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Four thousand dollars a month. It was Automatic Money, rolling in like crazy with no effort on my part, absolutely no overhead, and it was remarkably reliable. Almost $1000 every week, $130 every day, or close to $50,000 a year, probably subject to exponential growth as well. And I just turned off this firehose of cash… over the simple issue of my choice of words on this blog. $4000 a month is about twice the amount it takes to pay for my entire family’s living expenses. Is that crazy? Those of us who have been reading for a while know it has been a little crazy since the beginning.
Right after that post in March, things got off the hook. Not being particularly interested in maximizing revenue, I sequestered my own credit card links into a little rewards credit card referral page in the “MMM Recommends” link above*. The thing is, the Mustachians who read this blog are a lot like me. I watched my growing Flexoffers account balance warily. MMM revenue (click for larger view) Mustache!
Advice and Insights for Entrepreneurs. Chris Hedges, Columnist. Chris Hedges Chris Hedges, whose column is published weekly on Truthdig, has written 11 books, including the New York Times best seller “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt” (2012), which he co-authored with the cartoonist Joe Sacco.
Some of his other books include “Death of the Liberal Class” (2010), “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle” (2009), “I Don’t Believe in Atheists” (2008) and the best selling “American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America” (2008). His book “War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning” (2003) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. Hedges previously spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has reported from more than 50 countries and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News and The New York Times, for which he was a foreign correspondent for 15 years.
The Creative Mind. Setbacks and Mistakes and Innovation By Douglas Eby What seems to be a setback, error or limitation, may often be valuable for encouraging more creative thinking and innovation.
Valerie Young writes about two “mistakes” that resulted in very successful products: “Did you know, for example, that Post-It-Notes were the result of what 3M Company researchers at first thought to be a bad batch of glue? Continue reading… » A Calling to Be Creative. Marilyn vos Savant. Growthology. I'm trying to square two seemingly contradictory trends.
First, as we've known for several years, geographic mobility in the United States is today half of what it once was. This applies to interstate, intrastate, and intra-county moves. At the same time, apparently, we are living in a new era of freelancing and independent work, such that 58 percent of Millennials surveyed called themselves an entrepreneur because of freelancing work. That Forbes article also references an Intuit study purporting to find that 40 percent of US workers will be freelancers in 2020, only seven years from now. That seems astoundingly high, and would seem contrary to the steady downward trends in mobility, which predate the recession. So what's going on here? Identifying oneself as a "contingent employee" doesn't really have the same ring to it and, in fact, probably highlights some economic forces at work here.
(Worth another blog post: lots of people seem to equate freelancing with being an entrepreneur. Hinde Capital - Blog. The following terms and conditions contain important legal and regulatory information applicable to any investment services we provide and should be read carefully and any access to and the use of this website is subject to the following terms and conditions.
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