Making Money

We are talking about making a lot of money if you want to be a member of this league - the yacht owners club. The Monaco Yacht Show which was held at Port Hercules in Monaco during September brings together professionals from the international luxury yachting sector; ship-builders and designers, equipment suppliers, brokers and service providers. The MYS is renowned throughout the sector for being the show that absolutely cannot be missed in the luxury yachting sector because it is the only yacht show exclusively devoted to Super-yachts of at least 25 meters in length. Are you getting the message about making money?

 

All the luxury yachting business sectors were present. 82 shipyards, 25 brokers, 45 naval architects and interior designers, 196 equipment manufacturers, 73 service providers, 27 magazines and more and more attended. From the luxury sector there were reps from companies selling private jets and helicopters, luxury goods and accessories and if that still isn't enough for you the world's top 15 customized yacht builders were at the show. Now we are talking big bucks. Did you know that private jets and helicopters count as accessories in the luxury yachting world as a pair of oars does at the rowing club?

I am not a true artist. I will admit it. People may say that I do not appreciate fine art. They are correct. Some even get disgusted when I say that the purpose of art is to make money. So what. I am not interested in being a "starving" artist. I prefer to be a "well-fed" one.

I first realized the potential for making money through art on a trip to Washington, D.C. A friend of mine dragged me to the National Museum of Modern Art (I would never have gone on my own.) I was quite bored until I noticed something spectacular. I was astounded. No one around me seemed to realize what I had noticed. Let me explain.

There was a display of the works of a very famous modern artist. It consisted of about eighteen giant sheets of canvas. On each one there was a painting. A painting of.... nothing. No flowers, no crying women, no landscapes. There was nothing at all on the canvas. Each one had been simply painted a different shade of "off-white." People were looking at them all nodding their heads and saying what a genius the artist was. Well, I certainly agree. That artist is a genius at making money!

I mean all he did was mix some paint and spend about 5 minutes coating a piece of canvas with it. I wonder how much he laughed while he painted. Was he shocked when the museum called and asked to display his "work." All I know is that if you are an artist and your stuff is displayed in the National Museum of Modern Art, you have the ticket to riches. After the show I am sure someone will purchase the "paintings" for a few million.

So what are you waiting for. Buy some paint and canvas and get busy! Let's revolutionize the art world!

One of the best jobs I ever had was when I rented an ice cream truck. When my friends wanted to go to the beach, I went with them. While they got sun burns, I got money, lots of it.

You see, when you have an ice cream truck you buy the ice cream wholesale and can sell it for.... well you can sell it for whatever people will pay. So all you need to do is find the hottest possible place where people with a lot of money hang out. Don't waste your time with kids. The real money is selling great ice cream to starving adults. They think paying $5 for a pop is not unreasonable.

Here's a secret. Visit senior citizen homes. Seniors love ice cream as much as anyone else. The stuff they serve in homes is usually terrible. The problem is, ice cream trucks never drive up to senior citizen homes. These guys never get the chance to eat a chocolate swirl or Italian ice. Just ring the bell and they will come running (not literally.) And they don't mind spending a few dollars for a quality product.

Another tip is to park near a busy highway during rush hour. If you are lucky, the traffic will become gridlocked and you will have a "captive audience." People stuck in traffic seem to love eating ice cream cones. I don't know why, they just do!  

How about parking in the lot of the Department of Motor Vehicles? People know they are going to be waiting for a long time. People waiting always have time for ice cream. It also relieves the anxiety of waiting to see if you can get your license renewed or how much you will have to pay. Hey, compared to a new vehicle registration, a $5 cone is a real bargain!

A win-win opportunity is something that no one wants to miss. In this free slots tournament, you either only get to play several of the finest slot games that the best online casinos have to offer or you get to walk away with some cash as well! $100 000 is being given away at the free slots tournament this April. It is happening at All Slots and All Jackpots Casino and you have an open invitation to join.

$21,000 is a lot of money, especially if you can make it while having fun at the same time.  Well, here's how to do it.

It seems that there are some people out there who are obsessed with the number 21.  They set up a trivia quiz called the 21 Trivia Competition, and it has - of course - 21 questions.  All of the questions relate, in one way or another, to the number 21.  So if you take the quiz and get all the questions right, they'll put your name into a hat, and then they'll pull one name out of the hat who will be crowned "Number 1 in 21" and win a grand prize of $21,000.

The 21 Trivia Competition is found at http://www.number1in21.com/.

I am not going to tell you any of the trivia questions here.  That would spoil the fun.  But I will tell you a little bit about the questions in general.  They are divided into three categories: easy, medium, and hard.  I personally found the categories to be kind of meaningless - after all, a question that's easy for one person might be hard for another.  It all depends.

The truth is, I found most of the questions to be difficult at first, but actually they were all very easy.  I know that sounds confusing, so let me explain what I mean.

Most of the questions asked for things that I didn't happen to know off the top of my head.  That's what I mean by difficult.  But they were all easy because there is no time limit on the quiz and you are allowed to "cheat" by looking up the answers.  I put "cheat" in quotation marks because it's not really cheating - the rules of the contest say you're allowed to do it.

Let's say, for example, that they asked: "Who was number 21 on the 1969 New York Mets baseball team?"  (That's not a real question in the quiz; I'm just making it up as an example.)  Well, I don't know, and you probably don't know either.  But if you just Google "1969 New York Mets," you will easily find a site with the team roster and uniform numbers, and there you go.  (The correct answer, by the way, is Cleon Jones.)

So I would definitely advise anybody who is interested in making some extra money to try the 21 Trivia Competition.  It's actually a lot of fun to learn a lot of useless but interesting trivia facts about the number 21, plus you have a chance to make $21,000 doing it.  So to all my readers, I say:  Give it a try, and good luck!  And if a reader of this blog does win the $21,000 prize, please let us know about it.  We will all join in your celebration.