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 used to spend three … [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, quite eventful. These … [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 time. Usually … [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. Get over 50% OFF my new course on … [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 what you already 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 familiar with my … [Read more...]
How To Run A Web Design Business From Home
One day I registered a website and it changed my world. I would love this to happen to you. I have just re-released an updated version of my first book Running A Web Design Business From Home it's at the rock bottom price of $0.99 for the Kindle version. Even better, the book is FREE on May … [Read more...]
Secure Your WordPress Site Against Hackers – 21 Quick Tasks You Can Action NOW!
Is your WordPress site secure? After a bad hack on this site I was shocked of how ignorant I had been about basic web security. Wait, I got hacked, and now I'm offering you security advice? Well, yes. I'm a lazy guy but I like to get things done. This meant I loved to cut corners. And that meant … [Read more...]
A Sudden Change Of Direction (Again): Business Report Q1 2017
Every three months I sit back and have a look at my business – and myself – and analyse where I'm going and what I'm doing. I'm in a riverside cafe in Phnom Penh at the moment trying to get a visa for Thailand after being in Bangkok for a few days. This gives me a good excuse to catch up with one … [Read more...]
8 Dumbass Stupid Entrepreneurial Mistakes I Won’t Make Again In 2017
There's being stupid and then there's being stupid twice. Sadly, I've been doing too much of the latter recently. If I'm making the same mistakes over and over, I'm obviously not learning. So I'm writing down my repeat errors in hopes that I'll stop committing them. TL;DR: If I could go … [Read more...]
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