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  Do you remember the moment when you first realized you could make money on the internet? I remember vividly because it wasn’t very long ago. I had just returned to blogging after an absence of more than a decade (“blogging” wasn’t even a word when I left), and everything was different. There were alternatives.

This is a guest post from my good friend Carrie at Careful Cents. Visit Carrie’s site to read about her adventures as the most driven and motivated freelancer I’ve ever met!   Once you’ve been bitten by the online entrepreneur bug (like I have), it’s hard to resist the urge to start multiple online endeavors.