(Note: This article was originally published to JamieMcSloy.co.uk on May 3rd, 2019. I’m going through an old backup of the site, which has hundreds of posts that aren’t currently uploaded. As I’m working hard on updating the site – and releasing The Vault, letting these old posts be the daily posts for a while. We’re…
(Note: This article was originally published to JamieMcSloy.co.uk on September 18th, 2019. I’m going through an old backup of the site, which has hundreds of posts that aren’t currently uploaded. As I’m working hard on updating the site – and releasing The Vault, letting these old posts be the daily posts for a while.) Copywriting…
In this article, we’re going to test how many of you have been paying attention to my musings, and how many of you understand where I’m coming from when I talk about business building, using your brain and potentially taking on the task of preparing for the end of the world. And we’re going to…
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…
Blog reader Al sent in a comment today which I thought I’d answer in an article as opposed to a comment. I imagine many of you come to this site looking for the answers to this same question: To reiterate: Al doesn’t like working for someone else and wants to do something else. Making money…
Your data… own it. In the past couple of weeks, there’s been a furore in the self-publishing world. As usual, I didn’t even notice. It’s an interesting story because it has implications for all online business and arguably people in general moving forward. Let me give you the cliff notes version of events as I’ve…
Investing Is Ultimately About Arbitrage I have a friend who collects a particular luxury product. It costs thousands to buy, and it’s the sort of thing that – if it caught on – celebrities would be bringing out their heavily marked up designer branded labels. In other words, it’s a product where the mark up…
Platforms Changing Their Terms? This Shouldn’t Be A Problem For You Have you ever experienced a social media platform changing the rules on you? What about a marketplace changing their fee structure or terms of conditions? If you haven’t, then you’re a lucky devil… and with all luck, it eventually runs out. You should prepare…
How To Make Money From Bitcoin in 2018 Side note: I was beaten to the press with this article idea. Check out Rob’s article The Future Of Copywriting for a similar take. EDIT: Since I’ve been writing this, my agents in the field (i.e. people on Twitter) have informed me that Bitcoin has lost 1/3…
Knowing What To Do With Your Skills When I was in school, two pathways were suggested to the majority of students: Go to University for whatever you enjoyed Learn a trade The latter was incredibly popular, and dozens upon dozens of guys every single year for however long this was the general advice took up…