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Every article on Intellectual property from Five Years to Financial Freedom.
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I think everybody at some point either through panic, boredom of curiosity has looked for ways to make money fast. Here is a list of 40 ways to make money with fairly minimal skill needed. If you need to raise hundreds of thousands quickly, most of these may not be for you. For that, I’d
I graduated from university with a commercial property degree and even then thought the only way to be a property investor was to have a bucket of money. Not true. There are many ways to make money in property without having a bucket of money. The method I’ve used the most is by working with
In this impromptu interview, Anders Eklund and Nate Chai share several tips on how to optimise your product or service using examples from an engineered based product. Should you have a slow internet connection or cannot hear the interview, Anders Eklund’s tips are summarised below the video. However, if you can, we recommend you watch
What do you think a best selling book can do for your business? Michael Mathews knows. In this interview, Michael shares with Ben Chai several tips on how you can create your own best selling book. Should there be a problem with playing and listening to the video, you will find a summary of Michael’s
In this impromptu interview, Veronica Sosa shares the key points of her insights into branding via social media given at the Swedish Wealth Institute. For those with bad connections, we’ve written up a brief excerpt of our chat in note form below the video. However, when you have time and a stronger internet connection, listen
One major hurdle in attracting loyal customers is trust. We humans are designed not to take risks; if we have to use our resources on something then we need to know that what we’re getting is a good deal. Two key components for gaining belief and trust in your products and services are; how effectively you demonstrate your knowledge and the testimonials of
In this interview with property expert, Alex Williams, Alex shares how he got into property, and the type of innovation and creativity he needed to turn his early disasters into successes. Alex builds on the lessons from the previous stories he shared with us on essential property mindsets and strange but true tenant stories. For those
In this interview, Nate Chai Skypes with John Mark Wilderspin about mindset and human side of financial freedom. The human side of financial freedom includes the mindset that John needed to become financially free. John also shares his insights on how wealth has affected him and his social circle, and how he is using his wealth
In this interview, John Mark shares how and why his mindset evolved beyond Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad strategies. As John learned more about property investing, and how to crunch the numbers to check a deal’s worth, he found that there are certain risks that the Rich Dad Poor Dad mindset did not totally cater for. In
In this impromptu video blog, I chat to Chris Ludwig on the seeds of his success. Prior to this video blog, I had never met Chris before or knew how amazing he is. Chris was standing next to me in a long queue and we just got chatting. Five minutes into our chat, I just
Bad credit can be a killer when it comes to acquiring property. In part two of our interview with Dean Welch, property investors Marcela Hede, Naomi Marquis, and Francine Marquis, grill Dean further into how to obtain property funding even when the banks are unwilling to lend you money for your projects. For those with
In this interview, we spent time with American accidental millionaire property investor and realtor, Dean Welch. Dean has written a booked called the accidental millionaire which should be out on Amazon in the next few months. Just to make things a little different, we had a property investor panel consisting of Marcela Hede, Naomi Marquis, and Naomi’s
A while back I was in overload mode walking around like a weird zombie (or is that my usual state?). During my Zombie-like state, I met Canadian property investor and realtor, John Mark Wilderspin. John is unique. He has so much information on how he became successful in property that he was like a fast
One aspect of being successful that we emphasise at Five Years To Financial Freedom is to follow your passion. Laura Timm’s dream was to come to the UK and make it big. First in a job, then as an entrepreneur running her own businesses. You can imagine the types of challenges Laura had to face in just beginning
I am particularly pleased to share this interview with property developer, builder, and successful HMO (houses of multiple occupancy) property investor, Alex Williams. I first met Alex in Swansea. At the time I was looking for a builder to help me with a particularly challenging property purchased in an auction. Over time, it turned out that
At Five Years To Financial Freedom, we have a lot of queries on how to make money fast and how to make large sums of money. However, we believe this should be the last question that people should ask us. Financial freedom is not just about finance, it is also about freedom. Just think how much
Hey readers! Thanks for all the private messages and Likes you’ve given us for parts one and two of our interview with Swedish property entrepreneur, and all-round hard worker, Daniel Wood. Many of you may not know this but Daniel Wood was not a university graduate. He was just a very hard working family guy who hopes
Hey guys, we’ve got a treat for you this week! Five years to Financial Freedom had the chance to speak with Clive Wadham-Smith, a solicitor that specialises in commercial property sales, contracts, and buying commercial properties. In this interview, Clive talks about the most common misconceptions about solicitors, how to find the right solicitor for you,
Not content with sharing all his incredible property knowledge, Ryan Windsor sat down with us once again. This time he tells us his own incredible journey to financial freedom, from dropping out of school at 16 without a penny to his name, to owning 11 properties and having a net worth of roughly £1,500,000. In
Hey readers, we’ve got a real treat for you today. The founder of Windsor Enterprises, writer of the Archant group’s business advice column, and all round good guy, Ryan Windsor sat down with us and discussed his journey from high-school drop out to achieving financial freedom. His route to financial freedom was through property, and
You often hear it from the now wealthy “I wish I’d started sooner”, today we’re talking to Stephanie Brennan who heeded that advice. By 23, Stephanie was already an Australian property millionaire and at just 24 she now boasts a property portfolio worth AUD$2.3 million (£1,060,000), in this in-depth interview she reveals; how she discovered her passion,