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Flimjo is a blog about making money. It provides advice, resources, and information about ideas for making money, business opportunities, passive income, cash flow, real estate, and personal finance.
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No One Ever Got Rich Alone
Short post today (due to some pressing things here at work), but I wanted to make a very important point about entrepreneurship. The point is a simple one: No one ever got rich alone. What prompted me to make this point is a telephone call I receiv...
Preliminary Review of Build A Niche Store (BANS)
I bought EBay’s Build A Niche Store (BANS) a few days ago. Over the weekend, I had a chance to go through the installation manual. My goal was to get my first BANS store up by the end of this week. But working yesterday sort of sidetrac...
A Weekend to Remember
I had to fore-go posting today. I apologize. This is has been a weekend to remember. I have an overloaded weekend of work. I’m on a trial team, working hard preparing for a trial that begins next week. In addition, I have other assi...
How Risk Hides the Uncertainty of Leaving the 9 to 5
Last week, I wrote about my very conservative friend from work, and his views on money, investing, and starting a business. I finished that post with two key ideas: 1) Risk is inversely proportional to knowledge. 2) People use “risk” to hide th...
Your Pipe Dream List
One of the main problems for why people do not pursue their entrepreneurial dreams is because they have not defined those dreams. By “dreams,” I mean the visions and activities that take shape when you see yourself having an unlimited s...
Knowledge Decreases Risks For Investing Money
On Thursday, I recounted a conversation I had with a friend about risk and money, and I alluded to the notions that starting a business is not risky and that risk is a myth. I wanted to elaborate further on why I think risk is nothing but a myth. ...
YouTube Friday - Yaro Starak’s Review of 50 Great E-Businesses and the Minds Behind Them
For today’s YouTube post, I found an interesting video review by Yaro Starak (from Entrepreneurs-Journey.com) of a compelling book entitled 50 Great E-Businesses & the Minds Behind Them. The book provides short stories about 50 online busin...
Starting a Business is Not Risky
I car pool sometimes with one of my friends from work because we live fairly close to each other. The other day, when I was driving him home, we somehow struck up a conversation about business ideas and what it takes to start a business. During t...
The Flimjo Recap - May 25, 2008
Another week gone by, which means another Flimjo Recap is upon us. The items I’ll be recapping and documenting today are (1) the previous week’s posts on this blog; (2) any guest posts that I submitted on other blogs; (3) the most interes...
Work Smart, And Get Rich With The Net Fool’s New Ebook
For those of you who don’t know, Jim Regan of The Net Foolreleased his new eBook “Work Smart, Get Rich!” on Friday through the website ebook-rich.com. I read Jim’s blog regularly, and when I saw this release, I have to admit I was a...
A $5,000 Tax Refund
Like many taxpayers, my wife and I received our tax refund check from the Internal Revenue Service this past week. The amount of the check was $5,000 even. Now, there are a lot of people who love receiving tax refunds, especially if it’s a ...
How to Pay Zero Taxes on Your Rental Income
The most significant advantage of investing in real estate is the ability to pay almost ZERO TAXES on the rental income you earn. I briefly mentioned this in an earlier post about 10 advantages of investing in real estate instead of stocks. I w...
The 8-Hour Work Day is a Bunch of Crap
Every day when I’m at work, I try to be as productive as possible. When I get in early in the morning, I’m at my peak production level. I zoom through my assignments and tasks, and I feel unstoppable. But then . . . the 11 o’c...
The Social Millionaire - An Interview With A Young Entrepreneur
Everyone wants to be a millionaire. What people don’t realize, however, is that the journey towards a million dollars often requires marching to the sound of a different drummer. Creativity is key, and Pat Hankinson is aiming for that with ...
What You “Do” Isn’t You
One of the great concepts from Tim Ferriss’s The 4-Hour Workweek is the idea that what you do as a job isn’t a reflection of who you are. What You Do Isn’t a Reflection of Who You Are According to Ferriss, too often, a typical conv...
10 Books About Entrepreneurship
Since I started this blog, I have listed and written about books about passive income, the fall of the U.S. dollar, and millionaires. Here is a list of 10 books that I like that cover entrepreneurship: 1) How to Make Millions with Your Ideas: An E...
6 Problems With School
Yesterday, I pointed out that schools as institutions are flawed. I promised I would explain what, exactly schools fail to teach us. Here is a list of 6 major problems with instruction in our schools: 1) No cheating allowed. In school, youR...
The Happiness Project
When I read about Alex Shalman’s Happiness Project, I thought it was a unique and noble endeavor. It started off as a series of interviews in which Alex asked people 5 questions about happiness. The people he interviewed ranged from A-Li...
Do You See Scarcity Or Opportunity?
When you look around yourself, what do you see? Some of us see scarcity, and others see opportunity. Unfortunately, that distinction corresponds to the gap between rich people and poor people. But why? Our Surroundings Every day, we experience va...
Your House Is Not An Asset
People routinely believe that the house they own and live in is an asset. They also believe it’s the greatest asset they have. Your House is a Liability The reality is that your house is not an asset. It’s the bank’s asset and y...
