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☆ I make more than $5,500 a month using an app to pick up restaurant shifts. Here's how I use it to make the most money.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-14 | by ( Perri Ormont Blumberg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Cowan's earnings from using FrontHouz regularly average more than $5,500 monthly. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . To manage my responsibilities, I pick up shifts through FrontHouz, a staffing platform for hospitality workers that allows for flexible scheduling. Restaurant shifts are usually posted a week in advance, but it's not uncommon for a last-minute shift to pop up for the same night. Consider dedicating specific days or nights to FrontHouz shifts, particularly when restaurants are busier, like special event nights or popular weekly specials (think: Taco Tuesday or Sunday brunch).

Persons: Kai Cowan, FrontHouz, Cowan, bartend, —, It's, Starr Douglas, Starr, I'm Organizations: Service Locations: Atlanta, FrontHouz

☆ I profited $1.4 million last year as an Airbnb Superhost. Here's how I'm using real estate to achieve financial freedom.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-05 | by ( Perri Ormont Blumberg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

I wanted wealth, exotic cars, luxury vacations, time, and freedom, so I pivoted to real estate. I started my business in 2017, and in 2023, we made $11.5 million in revenue and $1.4 million in net profit. I started listening to the "BiggerPockets" podcast and read "Rich Dad, Poor Dad," which motivated me to pursue financial freedom. I expected it to take me 15 years to replace my salaried income through real estate, but I was determined. Here's my Airbnb adviceMy best advice to other aspiring Airbnb Superhosts is to learn from other hosts' experiences.

Persons: —, Syed Lateef, It's, Rich Dad, Dad, Gino Wickman's, you'll Organizations: Service, Business, Allstate, EOS, Facebook Locations: Chicago, Airbnbs

☆ I'm a winemaker for The Dreaming Tree, the label owned by Dave Matthews. Here's what goes into making a celebrity wine.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-23 | by ( Perri Ormont Blumberg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Grayson Stewart, the winemaker for The Dreaming Tree from Sanger, California. AdvertisementI've been the full-time winemaker for The Dreaming Tree, the wine label of Dave Matthews of the Dave Matthews Band, since March 2022. I jumped at the opportunity to work with Dave and his labelDave Matthews with The Dreaming Tree wine. Here's how we make our sustainable wineThe Dreaming Tree is now fully sustainable, from the wine inside the bottle to the bottle itself. My friends send me pictures of The Dreaming Tree on store shelves, letting me know that they're trying the wine, which is really cool.

Persons: Grayson Stewart, I've, Dave Matthews, Dave, Dave Matthews Band's, We've, we're, Dave Stewart, Matthews Organizations: Service, Business, Wine, Dave Locations: Sanger , California, Central, Napa, California, There's, Nature

☆ I made $70,000 in revenue selling résumé templates on Etsy. I used skills I already had to earn passive income.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-15 | by ( Perri Ormont Blumberg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

I'm a former recruiter and career coach who now sells résumé templates on Etsy. I started my HR career in Croatia before relocating to Krakow, Poland, where I became a corporate career coach in 2018. AdvertisementI got the idea for my Etsy shop from my full-time jobColak-Fustin's résumé templates. Looking for a way to use my HR skills, I decided to create résumé templates and job search toolkits. When I started creating and selling résumé templates and job search toolkits on Etsy, I prioritized functionality.

Persons: Ana Colak, Fustin, it's, —, It's, I've, didn't Organizations: Service Locations: Etsy, Gothenburg, Sweden, Croatia, Krakow, Poland

☆ I quit my blue-collar job and grew 2 ecommerce brands to over $1M in revenue. I finally have financial freedom.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-01 | by ( Perri Ormont Blumberg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

I commuted two hours a day to a dirty, physical job and felt unfulfilled. E-commerce fit all these requirements, but besides selling digital albums on iTunes, I had zero experience trying to sell anything. I got started on YouTubeOne night, I found a nearly five-hour-long YouTube video tutorial on private-label brands by Dan Vas. AdvertisementI looked for products to sell that had a balance of great sales potential and low competition. Try not to fall victim to shiny object syndromeAt the beginning of my e-commerce journey, I started three other brands that didn't pan out.

