{"id":2463,"date":"2024-07-07T19:54:07","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T19:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cashpie.co.uk\/?p=2463"},"modified":"2024-07-07T19:54:07","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T19:54:07","slug":"cash-pie-making-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cashpie.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/07\/07\/cash-pie-making-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Cash Pie \u2013 Why we focus on making money, not saving money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cash Pie focuses on ways that you can make more money. Unlike many other blogs and websites, we don\u2019t have many articles on money saving or ways to protect your wealth. We\u2019re not covering personal finance in that way.<\/p>\n<h2>Saving money has its limits<\/h2>\n<p>Martin Lewis and the team at MoneySavingExpert have a great \u2018Money Makeover\u2019 guide, which almost everyone should follow. A day spent getting your (financial) house in order\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220212190657\/https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p00n93h0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">could be worth \u00a31000 over the next year<\/a>. That might help pay for a holiday, give you a bit extra to put in a savings account, or just make juggling monthly bills that little bit easier. If you\u2019ve not followed the guide then plan in some time to do it!<\/p>\n<p>What next, though? Once you\u2019ve cut your household costs, debt costs, personal bills and checked whether you\u2019re eligible for extra money, there\u2019s not much more that you can squeeze without reducing your quality of life.<\/p>\n<p>Once you\u2019ve made easy adjustments to your outgoings, the savings become harder to make. There are too many\u00a0<em>fixed costs<\/em>\u00a0which, whilst you can reduce a bit,\u00a0 you still have to pay \u2013 your mortgage or rent payments, tax, travel, household expenses and so on.<\/p>\n<h2>Making money has no limits<\/h2>\n<p>The only limits on how much money you can make is the time and effort that you put in, how\u00a0<em>smart<\/em>\u00a0you work, and a smidgen of luck.<\/p>\n<p>Once you have identified and honed ways to add value (and charge for it), you can often let others do the work either through outsourcing or employing someone. Don\u2019t want to do that? Spend some of your time finding how to squeeze more value and to automate aspects of what you do, thus creating more time for money making.<\/p>\n<h2>Make the shift from being a\u00a0<em>money saver\u00a0<\/em>to\u00a0<em>money maker<\/em>\u00a0with Cash Pie<\/h2>\n<p>Cash Pie helps you to make more money, rather than spend less. We want you to have a bigger slice of the pie!<\/p>\n<p>The only limits to how much money you can make are your time, effort and imagination. Start small, but think big \u2013 how are you going to get to a place where you are better off?<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t let a lack of money to start with put you off. It\u2019s easy to get together a \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220212190657\/http:\/\/cashpie.co.uk\/start-making-money-online\/financial-freedom-first-steps\/\">financial freedom fund<\/a>\u2018 to start off with \u2013 it\u2019ll take a few weeks, but then your earning potential should increase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cash Pie focuses on ways that you can make more money. Unlike many other blogs and websites, we don\u2019t have many articles on money saving or ways to protect your wealth. We\u2019re not covering personal finance in that way. Saving money has its limits Martin Lewis and the team at MoneySavingExpert have a great \u2018Money [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cashpie.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cashpie.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cashpie.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cashpie.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cashpie.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cashpie.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2464,"href":"https:\/\/cashpie.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463\/revisions\/2464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cashpie.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cashpie.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cashpie.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}