An Ohio woman who made $11,000 in 100 days on top of her day job has shared one important piece of advice on how to do it.

For a lot of people, the basic salary they receive off their employer each month is often not sufficient and makes it difficult to save up to purchase a home, for example.

With properties at a record high across the US, many are resorting to side hustles to fulfil their dream of owning their own property.

Jackie Mitchell is one of those who had a dream of having enough money to put a down payment for a new home.

Jackie Mitchell embarked on a side hustle to make some extra cash (Getty Stock Image)

Through different side hustles, Jackie challenged herself to make $100 a day for a period of 100 days.

This was on top of the salary she'd be making from her 9-5.

Once the 26-year-old had finished her day in the nonprofit sector, she became engrossed in the likes of surveys and focus groups to make more cash.

In fact, the woman from Columbus also played video games online to boost her funds even further.

In the end, Jackie smashed her $10,000 target 11 days prior, meaning she and her husband can now buy a property.

She made $11,000 in 100 days (Getty Stock Image)

Jackie managed to make an average of $110 a day, for a whopping $11,000 made in the three month period.

She has been documenting the entire journey over on TikTok and revealed just how she did it in an interview with CNBC Make It.

"It’s just been so surprising reminding myself that little bits of money make a big difference," she said.

"It’s kind of an encouragement to think that even if you make $5 a day, $5 is way better than $0."

For those wanting to do something similar, Jackie shared one piece of advice that could help you achieve it.

And that is breaking down the goal, no matter how big it may be, into a smaller one.

She explained: "If you’ve got a goal of paying off a car loan that’s $8,000, try to calculate how much you can reasonably do in six months.

"What does that look like every month, every week, every day?"

Jackie continued: "I really do believe that at least some of the information I’ve been giving can be helpful to at least one person, one single mom, one stay-at-home mom or one college student.

"And if I can help one person earn an extra $100 a month, why would I not post that?"

A police officer has spoken out to warn people of a scam which sees all the information on your phone made accessible to scammers in just one single step.

You may think you're a twenty-something-year-old and smart enough to recognize all scams, but with technology developing quicker and smarter by the day, it's important to stay afloat of all the latest tricks up scammers' sleeves. And this one may well catch you out.

Thankfully, police officer Bo Braxton Da Savage - who goes by @fitbocop1914 - has taken to Instagram to raise awareness of the latest sneaky scam which has been going around.

Taking to his social media page on August 28, he explained he just caught wind of a 'pretty smart scam' which is going around, which Bo admits 'would've got' him had he not been made aware of it.

And this particular scam involves scammers sending free gifts in the mail. Now, this may sound confusing, why would a scammer send you a free gift? But that's exactly what they want you to think.

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Bo explains the package may say it's from a company you recognize and will further lull you into a false sense of security by having your full name and address on.

Although, the officer notes it 'won't have a return sender on it' - I shouldn't need to explain that one.

Bo continues: "So what's going to happen is, you get the package, you're going to look at it and think, 'Aw okay someone sent you a gift'. There's going to be a QR code on the package or in the package.

"[...] And you're going to scan the QR code and once you scan the QR code every bit of information in your phone is going to get sent to the scammer - it's going to send your credit card information, your bank information, your pictures, your phone numbers, your contacts. Everything that's in your phone, after you scan that QR code, is going to get sent to the scammer."

Indeed, a cybersecurity expert has previously spoken out about the dangerous of whipping out your phone and scanning QR codes willy-nilly.

Adrianus Warmenhoven from NordVPN explained once you scan a dodgy QR code, if you have an 'unpatched browser' or one with a vulnerability and the QR code takes you to your phone's browser, which takes you to the page linked in by an attacker, then an attacker can 'take over and infect the system' on your device.

And what's even scarier is you probably won't realize your phone has been accessed by the scammer either.

Warmenhoven ultimately warns to treat QR codes as suspiciously as you'd treat any other sort of link.

The dark web is a place that no one really wants to be.

