Archive for the ‘Income’ Category

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March 5th, 2010 By: Richard


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Over this past week we’ve looked at a variety of ways that you can create extra income for your family. Here’s a link recap of the posts in the series thus far:

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  • 7 Ways to Make More Money If you're getting tired of hearing about how you should be spending less; why not make the effort to make more, instead?  Most of us have a hobby, talent or skillset that could be turned into cash with a little effort - and there are a number of other things......
  • seedlingHow to Keep Finances Growing No matter how much money you make, for many people, it's never quite enough. In order to get ahead, you'll need to find a way to keep your finances growing. There are many different ways that you can grow your income, both actively and passively, and over time, these small......
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March 4th, 2010 By: Richard


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First, I need to say thanks to Pete for bringing me aboard Bible Money Matters! It’s a thrill to be writing for one of the very first PF Blogs that inspired me to start my own!

The ironic part of this is that I’m writing about a post to create extra income and that is exactly what I’m doing while I’m writing! As Craig mentioned previously, I too am stumbling into freelance writing – it’s a lot of fun, and a cool way to make a little side money.

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March 3rd, 2010 By: Richard


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We’ve had two days full of income creating ideas.  Are you looking for even more ways to make extra money? Good, let’s get started!

Budgeting – Income Vs. Cutting Back

Budgeting your money each month boils down to making sure that there is more coming in than going out.  If you have more money going out each month than you have coming in, you really have just two options:

1) cut back on your spending, or what’s going out; or

2) generate extra income.

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March 2nd, 2010 By: Richard


Post image for Ways To Make Extra Money Series: 5 More Great Ideas For Creating Extra Income

The absolute best way to create extra income is to pursue something you love.  For this reason, I’m a fan of turning a hobby into a business.

Here are some proven ideas or things I’ve come across that people do to make money.  Notice – none of these are theoretical options.  I’ve either done them, or someone close to me has done them.

Organize Travel Tours

A friend from my hometown loves to travel.

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  • blog traffic exchangeInternet Network Marketing Lies And More.. // Friends, Old School Network Marketing Is DEAD! The internet is filled with people who would lead you to believe that if you just get into --->Insert program here<---- You are going to make money.  You are told that if you just follow these simple directions you will start to......
  • rakingA dozen (or so) ways to make a few extra bucks Everybody is looking for ways to make extra money these days. Since I started working for money around age 12 or 13, I have always had several streams of income. Someday, I hope to be able to live on a 40 hour workweek . . . someday. But until......
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March 1st, 2010 By: Richard


Post image for Ways To Make Extra Money Series: Guide To Diversifying Your Sources Of Income

Over the past couple of years I’ve become a big proponent of creating secondary sources of income for your family – finding things that you can do in your spare time to make money to pad your bottom line. If you’re trying to get out of debt, or trying to fully fund your retirement, it makes it a lot easier if you have more than just your day job income.

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  • stock-pileHow to Go Into Debt to Get Out of Debt This really sounds like the ultimate oxymoron, but one of the best ways to get out of debt is to go a little bit further in. What’s that? First, to help this make more sense, let’s clarify – if you need to get out of bad debt, going into good......
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February 24th, 2010 By: Richard


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Life’s more serious events seem to get people more serious about finances.  I know when my wife became pregnant with our daughter; all sorts of questions were raised.

  • Will you stay home with the baby or continue working?
  • How do we pay off remaining debt so that we can afford additional expenses?
  • Should we begin investing in our child’s future education (even before he or she is born)?
  • What does it cost to have a baby?
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  • blog traffic exchangeTop Choices From This Weeks Money Carnivals. Just wanted to give some credit to some great articles I found interesting from a few of this weeks carnivals. Enjoy! First, from The 87th Carnival of Personal Finance: More Questions That Will Prevent Impulse Spending from Penny Pinching. The Miles We Have Traveled And The Money We Have Spent......
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January 28th, 2010 By: Richard


Post image for Why Shouldn’t You Add Your Kid’s Income Onto Your Tax Return?

