Earning
Money tips about how you earn or make your money through active means, like a job. Includes retrenchment and redundancy advice.
Raise kids to be entrepreneurs
The wealthiest people in the world are entrepreneurs – not passive investors in residential property (the backyard BBQ favourite.) In my experience of working with people many want to start their own business. But their traditional education and employee experience often has not given them the toolkit to succeed. In the video below Cameron Herold [...]
Manage your business brand on Facebook
If you’re already in business you know the importance of building and managing your brand. And you’ve probably heard of Facebook and Twitter. But have you started to harness the power of these communities to interact with your customers, both current and prospective? You may be thinking that since you already have a website for your business you don’t need a Facebook page. Well in this article you’ll discover why it may be handy to have both plus get access to a free guide to setting up your Facebook business page.
Protect your wellbeing from unemployment
The latest Australian Unity Wellbeing Index published today explores what we already know in our gut – that unemployment deeply affects our wellbeing. As the author of the Australian Unity Wellbeing Index, Professor Cummins from Deakin University notes: “[Unemployment] is devastating to the wellbeing of the people directly affected and also to the wellbeing of [...]
Make money from niches
Recently I’ve written a little about my belief in profiting from your passion and that now is a great time to be able to do that. If you’re early in your journey of exploring this possibility then you may be wondering “why is now a good time?” and “how can I make money from it?” [...]
Protect your personal brand with your own domain name
Building your personal brand is essential to earning more whether you’re an employee or self-employed. If you haven’t heard that already then you will when you explore career and professional development, and I will be writing more articles about it too. (Check out “Crush It! Why now is the time to cash in on your [...]
Why now is the time to cash in on your passion
If you would love to be pursuing and profiting from your passion then I am excited to be sharing this book with you. I’ve just finished reading Crush It! by Gary Vaynercuk. Gary Vaynerchuk passionately believes that now is the time to be cashing in on your passion, and I wholeheartedly agree with him. In [...]
Comparison of business structures
When you decide to establish a business it is first essential that you choose to operate within the appropriate business structure. Should you choose a company, discretionary trust (family trust), unit trust or a combination? The answer will have a significant impact on the tax you pay and the protection of your assets. For an overview of [...]
The must read book for aspiring entrepreneurs
Over half the people I speak to professionally list “self-employment” as one of their life goals. If you too dream of going out on your own or starting a business then I strongly recommend that you read “The E-myth Revisited” by Michal E. Gerber before you quit your job. Preferably you need to read The E-myth before you succumb to what Gerber calls ‘the Entrepreneurial Seizure’. Read my full review of this essential book.
Identifying your passionate career
I am often asked by clients and seminar attendees how I changed careers and how I found my passion for financial education and planning. In this article I share some of my story and recommend two resources for identifying your passion.
Make Money From Your Ideas
My last article on Making Money Writing About Your Passion prompted this enquiry from regular reader, Nick: “how can you generate an income stream from e-marketing and even sales of products of your expertise and knowledge” You can make money from your expert ideas in your head – it’s called thought leadership. (I also recently [...]
Making money writing about your passion
Ever since I was in high school I have striven to discover how to pursue my passions and make money doing so. Technological and social advances in the last decade have made this possible for us all with very little investment of money. You just start out investing your time, which is fine because you [...]
Try to make your passion a business
Today, KPMG partner Bernard Salt is a well known commentator in the media as a perceived expert on demographics, especially in relation to its impact on property. In his article in The Australian today Bernard Salt shares some of his lessons from his media journey, which started twenty years ago at the age of 32. [...]
Don’t Stress About Losing Your Job
Are you worried about how you will cope if your job is made redundant? Is this occupying your mind for too much of the day, taking some of the joy out of life or even worse, causing you to lose sleep? If you have the three elements shared in this video in place then you [...]
Redundancy First Aid
Worried about how you will cope if you lose your job? Follow the DR ABC of Redundancy First Aid to reduce your immediate stress and be confident you will survive. The advice is also great to keep in mind just in case you are one of the first on the scene when someone close to [...]
Ensure your employer paid your super last month
In a presentation last Thursday night, Australian Taxation Office (ATO) second commissioner Jennie Granger said that of the 2,200 employers selected and visited since July 2008, around 1,045 had not met their superannuation guarantee obligations. (Reported here.) With many small businesses struggling with cash flow at the moment it can be very tempting for them [...]
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