Persons: —, Sydney Bencriscutto, Dan Vas, Dad, Robert T, Ryan Stephens Organizations: Service, Business, iTunes, YouTube Locations: Milwaukee

☆ Spotify tattoos: What you should know about the body art fad
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-01 | by ( Kristen Rogers | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

The above ink, on the forearm of tattooer John Lapides' first Spotify tattoo customer, leads to the Michael Bublé song "Everything." Pictured is the Spotify code for "Dear to Me," a song by the Los Angeles-based band Electric Guest. Every piece of content on Spotify has a series of sound bars called a Spotify code. To read CNN’s full article on these Spotify tattoos, click the link in our bio.#cnn #news #spotify #spotifytattoo #tattoo #tattoos ♬ original sound - CNNOther times, it’s simply a means of decorating the body, said Drew Hibbard, a tattoo artist and piercer at Blue Lotus Tattoo & The Piercing Lounge in Madison, Wisconsin. Hibbard: Spotify tattoos are a super cute and meaningful idea, but years down the road, who knows if Spotify will even be a thing?

Persons: John Lapides, Michael Bublé, Christina Perri, Lapides, Michael, “, ” Lapides, Rick Astley’s, ”, —, it’s, Drew Hibbard, Hibbard, “ I’ve, I’m, aftercare Organizations: Spotify, Los, Street, Wall Street, CNN, cnn, Artists Locations: Los Angeles, Fountain , Colorado, Madison , Wisconsin

☆ Thinking of Buying an Electric Car? The Tax Credits and Benefits to Know
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-05 | by ( Perri Ormont Blumberg | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

If you’re considering buying an electric vehicle, you’ll have to answer one big question: Where will you charge it? If you live somewhere without a garage or nearby charging station, this might be a tricky time to go full electric. More than half of U.S. consumers say they are thinking about buying either a new or used EV, up from 38% in 2021, according to recent research from Cox Automotive. The top reason people aren’t going for EVs? The cost, followed by a lack of nearby charging stations.

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☆ The 9 Most Over-the-Top Perks Companies Are Using to Bring Workers Back to the Office
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-28 | by ( Perri Ormont Blumberg | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

STEP RIGHT UP If your office doesn’t feel like a carnival, you might be missing out on some increasingly common amenities. Illustration: Ari LiloanAS COMPANIES TRY to lure staff members back to the office postpandemic, they are using such perks to boost morale, create a unique corporate culture and even attract new talent, “it is almost like [they] are in a friendly competition to outdo each other in making the workplace an absolute paradise,” said Travis Lindemoen, the founder of recruiting and hiring platform Enjoy Mondays, based in Kansas City, Kan. “One company I worked for had an office slide that connected the different floors.”As long as the job market continues to look strong for workers, Lindemoen doesn’t see these perks going away. In fact, when negotiating for a job prospective employees shouldn’t be shy about inquiring about the perk menu, or asking if certain benefits could be added. Ahead, the most unconventional employee benefits we’ve found in offices across the world.

Persons: Ari Liloan, ”, Travis Lindemoen, Lindemoen, shouldn’t, we’ve Organizations: Ari Liloan AS Locations: Kansas City, Kan, “

☆ I lived in a school bus and traveled the US for a year with my boyfriend. We used Taskrabbit to make money and connections.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Perri Ormont Blumberg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Maggie Peddicord and her boyfriend, Joseph, bought a school bus and traveled in it for one year. To fund their journey and bus expenses, they both started working on the handiwork app Taskrabbit. Before I started on Taskrabbit, I worked as a research assistant at Cincinnati Children's Hospital. Once we moved in and started traveling, it cost about $500 a month for gas and other repairs and about $250 a month for groceries. Joseph networked with Taskrabbit clients by finding people who might be interested in selling or purchasing a yacht one day.

Persons: Maggie Peddicord, Joseph, —, It's, Tasker, Joseph Chazin, I, We've, van lifers, Carly Wesolowski, Taskrabbit, Here's Organizations: Service, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Facebook Locations: Taskrabbit, Fort Collins , Colorado, Cincinnati, Banks, North Carolina, Texas, Ohio, Seattle, San Diego, Washington, DC, Columbus , Ohio, Northern Michigan, Missoula , Montana, Skokomish, San Francisco, Los Angeles . San Diego, Colorado

☆ Taco Bell throws shade at McDonald's with debut of 'premium' nuggets. 'This is real chicken.'
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( Nancy Luna | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Taco Bell is testing Crispy Chicken Nuggets made with all white meat. Chain reps threw shade at rivals like McDonald's when describing the quality of the Taco Bell nuggets. Taco Bell is also going after McDonald's at breakfast with the nationwide debut of breakfast tacos. According to McDonald's website, "McDonald's Chicken McNuggets are made from 100% chicken breast meat. Taco Bell rolling out Toasted Breakfast Tacos nationwideTaco Bell says its new toasted breakfast tacos are part of a plan to step up the chain's breakfast game.

