No, gentle readers, I’m not going to start a war with anyone … least of all Stan Spector, the “Stan” referred to in the title. Stan Spector is a merger & acquisitions specialist working with family owned businesses. He’s in the “experienced” age group, as I am. Stan’s experience with full-time business has led him to write a book on how to restructure certain business models to fit a part-time or retirement lifestyle model. I haven’t 9as yet) read Stan’s book … maybe he’ll [...] Continue Reading…
I am delighted to see a nice increase in readership to the blog since I first started “re-purposing” it less than two weeks ago. If you just dropped by and have the impression, “Gee, this guy is disorganized”, well, you’re right. There are still a lot of cobwebs in the corners and much of the furniture isn’t in the right place … but we’re working at it, we really are. The purpose of this site is to show seniors (like me .. born [...] Continue Reading…
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This article was generously provided by Yaro Starak, [...] Continue Reading…
If you are going to take advantage of any on-line income opportunities you are well advised to get “tooled up” a little bit. I’m going to lay out some tools you should think seriously about using … take them out for a spin for a decent period of time … a month or so before you make a final judgement … and see if they don’t help you make money. In keeping with my overall theme, these aren’t going to cost a cent … [...] Continue Reading…
Ok, six posts on making money with no money in just a short while. Now I am going to talk about spending some money. More exactly, buying and selling money. Yep, Foreign currency exchange or FOREX. Now some won’t want to hear about this at all … it keeps them up at night. Some, like me, live overseas and we are involved with FOREX every day from paying the electric company to buying a coke. Others find it’s a profitable business/investment strategy. Any way [...] Continue Reading…
Time for yet another Making Money Without Money post. I have a tiger by the tail here. I’ve been making money (modest amounts) on line for several years now but until I started rejuvenating this near-dead blog and learning about this particular subject I never realized how many opportunities there were out there without even having a blog or any other website or making any investment at all. That’s one thing that is really intriguing about the Internet … unless you are blind or [...] Continue Reading…
Last post I mentioned a real-world business opportunity with Google. This won’t sit some folks because when they think of making money on line they want to stay right in the confines of their swivel chair. Some also want to have some fun doing it. here’s a website with dozens of opportunities, all done from your chair, and a number of them are contests … think you know how to play Wall street? Well, enter, build a portfolio with “play” money and get paid [...] Continue Reading…
OK, I’ve made a number of posts now on ways to make money on line, suitable for seniors … no computer “geek” knowledge and no investment … zero risk and thus infinite rate Of return (ROI) on your time. I thought I would do about 2 or 3 posts on this subject but there are so many opportunities out there I can check them out and blog about them fast enough. Now one thing that some of my more conservative and savvy readers may [...] Continue Reading…
Just time for a quick post here about paid blogging. As I said a few days ago there are many, many opportunities out there for people who can string a few words together and … important for us seniors … have some expereince they can use to write about!
It’s the weekend and many are pursuing ogff-line hobbies — I hope. But here is just one link to whet your appetitie if you want to be mai=king money before Monday morning:
Indeed.com Paid Blogging [...] Continue Reading…
A lot of people reading my words here are skeptical … and well they should be. The Internet is in some ways a “Wild. Wild West” environment. There are dozens of people seeking to part you from your cash, and those of us who have lived long enough to make it into retirement have developed pretty sensitive “bullshit” detectors which go off on a regular basis when we see some of the “miracle” schemes rushing past every day. That’s exactly why I decided to focus [...] Continue Reading…
Stephen Ward put out a great 7 Points To Consider list on Daily Blogging Tips … I say go read it, and come back here for some further thoughts. Stephen said ”Blogging is easy. Blogging for profit is more difficult”. I would like to counterpoint or perhaps amplify that the “hard” part to most of us who have reached retirement isn’t really “hard’ at all. If you can fill out a 1040 EZ you can certainly “income blog”. But it does take some time and [...] Continue Reading…
My post on Making Money Online Even If You Have No Money a few days ago has proven to be quite popular. I wrote up 10 proven ways you can earn money with just your keyboard and no investment. Here’s an 11th possibility that just came my way via the DoshDosh blog … Thanks, Maki. The opportunity? Getting paid to answer questions. Just Answer is a nice service that matches questions with experts. The business model is simple, the person with the question promises [...] Continue Reading…
Ways to supplement (or make all) your retirement income online have a lot of interest. I need to write more and more and more on this subject, for sure. One of the great things in the online world, though, is that most of the information is already out there. Here’s a great post from the CPA Affiliates blog with my own comments, clarifications and suggestions: 10 ways to make Money without Money Online 1. Write on a topic using blogspot or wordpress blog [...] Continue Reading…
OK, I posed question in the title and I’ll give you the answer right off the bat … Yes! Short post? No but you really can make money on line without selling sleazy eBook products, gathering email address to spam and acting like a college kid on an insult rampage … which sadly sums up what a lot of bloggers and Internet marketers act like these days. One of the biggest reasons I decided to take this direction in the Retired Pay world blog [...] Continue Reading…
I’ve been thinking a lot about blogging about blogging for a long time now. I also have given a lot of thought to the idea of blogging mainly with the target audience being retirees like myself who want to know something about this online phenomena called blogging and the hype they hear about people making money at it. So, in answer to my own questions on the subject, why not? I really ought to set up a separate blog for this subject … we’ll [...] Continue Reading…
Many queries I’ve received over the past years of this blogs existence revolve around making a ballpark estimate of how much a Federal Annuitant “retiree”) will get at some point in the future when s/he retires. Some federal income streams are relatively easy to estimate, but the FERS (Federal Employee Retirement System) can be particularly complex. O knew quite a bit about FERS but I learned considerably more today from an excellent article by John Elliott in Mike Causey’s July 16th Federal Report column. As we’ve [...] Continue Reading…
