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Having your own business is good. Of course, you are your own boss. You control your time and finances. But if you are an employee, you have to follow rules.Bosses that have mood wings to deal with.You have to meet deadlines and competing to other employees to be ahead. Competitions are everywhere.Sometimes, you want to buy time if possible just to be on time. But what’s your other options? Of course, to own a business.

It’s not about having big.If you have a budget why not? But for now, you can have it as a sideline.First, check your budget and identify what you can do about it. Then, you can now choose which business do you want to incline with. Have a plan. Make a feasibility studies. You can include which product are you in,do a research about this business,your target market, date you want to start, and your target income.You can also include your financial computations. And there it goes, you can now start.

Having a business also have ups and downs.You have to be positive and strong in dealing it. Remember, your business lies in you. There’s no boss to take care of it but you.You can ask advises to an expert or find a good mentor. In that way, there’s someone to guide you and uplift you if you are down. Have a good disposition, be positive, focus and the rest is in God’s will.

Online Selling

I was cleaning our closets the other day and I had to sort all the clothes and separated those we still can use from those that we can part with. While doing this, I kind of did an inventory of clothes that I still can wear and still fit me. There were only a few items left as I have outgrown most of my clothes. I haven’t gotten back to my pre-pregnancy weight so I will have to make room for new clothes.

With this in mind, I needed to raise money to buy new clothes. Since I do occasional online selling whenever I have to unload stuff, I decided to sell the old clothes online. In this way, I can get rid of the old things and at the same time, save enough money to buy new things. It’s no secret that life is getting difficult everyday so it is fitting that we save money and raise it from other resources.

I was able to sell a few items and some of my son’s clothes I also put up for bidding. The bid starts at a small price so that I can catch the attention of prospective buyers. So far, I haven’t saved enough money but I’ll get there in no time.

Future Business

I went to a famous bakeshop yesterday and bought a roll of cake. While at the counter, I noticed a slice of banana bread that they sell too. It looked so much like the one that I have baked in the past so it gave me an idea for a part-time business which I am thinking of starting when my hubby starts working again.

I started baking only October of last year and since then, my baked goodies range from brownies, banana bread, cookies, cupcakes, macaroons, cakes and biscuits. I could say that they are good so I’m going to start selling some of these at my hubby’s future workplace. I’m not sure yet of the price for each goodies so I will have to do a market study first. Maybe I can start with a free taste of my goods so that prospective customers can try it first.

But for sure, when I start with it, the prices will be affordable and yet the taste won’t be sacrificed so that I can create a customer base. Just thinking about this future side biz makes me excited. I hope we can pull this through.

How to Find Help With Investing

1. Do some online research. You can find data, read reports, and join discussion forums to educate yourself on how to invest.
2. Go to the closest business school and get to know the professors and students there. If possible, take a class. Not only will it help you learn about investing, but it will also help you network with people who know much more about it than you do.
3. Find a mentor. If you’re lucky enough to find someone who’s knowledgeable about investing and loves helping people, become that person’s pupil. In order to not make them feel used, however, offer your own services in return in whichever way you can.
4. Ask successful investors for the names of their consultants. Contact them and expect to pay. It’s investing, after all, and investing in the right expertise will help you earn higher returns in the long run.
5. Get an online advisor. Look for one with a proven track record.

How to Become Rich Someday

There are many ways to become rich, but many more to become poor. Of course it’s usually not easy and many quick methods involve a lot of risk. So take your time and follow these steps to build your wealth.

Note that people have different perceptions of what it means to be rich. In this article we will define rich as having a fortune higher than $1 million.

Steps:

Start by investing in your most important asset: Your mind

1. Doing well in school and getting an education in a high-paying profession such as doctor, lawyer, economist, etc. will give you a head-start and a safe economic position.
2. Learn about basic economics such as Compound interest and investment strategies.
3. Develop yourself all your life. Increase your professional skills, leadership skills, financial skills, social skills and general life skills. Making yourself valuable will increase your chances regardless of your path to riches.
4. Develop a vision; why should you become wealthy? Based on this, set your goals. You won’t rise up unless you are able to build and focus your ambition.
5. Stay healthy; it is very important to stay healthy in your endeavor to become rich. This will enable you to work hard and also increase your life span increasing your earning period. On the other hand, you will be able to reduce the cost on health care.

Invest
1. Start investing as early as possible. Do not wait until you have “enough” money to invest. You will end up with a larger account in the end if you start investing a small amount early and keep adding more regularly.
2. Make smart investments.

If you don’t understand what you are investing in, don’t. Start with something easy like index funds. They have fewer ups and downs than individual stocks, and you will not have all your eggs in one basket.

1. For safety: Stay as debt free as possible. A paid-for education and a paid-off house will enable you to invest more money in the stock market or your own business. Only gear up low-risk investments with loans.
2. Starting now is better than never starting. The power of compound interest can make anyone wealthy. Example: Investing only $10 every year at 15 % annual profit will give you over $1.3 million after 70 years.

