Good info, Jim. If the person you are assisting trusts you, you can also use programs/services like gotomyPC.com or logmein.com to actually control the person's computer remotely and do all the work for them. I do this fairly routinely for several family and friends and it works very well. They can see what you are doing and take over at any time.
Steve - C4, 23 years -----Original Message----- From: Jim Lubin [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim Lubin Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 6:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [QUAD-L] Make extra money from home ideas If anyone is looking for ideas to make a little extra money, here is something I did recently. I helped a friend setup his new notebook (remove unneeded junk, install Office, etc) and transfer his files over from his old pc. He referred me to someone else who needed help doing the same thing. With friend's computers I had them here at house. With the other person we did the whole thing remotely. We used Skype screen share so I can watch her screen and I just instructed her what to do: Setup Outlook with Gmail IMAP; Pair her Blackberry to her notebook bluetooth; Add her music library to iTunes. Simple things to do if you have done it before or just know where to look. For this she paid me $35/hr for 4 hrs of assistance. Jim Lubin http://makoa.org/jim Quad-list Web Page: http://makoa.org/quadlist Spinal Cord Injury Resource Page: http://www.makoa.org/sci.htm
