Category: New Jobs, Extra Income & Making Money
The Best Retirement Communities in Florida [COMPLETE LIST]
The state’s great weather makes Florida a very popular place to retire, but which of the many retirement communities should you choose? Everyone will have a different view on the best retirement community for their needs in Florida. It depends on factors like your activity level, social preferences, and more. Some top options include The Villages, Bear Creek, and Lakewood Ranch. Take a look at these and other top retirement communities in Florida and how to choose the right one to live out your golden years. Best Retirement Communities In Florida: Your Complete Guide Florida is one of the most popular states for retirees for many reasons, including its hot winter months and still-warm winters. A large number of Florida residents are at least 60 years old,
How To Avoid Paying Capital Gains Tax On Inherited Property?
Good ol’ Uncle Sam always wants his fair cut of your cash—even when a loved one dies and generously leaves you some property. Like it or not, inheritances have tax consequences, one of them being capital gains on assets like real estate. Fortunately, there are ways and means to minimize this tax burden legally. Six practical ways to reduce or eliminate capital gains tax on inherited property include: Sell the property immediately Use the property as your primary residence Turn it into a rental Consider a 1031 exchange Disclaim the inheritance Deduct selling expenses from capital gains Although not all of these strategies will appeal to you; they’re highly effective ways to keep more of what you inherit. In this post, we’ll explore each option to help you
How to Invest 100K to Make $1 Million [COMPLETE GUIDE]
Do you have $100k burning a hole in your pocket? Looking for the right investment opportunities to turn that $100k into $1 million? From savings accounts, real estate, and stocks to index funds, retirement accounts, and cryptocurrency, there are numerous ways to multiply your money. A diverse investment portfolio is best, but which methods suit your goals depends on several factors, including your risk tolerance. That said, we’ll walk you through some top options, touching on your investment style, where to invest, how long it’ll take to turn $100,000 into $1 million, and more. How To Turn 100k Into 1 Million Investing $100,000 might give you the leverage you need to achieve millionaire status relatively quickly, but investing that kind of cash can also be a
Get Your First 1000 Readers: Here’s Your Step by Step Plan
The post Get Your First 1000 Readers: Here’s Your Step by Step Plan appeared first on ProBlogger. Photo by delfi de la Rua on Unsplash By ProBlogger Writing Expert Ali Luke. Has your blog got a grand total of three subscribers? (You, your test account, and your mum?) Maybe you’ve got a little bit further than that. You’ve got 10 or 20 or 50 readers signed up to read your posts or your newsletter. But you don’t know where to go next. I’m going to assume that your blog is currently in reasonably good shape. If there are any key things that you need to do or fix, then get those sorted before proceeding. (For instance, if your About page is currently a single line saying About page under construction,
How to Use Numbers Effectively in Your Blog Posts
The post How to Use Numbers Effectively in Your Blog Posts appeared first on ProBlogger. Photo by Nick Hillier on Unsplash You’re a blogger, so hopefully you feel confident working with words. But words alone aren’t enough. Even if you haven’t been blogging for long (or are yet to start), you’ve probably noticed numbers coming up a lot in other people’s posts. You often find numbers in post titles such as: How I Made over $500,000 with the Amazon Affiliate Program (ProBlogger) Marketing Doesn’t Have to Be Sleazy: 5 Real-World Examples (Copyblogger) $453k in 33 Days: A Guide to Launching on Kickstarter – Guest Post by John Lee Dumas (Smart Passive Income) Even if they don’t appear in the post’s title of the post, numbers can be
Why Nobody Reads Your Content and What to do About it
The post Why Nobody Reads Your Content and What to do About it appeared first on ProBlogger. Photo by Brands&People on Unsplash Question: How do people read online? Answer: They don’t read, they scan. In research on how people read websites it’s been found that 79{6f482cd57796f86e9ad1be82bcf1dcf19049bb2b279893497447a8f8ed9023fd} of users first scanned any new page they came across and only 16{6f482cd57796f86e9ad1be82bcf1dcf19049bb2b279893497447a8f8ed9023fd} read word-by-word. Knowing this, how should bloggers who want to reach an audience and communicate effectively write? Why do people scan? Chances are that not everyone who comes across your blog will already be a devoted reader. These new visitors want to find out quickly whether reading what you’ve written is a worthwhile investment of their time. Studies have also shown that
11 Tips to Create a Personal Connection with Your Audience
The post 11 Tips to Create a Personal Connection with Your Audience appeared first on ProBlogger. Photo by Duy Pham on Unsplash Have you ever experienced being very connected to a blogger? For me, there’s been several times over the years where it’s felt like a blogger is talking directly to me through their writing and/or podcasting. Some content creators just seem to have that sense of who is on the other side of their content and the ability to draw their reader/listener/viewer into (almost) a conversation in the way that they communicate. A personal example of this is a podcaster called Rob Bell, who every time I listen to him, it feels like he is directly talking to me. This is probably because he
How to Turn Your Business Blog Readers Into Paying Customers
The post How to Turn Your Business Blog Readers Into Paying Customers appeared first on ProBlogger. Photo by Towfiqu barbhuiya on Unsplash This is a guest contribution from Alicia Rades. You started a blog for your business because you recognized the importance of content marketing. You know that businesses that blog get more traffic than those that don’t. But more traffic doesn’t necessarily mean more customers. You have to be able to leverage your blog content in a way that convinces readers to trust you and buy from you. So how do you get readers to pay for your product or service? Start with these five tactics you can use in your blog posts today. 1. Weave Testimonials Into Your Content People are naturally skeptical when businesses talk
Discover a New Way to Protect Yourself from Data-Loss Nightmares
The post Discover a New Way to Protect Yourself from Data-Loss Nightmares appeared first on ProBlogger. Photo by Cookie the Pom on Unsplash How do you backup your computer/s? This past month I’ve changed my approach and I wish I’d done it earlier. In this article I’ll tell you why I’ve switched. For many years I’ve used hard drives onsite at my house and have then backed up those drives to others offsite at a family member’s house. The problems with this are numerous. Maybe you can relate. Photo by Lorenzo Herrera on Unsplash So Much Data Firstly – the size of our backups keeps growing as we take more photos, videos and create more docs. While some of
How to Build a Blog that Has Lasting Impact Upon Its Readers
The post How to Build a Blog that Has Lasting Impact Upon Its Readers appeared first on ProBlogger. Photo by Kristian Angelo on Unsplash If you want to have a blog that makes a difference in the lives of those who read it, I would highly recommend getting clarity around these three simple (yet powerful) questions: Who are your readers? What do they need? How will they change as a result of reading your blog? Previously I wrote very briefly about these questions and suggested that they might be a great way to come up with a purpose statement for a blog. Since that time I’ve had conversations with four ProBlogger readers who took these questions and applied them to their own blogs – and in
How to Be a Purple Cow Blogger
The post How to Be a Purple Cow Blogger appeared first on ProBlogger. Photo by Daniel Quiceno M on Unsplash One of the common mistakes that I see in many blogs is that they are quite simply unremarkable. We’ve all seen seen these blogs – (and most of us if we’re honest will admit to having written them at some point) – they are the blogs you look at for a few seconds without actually seeing anything before you surf on to some other site. Blog readers only stay on any given post for an average of 96 seconds. Its not long! So you’ve only got just over one and a half minutes to make an impression – to do something remarkable that will rock
