Millennial Making Millions

I love passive income. Those who know me also know I love saving money. Finding ways to turn expenses into income just makes me giddy. Here was the situation. I enjoy outdoor activities and have a lot of gear — more than I should have. Like, I’ve got 7 sleeping bags right now for my family of 3, and about that many sleeping pads  and hammocks . There’s a lot. I also have a lot of gear that I don’t use all that often, but I don’t really want to get rid of it. I probably should get rid of it, but I don’t want to. To my wife who watches organization shows, yes, my snorkels I have never used bring me joy, which means I get to keep them! Thank you Marie Kondo. The issue becomes, what am I going to do with all this stuff? We just upgraded from a 2 bedroom apartment to a 3 bedroom apartment. I was feeling pretty good about this until we moved all our stuff into it. 4 months into our new place and we’ve filled up that space. Whoopsies. I even still had a kayak sitting in my in-laws garage and

Extremely Successful This month, March 2021, has been pretty successful for Apocalyptic Prepping . Below is the growth in different categories: Money Made: $3.19 (up from $1.86) Amazon Sales: 14 (up from 3) Email List: 8 (up from 2) Facebook Page Likes: 63 (up from 32) Page Views: 1291 (down from 1797) My main takeaways were that I had less people, but I'm attracting the right people. My content is also driving more sales to people who are coming to my website, so that is exciting. The increases in page likes and email list subscribers are also a sign that I'm attracting the right people. I've been learning SEO My biggest lesson of the month about SEO is about nofollow and sponsored marked links. There are ways you can mark your affiliate/money making links as sponsored. I was doing research and apparently  google can penalize you for having your links not marked as such and they notice your affiliate links are in fact affiliate links and not just links to another site. Yo

This website was originally intended to be part of my journey to make millions of dollars. Over the few years I've run it though, it has made me about $200. That's enough to justify continuing to pay for the URL, but that's about it. I have a wide variety of interests though, so I have started a few other websites, and have written about them all here. None of them have been very profitable. Until now. My current website I'm working on is apocalypticprepping.com  (I'm pretty proud of that URL). That website has been live for 3 days and I just checked my amazon affiliate page, and someone had ordered something through one of my links. I was pretty thrilled. This led to me doing more research into conversions, why people were ordering, and why this website was making money better after 3 days than any of my other websites. Traffic coming to Apocalyptic Prepping: The audience is key for why I believe this website is already making money. I'm creating my content for

When Ellis Atwood was ready to renovate his new home in Orem, UT, he was frustrated by how much of a hassle it was to rent the tools he needed. Renting required multiple trips to the store, reservations couldn’t be made in advance, and it was expensive. At the same time, he noticed his home storage space was filling up with tools and outdoor gear that he rarely used, but wasn’t quite ready to sell. Those problems inspired Atwood to start RentalS hare , a community-powered rental shop in Orem, UT. RentalShare is based on a simple premise - they offer you free storage for the tools and outdoor gear you use less often, and then they rent your gear out to the community, and they pay you a commission when your gear is used. Along the way, they handle repairs and maintenance, so you can have confidence they’ll have your stuff ready to pick up in good condition when you need it again. “Free storage is very compelling. People love the idea of sharing and getting by with less. That

I track the stats on what types of posts get the most traffic on my website, and you, my dear readers, have spoken. From here on out, I plan on focusing my website on people's stories, the stories of entrepreneurs making money. All of my past content on saving money will still be available here . I put a lot of work into that content, with experimenting and other tests, and it continues to save me hundreds, and provides some income for me as well, so I won't cut it out completely, but it will not be the primary focus of my website.  The most popular post I've written was my post on the business I started with my brothers-- a recycling business that serviced Mapleton and Springville, UT. We created it, we expanded it, and we sold it. You can read more about that here .  The next 3 most popular posts all dealt with entrepreneurs I had written about, or entrepreneurial topics. They are Making Millions, I'm Getting There , A LuLaroe Seller , and The Story of a L

My power company just sent me free LED bulbs. If your power company has offered this, and you haven't taken advantage of it, DO IT! If I had traditional incandescent bulbs in my house to begin with, there would be 720 watts of power in just the lights. The LED bulbs brought that number down to 92. That is effectively 1/8th the power. I wrote a paper about cost savings on a government housing project for switching to LED lighting. If you want to apply this to just yourself, add the government benefits to the tenant benefits.  TLDR version: No matter what type of light bulb you have, its better by a significant amount, to switch to LEDs. The numbers are below. As I will explain below, the numbers are based on my apartment complex, but I also have between 200-400 consistent readers of my blog, so if every one of my readers changed to LEDs, it could have a net 20 year benefit of $400k-800k for all of them, or a $2,000 20 year benefit per person (all based on today's dollars). The