What's new? 10-10-10 new retirement date
Saturday, May 09, 2009
Zeeba Ville has a new raison d’être.
I have made a goal of retiring from the rat race by 10/10/10. I made an attempt at doing just that back in 2005 with the wild idea of opening a used book store in Montreal. This site was first opened as a way to talk with my patrons from that shop. Here we are in 2009, the shop closed last year, I lost a small fortune but learned a lot. One of the main things that I picked up is that passive income is way better than very active income. The shop was very labour intensive and my family suffered from it. So my new goal involves keeping my 9 to 5 job while building passive income through a variety of websites. I’ll use this platform to keep you all abreast of my activities, see if what I’m trying to do is do-able and provide links to my other projects (both for you to follow the progress of and to help a bit with SEO). I haven’t decided if I should include dollar amounts. Perhaps I will if only to use as personal encouragement. 17 months to replace about $3000 a month in Salary – do-able ?
Here is my list of activities – it will surely evolve.
Zeeba Books – books on or about Montreal & Hockey
The Big Desk – personal blog on all that interests me
The Bookshop Blog – news and opinion on the bookselling world
The Hockey Writers
Hub Pages – short articles on just about anything
Yahoo Store – to be determined, perhaps maritime art ?
And this site Zeeba Ville – to follow all the rest.
I have made a goal of retiring from the rat race by 10/10/10. I made an attempt at doing just that back in 2005 with the wild idea of opening a used book store in Montreal. This site was first opened as a way to talk with my patrons from that shop. Here we are in 2009, the shop closed last year, I lost a small fortune but learned a lot. One of the main things that I picked up is that passive income is way better than very active income. The shop was very labour intensive and my family suffered from it. So my new goal involves keeping my 9 to 5 job while building passive income through a variety of websites. I’ll use this platform to keep you all abreast of my activities, see if what I’m trying to do is do-able and provide links to my other projects (both for you to follow the progress of and to help a bit with SEO). I haven’t decided if I should include dollar amounts. Perhaps I will if only to use as personal encouragement. 17 months to replace about $3000 a month in Salary – do-able ?
Here is my list of activities – it will surely evolve.
Zeeba Books – books on or about Montreal & Hockey
The Big Desk – personal blog on all that interests me
The Bookshop Blog – news and opinion on the bookselling world
The Hockey Writers
Hub Pages – short articles on just about anything
Yahoo Store – to be determined, perhaps maritime art ?
And this site Zeeba Ville – to follow all the rest.
Labels: Hockey Writers, maritime art, rat race, retirement
A recap on where I've been hiding.
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
It's been a while hasn't it. I won't go on about why I haven't been posting much, I hate when I see this on other blogs. The fact is that I've posted tons, just not much here. In the post 4 months we've posted about 800 articles on The Hockey Writers, one of the best hockey blogs around. Everything from Pittsburgh's Sydney Crosby to Ovechkin's stick. It's a joy running that site and if you love hockey be sure to check it out.
I've also revamped The Bookshop Blog and have tons of info on Opening a Bookstore. In fact we just had about 6 new writers join us.
And there is The Big Desk, my personal think tank, more like a gold fish bowl but fun none the less. I just posted a comparison of top blog's sidebars.
So there you have it. Tons of posts - just not here.
I've also revamped The Bookshop Blog and have tons of info on Opening a Bookstore. In fact we just had about 6 new writers join us.
And there is The Big Desk, my personal think tank, more like a gold fish bowl but fun none the less. I just posted a comparison of top blog's sidebars.
So there you have it. Tons of posts - just not here.
Labels: Blog Sidebars, Bookstore Mailers, Opening a Bookstore, Ovechkin, Sydney Crosby
