Cheddarblog

The Swiss_Mouse uses Capital One’s No Hassle Miles credit card as his primary means of paying for any transaction. FIRST, let him say, he pays off the balance in full EVERY MONTH.
However the Swiss_Mouse uses this card because it does several things for him. It allows him to carry less cash on hand, […]

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The Swiss_Mouse has been an investor for quite a while.  While he has not amassed a huge fortune he has done well.  One strategy that enabled the Swiss_Mouse to build up his pile of cheddar back in the days when he had very little was dividend reinvestment.  His tool of choice then:  Sharebuilder.
Sharebuilder is a nice […]

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When the Swiss_Mouse heads out to the store, it’s for the necessities in life: Cigarettes, booze, toilet paper and cheese.
Mrs. Swiss_Mouse takes a different approach.  She’s into buying “staples” like milk, cereal, bread etc. B-o-r-i-n-g
Either way, the Swiss_Mice are “making” cheddar on the deal thanks to UPromise . 

UPromise is a way to “Earn college savings […]

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The Swiss_Mouse has several non-retirement and retirement investment accounts. This is not bragging like other bloggers (”OH I make a million every morning while I’m in my pajamas, losers!”). No, not at all. Just a fact. Mrs. Swiss_Mouse has retirement accounts at Schwab. Swiss_Mouse has accounts at Fidelity.
Swiss_Mouse and […]

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The Swiss_Mouse has shared with you his affection for CafePress in the past. Today he shares with you ACTUAL NUMBERS from a friend’s CafePress shop.
This is his actual revenue numbers for 2007 :

Jan 2007: $71.50
Feb 2007: $62.37
Mar 2007: $51.05
Apr 2007: $64.65
May 2007: $62.87
Jun 2007: $63.39
Jul 2007: $87.05

His Traffic was:

Proving that you can make some […]

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The Swiss_Mouse offers a money making idea in this post.
CafePress offers two different mechanisms for making money.
First you can open a store, design your own products and sell them.
You set the markup price and you keep the profit. CafePress handles EVERYTHING else for you!!! They obviously host the website, they handle payments, they handle shipping, […]

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The Swiss_Mouse has many web ventures in the works, both personal and business.
The Swiss_Mouse likes to accumulate and consume cheddar, not give it away. So the Swiss_Mouse settled on 1and1.com as his personal webhosting service.
1and1.com is fairly inexpensive with beginner Linux hosting (including blogs) or Windows beginner hosting for just $2.99 a month. The […]

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Swiss_Mouse tries to make cheddar.
Swiss_Mouse has shared with you some of his cheddar making schemes, yet…what about some of the schemes that haven’t been so successful. (Say it isn’t so, Swiss_Mouse!)
Alas, while the Swiss_Mouse has accumulated some tasty morsels, he has tasted spoiled cheese.
For every CafePress that the Swiss_Mouse finds, there are 5 or 6 […]

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The Swiss_Mouse took some time off but returns with some ideas about monthly and quarterly cheddar.
For a while, the Swiss_Mouse has wanted to write about his favorite stocks and closed-end mutual funds. A while back Mrs. Swiss_Mouse took a beating in the market because her cheddar investments were a bit too volatile. So Swiss_Mouse went […]

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