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How to Invest $2,500 and Generate $250,000 or More Per Year
The main difference between investing and spending.
This article is about how you can do what I did if you haven’t done so; invest in training, certification, or specialized knowledge and do so affordably. Then, you learn to network and promote your value in a specialized way. Specialists typically get paid better than generalists.
The amount of money isn’t the point of my article. It’s the formula of investing in educating yourself and finding helpful knowledge that can solve problems for the people you serve in business. Whether you use savings or borrow money, you either invest or save it. It’s up to all of us to learn the difference.
The best measure of success for all investments is called the Return On Investment. Invest X and get Y over some time. The way to make money is in the form of income now, income later, and capital appreciation.
I’ll tell you about one investment that created buckets of cash flow and profit for my family and me. And I eventually sold the business for more than I invested in starting and growing it over several years.
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