> To the esteemed members of this forum: If
> you needed to raise $1000 for a family
> emergency, had nothing you could sell, were
> on a modest fixed income, were disabled thus
> preventing physical activity, and all you
> had was a computer with internet access and
> your brain, what would YOU do?...Any and all
> answers would be much
> appreciated!....Rooster

As Michael seems to want to make sure we answer what we personally would do, I will try to do so :)

In an emergency situation, I think these are the steps I would take. Unfortunately emergencies (especially medical ones) can easily go over $1,000. So I'm including what my overall plan for scraping together cash would be for somewhere between $5,000-$15,000.

I would

- sell lots of things on ebay/even the books

- contact doctors about reactivating their lost patients for $x dollars each

- sell car

- contact web site owners with super personalized, researched messages offering to help them increase their sales for a small cut of the pie, risk free, contingency only of course

- think about joint ventures I could put together with local businesses (cc/dc, Tony!) (See Mike Enlow's Sand Castles to Empires free report)

- create web sites devoted to a few of my interests and sell small special reports

- consider a local service business/ teaming up with someone physically able to do the work

Those are some of the things I would do. My family did just recently have a large family emergency, but no cash was needed. And luckily, everything turned out fine.

Success,

Erik Lukas