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☆ I do private Botox parties as a fun and lucrative side gig. Here's how I got certified and what they're like.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( Natalie Rahhal | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Dr. Samantha Ellison worked at Botox parties on her days off as a traveling physician. Ellison says Botox parties can be really fun and lucrative, depending on how you market yourself. Botox parties are really laid-backA lot of these Botox parties occur in the evening, so it's popular to have a sleepover where people come in themed pajamas. Doing Botox parties can be really fun and lucrative, depending on how you market yourself and how good your network is. The biggest challenge of working as both a hospitalist physician and doing Botox parties is the mental switch it requires.

☆ I'm an OnlyFans creator who sells personal items like my underwear. Here's how I promote myself on Reddit and Twitter to find buyers.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-27 | by ( Lola Christina Alao | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

She began selling personal items online on the side after people asked for them. At the strip club I was introduced to the concept of selling weird items online, and I found my first few clients. Blue has sold a variety of personal items. I've had a lot of luck with auctions on sites where selling personal items is allowed, and I do one almost daily. About 20% of my OnlyFans income comes from selling items, and the rest comes from images and videos.

☆ I made $363,000 last year from self-publishing my books. Here's how I did it spending less than $20 a week on ads and winning over BookTok.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-21 | by ( Ella Hopkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

She connected with readers through authors' Facebook groups and by posting regularly on #BookTok. I decided to also publish my books through Kindle Select, which made my books accessible on Kindle Unlimited, a KDP subscription serviceI've always been a big reader, and I used Kindle Unlimited when I was struggling with money. I'd found so many authors I loved on Kindle Unlimited — it was important to me to have my book available there, too. I decided to make my books accessible to Kindle Unlimited readers. I connected with new readers by posting videos and doing takeovers of other author's Facebook pagesI hustled hard on social media.

☆ Sony's movie chief talks China censorship, upcoming game adaptation 'Gran Turismo,' and how his studio is preparing for a potential Hollywood writers' strike
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Claire Atkinson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

It was a long-term deal so I don't think we have to confront that yet, but it's gone terrifically for us, actually. If you don't want to compete, don't come in. Can you talk about the synergy with the Whitney Houston movie — she was a Sony Music artist — or "Gran Turismo," a Playstation game? Do you wish HBO Max's "The Last of Us," which is also based on a Sony Playstation game, had been a movie? A lot of big movies come out of it.

☆ I started an Instagram fan page for luxury watches and turned it into an $8 million resale business — here's how
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-13 | by ( Claire Turrell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

He launched the company in 2020 and opened a brick-and-mortar store in a mall in Hong Kong in 2021. When I was being interviewed by Hypebeast in Hong Kong, I met my future cofounder and ecommerce expert Sean Wong. By July 2020, Sean had left his job, and I'd moved to Hong Kong to launch the brand. The Wristcheck store in the Landmark Atrium mall in Hong Kong. By November 2022, we'd raised $8 million, with our lead investors being Gobi Partners, who manage the Alibaba Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Investment Fund.

☆ Despite 'extraordinary' 2023 rally, stocks are just OK, BlackRock's bond chief says
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-03 | by ( Morgan Chittum | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

BlackRock's bond chief Rick Rieder says the stock market rally has been "extraordinary," but he isn't overly bullish on equities just yet. Stocks have been on a tear since the start of the year, with the Nasdaq ahead 17% in the past month. "I think January was one of the most extraordinary months I've seen in my career," Rick Rieder, BlackRock's' global fixed income CIO, told Bloomberg TV on Friday. "The short covering rally in places that had been beaten down a month prior was pretty extraordinary." Despite the stock market outperformance of the companies that fell short on earnings, he said he would still buy companies with "quality income."

☆ I borrowed $50,000 to pay for college 10 years ago — now I owe double. The interest fees are screwing everyone over.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-21 | by ( Robin Madell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Lisa Sass, 31, took out $50,000 in private student loans to pay for college. At 31 years old, I never thought I'd be nearly $100,000 in debt — and that's just for student loans. Paying half allows me to afford living expenses and other bills, but my student-loan payments only cover the interest. I still owe $95,576 in loans, and it sucks that private loans were left out of President Joe Biden's forgiveness program. I think loans need to get repaid, but I don't think interest rates should be as high as they are.

☆ My Nickelodeon show 'Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide' was the high-point of my career at only 15. I'm 31 now and still trying to figure out Hollywood and adulting.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-17 | by ( Eboni Boykin-Patterson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Devon Werkheiser was the star of Nickelodeon's "Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide" in 2004. A version of "Ned's" in high school was pitched (our show was specifically about middle school) to Nickelodeon, but they passed on it. When I started going in for more dramatic roles on bigger movies and shows, I'd never be right for the part. The next level I'd been trying to get to career-wise wasn't happening, and then my personal life wasn't a walk in the park either. or "Where's 'Ned's' guide to adulting?"

☆ I'm a teacher who works at Starbucks for no salary just to cover my medical expenses
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-15 | by ( Alicia Gonzalez | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

She had considered joining the Air Force, but returned to school instead to become a teacher. At Starbucks, her medical plan costs more than she makes, but she said it's worth it. I commuted for almost a year, then was finally able to transfer to the Starbucks three minutes from my house. My paychecks are $0.00My Starbucks income doesn't cover the full monthly cost of their premium insurance plan — but it's worth it. Starbucks won't make employees pay the remainder of a monthly premium even if their paycheck doesn't cover it.

