Category Archives: Finances/Consumerism

It Takes Time To Profit From An Online Business, Meanwhile…

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While working on, planning and establishing an online business there are some things you can do to encourage connections, confidence, progress and get experience that will fuel your business once it is truly profitable on its own.

Rather you have no money to spend and you’d like to make some, or if you have money and want to invest to encourage faster progress there are great tools to help you get forward in your business, despite the work you’re doing that is directly specific to running or starting it.  Here are my tips:

Fiverr

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Sign up for fiverr.com

Fiverr is a website that gives people the ability to connect with products and services that are worth $5.  You could get someone to do a service for you for $5 or you could list something you would like to do for others.  You can help someone get more experience, get a service done that you didn’t want to do yourself or get the word out there about your business and services, while getting more experience. There are very fun ideas on fiverr.com

Sign up for business 2 blogger…

If you have an online business you’re working on getting into the blogging community is important.  You can set up your own blog and find promotions you could contribute to, or you could list something you’d like to promote and get bloggers to work for you.  Business 2 Blogger is a great website.  The blog has a lot of information on internet-based business and blogs.  The jobs posted there are diverse and you can sign up as an affiliate to encourage other businesses to post blogger jobs on the site.

Sign up for wicked start…

Wicked start is a business start-up site that helps you get through each level of progress you need to address to start a business.  I personally think that if you have already started a business or you’re working freelance this site is a great tool to help you prioritize and summarize what you need and where you are in defining your work.

Sign up for dowhatyoulove.com or warrior forum.com 

Warrior forums are full of people talking about different techniques to succeed online.  Do What You Love is a little more focused and is the brainchild of Frederic Patenaude who blogs, and gives courses on succeeding with an online business.  They will both give you the information and education you need to continue progressing on your goals.

Are there any other tips you’d recommend?

Which of these have you tried or are you willing to try?

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Financial Considerations

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Budget and Spending

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I found the book Money Love by Meadow DeVor for free download on www.NewLatina.net. I’m reading this book, as well as Your Money, Your Life and I’m looking for an online budget that I want to use.

The goal will be to use it everyday. When I find the one I want(before the 1st of the month), I’ll post the info here and put it up on my desktop. I can’t wait to see how my finances end up for October, with my realization and commitment to the importance of daily budgeting.

I also found the site www.fiverr.com which is a site that has a list of buyers and sellers wanting to trade services for a fixed price of $5.  I figured I’d try it out and it was pretty easy to get a couple of gigs by responding to buyers.  I also listed myself as a seller.  In a week my life coaching courses should open and this week I’m submitting poetry and stories to a few paid markets.  I’ve been working a long time to get to this point, and I can’t wait to see how it works, what needs to be tweaked and what is ready to go.

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Work Wednesday

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This week I updated my business blog.  I’ve worked on e-books, e-courses and coaching programs, blogged up a storm and studied a lot of best business practices.  I applied for a few of the jobs at Business 2 Blogger and I’m holding a meetup this weekend.  I’ve opened up my other blog to questions and wrote a few advice article responses.

This has been a busy week in my personal life, but my blog views are better than they’ve ever been and I’m getting more and more clear about what I want to do and how to make it work for me.  Best of all, I can already see some tangible success milestones leading me ahead.

My goal for the rest of the week is to post about 8 more blogs between the three I use the most and have a good weekend with my family!  Next week I want to up my work productivity through marketing and schedule myself.  I’ve been working out my goals for my internet work and in-person work and I’m really eager to implement the ideas I have.  I’m also eager to make some story and poetry submissions next week, post craigslist ads and re-launch my www.ning.com site.

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Too Much Of A Minimalist?

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Recreational Vehicle

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I’ve lived an adventurous life. I’ve never been outside of the U.S. But I’ve traveled around the country, lived with lots of different people, challenged myself and learned about lots of counter-cultural topics.

I’ve always had two philosophies that stuck with me and defined the choices and experiences I sought.

  • To really appreciate the things I have.
  • To challenge myself to know and respect the world around me.

