During the decade or so that I've been blogging I've usually steered clear from writing about "personal development". I've concentrated mainly on solid business subjects. However, business affirmations are in an interesting area where business and personal development … [Read more...]
Life, Death, and Good Deeds
This is a different kind of blog post. I won't be talking about business. This is personal. It's about a friend of mine who died recently. I live in Chiang Mai in northern Thailand. It's long been home to a community of western entrepreneurs. The community is only loosely … [Read more...]
Possibly My Weirdest Year Ever – Review of the Year
My life has taken a few strange turns. I started a business in 2006 which changed my world. My marriage failed in 2012 and I left the UK for Thailand in 2014. More changes – as David Bowie would say, "Turn and face the strange". If you don't know who David Bowie is, leave … [Read more...]
From Desperation to “Living The Dream”
Think that you'll never have the life you'd dreamed of? Feel like you're just not good enough? I certainly didn't. I had shitty jobs for nearly 20 years. I used to get up in freezing cold winter mornings in London and go to work on crowded underground trains. Sometimes, I … [Read more...]
Successes and Failures: Business Report Q3 2017
Welcome to a further instalment in my wonderful business and life! Every quarter I crunch the business's figures, work out what's wrong and what's right, and, basically think out loud on my blog. Thank you for putting up with me. This quarter has been, on the face of it, … [Read more...]
How To Sell Video Courses On Your Site Using Teachable
I've been selling courses online for years, so I was delighted to have found Teachable – this is the best way to sell courses. How do I know this? I've done it the wrong way. In fact, I do everything wrong the first time. I call this "learning". I lose money or I lose … [Read more...]
Amazon Merch: What It Is, How To Get Accepted, And How To Make Money
Get paid to design t-shirts! Merch by Amazon is Amazon’s print on demand platform. You upload a PNG and Amazon does the rest (prints the t-shirt, delivers it to the customer, takes care of returns, etc.). You get paid every time one of your t-shirts is sold. It's a great … [Read more...]
Introduction to Steemit: Join A Disruptive Blogging Platform And Get Paid To Play
Steemit is a social media and blogging platform that pays users for posting content. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6JYsxuxXSM In the video above I compare Steemit with Facebook and explain how I love the distributed, crowd-controlled nature of the platform. So, you do … [Read more...]
New Challenges – Business Report Q2 2017
We are now halfway through the year. How did that happen? I've just collected all the data from my various income sources to make one of my quarterly business reports. Now, is that a smile or a grimace, Rob? Read on to find out! Regular readers of this blog will be … [Read more...]
Crypto Currencies, Trade Copying, and the Emotional Investor
My entrepreneurial life has taken another unexpected turn recently as I continue to place risky investments in bitcoin, ethereum, other crypto currencies, and trade copying. This has exposed me to the fascinating psychological effects of investing. The first rule of … [Read more...]
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