Daily Archives: February 25, 2015

Sell Your S**t

If anyone accused you of selling s**t you’d probably be offended, but in this case there’s really no need to be.

A non profit organisation called ‘OpenBiome’ wants your faeces is prepared to pay up to $13,000 a year for it, and you get to feel all virtuous at the same time. Too good to be true? Well maybe, because they don’t just want any old faeces!

The organisation is involved in helping people suffering from a bacterial gut infection called ‘C.difficile’, which can be alleviated by introducing healthy faecal matter from a donor into the gut via endoscopy, nasal tubes or in tablet form. This faecal matter needs to be super-healthy and so if you’re to profit from this you’ll need to pass a whole raft of medical tests first. Only 4% of applicants make the grade.

Once your poop is accepted $40 is the going rate for a deposit, with a $50 bonus if you make five deposits a week. That works out to the $13,000 a year potential earning.

Now that’s definitely not to be sniffed at.

Create A Journey Blog

A lot of people think that in order to have a successful blog, you need to be an expert in some field or other, but that isn’t always the case. In fact sometimes it’s probably better if you know little or nothing.

People aren’t just interested in reading blogs containing information and advice from those ‘in the know’. They also like a story, and some of the best stories of all involve personal journeys. So for example, you might not be an expert on weight loss but you might need to lose weight. You might not know anything about renovating a property, but you may have a property to renovate. A blog which follows your progress as you work towards your goal can be far more interesting and entertaining than a lecture from someone who knows it all already.

So if you’re interested in creating your own blog, but don’t know what to write about, think about what you’re currently trying to achieve, If you’re trying to do it, others will be trying to do it too and would welcome the opportunity to join you on the journey.