If you can keep blogging for more than 1 year, your odds of success are greatly improved. Starting a blog is easy.  Anybody can do it.  Furthermore, its also not difficult to pick up your first few readers. However keeping up this momentum is a while other ball game. The 1-2 Year Rule This isn’t [...]

In order to maintain my Target Monthly Income, I only need to sell 5 ebooks a day. That’s not a part time income – 5 ebooks is all it takes for me to live what I feel is my current dream lifestyle. That’s Impossible Firstly, let me say I am natually a very frugal person [...]

There was a slight delay putting this post out.  So it went from being weekend reading to a Monday edition.  But the great posts are still the same. Here are some of the posts I’ve been reading this past week: What Does Your Workspace Say About You – A post on one of my favorite [...]

It was 2004 and Kevin Rose, the then host of the obscure Screensavers, had an idea that was going to change the way we did media.  Such a revolutionary idea would surely require hundred of thousands of dollars to create with a large team? Rather, Kevin spent just $99 on server space and paid a [...]

The only way you’re going to truly fail is by not trying in the first place It was a typical Friday night.  I was wrapping things up for the week as usual, when an interesting email caught my eye.  It was from a journalist I had had dealings with in the past,  with some very [...]

I was browsing through the list of blogs I regularly read, and something suddenly struck me – half of these blogs have the exact same design! It’s not necessarily a bad idea to use the same design as another blog, but when it comes to standing out from the crowd,  a unique design is an [...]

Well its the end of another week.  Its currently pouring with rain outside my window and it looks like that it will continue through the weekend.  So its a perfect time to stay in doors and catch up on some of the great posts from the past week. 7 Ways to Get More Comments on [...]

I was reading a post recently, where a blogger was telling the world not to monetise their blogs or sites from the very start.  Instead, he suggested, take the time to build an audience first and then worry about that later. It sounds like smart advice? You’ve got to make a decision right here and [...]

Want to know the easiest way to be successful?  No its not a crappy get rich quick scheme, and it doesn’t involve closing your eyes and hoping that something will magical appear.  Instead its a very simple, tried and tested technique that’s been used since the dawn of mankind. So what’s the secret?  Well its [...]

Working for yourself, from anywhere in the world, sounds like an amazing concept. But without the right tools this dream will never become reality. Talking with a number of location independents (digital nomads, lifestyle designers etc), it soon became clear that the software and web apps they used varied greatly. So therefore it would be [...]