http://www.emilycressey.com/blog Creating Financial Freedom Using Real Estate For Wealth, and Business For Cash Flow Sun, 26 Jul 2009 05:59:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/evening-inspiration http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/evening-inspiration#comments Sun, 26 Jul 2009 05:55:48 +0000 Emily http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/?p=284 It’s 10:30 at night on a Saturday, and you might be wondering why I am taking this time to update my blog… Truth be told it’s been a while, an embarrassingly long time, in fact, since I updated. The good news is that it has been a very busy and productive several months. The real [...]
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]]> http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/do-you-know-how-to-twitter/feed 0 http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/tax-time-do-you-understand-your-tax-return http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/tax-time-do-you-understand-your-tax-return#comments Sat, 04 Apr 2009 18:31:21 +0000 Emily http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/2009/04/04/tax-time-do-you-understand-your-tax-return/ Whoa – I was amazed to see that my husband and I were getting a giant tax refund this year.  Good as it feels to get that nice check from the government, mathematically it doesn’t make a lot of sense to try to get a lot of money back.  You’ve just loaned that money, interest [...]
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]]> http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/tax-time-do-you-understand-your-tax-return/feed 0 http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/saving-time-with-online-businesses-using-the-power-of-leverage http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/saving-time-with-online-businesses-using-the-power-of-leverage#comments Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:21:16 +0000 Emily http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/2009/04/03/saving-time-with-online-businesses-using-the-power-of-leverage/ Today I am working on systematizing my online businesses and getting some leverage behind me. The websites I’m currently using to make money include: TheRealWealthBlog.com which focuses on commercial real estate investing for beginners I also have my dog website, which is nicely optimized for adsense income and selling an ebook on how to knit [...]
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]]> http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/saving-time-with-online-businesses-using-the-power-of-leverage/feed 0 http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/thanks-to-the-renegade-network-marketer-ann-sieg-i-think-i-finally-get-the-new-wave-of-network-marketing http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/thanks-to-the-renegade-network-marketer-ann-sieg-i-think-i-finally-get-the-new-wave-of-network-marketing#comments Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:20:53 +0000 Emily http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/2009/03/12/thanks-to-the-renegade-network-marketer-ann-sieg-i-think-i-finally-get-the-new-wave-of-network-marketing/ Even though I'm not in an MLM business, I am strangely fascinated by the model. My concern has always been that, like President Obama, they are selling hope but not real results - and using high-pressure tactics to do it. Ann Sieg, The Renegade Network Marketer, has put a different more "traditional business" spin on MLM that I think makes sense in many ways. Is this the future of network marketing?
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]]> http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/thanks-to-the-renegade-network-marketer-ann-sieg-i-think-i-finally-get-the-new-wave-of-network-marketing/feed 2 http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/are-you-getting-out-of-the-market http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/are-you-getting-out-of-the-market#comments Thu, 05 Mar 2009 04:45:03 +0000 Emily http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/2009/03/04/are-you-getting-out-of-the-market/ I promised I’d keep you up to date on the stock market insights passed along from my Father who spend a good deal of his time immersed in the financial news of the day.  And there is some heated political commentary here which I don’t apologize for since I think the misguided “fairness” policies of [...]
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]]> http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/free-subs-at-quiznos/feed 0 http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/my-friend-byron-from-denver-a-double-success-story http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/my-friend-byron-from-denver-a-double-success-story#comments Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:29:02 +0000 Emily http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/2009/02/23/my-friend-byron-from-denver-a-double-success-story/ Back when I got started investing in real estate, I signed up for a coaching program with Mentor Financial Group, I’ve probably told that story before. I remember when I got started there was one “really cool” student who was a few months ahead of me in the coaching program.  His name was Byron Walker [...]
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]]> http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/my-friend-byron-from-denver-a-double-success-story/feed 0 http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/status-report-short-sales-abound-even-in-seattle http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/status-report-short-sales-abound-even-in-seattle#comments Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:06:07 +0000 Emily http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/2009/02/23/status-report-short-sales-abound-even-in-seattle/ Wow, in the last month, I have been surprised by the number of short sale homes in the Seattle area.  I have recently started showing homes for Redfin, a low-cost, full-service real estate brokerage started by some local entrepreneurs here in Seattle. (The super-cool connection is that it was started by two guys in my [...]
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