This is a guest post by Carol Topp, CPA.  Carol is the mother of two teenage daughters and she lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.  She discusses teenagers and taxes at http://TeensandTaxes.com.

Bonnie had been adding her son’s interest income to her tax return for many years.  That was a $1,000 mistake. She was overpaying Uncle Sam and never realized it.

It is easy to understand why Bonnie reported her son’s interest income as her own.  The statements from her son’s UTMA (Uniform Gift to Minors Act) account at the local bank had both her name and his name on the account.   Her name was even listed first as “Bonnie Smith, Custodian for Luke Smith”.

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  • Old Life InsurancePolicyCreate Your Own Pension Using Whole Life Insurance In order to fully understand this post I am going to have to ask you to put down your $19.95 Suze Orman book or shut off your podcast of Dave Ramsey – and give me a chance to describe and illustrate how to create your own Pension Using Whole Life......
  • Tax Foundation Logo2008 Income Source Statistics by Age and Total Income I saw 2 really cool tables from the Tax Foundation’s Tax Policy Blog that to put it simply...inspired me.  Both provide an statistical evidence of what I have intrinsically thought was correct, and where I should go. Statistics of Income Sources of 2008 Tax Returns The first Table provides an......
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January 20th, 2010 By: Richard


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Sometimes we work for pleasure.  But, more often than not, people work for money.

Since working is an exchange of your time, energy, and talent it is best to find a job that you love and enjoy.  However, many people are working in tough job fields.

I found an old resource (1988) – The National Institute on Workers Compensation and the American Institute of Stress put together a list of “10 Tough Jobs”.  The results were published in Communication and Conflict Management in Churches and Christian Organizations.

10 Tough Jobs

Here’s the List:

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  • goldDo You Go For the Gold Financially? Now that the Olympics are over, many people have been inspired to try harder, to live their dreams and to focus on their futures. These same feelings and motivation can be carried over to your financial life as well. There is no better time than right now to get your......
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January 19th, 2010 By: Richard


Post image for Blueprint For How To Make Money With A Blog:  Advice From Successful Bloggers

I hope you’ve found the “Blueprint For How To Make Money With A Blog” series to be helpful and enlightening thus far.  It’s been a lot of fun to write it.

Today I wanted to wrap the series up with another fun post.

Over the last few weeks I’ve been soliciting tips, tricks and best practices from successful bloggers – asking them what their best advice is when it comes to making money with a blog.   Many of them were kind enough to respond with some great answers.  So here they are!

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  • m-network_125×125-1.pngMeet The M-Network Friends: An Interview With PT From Prime Time Money. Now that I have wrapped up all the interviews with all the M-Network members other than myself, I decided to expand the series a little and include all the friends of the M-Network who participate in our group projects and forums. Up this week is PT from Prime Time......
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January 12th, 2010 By: Richard


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Making Money From My Blog – More Than Just Adsense

Last time in the “Blueprint For How  To Make Money With A Blog” series we looked at some hints to creating good content, ways to make sure your site has good SEO, and tips for promoting your content.  This time, we’ll look at how to monetize your site.

When I first started blogging I had no idea how many different ways there are to make money from a blog.  At the time Google Adsense was the only one I had ever used – and even with that I had never made more than a few dollars.  Once my site started gaining traction, however, I found that there are literally thousands of ways to make money.  Today I would like to go through some of the best ways that I have found to monetize a blog.  Here’s some of the topics we’ll cover, click on the link to skip ahead:

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  • feedback cartoonWeakend: Reader Feedback Hey faithful readers.  I don't do this very often mostly because I pretend not to care what you or anyone else thinks.  In all honesty, The Weakonomist doesn't give a poop, but Philip does.  In my recent giveaway I received a number of email entries and some contained very kind......