If you could be sure of success– if you knew that whatever you attempted to do would not fail– what would you try to accomplish in the next 30 days? Today’s post is about getting off your ass. 30 Days, Zero Capital to One Thousand Dollars Challenge I’m right in the middle of a 30 […]
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20 Days into the 30 Day, $1,000 Challenge
Hello Steppers! Today’s post: an update on where I am in the latest 30 Day, $1,000 Challenge. Toward the end of 2014, I sent out a series of emails and a coupla blog posts saying that I would again take a Challenge to start a side business with NO CAPITAL… then grow it into a side […]
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Use Fiverr to Validate Your Small Business Idea
This just in: “market research” shows that Readers of Shoestring 101 are more intelligent and overall attractive. HEYA GORGEOUS! 😉 Validate Your Business Idea: WHY and HOW Today’s post is about how to throw your idea out there for an internet biz, then “VALIDATE” it to see if it has real merit. Also, an update […]
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Today’s The DAY! New 30-Day, $1,000 Challenge
To my faithful Shoestring Steppers: Hey gang! ’bout 500 words in today’s post. Take exactly 2 minutes to see what the next 30 Day, $1,000 Challenge is about. I’m not gonna get craaaazy today trying to make particular post super SEO-friendly, or chock full of pictures. Just the facts, ma’am. Side Money Blueprint: Generate a […]
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Help Shoestring101 Choose the Next 30 Day, $1,000 Challenge!
Greetings, Steppers! Today’s exciting post is about YOU… picking out the next 30 Day, $1,000 Challenge for yours truly. The idea of the 30/1000 challenge is to start with less capital than you might take out of the first hour of a garage sale… and with part-time effort make it into $1,000 in 30 days or […]
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Business Automation: Use Checklists and Procedures to Replace Yourself
Hello, Steppers! Today: How to effectively replace yourself (read: have more free time to work ON your business instead of IN your business)… and a chance for YOU to win $101 in the next 30 day, $1,000 challenge. First off, a quick apology: in my last post here “The Most Awesome Paradox… Doing LESS Can Accomplish […]
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The Most AWESOME Paradox… Doing Less Can Accomplish MORE
Howdy Steppers! A paradox of work, time, and money is that by working too much, you often actually profit less. In today’s post: how to make more money by working less (whew!), and working on the right things. The MAGIC of Shoestring Step Five: Now WRITE Everything DOWN All I have to say to Tim Ferris is, “Four-Hour Workweek? […]
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How to Validate Your Business Idea on Craiglist
Making money on Craigslist. Yes it does take hustle, but as I tell folks here on my blog, it ONLY takes two other things to be in business: 1) access to a thing (or thingS) of value and 2) a way to communicate to people that value that thing. And Craigslist can provide you with […]
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Validate Your Business Idea With the 3 Most Overlooked Social Media Sites
Dear Reader: Be careful, because two and a half minutes into reading this post… you’re going to have a REVOLUTIONARY change in the way you think about social media; what “social media” really is, why it works… and most importantly! How YOU should use the 3 social media networks (that NOBODY thinks of as social […]
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Get PAID per Lead: Reversing the Traditional Marketing Model
Today’s post is for: Intermediate to Advanced Marketers, but only the ones that want to get PAID per lead instead of the other way around. Ahem… that’s YOU 🙂 How to Get Paid Per Lead Instead of PayING for Leads With a blog named Shoestring101, you can believe I like to deliver my readers cheap […]
