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My Worst Day Ever: Business Report Q3 2016

If I'm honest, I entered into a bit of a malaise in this quarter. Several bad things happened. This quarter included a lot of travelling as well as a trip to the UK which always tends to put me out of step. Anyway, I'm back in Chiang Mai now and feeling good. A lot has happened, so let's get … [Read more...]

Making $5 Million Selling Online Courses: Get Tips From The Experts

Want to sell online courses but don't know how? You have two options: You could try to contact experts who are selling thousands of dollars worth of digital knowledge every day... or you could read this article. I have spoken to 10 online course selling rockstars. These people sold a massive $5 … [Read more...]

Why You Must Sell Online Courses

Online learning is the future. If you have any sort of stake in the online economy, taking and selling online courses should be central to your business. The self-paced e-learning market will make $51.5 billion in 2016 according to the E-Learning Market Trends Report by Docebo. If the above … [Read more...]

10 Rules For Online Business Success

I’ve been running an online business for 10 years. I've only ever invested a few hundred dollars into it (mostly website set-up costs in 2005) and, from that, I've grown a business that has six figures annual revenue. I did all this without putting any extra money into the business (apart from that … [Read more...]

AMZ Tracker, Snagshout, ReviewKick, GetBSR – Amazon Promo Tools Compared

Updated 1st November 2016. There's an essential "Catch 22" when you launch a product on Amazon: You won't get sales without reviews; And you can't get reviews without sales! Enter Amazon FBA review clubs temporarily solved this conundrum ... but not anymore! Who made the most money during the … [Read more...]

Business Report – Coping With Demotivation

Every quarter I take stock of my business and my life. What am I doing? What am I going to do? And why? I put it all down in a quarterly business report. If you want to know how much money I've earned this quarter, you can do here. I've spent almost all the last three months in Chiang Mai … [Read more...]

Life After Udemy? Passive Income Report, Quarter 2, 2016

Every three months I detail the passive income profit I've earned. I earn "passive income" through video course sales, e-book sales, physical product sales, affiliate commissions and advertising. I also earn "active income" by providing graphic and web design services for clients. However, one … [Read more...]

How To Write A Welcome Email – 8 Killer Welcome Email Ideas

Most bloggers understand the importance of building an email list – just look at all the opt-in forms, quite literally, popping up all over the internet. Building an email list with a great auto-responder sequence is clearly one of the best ways to sell online. However, there,s one thing that most … [Read more...]

Amazon FBA Business: How Much Money And Time Before I Got Profit?

I have been working on a new business venture for a few months now: an Amazon FBA business. As this was a completely new venture for me, I made huge mistakes which resulted in huge loss of $$$ but luckily, this being Amazon FBA, my mistakes didn't result in loss of time. Time is much more … [Read more...]

How To Sell Video Courses On Amazon Video Direct

Updated 8th January 2017. I initially wrote this post in May 2016 full of excitement about Amazon's venture into educational video. I was contacted by Amazon and encouraged to take part. How could this not be good? Well, it isn't. I wouldn't advise educational video content creators, courses … [Read more...]