Innovative Passive Income with Jade Dragon

Increasing your income through an online business or freelancing is fantastic, but if your money is being poured into unmanaged debt, it is a losing proposition. Taking control of your financial future involves controlling your expenses, reducing and eliminating your debt, and increasing your income through multiple streams. According to the U.S. Census Bureau in 2009, 50.7 million residents (16.7% of the population) including 9.9 million non-citizens lacked health insurance. The United...

As part of our series on various approaches to niche websites, we will look at an Insurance Niche Website in this post. The principles can be applied to almost any niche. Website Name – Naming for Search There are a number of different naming strategies for websites that include: Exact Match Keyword: Pick a long tail keyword that you want to attract traffic too and buy a domain that matches it. Perhaps you can get the exact phrase as a name. An example of an exact match keyword phase name is...

We offer a guest post from a professional online marketing expert, Robert Brown. Online marketing means promoting products or services on the internet. It is also called e-marketing or web marketing. This type of marketing has a wide reach and scope of advertising the products. There are a large number of consumers that the organization can cater to on a global level. The cost of marketing is very low and the numbers of consumers are very high. The wireless media and e-mails are used for this...

I’ve blogged about setting up an online store as a way to make money online recently. While not completely a way to make a passive income if you have to manage and ship inventory, there are ways to create passive income through online retailing. Step 1: Decide what you want to specialize in (research, research and research some more) Step 2: Look at how other well designed stores are set up (for example, here is a well designed store I found today Sci-Fi Stuff ) A few of the outstanding...

Smart shoppers in the know look for ways to save on their purchases. Watching for sales, and using coupons are well known, but what about looking for discounted gift cards? If you plan to shop at any chain store that issues gift cards, there is an easy way to get an extra discount on your purchases – even off the lowest sales price. Gift cards can be bought on major auction sites like eBay and in the online classifieds (Craigslist etc). These private transactions work, but come with the risks...

Earning extra money is great, but it is true that a penny saved is a penny earned – in fact an after tax penny saved is better than a pre-tax penny earned. Every year you buy homeowner insurance, or renters insurance (or you sure should be buying insurance as part of your financial plan). When is the last time you competitively quote your insurance? If you are like most homeowners, it might have been years. Most people just renew when the agent calls to get their credit card number. So this...

If you enjoy photography and/or design, here is an interesting royalty program that will pay for the use of photographs and graphic designs. The royalty program is offered by Giftcards.com – an industry leading website that offers gift cards and prepaid reloadable credit cards. On the site people have the option of choosing any photo or design they want. They allow customers to upload their own photo - how cool to give a gift card with a photo of the birthday girl and you – but that’s not how...

In the old days before the internet was invented, copyright was a fairly clear cut concept. Few people (relatively) had the means to publish and copyright was easier to enforce. When the new Stephan King novel came out, no one with a printing press would be so dumb as to republish the whole book or any substantive part of it because that would infringe on the author’s copyright. Mr. King makes his living publishing and selling his books. If you or I republished his books and sold them in...

As part of our continuing series of website reviews, we take a look at ConstructionLoanCenter.com By looking critically at what other sites in various industries are doing right and wrong, you can learn how to design effective websites for your own business or niche site. The site provides information on construction loans across the USA, and is designed to develop leads for mortgage brokers on a state by state basis. It is an older site, dating back to 1999. Here are a few things that...

If you what to sell things online, you need to either sell through an established market like ebay or set up an online store. Made Freshly is an online store service with a built in shopping cart feature that makes setting up that store easy and free. Rather than go through the cost of designing and programming the whole store yourself, you can use the customizable templates that they offer. The whole site is designed for the non-programmer who wants an easy to use and manage solution. The...

Copper Bullion is a niche area of precious metal collecting. It has crosse appeal to coin collectors, element and metal collectors, and metal art bar collectors. It also appeals to individuals worried about inflation. Learn here about what copper bullion is and where it can be bought. Generically, “bullion” is any metal traded in near pure form, or in a recognized alloy like sterling silver. Like more commonly understood silver bullion, gold bullion, and platinum bullion, copper bullion can...

I’ve covered freelance writing site Constant Content a number of times because I believe it represents one of the best online marketplaces for selling articles at decent prices. You can actually make a full time living on the site like many other writers do there. I’m really pleased to present a video that highlights one of the most successful writers at Constant Content, and her updated e-book on how you can also be successful at Constant Content.

For people interested in the stock market, day trading may be a viable way to make a living from home. One of the ways to increase the potential returns (and potential loses) while using less working capital in day trading is to focus on options. An option is only the right to buy or sell a stock (or other financial asset) within a fixed time at a fixed price. This contrasts with a stock that represents ownership in a business while an option is only a contract. The S&P 100 Index is a stock...

As you build a portfolio of passive income financial assets, you are likely to want a good investment adviser. Just because your mom uses a particular money manager does not mean that money manager is the best fit or the most qualified for you. Some factors worth considering in a money manager: Education: In addition to having the required certification for being a money manager in your state or province, what other education does the money manager have? A business or economics degree is a...

This is a guest post by Sarah Lamb I have seen several people who’re into internet marketing. When I closely watch their life I wonder how they’re able to enjoy life and also work at the same time. Instead of wearing formal outfits and running to attend meetings in boardroom and have heated exchanges with bosses and fellow workers these people live a laid back life, yet make good money. I was skeptical if it is indeed possible. When my company started down sizing people there was a gnawing...