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How to make $1500 a month in just 2 weeks (Andrew’s powerful case study)

You want to learn how to make $1500 a month online in extra income but you’re not sure how. I get it, making income on the side can be daunting. In this post, I’m going to share the story of Andrew, and how he went from zero to $1500 a month on the side in just two weeks, ...

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How to make $8,000 fast using Craigslist’s classified ads

You’ll notice some classic things in this case study of Claire, one of my students who earned over $8,000 on the side: She already had a $50K-a-year job, but with the terrible economy and layoffs, she wanted to add another source of income She didn’t want to spend 40 hours a week on a second job -- ...

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Earning More When You Have No Free Time: How a full-time law student earned $50k on the side

Here's my story of how a law student earned money in law school. In my research of over 100,000 people, I discovered that one of the top 3 barriers to earning more is “no free time.” So how did Liz, one of my former students, earn $50,000 on the side as a law student? With a part-time job? ...

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Finding the right money-making ideas (that anyone can do)

In our research of over 5,000 people, we found that the #1 barrier to making more money was, by a huge margin, finding the right idea. In this post, I’ll show you the first step of identifying, testing, iterating, and validating your ideas to virtually guarantee that you’ll make more money to live a richer life. This ...

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Niche Skills: How to turn your unusual skills into a business

Today, a case study to show you how even the weirdest niche skills can be very, very profitable. This is one of my favorite case studies because you'll learn how to take your skills -- even if they're unusual or seemingly not in demand -- and turn them into significant income. Cassie Phillipps realized that she was working too hard ...

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The Freelance Diaries: The Caffeinated Project Manager

As part of the series on earning more money, today's Money Diaries -- actually, today's Freelance Diaries -- is from a project manager who left his fulltime job to work as a freelancer. Below, you'll notice: He now makes 3 times what he made at his fulltime job -- but he still nets less overall His tactics for managing his ...

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8 stupid frat-boy business ideas

First of all, let me say that I loved writing this. See, when I was in college, I would walk by the Quad and see a poster for some new book-exchange service literally every week. "SCREW THE BOOKSTORE!!!" it would say. "TRADE YOUR USED BOOKS WITH THIS NEW SERVICE!" The idea is that bookstores charge too much, so why not ...

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Money vs Experience: How to quickly decide what's right for you

I was originally going to call this article “You win some, you lose win some.” Here's why: I am totally discriminatory in my pricing for many things. If a poor, sincere college kid asks for some advice, I won't charge him a dime. But if I get a call from a large, multi-national conglomerate wanting the same thing, I'll charge ...

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