2. Allow your visitors to decided how much they want to pay for your product. I only recommend it for products that don't sell or ones that hardly sell.

3. Create an extra revenue stream with your web site's articles or content. Publish first paragraph of each article and charge people to read rest.

4. E-mail targeted e-zines and ask them to do a joint venture with you. Ask them to run your ad and in exchange they get a percentage of profits.

5. Find a tiny niche for your new free e-zine. There are thousands of free e-zines; your e-zine needs to be extra specialized to attract new subscribers.

The Value of a Nickel -- Sell Your Products at Optimum Price

Copyright © 2004 Howard Young

When I was a wee tike of eight, my parents started working my tail off in their business -- an American Indian Hobby Shop -- named Buffalo Robe, in Reseda CA. We sold all sorts of items ranging from beads, feathers and bells, to full regalia of Indian and Mountain Man attire.

My job was to package glass pony beads which sold at 95 cents for a bag of 50. I guess they figured I knew how to count by second grade and trusted me to package beads by thousands if not millions. Once a year we set up a production line where I came home after school and would sit in front of TV watching Speed Racer and run a handful of beads across a counting board with 50 holes drilled in it. I would then scoop off excess beads, and place remaining 50 beads into a Dixie cup.

I wasn't very adept at finishing process and my mom poured beads into a clear plastic bag then stapled on a pricing label. For every packaged bag, I received a shiny nickel and by end of week my take home pay was about $10 -- which back in early 70's -- was a lot of money for an eight year old.