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Expect to find resources as I discover them. I will also add the best ones to my resource page.
You can make money from home without trading hours for dollars.
How? Passive income.
This means creating something once, then setting up systems to market and sell it over and over again.
I love sharing what I’m learning about:
Affiliate marketing
Self-publishing on CreateSpace (now Kindle Direct Publishing, or KDP)
Merch by Amazon
Blogging
I’m not into “get rich quick” schemes.
But I am into learning how to serve oodles of people in such a way that they are happy to compensate me for my work.
Serving others with love can and should be profitable.
In the words of my mentor, Zig Ziglar:
“You can get everything in life you want, if you just help enough other people get what they want.”
This is a truth that — next to redemption through Jesus Christ — has transformed my life more than anything.
Who knew making money could create lasting change?
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Last updated on July 15th, 2020 Here’s where I collect HTML to use in posts, pages, hooks, and headers. Alert HTML Warning! This is a draft, not a finalized post. See full draft disclosure. Anchor Text See it used on the Evidence Requirements post outline. The outline HTML for an entry adds a link to … Read more
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Last updated on July 13th, 2020 Today I stumbled upon this brilliant idea by Sal Ferrarello. Here’s his explanation of draft blog posts: Recently, I was commenting to my wife that I find myself often going to my Draft posts for notes I’ve taken on completing some task. I complained that these posts were not ready to … Read more
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Last updated on July 7th, 2020 Some favorite posts I gathered over the past eight weeks on Facebook. (I’m splitting these into posts by topic to keep them shorter.) FB: Smarter Mom Life (Facebook Gems collected 6-15-2021, dating back over the past 8 weeks) Corrie Ten Boom on forgiveness (from Joshua Agan) People who know … Read more
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Last updated on June 9th, 2020 This video shows how I linked my Facebook business page to my personal profile. Sadly, I thought I’d done this months ago. No wonder I kept getting new Likes on my old business page. There was NOTHING on my personal profile to direct people to my new “hub”! ? … Read more
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This post explains how I got All-in-One WordPress Security, Instant Images, IFTTT, WordPress and FaceBook to play together nicely.
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Last updated on June 10th, 2020 I’ve spent exactly 3 weeks of mental effort in the past 72 hours to figure out how to connect my WordPress site to IFTTT while using a two-factor authentication (“2FA”) plugin. 2FA is mandatory in my SRP opinion. (SRP: Super Responsible Person. Thanks, Jennifer Allwood, for putting a name … Read more
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Last updated on June 17th, 2020 [Update, 6/17/2020: This process works, but I’ve temporarily disabled it until I finish restructuring my website. Also, based on the throttling of conservative content by mainstream social media networks, I may limit auto-posting to platforms that encourage free speech like CloutHub.] I’ve spent exactly 3 weeks of mental effort … Read more
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Last updated on July 12th, 2020 A revamped version of a post from 2018. IP Infringement Claim Response Have you received an email from the owner of a registered trademark telling you to remove your design? (Note: If the IP notice comes from the applicant for a new trademark, it’s probably best to respond with … Read more
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Finding the right theme is like waiting for Mr. Right. “You have to kiss a lot of frogs before you meet Prince Charming.” So before falling in love with my current theme, I had to first get close to many frogs… leading down a trail of disappointment and even anguish.
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