Tag: starting a business
Blogging vs YouTube #3: For Medium Income Streams
Now that our blogging or video career is taking off, we have several options. We can stay small and operate as a solopreneur or grow our business. Growing our business will turn our income stream from side hustle to nearly a full-fledged business. Welcome back to the Blogging vs. YouTube series (#1, #2), where we…
Start a Food Truck Business Towards Passive Income
Have you ever dreamed of owning your own food truck or restaurant? Many people have the cooking skills to succeed in the food industry; however, their business skills may be lacking. There are a couple of ways to build passive income in the food industry: automation and franchising. But first, we have to create a…
The Metaverse 116: Advertising in the Metaverse
The advertising economy has shifted from billboards to content marketing. No longer can you run an ad and have someone purchase your product instantly. Ads are suitable for maintaining brand awareness across multiple generations of people (think Coca-Cola), but you’ll need to do more. The move from radio, magazines, and newspapers to the world of…
Blogging vs YouTube #2: For Small Income Streams
Becoming a content creator is challenging, especially if you don’t have a goal in mind. Today, let’s focus on staying a solo entrepreneur (or solopreneur). This term means creating a business by yourself, for yourself. Solopreneurs limit their reach purposely so they can better control their time and resources. I choose to stay in a…
Blogging vs YouTube #1: Build the Right Mindset
This series of articles will be controversial because we all have opinions about these income streams. However, looking at both sides as objectively as possible is good. Off the rip, 90-95% of people cannot make a good income from either of these sources of revenue. It takes patience, discipline, and delayed gratification to be successful…
The Metaverse 115: Coaching in the Metaverse
Being a coach is a demanding career because you have to bring more energy than your client. They expect you (and pay you) to be on point, knowledgeable, and a leader. I talked about coaching in “Start a Coaching Business towards Passive Income.” Today, we will take it a step further and see how we…
Play Video Games for Passive Income
I am a massive Pokemon fan. When Nintendo first released the games in 1998 and 1999, I was preparing to join the Marines; thus, I had little time to play with them. However, on my first deployment to the deserts of 29 Palms, California, in 2000, I picked up Pokemon Yellow. I have been hooked…
5 Takeaways from “How to Be a Capitalist Without Any Capital”
“How to Be a Capitalist Without Any Capital” by Nathan Latka is a book purely for entrepreneurs. If you are a standard 9-5 employee, the concepts in this book may overwhelm you. However, this book is definitely for you if you have been reading entrepreneurial books and perhaps started a business. In fact, it’s one…
Free Food: Turn Your Garden into a Business
We are in the most inflationary period in over fifty years. Due to multiple constraints with money-printing, the pandemic, and broken supply chains, food costs are increasing rapidly. How will the average person survive this pricing war? We need to go back to our roots (pun intended) and live off of the Earth. A few…
Run an Upscale Bed and Breakfast
This article describes a business idea I have had for almost two years. It’s good to get your ideas out into the world; maybe someone can execute my dream. My dream business calls for my family to run a fancy bed and breakfast with additional options that set it apart from all other services in…
The Publishing Chronicles 2: Design Your Own Book Covers
I’ve heard repeatedly that you shouldn’t design your own book covers. Well, I say “bollocks” to that mantra. Let’s design our own covers and create the best publishing workflow possible. Welcome back to the Publishing Chronicles (part 1), where I discuss how to build your own printing press. Cover design is a touchy topic amongst…
The Publishing Chronicles 1: Write a Book in One Week
Nobody cares about your book. Now, we can move forward and actually get you to write your manuscript. People have many limiting beliefs about creating art that prevent them from taking action. When you release your first book into the five million+ books on Amazon, you’ll realize no one cares. Your book won’t change the…
Choose Your Passive Income Adventure 3
Life is as simple or complex as we choose to make it. Unfortunately, if you want to make a lot of money, you will need to complicate your life. Building passive income requires knowledge, but that doesn’t mean it has to be difficult. Many people have limiting beliefs that prevent them from earning dividends, rents,…
Your Dream Job: Find It or Create It!
We all want to contribute to the world and work for an organization that recognizes our contributions. This is especially true for the younger generations. I have been a US Marine for 23 years and enjoyed my time in the service. I made a difference in thousands of men’s and women’s lives. However, things begin…
Building an Audience 101: Know, Like & Trust
To be successful in any business involves building an audience. Think of life as a massive sales funnel, where the world is at the top of the funnel. The bottom of the funnel is where you make a sale to a customer. From the initial contact you make with a cold lead (random person) to…
Build Your Rep: Create Your Body of Work
Are you looking to make a name for yourself? Are you worried that you will get lost in a sea of competition? Well, these are good questions and honest thoughts. However, don’t let limiting beliefs stop you from committing to your future. I have been a US Marine for 23 years, and I learned a…
From Dirt to Dividends: Use Gardening and Preferred Shares to Supplement Your Homestead
Homesteading is about freedom from the world (large) and the daily grind (small). However, there is one thing that we will never be free of—money. Thus, we need to prepare financially before we run off into our homesteading haze. You must be thinking, “what a weird article.” In my last article, “How to Defeat Creator’s…
How to Beat Creator’s Block: It’s All In Your Head
I would have never dreamed I would become a writer—I am an active duty Marine, after all. I stumbled upon my writing career after reading the book “Rich Dad’s Guide to Investing.” In the book, Robert Kiyosaki (my favorite author) said, “How do you obtain an asset for no money? You create it.” Right then,…
Inflation Ate My Paycheck 103: Creator, Investor, Tycoon, Entrepreneur
Inflation is going to push our lives to the extremes. Either we will learn new skill sets and thrive or die on the vine. Those two options leave us little room (or time) to fall behind. I am all about learning new skills, pushing our brains, and building an audience. Is it easy? No. Can…
Freedom Calls: No Freakin’ Way I Am Working 25 More Years 2
Can you imagine waiting until age 66 (according to current social security protocols) to retire? Currently, I am 41 years old, so that would be another 25 years of grinding in the workforce. Do you know what I say to that scenario? No freakin’ way!! I am not spending another 25 years going to work,…
