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Crazy Ways to Make Money

I was cleaning out my bookmarks today when I stumbled across 15 Crazy Ways People Make Money in Today’s Economy by Business Pundit. The article offers much more unique ideas to drive net worth compared to more traditional ways to generate secondary income. My favorite gimic was the Million Dollar Homepage where an individual earned one million dollars […]

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Update: Secondary Income Experiment

Here are the results after three weeks of my Secondary Income Experiment:
I have been pretty busy the last two weeks and have not been able to spend as much time on the blog. Online Gaming activities have been working well for me, so I am going to continue those outlets.
Stay tuned for more updates!

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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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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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Find Missing Money

Get Rich Slowly wrote a great article earlier this year about finding and claiming missing money. The article describes how individuals can use MissingMoney.com to locate and recover unclaimed property records.
MissingMoney.com is a great search tool that allows users to claim missing property from a search results set. The site uses state databases to track […]

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Income Allocation 101: Other Savings

In the last lesson (post) we managed to cover the basics of allocating income to emergency savings accounts. Nearly all experts agree that building an emergency account is a necessity. The last, and least important, savings category is “other” savings; the final lesson in our three part series.
Some individuals are in great shape when it […]

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Income Allocation 101: Emergency Savings

In the last lesson (post) we managed to cover the basics of allocating income to retirement accounts. Nearly all experts agree that retirement savings should be the first priority when it comes to income distribution. The next most important savings category is emergency savings; lesson two in our three part series.
Welcome to Income Allocation 101: […]

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Income Allocation 101: Retirement Savings

Welcome to Lesson 1: Retirement Savings. This is the first of three lessons (posts) attempting to determine how best to allocate our gross income.
Retirement savings is simply a function of many different variables. Bankrate.com offers an excellent calculator that show how all of these variables interact and present your retirement savings progress. Click on this […]

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