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Entries Tagged as 'Alternative Income'

CD Ladders and what they can do for you

October 14th, 2009 · 2 Comments

What is a CD Ladder? No, it is not one of the shelves for compact discs. A CD Ladder is a number of CD’s (Certificate of deposits) that are spaced out over a period of time to capture better interest and provide a realitively safe investment. Generally with a CD you can get a better […]

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Tags: Alternative Income · Finance · Goals

Farmland as an Investment?

October 13th, 2009 · 1 Comment

While perusing the internet looking for alternate investment ideas I came across Agrinuity. With their program and a minimum investment of $100,000 you can be the owner of a piece of farmland. Agrinuity will manage the property for 10 years making sure it has a proper tenant and that the tenant abides by the land management agreements […]

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Tags: Alternative Income

Wow its been awhile.

June 22nd, 2009 · No Comments

I haven’t written in a while. Took a minor hit from the market fall. I had just hit making over $50 a month off of dividends in December and then in January I made $23. I now am back up to about $45 a month off of stock dividends. 3 of my 6 Prosper loans […]

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Tags: Alternative Income · College Savings · Finance

Earn money off of your idle gift cards?

September 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment

If you are like me and have idle gift cards lying around then you could possibly earn interest on them. A site called LeverageCard allows you to register a large number of different gift cards and you can earn either 1% or 3.65% interest a week on them.
While this may not add up to alot […]

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Tags: Alternative Income · Finance · Frugal

Alternative Income- Social Lending

September 24th, 2008 · No Comments

If you have not heard of social lending or peer to peer lending then you may be missing out on an opportunity to diversify your total investment portfolio. While there is various levels of risk in any investment lending money has its own risks and there are programs out there to help mitigate that risk and […]

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Tags: Alternative Income · College Savings · Finance · debt

Income from hobbies - Photography

September 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

So you have gotten tired of taking your film to get developed and went and bought a good digital camera. You have been using it for awhile and now your running into a different issue, you have all these photos just sitting on your hard drive collecting virtual dust. Well have you thought about trying […]

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Tags: Alternative Income · Fun

Make money from your computer while you sleep?

September 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

Don’t you wish you could make money from your computer while you sleep? Well you can now with Gomez Peer. This is a paid distributed computing software model that is testing various websites uptime. The current pay design is the following:

Online Time Payments (per day)
$0.10

Processing Time Payments (per min.)
$0.0005

Referral Bonus (per Active Referral)
$1.00

Min. Monthly Payment
$5.00

Max. […]

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Tags: Alternative Income · Finance

My financial health update.

August 25th, 2008 · 2 Comments

So last month I was at $3000 in debt and about 530’s for my credit score. I have been able to decrease my overall debt by $300 even with having to take a plane to my grandfather’s funeral last week($500). My credit scores have climbed about 16 points across all three credit reports. And I […]

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Tags: Alternative Income · Finance · Gaming · Goals · debt

Alternative Income- Get paid to read emails

August 25th, 2008 · 2 Comments

So we all get spam in our email, so just have it better filtered then others. We recieve email messages every day so why not start making some money off of your email account or accounts. Personally if you are going to go this route I would suggest opening up a seperate email account just […]

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Tags: Alternative Income · Finance

Can you make money with credit cards?

August 22nd, 2008 · 3 Comments

Some people say you can make money with credit cards. Well if you can get the 0% apr offers for a period of time you can float money, and some people get the 0% apr balance transfers and then take the money and invest it making the minimum payments until the 0% period ends. Of […]

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Tags: Alternative Income · Finance · debt

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