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Blogging Tip: Turn Your Visitors Into Email List Subscribers

One blogging strategy that I have really been researching and busy implementing is leveraging an email subscription list. Most blogs will use an email list to simply send the regular blog content to subscribers. This is not what I am promoting here. I believe that a blog should use an email list for a specific purpose different than a regular blog visitor. Let the subscriber continue to visit the website for the typical blog content, you should email them highly specific, highly targeted material to both engage your subscribers and most importantly, make you money.

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21st Century Income Stream Strategy

One of my favorite things to talk about on this site is the idea of pursuing income streams. It is my position that my generation is living and pursuing success in a unique era. Because of this unique environment, the goals we pursue look different and the means in which we pursue them are also different.

For example, when it comes to retirement, I believe my generation should pursue income streams over a retirement ‘number’. When it comes to personal finance, budgeting and saving can only do so much. Furthermore, when it comes to real estate, the rules are different also.

When it comes to income, 20-somethings should not focus on a single, salary-based income. Fortunately, the changing environment that necessitates this unique focus also comes with unique opportunities to achieve multiple income streams. I call this my 21st century income strategy.

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The Right Way To View Personal Finance During Your 20s

Personal finance concepts such as budgeting are lauded as the way to achieve wealth or the way to get rich. Thousands of personal finance blogs hope you will read their content in your pursuit of wealth. Experts like Suzie Orman try to sell you advice on TV and through books hoping you’ll buy into the idea that managing your money better will make you rich. Well, I’m here to disagree and to tell you that mastering personal finance concepts such as saving and budgeting will not result in you being rich. That’s not to say that these concepts do not play a factor in your pursuit of wealth. I’m going to explain why personal finance won’t make you rich and discuss the right way to view these concepts, especially in your 20s.

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How To Make More Money At Your Current Job

Many people struggle with getting promotions and raises in their career, even more struggle to build up a secondary source of income while still working a full time career. What if you could do both in a single effort? What if you could take responsibility that increases your stature and position in your company while at the same time earns you more money? I’m not talking about a raise either. I’m talking about an income stream independent of your salary (which should increase as well).

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July Blogging Income Report

Well, I had my best month ever here at 20s Money and while I’m still a ways off from my $500 monthly goal, it is exciting to make progress in my pursuit to create a second income and make money online . In July 2008, 20s Money earned $173.78. For a complete breakdown of the income from blogging, continue reading.

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A Tale Of Two Blog Strategies

In my quest to acquire multiple income streams, I entered the blogosphere a few months ago with 20s Money. Today, I am launching my second blog with a completely different monetization strategy.

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Blogging Tip: Maximize Your Tuesday to Thursday Audience

While typically the content of this site is focused on stocks and business, I sometimes write about how to create and build a blog. I include this type of content because I believe for a young 20-something, an online business or blog is the best route to build a second income stream. With that said, this article provides a tip for building your blog and how to increase your traffic and regular readers.

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How To Transition From Employee To Business Owner

I have been hard at work on a couple online businesses that I’m trying to get off the ground. This blog, 20s Money, is one of them, and has been fairly successful. However, it is extremely tough to quit your job and make the jump to business owner. Plus, it’s very risky and stressful. In this post, I will discuss my efforts to transition from an employee to a business owner.

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Make Money Online Step #4: SEO And Analytics

Continuing the series of how to make money online, we have already discussed launching a web site, driving traffic to the web site, and monetizing the traffic to make money online. Today, we will take a look at how to maximize the results of the amassing more and more content in your blog.

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A Lesson To Learn In Your 20s: A Salary Will Not Make You Rich

Many of the recent books I have been reading talk about ways to build wealth. Just about all of them have similar views on salaries: it is near impossible to become rich on a salary. While most people do not learn this lesson until years of determined effort to do just that, it is my hope that myself and other 20-somethings learn this lesson early and shift their focus to other wealth building opportunities.

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Can Your 20s Be About More Than Just “Paying Your Dues”?

When it comes to careers, personal finance and building wealth, most people assume your 20-something years are strictly about “paying your dues”. What I want to look at today are some ways to make more out of this decade of your life. I believe there are ways to jump ahead of the curve and begin building wealth in your 20s.

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Apply Apple’s Strategies To Your Personal Financial Plan

As readers of this blog know, Apple is my favorite company. I love the products, the vision, the management and the stock. For years, the company has been outperforming through innovation and an incredible strategy. Today, I want to look at two major components of Apple’s strategy and what we should learn from them with regards to our individual financial plans.

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What I’ve Learned About Blogging In Three Short Months

20s Money, my first stab at this blogging thing has been quite the experience. In producing my own content and designing my own concept, I have definitely been exposed to and read way more other blogs out there than ever before. I have researched wildly successful blogs and blogs with minimal traffic. In this article, I am going to discuss what I’ve learned about the world of blogging. If you are interested or considering blogging, you’ll want to read this post.

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Make Money Online Step #3: Monetize Your Traffic

In the previous two posts for this series, we went through launching your online presence and how to drive traffic to your site. In this post, we will assume you have started to see an increase in traffic and now you want to start monetizing your traffic. This post mostly applies to blogs since if you are selling a product or service then your monetization strategy is obvious. If you are seeking additional methods of making money besides simply selling a product or service, then read on.

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20 Must Reads For 20-Somethings

It has been quite the journey over the few months as I’ve reached 100 posts. I have learned a great deal about finance, investing, writing, and blogging! For the 100th post of 20s Money, I have decided to compile the best 20 articles judged by content and popularity for this post. I hope you enjoy.

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Make Money Online Step #2: Drive Traffic To Your Website

Following up the recent article on launching your online presence, today we will address the issue of driving traffic to your website. There are it seems millions of resources out there to help guide you in your pursuit of traffic, because traffic equals money right? Maybe. We’ll get to that later. For now, let’s discuss some real, practical ways to drive traffic to your new online masterpiece.

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Make Money Online Step #1: Launch Your Online Presence

So you’ve decided to join the thousands attempting to make money online, but you’re not sure exactly how to make it happen. Well, good news! We are here to help you make it a reality. Depending on your goals, there are a series of specific steps to take to launch your online presence. The best part of making money online is that the startup costs are extremely minimal. Unfortunately, the lack of barriers to entry also floods the internet with people trying to accomplish the same thing. With this series aimed at helping you make your dream of earning income online a reality, we will show you how to distance yourself from the herd. First things first, however, let’s focus on the launch phase of your endeavor.

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A New Way To Make Money Online: Get Paid To Blog On Your Own Blog!

In my endless pursuit to find ways to make money online, I have found a new and fantastic service. This new service lets you actually earn money by blogging about things you want to blog about; even better, these paid blog entries can be on your own blog!

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Everyone Is Making Money On The Internet These Days, Are You?

The last three months of my life have been quite the learning experience. Since April of this year, I have been working hard and consistently on this blog, 20s Money. It’s been quite the journey and I have learned everything from writing, web development, monetization strategies and more. The most amazing thing I have learned about is all of the different ways there are to make money on the internet. It is incredible. Through this post, I hope you have a better glimpse of the real and viable opportunity the internet can be for anyone, even you to make money.

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Secondary Income Stream Target: $500 A Month

In my pursuit for a second income stream, I have established the $500 a month target as my goal for several reasons.  First, $500 of extra income a month is a level where your lifestyle or financial picture can actually be affected by this amount.  An extra monthly $500 could be the difference between accruing debt and having a great savings plan.  Furthermore, $500 a month in income proves that the particular income stream is alive and well and has potential for even higher numbers.  Let’s take a look at what I’m doing to reach the $500 a month target.

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