photo credit: Lori Greig In early July a new book is going to be published which will feature contributions from a number of writers. As you can guess from the title of this post I’ll be one of them. Now this isn’t a book about internet marketing or lifestyle design it’s in another niche in [...]
Continue reading...10 May 2011
photo credit: Xelcise Open any self-help book and you’re bound to come across the topic of goals. From to-do lists to bucket lists, short term to long term, one key aspect of creating the lifestyle of your dreams is about knowing where you want to go and then figuring out how you’re going to get [...]
Continue reading...17 April 2011
photo credit: Esther Gibbons Each of us has a “comfort zone” – a set of behaviours that makes us feel safe and comfortable. Doing something outside of these boundaries can feel stressful, unpleasant and, well, uncomfortable. Consider some examples of things that *may* be outside your comfort zone. For many people the thought of holding [...]
Continue reading...28 March 2011
At times building an online business can seem like an uphill struggle. You can work long, hard hours investing both your time and money only to come out the other side with little or no results. Obviously that sucks and it can be all too easy to lose the motivation to continue. But in many [...]
Continue reading...19 March 2011
photo credit: Nanagyei – Still has some catching up to do.. I may be tempting fate by saying it but it looks like spring may finally be arriving here in the UK. Today is about the warmest day we’ve had so far this year with bright sunshine and cloudless blue skies. I’ve seen my first [...]
Continue reading...9 February 2011
Want to learn how to promote your blog and receive a flood of targeted website traffic? If so then help is at hand… WordPress Traffic Explosion has been written specifically with you in mind. This new ebook is packed full of information and advice on how to promote your blog and drive massive amounts [...]
Continue reading...10 January 2011
photo credit: Vincent Luigi Molino One of the main purposes of this wonderful concept known as lifestyle design is to have the freedom to spend far more time on your passions. Too many people work at jobs that they dislike – or at least find boring – simply because it pays well or because the [...]
Continue reading...9 January 2011
photo credit: Xelcise When we think about dream lifestyles it’s tempting to picture in your head an image of the lifestyles of the “rich and famous”. The sort of lifestyle where you attend Hollywood movie premiers, date a model, live in a huge mansion in Bel Air and have a collection of supercars to choose [...]
Continue reading...8 January 2011
photo credit: ecastro In the early days of a new blog internet business can seem pretty lonely. You’re working hard to produce the best possible content, trying to get the word out about what you’re doing and build up a readership but it’s easy to get demotivated. The internet is full of sites started with good intentions but [...]
Continue reading...5 December 2010
photo credit: [Satbir] My girlfriend just threw me out. I won’t go into the reasons why but I was given one hour to pack and leave. And let me tell you – an hour doesn’t give you long to grab your belongings. What would you have done in that situation? What would you have grabbed? [...]
Continue reading...27 November 2010
photo credit: Vvillamon While the idea of starting an online business and building it up to the stage where you can quit your job and “live the dream” is a heady thought, finding the time to actually accomplish this goal can be rather harder than you might first expect. We all have a variety of [...]
Continue reading...22 November 2010
photo credit: erix! I think it’s fair to say that Tim Ferriss really kick-started the whole “lifestyle design” movement with the Four Hour Work Week and through recommendations in his book, on Amazon and from other people interested in the topic a number of other books have become “must reads” for those of us interested [...]
Continue reading...19 November 2010
photo credit: woodleywonderworks A few years ago I set out to lose a serious amount of weight. I wasn’t huge by any stretch of the imagination but over the course of a few years I had seen my weight slowly increase as my waist size went from 32″ to 36″. Nobody called me “fat” but [...]
Continue reading...17 November 2010
photo credit: Rosaura Ochoa For those regular readers of this blog who subscribe via the RSS feed you may not have noticed the changes I have made recently to the site. Quite simply I am very keen for the blog to become a “meeting place” for like-minded individuals rather than just a source of one-sided [...]
Continue reading...9 November 2010
photo credit: seanmcgrath When my lifestyle business took off a few years ago allowing me to quit my full time job, I decided that I wanted to celebrate the fact in style. So I booked a two week luxury vacation in Cuba. For 14 long days I sat in the sun, swam in the [...]
Continue reading...4 November 2010
photo credit: mdanys Do you hate your job? Do Sunday nights fill you with dread at the thought of another week of slugging your guts out for little thanks? Are you feeling stressed and overworked – or just plain bored? If so, you’re not alone. Many people spend their entire lives working in jobs [...]
Continue reading...2 November 2010
photo credit: LaserGuided When we think about lifestyle design the common themes are freeing ourselves from a full-time job thanks to freelancing or running an internet business, freeing ourselves of time and energy-draining activities and people, and generally gaining control over our lives so we can live it on our own terms. To travel. To [...]
Continue reading...23 October 2010
photo credit: Robbert van der Steeg Working for yourself is entirely different to working in a normal “job”. Whether you are working online full time or just dabbling in your spare time success takes a considerable degree of practise. And by practise I don’t just mean in the practical skills of keyword research, SEO and [...]
Continue reading...18 October 2010
photo credit: Dave Keeshan If you take part is some of the “seedier” aspects of internet marketing including blackhat link building, website cloaking or even just selling links on your website to other webmasters there is always a risk of a PageRank penalty. Sometimes, if you’re very unlucky, you might even unknowingly open yourself up [...]
Continue reading...6 September 2010
photo credit: lumaxart Whichever way you cut it, on the internet content is king. Whether that is content in the form of articles or videos, podcasts or ebooks not only do we all need content, but generally speaking the more content that we have and the higher the quality of that content, the more money [...]
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3 June 2011
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