Let’s talk about investing for the end of the world – or not. I had a Twitter conversation with Lloyd from BusinessAndBullets.com earlier about personal investment/economic advice in terms of being prepared for inflation to happen. It was a good conversation, and here are a couple of articles by Lloyd which are relevant to the…
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,…
Let’s just do some writing here. I haven’t got a plan in mind for this topic, so it’s a Dear Diary, random thoughts article for the day. Let’s start off with why I constantly say do some experiments. As an experiment, I spent a little more time on Twitter over the past week. I added…
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 haven’t talked about burner projects for a long time. Burner projects are projects which you burn afterwards. Like a burner phone, where you use the phone for illicit activities and then throw it away. It’s important to have little projects with no real consequence. They increase your skills, get you used to whatever it…
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….
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,…
Habits And Hobbies I’ve spent a lot of time working on health stuff this year. I have a pretty rare form of insomnia and the experts aren’t all that helpful thus far. As with everyone who does stuff and ages, (that’s all of us,) I also have a few niggling issues that can be sorted…
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…
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…