I have been a long-time reader and fan of Money Saving Mom. I have learned a lot
from this blog and I freely admit it has been hugely instrumental in allowing
us to live on one income. I’ve also guest posted for her a few times (1//2//3)
I was very excited to join her book launch team and happily
accepted a copy of her newest book, MoneyMaking Mom, in exchange for an honest review.
My honest review is that I loved the book.
Our ultimate goal is to work side-by-side, in a setting that
allows us to parent and homeschool our children while supporting each other in
bringing in an income for our family.
At this point in time Ryan is still very firmly planted in
the traditional work world, but we have big goals to move that down to a
part-time status and to eventually work only for ourselves. Our ultimate goal
is to live out in a self-sustaining cabin in the woods with a few small
vacation rental cabins on our property. We would bring in income through those
cabins, in-town real estate ventures, and any other passive/residual income sources
that seem to work for us to meet our own income needs and to sponsor several
children through Compassion. Actually we’d ultimately love to be able to travel
out and visit them every few years.
Obviously that can’t happen overnight so in the meantime we
focus on a funnel-effect of income sources we hope will lead us to our dreams
sooner rather than later. So for now I focus on this blog, our children’s book website (www.NameInABook.com), and booksales. Ryan wrote an eBook
earlier this year and we’ve been working towards our goal of a business he’ll
be running mostly by himself. (I’ll be helping with the books and phone calls
but won’t typically be on-site with him)
We have all these great ideas that don’t take off like we’d
of course hope they do, but reading this book gave me some really great ideas
for pushing those things forward. I got a lot of good ideas for the main
business (Ryan’s), but I was especially excited about some of the ideas it
spurred for me to use for the website and for marketing my books in the future.
My favorite things about the book were real-life examples
she shared from other readers who have made their own business ventures take
off, a variety of levels of business goals (we have never been looking to get
rich, just to make it and still have time to be a family), a realistic approach
since our children/family is our ultimate priority, and a very strong
encouragement to use your success to help others.
That's so great that it helped you hone in on your goals and that it gave you some ideas!
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