Start Your Own Business
1. It is always better to be an employer than an employee, if you are disciplined and able to devote time and money. Learn all you can about running a business. Take a class. Ask an experienced business owner for advice. Be careful, though. Many businesses fail, especially in their first year. You could end up with considerable debt, no savings, and no benefits. Get help!
2. Entrepreneurs make up the majority of millionaires, it is high risk, but it is also the most likely way to become truly wealthy. Few people amass great wealth through other means. Less than 1 % becomes a millionaire through “other” means such as being a rockstar, winning the lottery, etc. So unless you inherit wealth your best shot is doing this.
3. Note that you can start your own business part-time. For example by going into real estate, purchasing, renovating and selling homes is a common way for building wealth for people without money to invest.

Be Smart
1. Learn about budgeting, credit, and debt. Learn how credit cards work! If you get into debt early it can sabotage your progress.
2. Put an amount of money in the bank monthly. 10, 20, 30 dollars is good - $100 is better. By the time you get old, retirement would be easy. (See segment about compound interest).
3. If you are in college and can’t afford an apartment and don’t like those nasty dorms, then gather with 3 or 4 people, and buy a good sized house while splitting the payment. It’d probably cost less than an apartment.

Starting a Business

My husband and I have been thinking of a good business for quite a while. Right now, we’re both employed in a private company but it would be great if we can start up our own business.

We are still discussing which type of business to open so that we can save money for its capital. Of course, we have to do studies and plan which will work for us and how much money we need to start it up. It will also help to check if there’s a market for the business we intend to open. The location is also a factor to ensure that there are prospective patrons.

A business is not easily started. A thorough study and plan need to be conducted first. It is no joke to put up capital and to lose it in the end if one is not careful. In our case, it might take a few more years before we can start our own business but we’ll definitely save up for it. For now, we can check the market and find out first which one will work for us best.

Small Time Business

In this trying times, everybody wants to engage in business.  Majority of them are the low income families.  They want to start small hoping that someday it will become big and successful.

There are few that are lucky enough to have saved and invested with their own money.  But how about the other few?  They will resort to borrowing money.  What if the small business failed, they will be  still stuck to poverty.  Worst, the borrowed money is earning interest, so nothing’s gained.

And why do small business failed?  Some  factors are  the lack of knowledge in handling the money and the insufficent know how in running the business.    Most of us didn’t know that running a business doesn’t rely on capital alone.

Ways To Make Money From Your Blog

Once you have decided what you want to talk about, have chosen your blog platform and blog theme, the next step is figuring out how to monetize it. There are so many options out there that you can take part in to monetize your site. Just research everything very well before signing up. Here are a few that I have tried over the last couple of years:

Google AdSense
TopSpots
Amazon
Commission Junction
Ebay
Chitika

Find advertisers - you can find people who can pay you to advertise on your site. You can set up your advertising space for 3 months, 6 months, a year or longer and charge them accordingly. When your site is new you want to keep your prices fair since you don’t have a lot of traffic or a following yet.

Blogging: Starting Your Business

If you are wanting to tap into the blogging world that has become very popular, the first thing you need to do is - well - start a blog! If you don’t know how to go about this, there are some different blogging companies where you can set up a free blog or you can use services that charge a per month fee to use their blogging platform. Here are a few of the most popular.

Blogspot - Blogspot is free and popular but I don’t particularly like it. There are not a lot of extras that you can do with Blogger and they are limited on themes and such. One benefit is you can add Google AdSense to your sidebar.

Wordpress - Wordpress is another free blogging service and it is probably the best one out there. There are lots of themes available you can choose from and they are continually updating to give bloggers more options. The one thing about Wordpress that I don’t like is that you cannot put Google AdSense on it unless you have your own domain but are using a Wordperss theme. That is the exception.

Typepad - For the first 1 1/2 years I blogged, I used Typepad. For me Typepad was very easy, they have lots of themes and you can easily add affilliate links, Google AdSense. The themes are very professional and clean looking. I believe Typepad is more of a business-type blogging service. Their monthly fee starts at $4.95 and goes up from there. With their highest package on Typepad, you can have an unlimited number of blogs.

Your own domain - The best option of all is to purchase your own domain and then use the Wordpress themes. This way you don’t have the hassle of trying to design your own site and you can do whatever you want with it then.

Travel Affiliate

Forget the idea that traveling has gone down in the past few years and that bankruptcy is skyrocketing. I know that you can forget it, because statistics say otherwise. The travel industry is still known as one of the top industries in profit available.

However, there are also some changes that can get you money without having to spend a lot of time. Travel agents that work for online companies are becoming a popular method to get some gold while simply enjoying the ride.

Basically, all you have to do is find an affiliate program that works. You can find specific areas that train travel agents or you can hook onto an already existent air area, such as Travelocity.

You’ll probably have to invest about $100, depending on the area you affiliate with. From this, you will be trained as an agent, will be given your own website, and you can start raking in the extra money. Keep in mind, you are probably going to have to do some online advertising.

However, this is one of the easiest and most effective ways to make some supplementary income as an affiliate. I have a few friends who are making an average of $1,000 a month, without having to invest time or money. A great side business… that’s for sure!

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