Newbie Steps for Money Making (or What Worked for Me)
1. Create a gnome int caster and max out intellegence.
2. Park said Mule in the bazaar.
3. Save everything you loot that says "Used in tradeskills".
4. Spiderlings are your friend. Kill them until you you have 4 stacks of spiderling silks.
5. Go to EC and hunt lions, bears, wolves, spiderlings, spiders but be sure to kill other things to clear the loot table. Save all low med high pelts as well as ruined.
6. Sell all HQ cat in bazaar for 20pp each, along with spider silks at at least 5p. Sell HQ bear for 30pp or save them to make backpacks with.
7. Give all pelts and silks to gnome, he is your tradeskiller. Buy skinning knife from pc in the bazaar.
8. Buy Sewing Kit and patterns from tailor in PoK. Doesn't matter what kind of pattern you buy, so long as it is for clothes ie not backpack or quiver.
9. Combine two spiderling silks in sewing kit to make thread. Do this with all of them.
10. Combine ruined pelts with patterns to make patchwork armor, sell to vendor. The point is to get to around 25 skill in tailoring.
11. Combine 2 spider silks to make silk swatch. Combine silk swatch with pattern to make silk armor. Sell to vendor. Do this until you have around 35+ in tailoring.
12. Take all your medium quality pelts and combine in sewing kit with the skinning knife, this turns them into Low Quality.
Do the same with High quality wolf pelts.
13. Combine 1 Low Quality (Cat Bear Wolf) pelt with 1 Silk Thread (from spiderlings). Return is Leather Padding.
14. Sell Leather Padding for 30pp each in bazaar, or 600 a stack. Once you sell first load watch the bazaar for low prices on pelts, including rockhoppers. Low quality rockhopper pelts combine with Shadeling Thread, basically the same thing but from Luclin. If you see a good price on Pelts, say 5pp each, buy them up. Try to buy your Spiderling silks for 5 or less and shadeling silks for 3 or less. Try to get the pelts at 5 to 10pp. Make leather padding, repeat.
15. After a few weeks of this, you should have 10k or so, look for deals in the bazaar. I like the Greater Cloak of Pernacity. It always sells in a day or so for 10k, so if I see it for 8k I'll buy it and sell it. Haste items are good for this, things with "effect worn" properties, certain weapons and shields.
sorry for long post.