People always ask us the best way to buy used and discount books online, so I put together a how-to guide and published it on our new website booksmn.com. We put together a 3000+ word guide that will show you with text and illustrations… The best places to buy used books online How to decide [...]

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I’m tired of everyone telling us how to save money. What we need is people telling us how to make money. Like a lot of people today, maybe your budget is tight. Maybe you read Money Magazine looking for a few tips to get ahead. Or maybe you read Get Rich Slowly (one of my favorite blogs). [...]

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Don’t you love stories about children who can face life threatening hardship with bravery, optimism, and cheerfulness? When their young minds comprehend not only the physical challenges facing them, but also the financial challenges, and seek out and find solutions? Let me tell you about Malkolm. I first heard about Malklom a couple of days [...]

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Have you ever heard, “You have to have money to make money?” I suppose it’s true. But you don’t have to have much. We started christinesbooks.net in 2003 with $500.00, haven’t incurred a single dollar of debt since, and grew it organically. How did we do it? Persistence, patience, and a lot of frugality. In [...]

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In this post, I am going to detail my experiences finding the right place for our business at the right price. We found it, and last week, we signed the lease. We are remodeling and moving in over the next six weeks. We’ve been planning to move christinesbooks.net from our home to a commercial bricks [...]

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Have you heard that 50% of small businesses fail in the first year and 95% fail in the first five years? Let me tell you why. Most small businesses fail becuase they can’t handle debt, get buried by rent, or get pushed into risky decisions by impatient investors. I’ve seen a lot of business fail [...]

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Jonathan Fields was kind enough to interview us on Career Renegade TV. We loved doing this interview. Jonathan is a great guy and makes you feel at ease. We planned to do audio only but at the last minute we decided to go for the video. Let us know what you think. We talk mostly [...]

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Safety is a trap. It is also an illusion that is turning many of us into spineless blobs. Safety watches re-runs. Risk writes the next smash hit. Calculated risk turns mediocrity into excellence. Life reminds me of crossing the Missippippi headwaters on stepping stones when I was a kid. First you must decide to get [...]

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Financial intelligence is mostly counter intuitive. Take everything you feel about the economy and turn it on its head. You’ve heard “buy low, sell high,” right? Sounds easy enough, but how do you do it? Most people buy high and sell low. This is why the rich are rich and most of us aren’t. The [...]

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I struggle with this question everyday, “What am I going to do with all my opportunities?” Sometimes I ask, “What am I going to do?” But I wonder if that’s the right question. Maybe it is “What do I need to stop doing?” You can’t focus on everything that has potential. If you try, you’ll [...]

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