We have an extra post this week. I am in the process of moving to four posts each week but this week there will be five. The reason is that I received an email Monday night with a sense of urgency to it. So I'm writing this on Tuesday (yesterday by the time it posts) and it's going live on Wednesday. As you'll see below, the reader has an interview on Friday, so we have … [Read more...]
How Can This ESI Reader Buy a Business?
Here's an email I received yesterday from a reader: I am writing to get your advice (or maybe the advice of your readers) on how to go about buying out the current owner of the company I work for, or going out on my own. Some history of the company I currently work for: They are a small communications company with less than 20 employees. The have been in business … [Read more...]
Five Steps to Six Figures in Seven Years
As you can tell from the title, this piece is kind of provocative. That's the way I like it. :) I actually wrote this post several years ago and am updating it now. The promise in the title is even easier now than it was then and much easier than it was for me when I completed the task almost 25 years ago. Of course, six figures isn't what it used to be either, but I'm … [Read more...]
Recent Credit Card Moves
Since I wrote How to Earn Thousands with Credit Card Rewards there has been a good amount of change in my credit card strategy. I thought I'd share those changes with you and hear what you are doing these days with your card strategy. FYI, Quicken shows that I have redeemed about $830 so far in cash back rewards this year. Not bad, huh? That said, some of the monies … [Read more...]
7 Steps to Millions More: Be Attractive
In How to Manage Your Career to Make Millions More I listed seven steps to making the most of your career. Today we will be going into details of step #4: be attractive. If you missed the other posts in this series, they are: 7 Steps to Millions More: Over-Perform 7 Steps to Millions More: Be Likeable 7 Steps to Millions More: Network Sorry, But That's … [Read more...]
7 Steps to Millions More: Network
In How to Manage Your Career to Make Millions More I listed seven steps to making the most of your career. Today we will be going into details of step #3: network. If you missed the other posts in this series, they are: 7 Steps to Millions More: Over-Perform 7 Steps to Millions More: Be Likeable Broad Topic Networking is a very broad topic. Many, many books … [Read more...]
7 Steps to Millions More: Be Likeable
In How to Manage Your Career to Make Millions More I listed seven steps to making the most of your career. Today we will be going into details of the second step: be likeable. So that everyone is up-to-speed, recall that we've already covered step 1: 7 Steps to Millions More: Over-Perform. Being likeable is not something that most people generally think of as a path to … [Read more...]
7 Steps to Millions More: Over-Perform
In How to Manage Your Career to Make Millions More I listed seven steps to making the most of your career. Today we will be going into details of the first step: over-perform. This is the first thing that pops into the minds of most people when they think of succeeding at work: performing well. It is an important part of making the most of your career for sure, but it's not … [Read more...]
The Day My Most Valuable Asset Took a Hit
Many ESI readers are friends of mine and know about a career move I made a couple years ago from Michigan to Oklahoma. Several have asked me to give an update on that move and how I ended up in my new state of Colorado. It's a story full of twists and turns (and some good learnings), so I thought the rest of you might want to hear it as well. Backstory Just to get … [Read more...]
How to Earn Thousands with Credit Card Rewards
As I noted in Earn Overview: How to Grow Your Income one way to pick up some extra funds is to look for small opportunities to make money here and there. Today we are going to talk about one of those opportunities: making money with cash back credit cards. The idea is as simple as using a credit card to make your purchases and earning rewards and signup bonuses for doing … [Read more...]
