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Taking Advantage of Untapped Assets

Jesse Michelsen — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:30:49 +0000

I go to some length to save a buck when possible and I’m sure most of you reading this do the same thing. In our circle it’s not unheard of to spend hours and hours crunching the numbers to discover the best method to save or the best formula to grow that hard earned dollar. [...]

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5 Unconventional Ways to Smavke Money

Jesse Michelsen — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 17:49:37 +0000

Yea I just made that word up it is properly pronounced smay-veka and means save and/or make… 1. Telephone Wire Shoe Wrangler If you were born sometime between 1844 and 2009, you most likely have seen shoes draped over just about anything possible, be it telephone wires, clothes lines, high fences or even trees. I [...]

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Creating a Screenshot Factory for BrowserShots.org

Jesse Michelsen — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 18:00:55 +0000

This is the follow up and walk-through promised for making money using BrowserShots.org and the concept of distributed computing. Before we get started, you should read over the previous post describing how BrowserShots.org works. After that, take this as a word of caution: Any requests that come through BrowserShots.org and match your computer configuration are [...]

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Do You Invest With Your Mind or Your Moral Compass?

Jesse Michelsen — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:33:11 +0000

Warren Buffet has always invested in businesses he believes in, companies he values and thinks others undervalue. I’ve always interpreted that as invest in companies you would use and that sell products that you buy, but recently I was reading this article by Budget Snob about unconventional investments that paid off, and I realized that [...]

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How To Make Money From Distributed Computing

Jesse Michelsen — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:29:43 +0000

I always like to share any ideas I have about making more money so here’s a pretty unconventional and very geeky method I came across a couple years back but finally got around to putting into action recently. Considering how geeky this method actually is to get started, yet how easy it is to maintain, [...]

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Do You Put Your Emergency Fund To Work? – Part 1

Jesse Michelsen — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:04:33 +0000

This is the start of a three part series. The other parts can be found here: Do You Put Your Emergency Fund To Work? – Part 2 Do You Put Your Emergency Fund To Work? – Part 3 Since my bank closed down and I would be moving my emergency fund money over to one [...]

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Why eBay Is Still The Premier Way To Sell Online

Jesse Michelsen — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:32:55 +0000

One of the first things most people do when they need to make a little extra cash is sell their stuff. This is a great idea and can be really helpful in hard times. And for those of us that live in the digital age, the preferred way to sell things is doing it online. [...]

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How To Start Earning Extra Income Writing Online

Jesse Michelsen — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 09:40:15 +0000

Earlier this week I wrote about low cost business ideas, focusing on some different ideas that follow a rather traditional method of starting a business. Today I want to focus on something a bit more cloudy, but something that can be far more lucrative as well as less expensive in money and time to start [...]

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Low Cost Business Ideas To Help Supplement or Even Replace Your Income

Jesse Michelsen — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 09:24:26 +0000

It’s never a bad idea to try and make more money especially when all you hear on the news these days is how the unemployment rate keeps growing, and the job market keeps shrinking. In this time when no job is too secure and nothing is certain, the only thing to be done is to [...]

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How I Will Earn $1000 by Losing Weight

Jesse Michelsen — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:47:57 +0000

Losing weight can be difficult. There are temptations everywhere and it gets more and more difficult to motivate yourself. I find my motivation failing because even if I am rewarding myself here and there, it doesn’t really mean anything coming from myself. Losing the weight should be motivation enough but it’s not unless you are [...]

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