How will your clients find you? Where will they go to get more information about your business? Hint: It’s not likely to be the phone book or the phone. Chances are that many of your customers will find your business through your website. This makes the address or URL (Universal/Uniform Resource Locator) of your website…
Avoiding The Road to Serfdom
One reason to create multiple streams of income is to slow personal movement down the “road to serfdom.” When you diversify your streams of income, creating streams that aren’t dependent on traditional employment, you are taking a quiet step toward financial independence. Although being financially independent is often thought of as being wealthy, it can…
What is Affiliate Income?
Affiliate income is another term for referral fee, commission, or revenue sharing. It can be a supplementary or substantial stream of income, and once a link is installed, it can provide passive income for as long as it remains current. Affiliate marketing is the term used to describe promoting other people’s products through affiliate links….
Beware of the “Chicken Little” Mindset
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. Today is Mindset Monday. I’ll be talking about attitudes that can make it easier or harder to succeed as an entrepreneur. I recently came across a sentence that would make Bulwer-Lytton (or Chicken Little) proud: “As in other dark eras of U.S. history,…
Why You Need Your Own Business Domain (And How to Get It)
Having your own business domain is one of the most basic things you can do if you are serious about your business. Even if you’re just beginning with a microbusiness, at least purchase and use yourname.com if it’s available. I use GoDaddy for all my domain purchases (you can read why on the What I…
Spin Straw into Gold in a Microbusiness
Remember the story of Rumplestilskin and the ambitious miller who told a king that his daughter could spin straw into gold? Many people dream of finding or creating more income, but they sometimes overlook what they already have, such as knowledge, experience, or raw materials. Using what you have to create something of value is what…
Back on the GTD Wagon
I hadn’t planned to read David Allen’s splendid Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity this summer, but when I found myself going in panicky circles after a recent business trip, trying to unpack, uncover my desk, plan means, get inventory replenished, orders filled, the e-mail inbox emptied, and a zillion other time-sucking tasks,…
Why It’s Important to Work with What You Love
As you try to decide what to do for your first microbusiness, you may be tempted to research trends in order to find the most profitable niche. Research has it’s place, of course, but it’s not the only tool for this part of the business process. Choosing a business according to what seems profitable at…
How to Find Your Heart-Based Business
I spoke at a conference this weekend about creating multiple streams of income, and had a lot of great conversations with people who were inspired by the idea. The first thing that many people asked was “How do I figure out what I can do? How can I find my passion?” From the sound of…
Liberty and Entrepreneurship: A Few Quotes
In the month of July, I always stop to give thanks for the amount of liberty I enjoy as a citizen of the USA. Liberty plays an important role in successful entrepreneurship, so it’s particularly important for independent-minded entrepreneurs to be vigilant in protecting what we have. Some of the core freedoms that undergird our…
About
Do what matters, make it pay. Sounds like a pipe dream, doesn't it? It's not, though-- I've been doing it for years, and writing and speaking about it, too.
I'm Janice Campbell, and if you're an entrepreneur, homesteader, or writer, I look forward to helping you increase financial stability and move closer to self-reliance by creating multiple streams of income .
You really can earn what you need, doing what you love, wherever you are. Let's make it happen!
