My goals for making money (Ha!)

So rather than just talk to you about how you should make money, I think its fair that I explain what my goals and approaches are. I currently use all of the ideas that I mention on the site unless I say otherwise. The ideas that I refer to are things that I’ve tried, so I’ll try to highlight the mistakes that I’ve made so that you can avoid them where possible.

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Paid blogging is an area of the web that has been a massive growth area in the last couple of years. Blogging has been a massive growth area in itself, and its no surprise that people wanted to make money from doing it. If you’re not familiar with blogging, we’d best start off with a definition. Thanks to elise.com, here’s a pretty good definition of what blogging means nowadays:

Blogging is easy, almost instant, publishing of content to a website, where every entry is preserved in a database and is therefore categorizeable and searchable. Content can be photographs, recipes, restaurant reviews, or anything digitally storable on a computer that you can categorize.

Paid blogging is the process of deriving money from writing blog-based articles, stories and reviews.

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Happy New Year everyone! Let the new year be filled with opportunities and happiness! On the opportunities front, let’s make our own opportunities, earn some extra cash, reduce those financial burdens and hopefully feel a little happier! So I’ve got a little idea for you. I’ve got a suggestion on what you can make one of your resolutions for this year.

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There are probably hundreds of new blogs popping up every day, but many start off on the wrong foot. Here are some of my tips on what you should do as soon as you set up a Wordpress blog for the first time.

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Fed up with your 9 to 5 day job? Well don’t quit just yet, as regardless of how young or old you are, you need to think about how you’re going to survive when you do quit your job. For example, if you want to retire at 50, you need to make plans to have a good income whilst you’re not working. With the average life expectancy going up as health care improves, you will have trouble saving enough to live on.

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In December 2007, I made some decisions.

I want to enjoy my job
I want to stop working for other people (i.e. having a day job).
I want to have my own companies.

Those decisions are all inter-related, as I don’t enjoy working for other people that much. A way to enjoy work is therefore to do so for myself. So PowerDosh.com will chronicle my journey into running several of my own businesses, and I’ll share the tips, tricks and lessons I learn on that journey.

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