills or whatever product you are targetting. The key thing here is to have a lot of content. Don't just review a couple of products and think you are done. You need to make your blog a resource site for as many products within your niche as you can

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Xomba is a revenue sharing site, which splits revenue with you 50/50. It is free to join and they monetise with Google Adsense (so you will need an Adsense account before you start). They way it works is that your Adsene ID is shown 50% of the time and their Adsense Id is shown 50% of the time.They allow you to write articles (called Xombytes) of at least 100 words - though I recommend writing a

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One method of making money online is to get in early on some popular event, whether it is X-factor (or American Idol), sports events like the World Cup or World series or popular reality TV shows. The ways to monetise are endless. For instance you could get in early and sell New York Yankees tickets, or you could simply write biographies of the key players and monetise it with Adsense. The key to

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NatWest are part of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group. Because RBS has had help from the taxpayer in order to stay in business, they are under commitment from the government to continue to provide mortgage loans to th public.Here's what they offer:1. They do offer 90% mortgages, but the rates applied are steep - a fixed rate for 2 years on a 90% mortgage is going for 6.39%, but if you borrow just

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Because of the recession, many people are losing their jobs and find themselves completely unable to service their debts any more. One option for dealing with this situation is to file for bankruptcy.Bankruptcy is a legal process to write off your debts. The idea is that in some circumstances a person has got into so much debt that they may never come out from under it in their lifetime, and are

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I've written previously about the diet supplement industry, which is very very lucrative, because despite the recession, people are still willing to pay money to get slim. This makes it lucrative for internet marketers. There are many pills on the market, eg ephedra pills, some of which haven't been evaluated by the FDA and may be dangerous. So what should the internet marketer do? Should they

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HSBC is now the biggest bank in the world, and in the UK, they are taking advantage of their strength to expand their mortgage portfolio now that so many of their competitors are in difficulty.Here's what they offer:1. They are one of the few lenders at the moment who will lend up to 90% of the property price. However the bigger the deposit you can put down the better the deal they can offer you

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Property agents are telling us that house sales are picking up. However it's still a buyers market, with buyers looking for the best property they can get. People still judge the value of a property by the quality of the fittings inside, and you can easily upgrade the look of your home by doing something simple such as changing the faucets in the kitchen and bath. These rooms will immediately

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If you are getting married in the summer, consider getting some of your things online to save money. You can now find groom's clothing online, including such things as a tuxedo, a waistcoat and dress shirts of good quality. The groom will probably be relieved to order online instead of enduring the traditional fittings and the savings to be had can be considerable.

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The Nationwide is the largest building society in the UK and as such you would have thought them immune to the credit crunch. But they too have reacted with some caution to the recession. Here are the features of their mortgages:1. They have withdrawn their standard variable rate mortgage (this was a very good mortgage, with a rate of 2% over the bank base rate, no reservation fee and the ability

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This week we got the news that scientists had apparently produced a pill to tackle obesity. But the truth is that such pills arn't rare - there are hundreds of versions out there, all of which aim to stimulate the person's metabolism and thus produce weight loss. It's big businesses and but how can the customer protect themselves? The best way is to look up websites that have consumer feedback eg

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I thought I'd start a series of articles on the mortgage and remortgage deals of various lenders, starting with Abbey. It's my belief that interest rates will start rising again at the start of next year (2010), even if property prices continue to sink, and it's worth preparing and being fully aware of all the changes in lenders terms and conditions if you are to survive the upheaval back to

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Another way to get a cheaper summer holiday is to look for deals where they provide you with a free hotel night. Sometimes this involves benefits added if you are a frequent visitor to a hotel (say on business), other times these deals come if you choose to travel in the off-peak season or stay during the week rather than the weekend. but it's always worth Googling to see what offers are

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This is an unusual ad platform that allows you to ad text or picture ads - but these are based on keywords that you choose rather than contextual keywords generated by the platform in the manner of Adsense. You can see straight away that this gives the blogger more control over what is advertised. If some ads are embarassing or you simply think they are scams, you can filter these out. You can

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We were promised deflation in this recession, but unfortunately the cost of food and wine keeps going up even while the cost of everything else drops. Which is no good really, as we've all stopped buying plasma screens and whatnot and are staying at home with a bottle of wine as the only indulgence instead.You can cut the cost of wine however, by joining a wine club. They usually offer a wine of

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For those who are unaware, Kontera is the ad system that places double-underlines on words in your text, and when you hover your mouse over it a window ad appears with an URL for the ad.Kontera have recently changed their terms and conditions. point 4.2 says the following:"if the Revenue Share for any given month is five dollars ($5) or less, Kontera shall not be liable to Publisher for any such

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One of the most terrifying things about losing your job is how quickly you burn through your savings. But what if you took a radical step and moved somewhere much much cheaper, where your money will last? Say Peru or Ecuador.The Guardian has an interesting article about a man who did just that. He says you can survive in Peru for about £15 a day, which includes board. And if you take your laptop,

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I've written previously that I suspected that the reason for the poor performance of Amazon Associates is down to their 24 hour cookie policy. As it happens, another affiliate program I am a member of, Affiliate Window, have just improved their tracking statistics and now show details of when the click through happens, and when the transaction took place. It was an eye-opener. I took a

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