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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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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...
How To Make Easy Money Online With The Creative Vado
The most recent trend in blogging is video blogging, or vlogging, and it presents a lot of new learning opportunities on how to make easy money online. The problem with video blogging is that it creates a little bit more work for the blogger. I...
The Net Fool’s Outrageous Blog Contest Winners
The Net Fool’s Outrageous Blog Contest came to a close last week, and Jim from The Net Fool announced the winners on Monday night. Fortunately, I was one of the winners! In return for the points I earned from blogging about the contest and ...
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...
The Flimjo Recap - June 1, 2008
It’s Sunday, and that means it’s time for the Flimjo Recap: The items I’ll be recapping and documenting today are (1) the previous week’s posts on this blog; (2) the most interesting posts from the blogs of my top commentators; (3) ...
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. ...
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...
How to Make Money From Online Real Estate
I am a huge proponent of investing in real estate for passive income. But there is a little-known analogous source of passive income that exists on the Internet that will knock your socks off. This little-known or, perhaps, little-used method is ...
My Market Leverage Care Package
I took the day off yesterday, but I’m back in full force today. Almost two weeks ago, I wrote about Market Leverage and why it’s an attractive and profitable affiliate network. A major reason for Market Leverage’s popularity is it...
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...
YouTube Friday - Stephen Key on The Big Idea
Welcome to another YouTube Friday. I’ve been posting videos about Tim Ferriss, Robert Shemin, and Robert Kiyosaki. Those were all great because they revealed the minds of established rich entrepreneurs. Today, however, I found an inspiri...
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 ...
Market Leverage - A Great Publisher Experience
For those of you interested in profitable affiliate networks, Market Leverage appears to be zooming to the head of the class. I recently joined it, and so far the experience has been outstanding. Here are some of its features. One of the Largest ...
Make Serious Money Online With TeamEarners
I recently joined TeamEarners, a membership-based website that provides valuable money-making guides, software, and private forums. It also provides a very profitable affiliate program that I think is a requirement for anyone who is serious about...
Working All Weekend
Last Thursday, I sat in on a conference call with our co-counsel in this case that has gained momentum over the past couple of months. Aside from our co-counsel, Beaker (the nickname for my boss) was present, and so was a more senior associate nam...
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 Flimjo Recap - May 4, 2008
Welcome to the second Flimjo Recap. As I wrote last Sunday, I want to do these weekly recaps to document a variety of posts and also to spread some link love. The items I’ll be recapping and documenting today are (1) the previous week’s post...
Money is a Means to an End
The two most popular proverbs about money, incidentally, are the two sayings I hate the most: 1) Money is the root of all evil. 2) Money can’t buy happiness. No one counters these sayings better than Ben Affleck in Boiler Room: “Anybody t...
YouTube Friday - 7 Money-Making Ideas From Robert Shemin
I’ve enjoyed posting videos from YouTube because there is a lot of interesting content on there. In particular, there is a lot of good content related to money and investing. I think some of the content is so good, in fact, that I think I&#...
Lone Star Securities
The drop in value of the dollar, the rapidly increasing price of oil, and the ripple effect of these factors on our global economy may seem like they leave few choices for us investors. But, however bleak the circumstances might seem, these tough e...
10 Quotes From Robert Kiyosaki
I have read a lot of books from Robert Kiyosaki. I think that he single-handedly changed the way we think about money and investing. I’ll never forget when I read Rich Dad Poor Dad when I was a junior in college. My thinking and thought ...
Kiyosaki’s Car Metaphor For Investing
Would you drive a car without a steering wheel? What about if it didn’t have brakes? How about if it didn’t have a gas pedal? Would you drive a car under any of these circumstances? Robert Kiyosaki has posed this question to viewer...
Make Money With Shawn Casey’s Internet Business-In-A-Box
Last month, I wrote about an offer from Internet millionaire Shawn Casey. He has been giving away his Internet Business-In-A-Box training course for free. All you have to do is visit this offer page, enter your first name and your e-mail address,...
Entrecard Changes Its Pricing
At long last, Entrecard has fixed its pricing and valuation problem. I wrote last month about the inherent flaws in how Entrecard values and prices blogs. The old system was misleading and didn’t adequately connect price to demand. The...
Students Become Investors At Chicago’s Ariel Community Academy
Over the weekend, I wrote about how school as an institution is flawed because it doesn’t provide children with a proper financial education. I did some more research on the topic and, to my surprise, I found an MSNBC article about a Chicago...
The Day It All Changed
Some of us have a defining moment that pushes us over the edge. We know what we want to do. We know how to get there. But we keep putting it off . . . for whatever reason. We simply need that little push to get us over the hump and on the fas...
Care About Credit Cards
I have written before about the need to understand the terms and practices of the credit cards we have and about how debt works in general. We also need to understand how our debt–particularly credit card debt–affects our credit scor...
10 Advantages of Investing in Real Estate Instead of Stocks
As you watch the markets tumble, you should ask yourself, “Are stocks the way to go?” I don’t think they are. People invest in stocks because they think stocks are safe, stable, and produce high returns. The reality is quite t...
Craziest Internet Blog Contest Coming to a Close
The Craziest Internet Marketing Contest You’ve Ever Seen is coming to a close tomorrow, April 2. Entries for clues close today at 9 pm. Since Gyutae Park at Winning The Web started the contest back in early March, it has racked up over $...
Cashflow 101 - A Short Tutorial
A couple of months ago, I wrote a post about Robert Kiyosaki’s Cashflow 101 and how it is one of the best educational tools on the market for learning how to invest and achieve wealth. My explanation was OK, and I thought someone else could ...
