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Zero to Financially Free in 5 Months

Monday, July 6, 2009

I was blown away by this real-life story from one of my friends. The thing is, I remember where she and her husband were a year ago. They were looking for investments and business opportunities. The real estate market had already started to go sideways and they didn’t want to get into that too soon. (Thank [...]

Sunday, May 17, 2009

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The name of this blog is Business To Investment. It’s not really intuitive. If I were starting over, I’d probably call it something else so that it speaks to people. It still speaks to me, though, and I guess this blog is a little on the self-centered side anyway. I don’t sell anything here. Maybe [...]

Time to Re-Assess

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

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One of the hidden benefits of economic shake-ups like these is that it gives a time to question all the “givens” in our life. If someone tells you something or you believe something with full certainty, it’ll fall into one of these 3 categories: Fact - Something that can be proven by physical means. Belief - [...]

Are You Sure You Know What You Want?

Sunday, March 8, 2009

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I’ve been a CPA for a few decades now and I’ve been educating others about taxes almost since the beginning. That’s because I don’t want to just prepare tax returns, I want to create tax strategies that save immediate taxes and continue to work for years to come. I also want to make sure I [...]

Building a Company Without You

Sunday, January 25, 2009

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I got an email challenge from a friend yesterday that still has me thinking. Let me pose it to you. Let’s say you have a business that is built around your name. You’re John Jones and you have services and products all based and selling because of a connection with you somehow. You’re semi-famous and semi-known [...]

5 Myths of Passive Income

Thursday, January 22, 2009

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This is a crazy time of the year for many of us. As you take some time to slow down from the regular day-to-day rush to set goals/resolutions for the year, you might find that your number one goal is to find a way to create some passive income. Or you could be in the [...]

What Would You Do If You Wanted to Make $1,000/Mo Passive?

Sunday, January 18, 2009

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We just finished up our first quarterly meeting of Diane’s Mastermind. The Diane’s Mastermind/Diane’s Private Clients is limited to just 25 tickets (2 people come for one ticket) and is for 4 quarterly masterminding events and unlimited private tax consultation directly with me. The tax consultation starts immediately, so I already knew all the people [...]

Active AND Passive Income From Websites

Sunday, January 4, 2009

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Hang in there with me on this one. I promise to keep it as simple as possible and if you can find a way to pull this off with your website projects, you’ll pay a WHOLE LOT LESS in taxes. The IRS currently recognizes three different types of taxable income: ordinary (you work for it [...]

Let’s Get Real About Real Estate and Passive Income

Monday, December 29, 2008

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I’ve had an epiphany recently. For years, I said the secret that I used to build wealth was to have a business I worked in (earned income) and then took the money and invested in real estate. I side-tracked my tax education and service businesses to build another business, which tanked with a partner problem. [...]

FREE! Million-making Idea - But Will Anyone Really Do It?

Friday, December 26, 2008

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I’ve got two reasons for writing this post today. First, I think this has got huge potential. In fact, I’ve poked around in this field some in the past, so I know what real honest costs are for the people who would be your clients. Solve someone’s problem and they’ll pay you. That’s the secret [...]

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