Why Blog It’s a great outlet for your creativity and thoughts. It allows for feedback from a like-minded community. Writing helps improve your thinking. It’s the lowest cost start to a side hustle out there. Revenue and income are incredibly scalable. What You Need A domain name. A host for your site. WordPress and a Theme X-Theme Good free alternative …
Amazon FBA 101 – Evaluating Sales and Competition
For more on Amazon FBA, Check out our first post Amazon FBA – What and Why and our 2nd post Amazon FBA – Choosing a Product. Now that you have a long list of potential products from our last post, it’s time to do some research to figure out if your item is a potentially profitable niche. There are 4 Steps …
Amazon FBA 101 – Choosing a Product
So you’ve decided after reading my Amazon FBA 101 that you want to start an Amazon business. It can feel a bit overwhelming, so how do you get started? The first step is by far the hardest step and is frequently what throws up a brick wall in their face. What do I Sell? This is without a doubt the …
Amazon FBA 101 – What & Why
Like I’ve mentioned before, I’ve been quite preoccupied with my new side hustle. Like I talked about in The Importance of the Side Hustle, diversification is key, so beyond my day job and the blog, I’ve been working on a physical products business. I was super inspired to try this out after listening to some great podcasts with Pat Flynn over …
Book Review – Choose Yourself Guide to Wealth by James Altucher
As James Altucher says, “my life changes every 6 months” and that’s quite evident when looking at his bio. He’s been a hedge fund manager, day trader, underground poker player, chess master, entrepreneur of a dozen companies, and is a prolific writer, appearing in major publications across the web as well as his own site. He’s a podcaster (with 2 …
Occupational Licensing
The Obama administration will take a stab in it’s new budget at important labor market impediment: occupational licensing. Econ blog readers will be familiar with these laws that set frequently overly burdensom rules for who can do certain jobs. They often require far more training than is necessary, expensive classes and tests, and sometimes even degrees before someone can legally …
Side Income Case Study: Taxes
I have a friend with a CPA, that like me works for a major oil and gas firm. I always knew he was working his side hustle but I didn’t how well he was actually doing. In a few years of hard work, my friend has managed to amass almost $30,000 per year in side earnings! 2,500 per month! That’s massive. …