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By Katie McCaskey, Geezeo.com

One common New Year’s Resolution is to “make more money”. Here are eleven ways you can increase your bottom line this year.

1. Host a Garage/Yard Sale
Yes, the weather may be cold. Still, it’s a great time to look around your home and collect the items you no longer use or want and prepare for a garage sale. People may be shopping less overall but everyone is still looking for a good deal. You can give them a good deal.

(You can also consider donating these items to a charitable organization if you’d like to have an extra tax write-off instead).

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I had a good chat with Allison O’Kelly, the founder and CEO of Mom Corps, a staffing firm that places professional women/moms in flexible jobs, about whether moms are hiring out their time and skills for less than their experience demands. O’Kelly, a Harvard MBA and cum laude accounting whiz from the University of Georgia, was on the management fast track at Toys ‘R’ Us after a stint at KPMG when she became a mom.

When the corporate world template didn’t fit her life as a working mom, she started her own business, providing small businesses with strategic planning, accounting, and tax services. She began hiring women, mostly moms looking to stay in the workforce without giving up all hope of a balanced life, and an idea was born. Mom Corps.

O’Kelly says Mom Corps does not have a set “rate card” that it provides clients, but generally, women candidates’ time is billed out at between $25 and $100 an hour. “We’ve turned clients away who’ve said ‘you’re just too much,’ “ O’Kelly said. The more in demand the skills, like accounting, the higher the hourly rate. Women need to know what the market rate for their skills/services is so they request a good rate, she said. Remember, O’Kelly added, “Once you start getting a certain rate, that’s generally where you’re going to stay.”
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