Yaro Starak - Blog Lifestyle Freedom
April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Yaro Starak is an Australian blogger that has put out great content over the years on how to make a living while blogging.
He wrote a post about creating a free lifestyle and about his upcoming trips to Fiji, Canada and Hawaii.
While it does not seem like he is taking his wife and thirteen children, it is still worth a read. This lifestyle is possible for families that take a year off as well. And if you get everyone writing, you can all work a little less and have a little more fun.
Work From Home - Virtual Buzz Assistants
April 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment
One of the great things about our business is we often work creating buzz for companies. Doing those kinds of activities is flexible and can be done from home. If you are trying to design a more free lifestlye, finding an opportunity like that is essential.
Visit Virtual Buzz Assistant for the details.
You can open a Virtual Buzz Assistant business and work at home (or from a hotel anywhere) and enjoy the kind of like you have always wanted.
Why am I helping other people do that? - Good question.
I travel the country speaking and training people on creating buzz. The #1 request I get is for help creating buzz, even though we tell people they can do it themselves.
We would take on a few clients like this each year, but could not do many without hindering our goals of travel and education.
By forming the Virtual Buzz Assistant Network, I am able to help people be better Virtual Marketers and I can send clients directly to them when I get the opportunity. Truly a win/win.
Your Family Enterprise
February 16, 2008 | 1 Comment
One of the greatest mistakes our schools make is the lack of focus on finance. Not balancing your checkbook or managing your charge cards, but how to create wealth. When someone complains about the economy or the job market, what are they complaining about? They are complaining that there are not more individuals that are skilled at creating businesses, jobs and wealth. All business starts with individuals.
Family Entrepreneurships is one solution to this problem. We do not mean family entrepreneurship as in starting a family restaurant. We are talking about setting off on a journey to learn how to be entrepreneurs together.
First let’s look at the word Entrepreneurship. It is not the same as business owner. An entrepreneur is skilled at creating wealth. A business owner should be skilled at managing. If you are a family of entrepreneurs, you are using your skills to produce wealth, but not necessarily opening up and office or hiring staff.
This is an important distinction. My first attempt at family entrepreneurship was my 8 year old starting a business. She had a lot of fun, but the difficulty of building a business instead of focusing on building wealth hurt our success.
Start Simple and Learn Together
The first step to creating an environment is to start very simple and grow. Your primary goal is wealth creation, even if it is $50 a month.
There are plenty of business plan templates online. Write a business plan that focuses on wealth creation – but keep it to only a few pages. If you need more pages, the idea is too complex for your first idea.
Your business plan should answer the following questions:
- How will we make money?
- How will we find customers?
- Why would customers by from us?
- What are our start-up expenses?
- How much time does each person need to put in?
- What are each person’s responsibilities?
- What do you currently spend money on that could become a business expense?
The benefits of having a while family involved in a successful enterprise are big. There are substantial tax advantages, there is the learning your family is getting, there is freedom if you build your business to the point where it becomes a reliable cash machine and you are building and investment for the future.
The key thing to remember is you are going to have many more benefits if it actually has some income. Don’t start something that is going to take a year to see a dollar unless you already have other money making ventures running. Simplicity and an income focus are what is going to sustain your energy and contribute to your family entrepreneurship success.
Why Family Entrepreneurship?
February 8, 2008 | 1 Comment
Family Lifestlye Design is an online magazine committed to helping families live the lives they want to now. Not after the kids have moved off to college.
Family Entrepreneurship is an important category because owning a business is one tool to create more opportunities for travel, for financial freedom and for empowering every member of the family to be more independant.
This category will focus on things you can do to invest and grow a business with the entire family involved and building wealth while having more free time.