For any fellow dark web novices, typical online sites have an IP address that can be tracked back to an individual, but the dark web uses complex systems that anonymise a user's true IP address - which is why it's often used for illegal activity.

A lot of sinister activity happens on the dark web; one example being the case of Chloe Ayling, who was kidnapped and put up for sale on it.

As well as kidnappers, ransomware attack groups will use the dark web to exploit personal data and blackmail people for money in exchange for not releasing the information.

This is something that an anonymous hacker with 30 years experience has seen for himself.

Speaking to VICE, the man explained that he'd once been a 'black hat' hacker, meaning he wasn't bound by any kind of ethical code and most likely had malicious motivations.

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But he later became a 'white hat' - people who see themselves as an ethical security hacker.

Explaining his role, he told the publication that he does things such as 'hunt the criminals who are targeting hospitals or who are targeting the businesses that I'm looking out for'.

Recalling some of the most concerning things he's seen, the man shared: "I've watched hospitals get encrypted. People are left with a choice: do I pay to decrypt the data or risk lives?"

Speaking in 2021, ransomware appeared to be the guy's largest concern as he shared that there had been an 'significant increase' due to its profitability.

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Going on to discuss some of the 'high stakes games' on the dark web, he explained that ransomware can be used on a national scale.

"You have national state actors who are doing what they need to do because the nation state that they're employed by wants them to do it," he said.

"There are financially motivated criminals who are looking for whatever way they can cash out, [and] there are some people who just want to see the world burn.

"Those are destructive hackers who will just go after systems because they just want to cause disruption."

He added: "Every single country has reason to weaponize these kind of attacks. [...] It's the perfect form of asymmetric warfare."

The anonymous man further claimed that he'd seen 'pretty much all western governments' going to the white hat hackers community for help.

The controversial reaction a Kodak executive had in response to a brand new product forms part of the explanation as to why the company went from being worth $31,000,000,000 to going bankrupt.

Throughout much of the 20th century, Kodak was *the* company when it came to photography.

The rise of Kodak

The brand had found a high demand for film camera among Americans, and successfully established itself as a billion-dollar company as customers sought to capture their memories on film, ready to be developed and framed or put into much-loved albums for people to look back on for years to come.

The company is still well known in pop culture - even making its way into Pitbull's 2011 song 'Give Me Everything' in which he infamously rhymed 'Kodak' with 'Kodak' - but the rise of technology means the company has faced some hardships over the years, including filing for bankruptcy in 2012.

What happened to Kodak?

Problems started in 1975, when one of Kodak’s engineers, Steve Sasson, presented a brand new invention: the digital camera.

It might be hard now to imagine a world in which digital cameras didn't exist, especially when they've since turned into items we carry around with us every day, but at the time some of the higher-ups at Kodak weren't too enamoured.

In a 2008 interview Sasson conducted with The New York Times, he recalled: “My prototype was big as a toaster, but the technical people loved it."

However, it was management at the company who were cautious of the creation for one reason: it made film unnecessary.

Considering film was a huge area of profit for the company, the idea of purposefully hindering sales by releasing the digital camera didn't make sense to them.

What did execs say about the digital camera?

Sasson went on to share the exec's controversial and ultimately costly reaction, saying: "It was filmless photography, so management’s reaction was, ‘that’s cute but don’t tell anyone about it.’”

So Sasson was ordered to bury the idea, but when digital cameras became a staple in the photography world by the mid-2000s, the company really began to struggle before it ultimately filed for bankruptcy.

What could Kodak have done differently?

Vince Barabba, a former Kodak executive, shared some insights on to how to avoid mistakes like that made by Kodak and make more effective decisions in businesses as he released his 2020 book, The Decision Loom: A Design for Interactive Decision-Making in Organizations.

Per Forbes, Barabba recommended four key approaches:

1. Having an enterprise mindset that is open to change.

2. Thinking and acting holistically.

3. Being able to adapt the business design to changing conditions.

4. Making decisions interactively using a variety of methods.

Kodak did manage to rally after filing for bankruptcy, and now continues to sell products - both digital and film - for customers who have stayed loyal.