Asking for a raise is tough, but asking for a raise can significantly boost your income. Over 50% of the people who ask for a raise receive one, and almost 10% received a raise HIGHER than the one they asked for or expected.

With odds like that can you afford not to ask?!?

While 50% can seem like good odds…. you can do even better. To improve your odds it’s important to negotiate a raise ‘the right way’.

Asking for a raise in the right way requires a little bit of prep-work. This prep-work should take place throughout the year. Doing it all at once and then asking for a raise won’t be much help.

You also need to know when raises typically occur. It’s possible to get a raise outside these review periods but its waaaaay easier to work within them. Typically, there is a review period once or maybe a few times per year.

There are also some things you should absolutly NOT do when asking for a raise. Doing any one of these things will sink your chances immediately.

Money is amazing. Just the concept of money itself is incredible.

We all agree to take this worthless piece of paper and assign value to it. Most of us trade a considerable amount of our personal time for these pieces of paper. Then we trade some, or all, of those pieces of paper for stuff and things. Money is just a concept but it’s one we all agree to believe in.

One thing I find amazing about money, is that money can make more money. You put those little guys/girls to work and they start to multiply.

You can put your money to work in different ways. Some ways require you to be an active participate, like starting a business. This is active income. You need to spend money, and time, to make money.

But you can also put your money to work in other ways, ways that are more passive, ways that require little to no work from you.

Earning more money doesn’t necessarily mean getting a job. There are plenty of ways to earn money, or just earn extra money, in very unconventional ways.

The conventional (and somewhat boring) way to earn money is to get a job. If you need to earn more money you might get a second job, or a third. But getting a job isn’t the only way to earn money. There are other ways to earn money that don’t involve getting a job.

In this post, we’ve got seven different ways to earn extra money. Of course, there are lots of unique ways to earn money that we haven’t covered in this post but we hope these will at least inspire you to dig a bit deeper and find something that fits you perfectly.

These ways to earn extra income are slightly unconventional. They might not be as stable as a full-time job but they can be a great way to earn a bit of extra money on the side.