Persons: Taco, Bell, —, Jessica Perri, Chef Brett Pluskalowski, didn't, Taco Bell, Nancy Luna, that's, Pluskalowski, Honey, Perri, There's, Jessica Wilson, Wilson, Taco Bell Taco Bell, Mark King, King Organizations: Taco Bell, Bell, Service, Taco, Minneapolis . Locations: Irvine , California, Minneapolis

☆ Buying a Used Car Isn’t Easy. Start With These 5 Steps.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-05 | by ( Perri Ormont Blumberg | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Should I Buy a Car Online or at a Dealership?
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-29 | by ( Perri Ormont Blumberg | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ How to Buy a Car in 2023: Three Questions to Answer Before You Start
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-23 | by ( Perri Ormont Blumberg | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ The Three Worst Car-Buying Mistakes: Things to Watch Out For and Avoid
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-22 | by ( Perri Ormont Blumberg | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Can You Have a Career Without a Smartphone?
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-15 | by ( Perri Ormont Blumberg | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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BRIGHT BUDDY The Loftie Lamp can employ customizable lighting routines to help you wind down at night and get up more easily in the morning. ONE OFT-OVERLOOKED PERK of working from home? That blinding illumination can bring on a numbing sense of malaise, and even derail your day. “Light exposure of appropriate intensity and the right timing is vital to our health and well-being,” said Shadab Rahman, assistant professor in the Division of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Better lights, he says, can improve mood, cognition and even productivity.

Persons: ”, Shadab Rahman Organizations: Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School

☆ I left NYC and bought a house in Montana. I had a big job title but a terrible bank account — now I'm happier and my money goes further.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( Perri Ormont Blumberg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

I didn't know a single person in Montana, but after I visited Bozeman, something about it felt like home. I had a big title but a terrible bank account and felt trapped. I look back on my life in NYC and see how anxious and exhausted I was. People are aware of you in a way that they aren't in a big city, where you can blend in. Buying a house in MontanaLester with her friends at her house in Montana.

Persons: Shallon Lester, she's, I've, Lester, Christian Dior, I'm, Montana Lester, Shallon Lester I lucked, Montana I've, I'd, Guys I've, haven't, it's, Lauryn Haas Organizations: Service, Lean, lhaas Locations: New York City, Bozeman , Montana, Montana, Wall, Silicon, California, Bozeman, Manhattan, Manhattan . Bozeman, NYC, Bozeman I'm, Los Angeles

☆ A 2-Hour Workout in 20 Minutes? My Week Testing a High-Tech Fitness Suit
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Perri Ormont Blumberg | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Hackers to compete for nearly $20 million in prizes by using A.I. for cybersecurity, Biden administration announces
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( Lauren Feiner | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

President Joe Biden gives remarks on Artificial Intelligence in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on July 21, 2023 in Washington, DC. Hackers will have the chance to compete for millions of dollars in prizes by using artificial intelligence to protect critical U.S. infrastructure from cybersecurity risks, the Biden administration announced Wednesday. The AI Cyber Challenge will offer nearly $20 million in prizes and includes collaboration from leading AI companies Anthropic, Google , Microsoft and OpenAI, who will make their technology available for the competition. Up to five of those teams will win $2 million each and advance to the final at DEF CON 2025. "This is a chance to explore what's possible when experts in cybersecurity and AI have access to a suite of cross-company resources of combined unprecedented caliber."

Persons: Joe Biden, Biden, Perri Adams Organizations: Intelligence, White, Washington , DC, Google, Microsoft, Black Hat USA, Linux, Security, Research Projects Agency, DARPA, Innovation, CNBC, YouTube Locations: Washington ,, Las Vegas

☆ Striking Actors Are Turning to Cameo for Extra Cash
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( Perri Ormont Blumberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Cameo is a service through which celebrities and others can be paid to make personalized videos commemorating birthdays, bachelorette parties, divorces and the like. Mr. Jackson, 48, charges $95 for a video message and cited bills — “I have two kids” — as one reason he is on Cameo. “But you’ve got to do what you’ve got to do.”Since Cameo debuted in 2016, some actors have used it when traditional work has dried up. In 2021, as the pandemic raged, the actor Andrew Rannells joined Cameo to raise money for the Entertainment Community Fund, a nonprofit formerly known as the Actors Fund. On a recent episode of “And Just Like That…,” the “Sex and the City” reboot, the character Che Diaz, played by Sara Ramirez, starts making Cameo videos after a TV pilot is canceled.

