Passive Income and Business Report

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So, spring is here (ahem, it’s freezing outside) and it’s time for me to look back on the last quarter to see how I’ve done plus set some goals for the next 3 months. Last year, I made $8,553 passive income. And the year before (I wasn’t really counting) I made around $1000. So I’m [...]

DMP 006: Starting a Web Design Business with John Romaine

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Here is my 6th show in the Design and Marketing Podcast where I speak to Aussie web designer and passive income fiend, John Romaine. We talk a bit about John’s background in the east coast of Australia as well as contributory factors that led up to his decision to quit his stable government job to [...]

Annual Passive Income and Business Goal Report 2013

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Here is an end-of-year assessment of my “improvement” or “progress” with my passive income and business. Ever since this time last year, I’ve been more serious about setting goals and passive income targets and I’ve been sharing them here on my blog. Half way through the year, I reported on my progress on the first [...]

Web Designer and Businesswoman Randa Clay

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Randa Clay is a mother of two from Texas, USA. She has clients that she’s picked up from her portfolio site RandaClay.com and sells WordPress themes at DivaThemes.com. She also runs hugely successful kids websites at FreeStuff4Kids, FunPlace Database as well as Homeschool Roundup which is about teaching your kids at home rather than sending them [...]

DMP 001: Welcome to the Design and Marketing Podcast – Interview with Tara Roskell

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Drumroll please! Yes, this (above) is my first podcast. The first of the imaginatively titled Design and Marketing Podcast. What the first episode is about … The subject of my first interview is the very wonderful Tara Roskell. Tara is a graphic designer with many years experience who is based in Northamptonshire in the United [...]

Building a Successful Design Blog and Earning Passive Income

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Interview with Steven Snell of Vandelay Design Blog Steven Snell is an inspiration to me and many other blogging designers who run businesses. Vandelay Design Blog, which he started with little design experience about 7 years ago, is now one of the best known design blogs and has an Alexa Rank of 6,000. The six [...]

My Passive Income and Business Report

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We are three quarters through the year now. It’s time to assess my passive income and business plan and time to see if I hit my targets. Targets are good for lazy cats and dreamers like me. My passive income My passive income for the first half of the year was $3331.00. I earned this [...]

My Passive Income So Far This Year

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We are half way through 2012 now. It reminds me how quickly time flies so I’ll take a step back and re-evaluate where I’m going. One of the goals I had at the beginning of the year was for passive income. I had a target of $2000 to make in the first half of this [...]

My Business Plan for 2012

My Business Plan for 2012

I would like to belatedly wish you all a very Happy New Year! I had planned to publish this post earlier. Time was increasingly an issue in 2011 and it looks just as elusive now! I’ve been reading my post from year ago on my business plan for 2011 and it was very interesting although [...]

My design business plan for next year

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This time last year I resolved to get more involved in social media. So in 2010, I opened a Twitter account, a YouTube channel and engaged in many other sharing and social activities online. This has been a great success. It brings traffic to this site, wins me more clients and is making me better [...]

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