I’ve got some terrific news: My new niche website (NS2) is currently ranking on the first page of Google at #4 for my main target keyword! Believe it or not, this comes as a great accomplishment to me because it means that all the tricks and things I learned through the first niche site do in fact work! This is also very exciting news to me because if I consider how much my first niche site (NS1) makes in terms of a modest residual income every month from the advertising, I now just DOUBLED my income potential! Can you imagine how much money I could be making after experiencing success with perhaps 5 of these types of sites? The possibilities are endless! … [Read more...] about Niche Website Update 8 – NS2 on the First Page Search Results Already!
How to Pay Off Debt Fast in 10 Easy Ways
The below article was composed by contributor Elaine McPartland. If you are interested in writing for My Money Design, please feel free to contact me. Debt, in general, can be extremely difficult to get a handle on. Between the misleading terms and harassing creditors, you may feel lost in a sea of uncertainty. Fortunately, there are ten easy ways for how to pay off debt fast that you can tackle and attain financial liberation once and for all. … [Read more...] about How to Pay Off Debt Fast in 10 Easy Ways
Motivation In the Workplace and My Thoughts on Mind Control
If we were men in some great battle, our pain would be physical. The greatest warrior would be our leader; our general. He would wield a sword and you would respect his command for two reasons: 1) Because he is great and 2) because you fear him. But these days the wrath of our general is delivered in a conference room rather than on the battlefield. The sword has been replaced by a Smartphone. Bows and arrows have been substituted by stern emails and carefully selected recipients in the CC and BCC fields (don’t you love it when someone CC’s your boss for no reason?) Our armor is who we know and how well they like us. Motivation in the workplace has gone from the desire to do your best into a simple will of survival. And worst of … [Read more...] about Motivation In the Workplace and My Thoughts on Mind Control
The Conventional Home Loan – Don’t Mess It Up This Time Around
Another one bites the dust …. It’s getting to be a sad site walking around our little neighborhood. All around us there are houses that have slipped into foreclosure. It’s obvious when it happens. First the house gets really quiet. Then the yard starts turning brown and overgrown. And then it becomes official - the bank comes along and posts a legal notice in the window letting everyone know that the people who used to live their let their conventional home loan slip into default. … [Read more...] about The Conventional Home Loan – Don’t Mess It Up This Time Around
Have Your International Travel Checklist Ready to Go
Everyone looks forward to a little time away from work. Sometimes when work sends you to a meeting or conference, it can be fun to expand it out a bit and do a little exploring. If you travel for vacation, this is especially exciting because you set the agenda But whether you travel for business or pleasure, there are also a lot of things that could go wrong. The good news is that most of those risks could be mitigated. All you need is a good international travel checklist to help you plan ahead so that your life and your wealth don’t get put into jeopardy. Below are a few tips that I like to use whenever I travel anywhere. Your International Travel Checklist: Screen for warnings. Before you travel anywhere, … [Read more...] about Have Your International Travel Checklist Ready to Go
It’s Time to Get Real About Our Household Expenses
Stop lying to yourself. … About your expenses that is. If you are constantly finding yourself short on funds every other month, or if you have to keep dipping into your life savings just to keep the checkbook healthy, then something is wrong. That was a harsh realization I had recently. Even after all the budgets and spreadsheets I’ve made, we were forecasting a huge deficit for the year. The only solution? It was time to get real about our household expenses. … [Read more...] about It’s Time to Get Real About Our Household Expenses
8 Quick Money Making Ideas For An Extra $100 to Invest
The following contribution is by Pauline Paquin from the blog Reach Financial Independence. Pauline has just launched a new site called Make Money Your Way to help readers diversify their sources of income with real estate, investing, entrepreneurship and online endeavors. Born and raised in Paris, Pauline writes about how she has been traveling the world for the past 10 years, while trying to build wealth and achieve financial independence, and how you can follow your dreams and reach your goals too. You can follow Pauline on Twitter @MoneyYourWay. If you are a regular reader of My Money Design, you know by now that the best way to build wealth is to make your money work for you, and not the other way around. How does one do that? By … [Read more...] about 8 Quick Money Making Ideas For An Extra $100 to Invest
The Value of Time and Money
I’ve often made reference on My Money Design that time is the only true currency. Even when we think of money as a currency, really all we’re doing with it is buying the convenience of goods and services that we would otherwise have to use our time to obtain. And while as deep or philosophical as I think I’m being, I was pleasantly surprised to come across a movie a movie with a subtle plot that made me think about how our society looks at the value of time and money. … [Read more...] about The Value of Time and Money
