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The Ethics of Automated Income

Posted in July 2nd, 2008
by Mike in Social Trends, Stage 3 - Self Employment, Stage 4 - Financial Freedom, Stage 5 - Passionate Living, Uncategorized

There is a new trend that has developed over the last ten years or so with the rise of the internet. A select group of people who call themselves entrepreneurs have silently crept into the reaches of cyberspace and found ways of making livable (And then some) sources of income over the net in [...]

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Freelancing Your Job

Posted in January 3rd, 2008
by Mike in Escape Routes, Stage 3 - Self Employment

Freelance designer. Freelance artist. Freelance Assistant. These days it seems that you can take just about any career and turn it into a self-employed venture, or at least a contract position (where you can negotiate a remote working environment or work-at-home office.)
Overlooked by many wannabe-office-escapees, it’s perhaps the easiest path to having [...]

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Facebook as a Marketing Tool

Posted in November 27th, 2007
by Mike in Social Trends, Stage 3 - Self Employment

I fondly remember the late winter days of 2005 when I signed up for a facebook account to help stay connected with some of my friends. At the time, we college kids were thinking of using this site as a place to post funny photos, send messages and share stories in one spot. [...]

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How to Kill Your Website’s Traffic

Posted in November 18th, 2007
by Mike in Humor, Stage 3 - Self Employment

Because there are so many guides out there to how to improve your traffic, I figured that once again I would take the other perspective and show you how to self-destruct, website style. As always, it much easier to ruin something than it is to build it up. It’s also just as helpful [...]

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10 Offbeat and Exciting Careers

Posted in October 16th, 2007
by Mike in Stage 3 - Self Employment, Stage 4 - Financial Freedom

I’ve been meaning to come up with a practical, handy list of some of my favorite offbeat careers for some time now. While these lists exist just about everywhere it seems, mine has a special emphasis on avoidance of certain elements like standard work hours, confinement to one location and restriction to one function. [...]

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5 Freelance Careers

Posted in August 26th, 2007
by Mike in Escape Routes, Stage 3 - Self Employment

Many careers can be parlayed into self-employed ventures. In a previous entry I discussed how Graphic Designers can just as easily be self-employed (well, maybe not AS easily) as office slaves. For your entertainment here is a fun list I concocted of some of these careers. Enjoy!
Graphic Designer
Average Employed Earnings: $37,000/year (after [...]

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How to Start a Website (Part 2)

Posted in August 19th, 2007
by Mike in Stage 3 - Self Employment

(Part 1 - Templating)
Once you have done a bit of research and decided how customizable you’d like your new site to be, you can now go about figuring out your hosting needs.
If you have chosen a pre-templated site, you do not need to read any further, because you will not need a new host for [...]

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How to Start a Website (Part 1)

Posted in August 16th, 2007
by Mike in Stage 3 - Self Employment

It was the dawn of the 21st century. Everyone had packed up their shops, closed the company doors and moved to a different world. Great warehouses, small boutiques and cozy shops were abandoned, the “For Sale” signs hanging from their entrances. No longer would they be doing business, paying for property ownership [...]

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The Four Stages

Posted in July 26th, 2007
by Mike in General, Stage 1 - Dependency, Stage 2 - Employment, Stage 3 - Self Employment, Stage 4 - Financial Freedom

There are four levels of social and economic freedom that each individual chooses (or does not choose) to reach.
1 – Dependence
2 – Employment
3 – Self Employment
4 – Financial Freedom
We are born into the first stage. Our parents support and take care of us as kids. This is a common thread that [...]

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