Many of us are seeking to grow what we often call “a passive income” businesses– in large part thanks to Pat Flynn popularizing the term for online marketers. Internally, we’ve been using all sorts of terms in the same ballpark as “passive income”: location independent, leveraged, automated, online, recurring, scalable, residual, info-income, etc. The problem with all these [...]
Friday night isn’t a particularly great time to post a blog. A bunch of you are probably already off and into your weekends. But there might be a small handful of you still sitting at your desks, wondering what the hell you are doing there. I used to do that. For anyone working regularly with [...]
Some people have asked me if I’m getting sick of Bali– I’m not. What I had been craving, after months of relatively little travel, is the rhythm of life on the road. I like always knowing how many pairs of underwear I have available (2 dirty, 4 clean, 1 wet from pool), moving to a [...]
In his excellent book on the birth of the modern prison, Foucault describes a blueprint for a new type of prison– the panopticon. The design calls for a circular prison built around a guard tower. The prisoner’s cells are arranged in such a way that the guard, positioned in the tower, can see into any [...]
David is hanging out there for a month along with a huge crew of DCers and other bloggers. We did some comparing and contrasting on the phone today and it got me thinking about some of the downsides of Bali for digital nomads. I’m still a huge advocate for Bali, but I’d like to highlight some of the potential downsides of Bali if you are evaluating places to hang out for a few months or years!
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Internet marketing is a term often used for the industry that teaches people how to make money online. I was thinking about internet marketing today as I was putting the polish on a private blog network for DCers. A lot of my friends have been encouraging me to sell the networks outright. The value proposition is clear: [...]
This post continues a series of posts on blog based businesses: Don’t blog, 100 shelved posts, sold a blog, find 100 customers, don’t teach beginners, making a living blogging, dead on arrival. * * * Most blogs are going to fail. The blog you are writing right now is probably going to fail. Lord [...]
Recently, a reader commented on a post I wrote called “How I Built and Sold a Blog Valued at Over $200 a Post.” I read this post when it came out 5 months ago, but reading it now I realize that I’m in a different place mentally and feel as though I had never read [...]
If I quit my job, will I be able to make enough money from my internet business? If I go to a good law school, will I make a lot of money? If I relocate to Thailand to set up niche sites, will I ever be successful? The way I answer these questions is by [...]
Today I received an email from reader Chad: I read your Q&A post. Thanks for taking the time to really think about our questions and giving us your honest answers. If you’re taking in suggestions for your next blog post, I have one for you. There are so many SEO tips from so-called “experts” and pretty [...]
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