Business To Investment

MLMs - Vent With Me Please

I’ve been a CPA now for about 25 years.  In that time, I’ve seen a lot of different biz opps, investment strategies and out and out scams. One of the things people love or hate is MLMs or IBOs or Direct Selling or whatever it’s called.  There is almost a kneejerk reaction to them.  But, break [...]

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Working on the Road

I used to travel a lot.  As I built up my database, I would take any speaking gig out there, it didn’t matter where.  It was expensive (airfair, hotels, transportation) and the immediate income never covered the costs.  In the seminar promoter world, I’ve discovered that there are two main schools of thought when it [...]

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And Then the White House Called….

I have no idea how this is going to play into my “journey to a million dollars in 2 years or less” project, but I think there is some relationship.  So, I’m going to hijack my own blog for a week to talk about what I want to do and why, in a much bigger [...]

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7 Months Later…Here’s where I am

I began the Journey in April 2008, so it’s technically only been 1 1/2 months for me shooting for the million dollars.  But, it’s been 7 months since my business turned on its ear.  So, what’s happened since then. (1)  I returned to doing tax strategies.  This is earned income, but it’s highly leveraged because not [...]

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2 Months Into the Project

Well, I’m two months into my new project.  I find that I keep getting off track from my original program. Before I began the project, my business ventures included a tax strategy business (only initial strategies), a CPA referral business and Tax Loopholes (online tax education company).  The 5 years prior to that point were very [...]

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Monetize Your Blog

It seems like the hot topic in many Internet Biz forums these days is “How do I monetize my blog?”  And then they go on to explain how they have signed up with Google and are making $10 a month or so. I wonder if people sometimes get confused that once they put a business on [...]

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What I Need to Understand and What I Need to Do

One of the problems that I see business owners run into again and again is making a distinction between what they need to UNDERSTAND and what they need to DO. For example, I need to understand how to read a financial statement, but I don’t have to know how to DO a financial statement (ie, debits [...]

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