Tag: starting a business

  • What Type of Home Business Should You Start 2: Outside

    What Type of Home Business Should You Start 2: Outside

    Who wouldn’t want to work outdoors in the beautiful sunshine and fresh air? Even better, working from home and being your own boss—now that sounds like a dream come true. It’s time to make this dream reality by starting a home-based outside business. Benefits of an outside business. In a world of online resources and…

  • 5 Takeaways from “Product-Led SEO”

    5 Takeaways from “Product-Led SEO”

    “Product-Led SEO” by Eli Schwartz was the perfect gift that I bought for myself. I needed to read a book on Search Engine Optimization (SEO), and I picked this book at random—and I picked a great one. SEO is the technique (or science) of optimizing your website to rank on Google and other search engines.…

  • Pumpkin Spice & Royalties

    Pumpkin Spice & Royalties

    Tis’ the season to become wealthy. As our kids go “trick or treating,” why not fund all of those candy purchases with passive income from royalties? This is my first Halloween using the magic of royalties to assist me through life. I can say first hand it is a fantastic feeling always to have your…

  • 10,000 Hours to Build an Income Stream

    10,000 Hours to Build an Income Stream

    I seem to be writing about income streams a lot recently—probably because I am in the middle of building one as we speak. I can say from experience that it isn’t a cakewalk. However, I see the value in creating your own brand and platform.  They say it takes 10,000 hours to master anything. So,…

  • What Type of Home Business Should You Start?

    What Type of Home Business Should You Start?

    So, your career is winding down. You are preparing to go into the unknown land of retirement. However, you will still need fresh income coming in via multiple sources. Of course, you have dividend and rental income, but having a more flexible type of income will also be great. Enter business. With a business, we…

  • The 8-Hour Mindset Destroys Wealth

    The 8-Hour Mindset Destroys Wealth

    Did you wake up today and go to work? Great, welcome to being an adult. We like to use “BLUF,” which stands for Bottom Line Up Front in the military. It simply summarizes the email or PowerPoint in the first sentence. For this article: BLUF- You will never truly be free unless you build your…

  • Start a Small Machine Coin-Op Business

    Start a Small Machine Coin-Op Business

    I’ve always been fascinated with ATM machines. Yes, I know that the acronym stands for Automated Teller Machine, but I still love saying ATM machines. I always wondered where that surcharge went and who was responsible for running them. It turns out that ATMs are a great source of passive income, with some caveats, of…

  • Create a Never-Ending Stream of Content 2

    Create a Never-Ending Stream of Content 2

    Wow! Content, content, content. I published “How to Create a Never-Ending Stream of Content” on January 31st, 2021. I was just getting my feet wet in the daily content business. Now, eight months later, I can say everything I wrote was accurate. I went back and read the original article to refresh myself on what…

  • Retirement Planning for the Average Person 2

    Retirement Planning for the Average Person 2

    So you are still average? Great, so am I. There is no reason to whine or cry about our “basic” lifestyle. In fact, it is something to celebrate. When we lead normal, everyday lives, there is no outside influence for us to live above our means. This is part two in the Retirement Planning for…

  • Why You Should Learn Creativity and Design

    Why You Should Learn Creativity and Design

    Starting a business is always on the top of my mind, mainly because starting an automated business is one of our keys to success during retirement. If we do everything else right, we won’t need to have a huge automated business in our golden years. If we have a small automated business, wouldn’t it be…

  • Don’t Fear Delegation

    Don’t Fear Delegation

    Most of us want to be the best at what we do for work. We love to put in the many hours it takes to learn our jobs inside and out. Because of our dedication, hard work, and performance, others begin to depend on us.  We become so used to performing at a high level…

  • Retire Rich, Retire Comfortable with a Business 2

    Retire Rich, Retire Comfortable with a Business 2

    Many of us never considered the possibility of retiring while owning a business. I know that I never had given this a second thought—I mean the purpose of retiring is not to work, right? What I have learned over the last year is that is only partially true. At a higher level, a business is…

  • Blogging to Financial Independence

    Blogging to Financial Independence

    We all want to be financially independent and in control of our time and money. However, we will all choose to achieve this goal via vastly different mediums. Some of us will work for 45-50 years while saving 10% of our take-home income. Others will buy as much real estate as possible, achieving financial freedom…

  • Art Edition: The Biggest Book on Passive Income Ever!

    Art Edition: The Biggest Book on Passive Income Ever!

    Art & Links to all 312 Chapters in “The Biggest Book on Passive Income Ever!” Amazon charges me for the size of the book—thus the ebook edition is $15. If you prefer that version, you can buy it here. Enjoy! MILITARY FAMILY INVESTING www.militaryfamilyinvesting.com The Biggest Book on Passive Income Ever! 320 Chapters and 1,200…

  • Web Edition: The Biggest Book on Passive Income Ever!

    Web Edition: The Biggest Book on Passive Income Ever!

    Links to all 312 Chapters in “The Biggest Book on Passive Income Ever!” Amazon charges me for the size of the book—thus the ebook edition is $15. If you prefer that version, you can buy it here. Enjoy! MILITARY FAMILY INVESTING www.militaryfamilyinvesting.com 00 INTRODUCTION 00 000 The Biggest Book on Passive Income Ever! 01 FINANCIAL…

  • 21 Passive Income Ideas

    21 Passive Income Ideas

    I’ve been beating the drum to passive income for the last year now. Every day I write something about financial mindset, retirement planning, investing, cryptocurrencies, real estate, and business. I thought I would gather up some of my small business ideas in one place. Disclaimer, these are just ideas—it is incumbent on you to make…

  • How to Profit from Electric Vehicles

    How to Profit from Electric Vehicles

    Today, we will use everything we have learned about automated business, value, and luxury vehicle rentals to build a profitable business model in the eclectic vehicle space. It will take all our entrepreneurial wits to accomplish this, so let’s get moving. Background. I stumbled upon a video on the Electric Hummer by one of my…

  • The Passive Income Grind

    The Passive Income Grind

    The more I write about passive income, the more I realize society does not build people to receive it. Why is that? Before the payments become passive, you need to do a lot of work to get everything set up—I call this The Passive Income Grind.  I never thought about the grind until I got…

  • What is Affiliate Marketing?

    What is Affiliate Marketing?

    There is tons of content online about affiliate marketing and how easy it is to make money. But what is it, and can it become a source of passive income? Affiliate marketing is a simple source of passive income; however, you need to build and maintain an audience to succeed at affiliate marketing. What is…

  • Write Book Reviews for Passive Income

    Write Book Reviews for Passive Income

    Do you love to read books? Do you love a specific genre like romance, mysteries, or nonfiction? Well, do I have a new income stream for you. Why not start a blog where you review the books you read? I stumbled upon this passive income stream as I was starting my blog almost a year…