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Entries for March, 2008

Sunday Links - Self-Education Edition

Sunday Links

Wikiversity offers a community of learning events where you can explore education on a wide variety of topics.
Lifehack.org allows users to learn productivity hacks on its free How-To Manual site.
Another site that offers an abundance of free lessons is The Home School Mom. If you considering homeschooling as a possible education alternative, this site […]

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Update: Secondary Income Experiment

Here are the results after one week of my Secondary Income Experiment:
I managed to dedicate a little more time to the blog which has lead to some ad revenue. I have also signed up on Elance in an effort to build some virtual assistant revenue.
Stay tuned for more updates!

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Budgeting 101: Budgeting Theory

This lecture (post) is part one of a two part series covering the basics of budgeting.
Welcome to Budgeting 101: Budgeting Theory
Given that all readers have successfully passed Income Allocation 101, we are ready to explore the second funnel your money trickles into, expenses. The first lesson within this series will explore the theory behind budgeting […]

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Tax Filing = Less Posts

Taxes appear to be slowly down my post rate. The depth of my tax filing can be attributed to one of my 2007 goals, make more stock trades. The “make more trades” goal was designed to build experience in investment decision making and asset allocation. While these trades appeared to build my investment knowledge, it has really been a burden to input […]

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Sunday Links - Free Education Edition

Sunday Links

Enjoy a massive list of free resources from Free Online Education. The site breaks down the free lessons into categories for easy education browsing.
Lifehacker’s Technophilia highlights the many universities that are sharing lectures online.
Open Culture has an even larger list of college lectures. The site even shares direct links to university podcasts.

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Amazon Eases Secondary Income

Earlier this week we introduced different sources of secondary income and my experiment to see which of these activities yielded the highest hourly wage. It appears that one vendor that aids individuals seeking secondary income has introduced an excellent service helping order fulfillment.
Fulfillment by Amazon is a new service that eliminates another barrier to selling […]

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Secondary Income Experiment

My last post highlighted some activities you can do right now to build a secondary flow of income. I figured it would be a good experiment to figure out which activities yielded the highest hourly wage, or which sources brought in the most money with the least amount of effort. I compiled the activities within […]

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15 Sources for Secondary Income

Secondary income is revenue derived from activities other than your core occupation. Creating secondary income is essential to building net worth. The Simple Dollar recently wrote an article describing ways to exploit your passion for additional income. I have compiled ideas from the The Simple Dollar and other sites to build a list of 15 […]

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Sunday Links - Free TV Edition

Sunday Links

NBC & Fox’s new video site, Hulu, is now open to the public.  The site will stream episodes of the network’s top shows online for free! No sign-up or download required!
Joost, another streaming media website, has announced that it will stream all of the March Madness basketball games live on the internet for free. […]

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Gift Card Arbitrage

Have the urge to spend money? Well if I can’t convince you to think otherwise, at least shop responsibly by decreasing your spending expenses. One way to get a really good deal is using gift card arbitrage strategies:

Buy/Sell/Trade Gift Cards: Sites like Card Avenue, Plastic Jungle, and eBay all offer discounted gift cards. Need to […]

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