10 People Using Vine That Are Making That Money

Vine Make Money

Looking to make a quick buck or earn extra money on the side? Here are 10 Vine* videos (each 6 seconds or less) with ways you can make some extra cash. *Vine is the new wildly popular video app from the folks at Twitter. 1. Clean out the garage and invite the neighborhood to your [...]

19 Fun Summer Jobs for Teens and College Students

19 Summer Jobs for Teens & College Students

Do you (or your teen) have a job for summer yet? It being graduation season, I thought I’d share some common summer job opportunities for teenagers and college students to make extra money. Some of these I’ve done myself. Others are just some of the more common jobs you hear about. Be sure to share [...]

Virtual Assistant: A Job Worth Your Time?

virtual assistant jobs

If you’re a good fit for the work style, and know where to find the best jobs, being a virtual assistant has plenty of benefits, including great pay. There are now more than 4 million administrative assistants in the U.S. according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Many of those are now virtual assistants. The [...]

Best and Worst Jobs of 2013

The Evolving Part-time Job

Know someone graduating from high school soon? Looking for a career change? Check it out…the latest list of best and worst jobs is up. Sorry, Newspaper Reporters Topping the list of worst jobs is newspaper reporter. The reasons for the low rating are low pay, long hours, high stress, and of course a shrinking industry. [...]

I Made $180 Simply Waiting in Line at the DMV

Make Money at the DMV

The Department of Motor Vehicles. There are few places in this world that are more dreaded. Last Thursday, I had an expired out of state registration that needed updating and I was forced to make a visit. Just moving from Florida to Connecticut, I’ve had to go to the DMV a few times; each time [...]

How to Find a Company with Great Work-Life Balance

Work-Life Balance: Tips for Finding More Time with Family

When Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer officially cancelled all telecommuting and work-from-home for her company earlier this year, the decision caused an internet firestorm. Everyone from Yahoo employees to business experts weighed in on the decision, alternately lauding the tightening of often-abused policies at Yahoo and lamenting the step backwards in 21st century productivity. Whether Yahoo’s [...]

How to Find Business Ideas that Work – Focus on Scale

Scale a Business

As a blogger, I stumbled into a business idea that scales pretty efficiently. I can reach thousands of people each day with my words using the power of the Internet and search. When I say, “scales” efficiently, I mean my product/service (in my case, blog posts) can be served up to exponentially more and more [...]

5 Different Ways to Increase Your Income

How to Spend Money Wisely

Politicians in Washington continuously battle over how to reduce the budget deficit. Some favor a reduction in spending while others advocate an increase in taxes, or both. When we manage our personal finances, we are faced with a similar choice: you can reduce our spending or you can increase your income. Yet the vast majority [...]

7 Small Business Mistakes to Avoid

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When you’re running your own business, it’s easy to get lost in the weeds and miss some of the small business mistakes you’re making. Here are some of the mistakes that I’ve made over the years, plus some mistakes that some of my podcast guests have shared with me. Caution, I’m still a work in [...]

20 Best Part-Time Jobs With Benefits – Updated for 2013

20 Best Part-Time Jobs With Benefits

With the upcoming changes to health-care benefits mandated by the Affordable Care Act, finding part-time jobs with benefits might seem like an impossible undertaking. After all, many big-name businesses such as Papa John’s have indicated that owners and franchisees will have no economic choice but to reduce employee hours to below the 30-hour per week [...]

10 Notable Online Personalities Define “What is an Entrepreneur?”

What is an Entrepreneur

“What is an entrepreneur?” Asking that question to a bunch of people and expecting the same answer is a little like asking everyone to spell entrepreneur really fast and expecting the same answer…it’s not going to happen. Even the wikipedia page for entrepreneur contains several different definitions of the word according to different people over [...]

Could You Be a Rockstar Blogger?

Rockstar Blogging Review

Today I’m going to review Rockstar Blogging, the recently-released ebook ($24) and resource offered up by friend and fellow financial blogger, Shannyn Allan. You can see Shannyn and the strategies for making money blogging in action over at FrugalBeautiful.com. Review of Rockstar Blogging Shannyn’s advice focuses on making money through blog sponsorships, reviews, giveaways, brand [...]