To appreciate what I have, I have to use it, know what it is, know where it is.  I placed a lot of value in the things I had, especially things I acquired myself and I did not indulge in buying junk.  I’m definitely an over-packer and I hold onto a lot of papers and mementos, but I use those things.  (it is my intention to digitalize as much as I can, however)

To challenge myself in my environment, I have to lose it… my attachment, that is.  My attachment to what I have, where I am, who I am, even.  This has led me to lots of different living situations.  I’ve lived on organic farms, wwoofing and more informal communal housing situations, as well as living in my tent in several backyards and in forests and BLM land. Leaving lots of things behind, living on nearly nothing and placing a distinct level of value on the things I allow to co-inhabit with me.

In some lots of cases, I’ve lived without things people consider necessities and I really loved it.  I thought it was great to not have a shower, toilet, sink, kitchen, bed, bedroom, socks, underwear! (I’m literally just getting the hang of wearing them again, tmi?)

I think maybe the first minimizing I did was in college when I stopped using products on my hair, stopped straightening my hair and allowed it to grow out naturally.  That saved me from a lot of hassle, allowed me to be more flexible and spontaneous and saved me money.  I definitely loved having wild-child hair, but I upped that bravery by eventually letting it lock up!  Now I don’t even comb my hair!

In terms of householding, my life has been very simple at times.  There were times I never had to wash dishes because I didn’t use dishes(and I wasn’t trashing up the earth either!).  I accomplished complete elimination communication with (potty trained) my first daughter before she was 2 by letting her go outside while we were camping for several months.  I helped the environment by not using diapers.  I still used cloth diapers occasionally, but I didn’t have to wash them very much.

When you’re living in tune with nature, minimalism works really well.  I think when people go out of their way to make camping seem like they’re at a state-of-the-art resort, they miss out on some powerful opportunities to allow nature to provide, and their intuition to merge with its intended purpose, to keep us aware and safe.  We forget that our modern conveniences are technology and we can easily thrive without them.  We can overcome many of our barriers by doing without these things for periods of time.  I can attest to that.

But what happens when you decide to come back to civilization? (Okay, I never left civilization, I just gave up my keys and camped in the woods of the civilized world.)  How do you juxtapose the ideals of minimalism, knowing you could live with practically nothing, without setting yourself up for failure and locking yourself out of your hybridized life?

I’ve put my keys on a neon green spiral plastic “chain”, and I’m trying to keep up with them, as I dream of a balance between too little and too much.  Most of me has integrated the lessons I learned in my wild life in the wilderness(and wild city streets), but there is a part of me wondering if I need a baking pan, a table, a desk, or some stools, or if I should just eat outside and pretend my gawking neighbors are trees waiting for my fruit compost.

Help me navigate this tricky manual shift RV through the highways of stationary, consumerist householding…if you dare!

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Minimalist Intentions, Consumerist Dreams

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I spent quite a while unplugged from mainstream society a few years ago.  It was a dream come true.  Things are so much simpler when you don’t have many possessions, financial responsibilities, etc.  The less you have, the less you want…or at least it can be that way.

I remember when we lived in a duplex we had a room full of stuff.  So much stuff we were never able to fully clean and deal with it all.  When we stopped traveling and settled back into a stick in the mud structure, it blew my mind how fast we acquired STUFF.  But I realize, there are things that are needed to live this lifestyle.  Lots of things are needed to help organize the things you have.  When you’re lifestyle is complicated, you need things to actualize some facets of simplicity and convenience in your life.  Here’s my list of things I feel I need or could really use to create a simplistic array of stuff, in my conflicted, transitioning lifestyle.

As a reminder, I live in an RV, and I intend to travel in it soon.  I don’t want to acquire too much, just the things that are really going to make a positive impact.  Some of these are more practical, others are more dreams.  This is my big shopping list.

  • I would love a cargo bike
  • I need a camera that takes photos
  • I might need a webcamera
  • I need a desk
  • I need stools
  • I want a step ladder
  • I’d like a food processor, maybe an icecream machine or bread machine
  • I’d love a pedal-powered washing machine!
  • I want/need banana plants
  • I’d love another guitar and some hand drums
  • I need a motorized component to my living situation(something to tow my trailer)
  • I’d like a typewriter and maybe a laptop as well
  • I want more tap shoes
  • I need lots of organizational supplies, but I’m not exactly sure what, yet
  • I want a baby hammock and a toddler bed/bunk