Persons: Cheyenne Jackson, Jackson, ”, —, “, you’ve, Andrew Rannells, Che Diaz, Sara Ramirez Organizations: SAG, Entertainment Community Fund, Actors Fund

☆ The Dave Matthews Band, Reconsidered
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-29 | by ( Melissa Kirsch | More About Melissa Kirsch | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Dave Matthews Band is on tour, as they have been every summer, except 2020, for the past 30-odd years. Like the Grateful Dead and Phish, so-called jam bands with which it’s often lumped together, Dave Matthews has a deliriously passionate fan base that follows the band from city to city, reuniting with fellow disciples at preshow tailgates, showing off devotional tattoos, trading live recordings. In the early ’90s, when I arrived for my first year at the University of Virginia, Dave Matthews was a local celebrity. It would be years before the stereotype of Dave Matthews fans as “pot-smoking, tie-dye-touting former frat bros fawning over craft beers in parking lots between cornhole games,” as Perri Ormont Blumberg puts it, would become a widely understood social designation. We spent the next four years not going to Dave Matthews Band shows together.

Persons: Dave Matthews, preshow, ”, Perri Ormont Blumberg, ” Ben Sisario Organizations: University of Virginia, The Times Locations: Virginia

☆ Why Are Dave Matthews Band Fans So Loyal?
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-29 | by ( Perri Ormont Blumberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On an afternoon in June while wildfire smoke enveloped Manhattan, people lined up outside Irving Plaza — some before dawn, some sporting face masks, some fresh off red-eye flights — to see Dave Matthews. That night, the 56-year-old balladeer was playing a rare solo gig celebrating his namesake band’s new album, “Walk Around the Moon.”Josh Roberts, 42, a special-education teacher in Las Vegas, who has seen the Dave Matthews Band, or DMB, 523 times, stood in that line. Mr. Roberts estimates that he has spent $100,000 on tickets and travel since discovering the band as a struggling high school junior in 1995. “This band has songs about love, depression, sex, things that you connect to,” he said. Mr. Matthews is the first to admit he doesn’t always get it right.

Persons: —, Dave Matthews, balladeer, ” Josh Roberts, Roberts, ”, Matthews, doesn’t, “, ’ ”, DMB Organizations: Irving, ChatGPT Locations: Manhattan, Las Vegas, TriBeCa, Charlottesville, Va, DMB

☆ Why Baby Boomers Love the Kindle—and Millennials Don’t
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Perri Ormont Blumberg | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Umbria by Train: A Journey Into the ‘Green Heart of Italy’
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-26 | by ( Perri Klass | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Calling itself the green heart of Italy, the landlocked region of Umbria is known for its truffles and olive oil, roast pork and sausage, wine and cheese. It also has great cultural riches — many of them in hill towns like Orvieto, Perugia and Assisi. The cultural and culinary treasures of the region can easily be reached by train from Rome, which lies just to the south, or from Florence, to the north. From Rome, a logical starting point is Orvieto, only a little over an hour away, with trains available about once an hour. Some leave from the main Termini station; others from the massive multilevel Tiburtina station, easy to get to on the Rome subway.

Organizations: of, Orvieto — Locations: Italy, Umbria, Orvieto, Perugia, Assisi, San Francesco, of Umbria, Rome, Florence

☆ I built a thriving side business without ever having a viral moment. Here’s how I grew my following and secured partnerships with brands like 1-800-Flowers.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( Perri Ormont Blumberg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Christopher Griffin is known as Plant Kween to more than 400,000 followers on social media. I'm known as Plant Kween on Instagram, where I have more than 400,000 followers. During my lunch breaks, after-work hours, and weekends I focus on my Plant Kween business and content creation. The Plant Kween for 1-800-Flowers.com collection launched in February 2023. ET so folks can get a little dose of Plant Kween joy before they start their day.

Persons: Christopher Griffin, —, I'm, pothos, I've, Meyers Organizations: Service, New York University, Creative Artists Agency, Kimpton, Saks Locations: Brooklyn , New York, Instagram, Headspace, Brooklyn, East Coast

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