This article is for all you budding international business titans who want to work with people on the international stage. It’s modified from my Twitter, where I posted about this earlier. In Asia, many of the cultures have a concept called “face.” Western business gurus talk about this a lot. It’s a mixture of honour,…
Creating A New Niche Site & Preparing For Further Development After a quiet couple of months on the niche site front, a weird few things came together this week. James Holt posted a niche site idea, and I decided to jump on it. A handful of reasons for that: It’s a good niche The niche…
Burberry, Burning Stuff, Killing Homeless People And The Luxury Market (That sort of title usually reserved for emails.) So I saw today a news article about Burberry. They’d burned $38m worth of excess stock so that it didn’t end up going to discount stores and other outlets for normal folks. And seeing as how I’ve…
I browsed Reddit’s freelance writer section today. It’s Sunday and I don’t want to write a huge amount that requires brain work, so let’s just address some stuff I’ve seen. First Of All… If you’re going to take advice from Reddit, take it with a huge amount of salt. In almost every thread I read,…
The other day, a reader made the mistake of saying, “I was going to build a site in this niche, but then I saw @JamieMcSloy and others were doing it so I held off.” Woah. My first thought was: If you’re not doing something because you’re scared of competing with me, it’s time to rethink….
Thoughts on Buying Websites Someone asked Robert from 30 Days to X about buying established websites and maintaining them as a strategy as opposed to starting them from scratch. I dropped in with this wallet-saving wisdom: Sorry to jump in. This depends on your experience. If you have experience and can work out whether a…
Thoughts On Pricing I was speaking with some gentlemen earlier about pricing a product. I don’t have much time this evening, so I thought I’d just write up some quick thoughts. I’ve probably covered this in the archives already, so I’ll keep it brief. Before we get on to how I work out the price…
Folks, I’ve got to be honest. It’s 20:36 on Saturday night and I unexpectedly had to be out for most of the day. But I write the daily posts and it’s something I haven’t planned on breaking today. You have to be a man of your word in today’s world, so there we go. But…
Quick Tip For Niche Site Builds Alright, so I unexpectedly spent the day at the hospital. (Everything is fine, don’t worry.) But I haven’t had time to craft a spectacular update for Niche Site Saturday. That said, we don’t like breaking chains here and we’ve got a long chain of daily posts. So here’s a…
It’s amazing how many people make life more difficult than it has to be. I’m talking about copywriting, freelancing and getting clients mostly. So you can consider this a follow on from yesterday’s article on recalibration. But mostly, this applies to anything in life. You’re probably making it more difficult than it has to be….