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Passive Income Ideas

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I’ve been playing with the new “Niche Refinery” tool inside of The Keyword Academy and found some new keywords for this blog – I shouldn’t have to tell you which one I am targeting today. Its not worth a million dollars or anything – but the current top ranking posts for “passive income ideas” – [...]

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New Zealand Bloggers – Can You Make Passive Income Here?

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Some of you seemed to like my photos in the Move to New Zealand – Australia compared so this post is decorated with some photos from Island Bay, Wellington – near where I am currently living.  Todd over at Todd’s Tips has been inspriring me with his Iraq photos – so here is my best [...]

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Improving Time Management to Improve Passive Income

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While I was figuring out my passive income goals for 2010 – I went thru the tired but true exercise:

What went well last year?
What went badly?

Oddly enough – it was quite easy for me answer both questions – I think this is an important skill that being in business for yourself develops – one thing [...]

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Passive Income Goals 2010

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I’ve been doing some planning – well its better than doing some work right? Although you many of you, like me, will have sat through the annual corporate planning wank – “failing to plan is a plan to fail” – in the business of making passive income online planning is a often just another way [...]

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Passive Income – Leaving Australia – the Practicalities

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OK I have confession – although I love travelling I bloody hate packing – and leaving a country is like the worst packing in the world because everything has to go or be shipped. We have only been here two years – why we have so much crap is beyond me! Oh and its Christmas [...]

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I joined the cloud – do me a favour and join too!

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I joined the Cloud! You know cloud computing, personal PCs are so 2008 and now everyone lives in the cloud – well that’s what the Economist said a week or two back so it must be true.  Seriously though – I have just migrated all my important files onto an online backup system and I [...]

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Is It Worth Trying to Make an Income Online?

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I quite often get people emailing me because they saw my semi-illiterate ramblings somewhere on the Interwebs. I had another one recently which asked – “are my efforts going to be worth it?” – or in other words – is worth trying to make an income online?
What I wrote back was – in part:
I can’t [...]

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Need to Make Online Cash Now? Consider a Freelancing Business

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Yup you read that right- if you are desperate to make an income right now. You have been told your job ends in two weeks and you don’t know how you will make next month’s mortgage repayments – then making passive income online won’t help you – yet.
I have been playing this website building game [...]

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Buying and Selling Websites

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Well its done – my first eBook is about to hit the stands! Well I decided I couldn’t really call19 pages a book – more like a long short story. I could have upped the font to 24 pitch – and triple spaced all the lines, added fluff and lots of pictures and got it [...]

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Its Spring! End of a Quarter Report – How To Manage the Dollars

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So its the end of another month – another quarter anywhere so how is my journey to passive income online.  Well to be honest its been flat-lining since my record of making over $2000 in one month – in July. Bouncing around at the same level give or take in US$ terms, dropping in local [...]

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Building a Legitimate Online Business – Two Years On

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Its been two years that we’ve been based in Perth, two years since I got my partner to agree to support me while I developed my online passive income business – he asked how long – I said Christmas…
In fact this was the blog post on my long-defunct blog of the time:
I think it just [...]

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