After yesterday’s article where I shared with you the story of John, a guy who has challenged himself to make £500 reselling pre-loved items he buys from carboot markets and charity shops starting with just £10, today I want to share with you another money making challenge I read about recently.
This one is an interesting challenge but not one I suggest people try, although it does highlight another way for people to make money.
In Worthing , West Sussex, 22 year old mother of one, Atlanta Martin, challenged herself to see how much she and her boyfriend, Benjamin Hasker, 36, could make delivering food and drink over a 24 hour period.
Last year Atlanta gave up her job as a flight dispatcher to focus on her side job as a delivery driver when she realised that she could make up to £1,000 a week if she worked 11 hours a day.
I don’t know if that is for a full five day week, it doesn’t leave her much time to spend with her 4 year old daughter.
She wanted to know how much she could make if she worked for a full 24 hours straight through the night.
Starting at 7am on a Tuesday morning, using the apps on her phone, Atlanta and Benjamin started delivering for Just Eat, UberEats, Beelivery, Deliveroo and Gophr across Worthing.
At 10pm they changed to deliver purely for Uber Eats and Deliveroo across neighbouring Brighton.
They spent the whole 24 hours in their car and used a local McDonalds whenever they needed a toilet.
Taking it in turns to drive and keeping themselves going by drinking fizzy drinks, eating a Domino’s pizza and snacking on croissants, the pair made 77 deliveries, racked up 220 miles and earned a respectable £330.
Splitting that two ways gives them £165 each, which isn’t bad, but nothing was said about how much it cost in fuel to drive 220 miles.
Apparently Atlanta had always wanted to do the challenge and see how much she could earn.
She wanted to know what it was like delivering at night and apparently the busiest period was between midnight and 5am where they delivered a lot alcoholic drinks despite it being midweek.
She may do it again but I don’t think it will be a regular event.
24 hour food and drink delivery services are becoming increasingly popular and can be found in most large towns and cities but this way of making money does have its limitations for some people.
- There are a lot of other people competing to make the same deliveries.
- Most restaurants that use app based services like Uber Eats and Deliveroo close in an evening.
- Smaller towns and rural areas don’t have the same opportunities as larger towns or cities.
Atlanta and Benjamin were delivering in and around Worthing and Brighton which has a combined population of 387,200… give or take a few.
With such a dense population there will be a lot of restaurants and takeaways fulfilling a lot of orders which need delivering.
It is safe to say that there was plenty of opportunity to make money as a deliver driver in that area.
Being a delivery driver using those app based services, it seems can be a great way to make some extra money if you have a car or a bike.
I don’t know what is required to become a delivery driver for companies like Uber Eats and Deliveroo, but I assume that you get paid at the end of the shift so if you desperately need money, it looks like you get it quite fast.
Okay, so this is the part of the article where I say that although this is a great way to make money for some people… it’s not the best or only way to make money fast.
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It certainly isn’t for me.
I don’t relish the idea of spending hours driving around a town breathing in car fumes, knocking at people’s doors in wet and cold weather, using McDonald’s toilets and eating pasties in my car while waiting for another order to come through.
Yes, if I had no other option then I would do what was necessary, but the days of there being ‘no other option’ are long gone.
Today there are always other options available.
I’ve previously mentioned how writers can make £200 or more writing articles and emails for clients… articles and emails which took less than an hour or two to write.
Andi, our techy guy and in-house writer himself made £250 writing a couple of emails for a client when he used to do freelance work.
Those two emails took less than one hour to write.
Atlanta and Benjamin earned £165 each (that’s without factoring in any other costs such as fuel for the car and food) for working 24 hours solid.
When you compare that to earning £200+ writing articles and emails for clients from the comfort of your own home, listening to music and enjoying a brew… £165 for a 24 hour shift doesn’t look that appealing does it?
Payment can also be instant when you are writing for people online. As soon as you have delivered your content you can be paid by the client if they are happy with what you have provided.
Thanks to the internet giving you access to millions of people worldwide, you can work for anyone no matter where in the world you or they are.
You can make money writing articles and emails for people on the other side of the planet who you will never meet.
Learn to write sales letters and you can charge clients thousands of pounds for a couple of hours work.
This can be done from anywhere in the world. Unlike delivering food, you don’t need to be in a densely populated area.
You can write articles and emails while sitting in your garden in middle England or in a guest house at the most northern point of the Shetland Islands.
As long as you can connect to the internet to send and receive work, you can work from anywhere.
And if you write articles, emails and sales letters for yourself you can make money 24 hours of the day on autopilot selling your own digital products such as eBooks.
You may not know it just yet, but you could be one sales letter away from retirement.
It takes just one sales letter to land you that big payday you’ve dreamed of.
To learn how you can write a sales letter which has the potential to earn you tens of thousands of pounds or more, click the link below:
One Letter From Retirement
Kind regards
John Harrison
PS… The term write your own cheques is definitely suited for writers. When you know how to write a profitable sales letter, the skill – and quite possibly the sales letter itself – will keep paying you for life.
Here’s that link again: