Archive for the ‘Alternative Income’ Category
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Alternative Income – January and February 2011
At one point in this blog’s history, I used to post my alternative income. (I even made some really ugly alternative income tables.) A Brief Explanation of Alternative Income I think I may have invented the term “alternative income” in the personal finance space, but I can’t be sure. I wanted to come up with [...]
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The Silver Lining of Hitting Rock Bottom
I was talking with a friend a little over a month ago. There have been rumors of potential job cuts at the company I work at. He knows that I have a side gig (this blog as well as other websites), so he correctly assumed that I wasn’t too worried. I know he doesn’t have [...]
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What Color is your Inflatable Slide?
If you’ve been following the news the last couple of days, you probably have heard of Steven Slater, the Jet Blue flight attendant. I’ve heard various versions of the story, but almost all agree that he was dealing with a rude customer and got to the point where he just literally bailed on his job [...]
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Earning More vs. Saving Money
Last week, Ramit from penned nearly 4000 words on 5 surprising insights on earning more money. When I saw that it had A) surprising insights and B) earning more money, I rushed to read the article. In fact, I don’t know anyone who isn’t interested in those two things. Before you can get to the [...]
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5 Months of Alternative Income Reports
I hope I didn’t bazinga you too badly with my lottery-winning April Fools post. The real reason I haven’t been posting Alternative Income Reports is because I’ve been living up to my Lazy hype. Before I get into that, I should take a step back and try to explain what I call Alternative Income for [...]
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Alternative Income Streams – October 2009
With only a few hours left in November, I’ve finally got around to tabulating my Alternative Income for the month of October. It seems with the end of the year, traffic has picked up. Accordingly, I’ve watched my income this month, after taxes, jump to $1,909.82. I’d like to say that my traffic to How [...]
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Alternative Income Streams – September 2009
As I expected last month, my vacation made this post a little later than I thought. I’ll keep this brief, because I don’t really know if it excites anyone to read how much I made last month in alternative income. For new readers who are wondering what alternative income is, it’s a little like passive [...]
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Alternative Income Streams – August 2009
I’m a little later than usual reporting my alternative income. Why? While I’d like to say it took my accountant a long time to count the millions, I can’t. I have no good excuse, other than being extra Lazy. This past month I focused on a few things: Getting back to writing general personal finance [...]
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Make Money without Another “Job”
Last night, DJH had this great question in the comments of one my older posts: Hi all, I just wanted to say, THANK YOU! for showing me all sides of making this decision, I have been in several MLMs [Multi-level Marketing] and never found one that worked for me, I was considering MonaVie but now [...]
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Alternative Income Streams – August 2009
Another month is in the books and it’s time to report how much alternative income I have received last month. For those who haven’t been following my alternative income reports, it started as a way of tracking all my income that doesn’t come from a typical 9-to-5 job. That includes this website, interest from investment [...]