☆ I changed careers to become an acupuncturist. In a year, my business earned $200,000 — and I'm a lot happier.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-14 | by ( Elle Hardy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

I opened Moon Rabbit Acupuncture in June 2020, and in 2021, I earned a little more than $200,000 in profits. Going to acupuncture school is relatively inexpensive, about $8,000 per semester, which isn't much compared to other degrees. When I opened Moon Rabbit Acupuncture, I found myself busy very quicklySnyder standing outside Moon Rabbit. Before I opened my business, I did a lot of cold interviews with business owners. However, I felt that a huge reason for becoming an acupuncturist and opening Moon Rabbit was to link to my Asian heritage, my lineage, and my culture.

☆ I worked from the beach in Mexico for a week without telling my boss. I thought it would be easy, but I'll never do it again.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-02 | by ( Fortesa Latifi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Insider spoke to an advertising employee who went to Mexico for vacation but chose not to tell their coworkers. They said after the stress of faking it and taking video calls at 2 a.m., they'd never do it again. They spoke on the condition of anonymity to protect their career, but Insider has verified their identity and former employment. I thought working on vacation would be the fairly easy — but it wasn'tAt one hotel in Mexico, the WiFi kept cutting out, making it really difficult to get my work done that day. I remember thinking: "I'll just stay out and stay up until it's time for the call, then I'll do it and go to sleep."

☆ I left a top-floor job at Goldman Sachs for a tiny self-driving-car startup. Here's how I shook off the 'golden handcuffs' to land my dream job.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-12 | by ( Alexa St. John | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Kulkarni, a former Goldman Sachs investment associate, pivoted to a self-driving-tech startup. He started his career as an investment analyst and has a background in systems science and engineering and finance. As a third-year analyst at Goldman, I felt like that was the perfect time to take that leap of faith. And the whole idea of a boot camp is that it focuses on developing true functional skills to immediately join a startup. The first startup I joined wasn't the right cultural fitI definitely had a moment where I said: What?

☆ I worked for Elon Musk in the early days of SpaceX. Twitter execs need to be ready to work with 2 different people — good Elon and bad Elon.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Kiera Fields | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

He was impressed by Elon Musk's vision but he would yell and once called Cantrell to work at 3 a.m.Cantrell gives Twitter employees his advice on their new boss. Elon wanted to buy Russian rockets because they were cheaper than US rockets and had been told I was the guy to ask because I'd worked with the Russians. Working with Elon was like working with two different people: the good Elon and the bad Elon, and you never knew which you were going to getThe good Elon is very funny and charming. There are people at Twitter who are going to need to decide whether they are 100% aligned with Musk's mission for it. That's the good Elon.

☆ I run a soccer club I bought with 6 friends as a teen. Here's how we turned it into a TikTok sensation.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Claire Turrell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Walton & Hersham FC traces its roots to 1895 and played at Wembley, but it had fallen on hard times. My first memory of football was when I was 5 and my dad took me to watch Walton & Hersham FC play AFC Wimbledon. One Saturday in 2018, I decided to take a break from my university studies and watch a Walton & Hersham FC match with my dad. Under the new owners, Walton & Hersham FC has been promoted twice. We're not on the same scale as "Welcome to Wrexham," but we recognized the financial anguish that comes with owning a football club.

☆ Meet an island salesman who started as a tour guide and now helps the super-rich buy and sell private islands all over the world
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( Mark Ellwood | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Founder Chris Krolow runs a marketplace for buying, selling, and renting private islands. More than 20 years later, Krolow is now an island expert and the owner and operator of Private Islands Inc., a marketplace for renting and selling islands around the world. From tour guide to island salesmanSapodilla Private Island, one of the properties Krolow owns with his business partner, David Keener. He'd stumbled on a smart formula: Marketing a private island individually is expensive, as the audience for rentals or sales is small and dispersed. People aren't just crazy about renting islands, but they'll pay a premium to own one," he said.

☆ I'm a 23-year-old who's saved more than $107,000 by waitressing and bartending in Nantucket and Aspen. Here's what it's like being a seasonal worker.
▼ + stars: | 2022-03-02 | by ( Lauryn Haas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

Sam Madden, 23, has worked as a nanny, waitress, and bartender in Nantucket and Aspen for six years. I had some money saved to pay for rent because I'd worked at McDonald's and Olive Garden throughout high school. In the main house, there were a bunch of college guys and girls who all worked at the Nantucket Yacht Club, and I thought that their summer looked like so much fun. My manager saw that I had bartending on my résumé from the yacht club and asked if I wanted to start bartending. She lived with a manager of a restaurant called Cru, which is kind of the "It" restaurant on the island.

☆ 5 reasons I pay a CPA $350 to do my taxes, even though I could do them myself
▼ + stars: | 2019-10-14 | by ( Caroline Lupini | Freelance Reporter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

A good tax professional goes way beyond preparing your tax return — they can help you plan for the future and avoid costly mistakes. But a few years ago, I started working with a certified public accountant to do my taxes, and I've never looked back. I pay my CPA $350 each year to file my taxes, but I handle my regular bookkeeping on my own. Here are a few reasons why I decided that working with a CPA or an EA (Enrolled Agent) makes a lot of sense. Every year brings tax law changes, whether from new laws passed by Congress, old laws expiring, or regular changes to keep up with inflation.

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