Posts Tagged ‘passive income’

My Website Improved 14% Changing One Sentence

In: How To| Marketing

26 Jan 2009

Hey Folks,
I decided to do a video blog today to show you a recent change I made to my passive income business, UniversityTutor.com. For those of you who haven’t been following the blog for a while, I launched this business in about 1 month with $100.
I only changed one sentence on the website – [...]

How I (Almost) Accomplished My Passive Income Goal For 2008

In: Updates| Wealth

6 Jan 2009

My one goal in 2008 (or new years resolution if you’d like) was to get to $2,000 per month in passive income. There was hardly a day that went by in 2008 that I didn’t think about this goal actually. I was that obsessed with it.
By the way, in case you’re thinking “$2,000 [...]

How I Reached 2,000 Subscribers On This Blog

In: Business Ideas| Updates

25 Nov 2008

About four months ago I wrote…
Congrats to this blog breaking the 1000 subscriber mark! It’s been a little more than a year since I got started. I think the next 1000 will go ever faster as we build momentum. Thanks to everyone who subscribed and commented!
Well, I’m pleased to report that as of today is [...]

How To Get Rich

In: Wealth

21 Nov 2008

A few drips of water from the pipe under your sink hardly seems like a big deal, but a month later it may may have caused a whole bunch of damage.
You can’t see your hair and fingernails grow, but each month they require your attention for some trimming.
To you it’s just a home, but due [...]

Retirement Is A False Idol

In: Lifestyle

14 Nov 2008

The whole idea of retirement is based on the assumption that you dislike what you’re doing enough to want to stop one day.
Instead, you should be pursuing “financial freedom” – the moment when your passive income exceeds your living expenses – because then you can really start to do your life’s work. Maybe you’ll [...]

Real Income You Can Spend Vs. Growing Your Net Worth

In: Uncategorized

11 Nov 2008

This comment came from a Breaking Free reader by the name of Caleb. I thought others might find it useful so I decided to highlight it here:
Brian,
I’ve noticed that wealth generation falls into one of two categories: Income and Growth.
Income puts food on the table today.
Growth builds over time until your net worth itself [...]

How To Make Your Business More Passive

In: Education| How To| Productivity

9 Nov 2008

If your goal is to make a passive business, sometimes you have to find creative ways to automate tasks which would otherwise be performed by a human being.
Case in point: someone recently started spamming my tutoring site with messages like these:

This type of scam shows up often on CraigsList.com and it just recently hit my [...]


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