From the category archives:

Alternative Income

Should You Concentrate or Diversify your Income Sources?

June 24, 2009

I had a challenge for myself this month to do something different every day to make extra income. I haven’t been able to come up with that many different ways to make extra income but I have had some insights based on my experience so far.
Most of the things I’ve done to make extra [...]

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Earn Cash Back with Cashbaq

June 18, 2009

I’ve written previously about making extra money with cash back shopping portals. I’ve just started using the cash back site Cashbaq. The thing I like about this site is that you get 10% of what your referrals earn, 5% of what their referrals earn and 2% of what their referrals earn. [...]

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Alternative Income Activities This Month

June 11, 2009

I have a goal of doing something every day this month to make extra money. We are just a third of the way through the month and I can see this goal is going to be difficult to meet. I want to come up with a different alternative income activity for every day and [...]

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Rent Your Stuff for Extra Money

June 4, 2009

Next week I’ll let you know how I’m doing on my goal of doing something every day this month to make extra money.  I’m doing fine so far but I think I’ll have trouble finding things to do for extra money by the end of the month.  Today I will share a potential way to [...]

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Increasing Alternative Income

May 28, 2009

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Earlier this week I asked what you would like to read about and one of the topics you wanted to read more about is alternative income. Thursdays will now be dedicated to the topic of alternative income. I have a category for alternative income but haven’t written much on it lately since [...]

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Brochure and Business Card Giveaway

April 13, 2009

This week’s giveaway will be 1,000 free standard business cards for one reader and 500 standard sized brochures for another reader from Uprinting.com.  They are an online printer and do business card printing and many other types of printing.  Since there will be two winners this week you have double the chances of winning.  To [...]

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Writing for Today.com

February 25, 2009

The past few months I wrote a blog over at Today.com. I did this through their VIP Blogger program. At the time it paid you $1 a post and $2 for every thousand impressions. This isn’t great money but a guaranteed $1 per post is decent. You were restricted to one [...]

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Search and Win Gift Card with Swag Bucks

November 17, 2008

Swag Bucks is an online portal dedicated to helping you earn digital dollars called “Swag Bucks”, which can be redeemed for exclusive swagbucks.com merchandise. There is a variety of merchandise but gift cards are what I’m most likely to use my Swag Bucks for. You can get a $5 Amazon.com gift card for [...]

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FBN Roundup- One Week Left Edition

November 16, 2008

I only have one week left of classes for the semester. I am so ready for law school to be over. Here are some of my favorite posts from the Frugal Blog Network and beyond this week.
Almost Frugal has a post about losing weight as a money saver.  Saving money should give me incentive [...]

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November Income Challenge

October 31, 2008

I decided not to work while I’m in school this semester.  The idea was I’d increase my side income to make up some of the loss of job income.  I have managed to increase my side income some but I should be doing much better.  The combination of laziness and procrastination has led me to [...]

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