I’m pretty sure I’ve written about luxury products before. I’ve certainly written about how to sell them; even when there are free options available. What “luxury” constitutes changes over time. In the Internet era, that’s already changing and it will continue to change. What Is “Luxury?” The politically correct response to the question above will…
How You Can Benefit From The Automation Apocalypse Way back in time, I wrote about seeing gaps in the market. Today, I spent a couple of hours reading about some (possibly) bleak news: Adidas are planning to bring their manufacturing plants from Asia back to Germany. It sounds great unless you’re from Asia, except for…
Affiliate Marketing Is NOTHING Like The Lifestyle Gurus Say It Is I’ve recently started learning about paid advertising. It’s an important skill to learn if you’re writing online for money. I’ll tell you why later. Before that though, I’m going to rant talk about some of things you’ve probably read bout online and why they’re…
Do entrepreneurs need to go to University? Do they need any qualifications at all? I must have seen about four million forum threads asking variations on the above question. I’m going to do my best to answer them – but here’s a forewarning; there’s a caveat to the answers I’ll give further down. Let’s get…
Be Nice To The Internet And It Will Be Nice To You Yesterday I wrote an update to the Niche Site Challenge. You can read it here. One of the random thoughts I included in that article was that if you are nice to Google, it will be nice to you. I thought I’d expand…
Reader Q: What To Do With Your Skills? It’s funny. I hit publish on yesterday’s article and thought, “I need to do something new. I’m repeating the same material too much.” I woke up this morning to a comment from reader Anon1 who thought the article was very helpful. It just goes to show…
Everything Is Marketing: Dropship And Big Business Edition A couple of days ago, someone asked about dropshipping, and how you justify the high shipping times. This is a major point of contention for someone who wants to enter into ecommerce. Amazon offer you one-day shipping and most stores offer you a three-day shipping window without…
What We Can Learn From Gig Economy Companies Most gig economy companies and other tech giants work because of three principles. And don’t give me any arguments about it being about innovation, growth hacking or buzz-term guru nonsense. Here’s what they are: Decentralised Labour, Decentralised Taxes and Centralised Power. We can learn lessons from all…
Sometimes things don’t go to plan. In a lot of cases, you can look at these times as learning experiences, but ultimately it’s a bad day. There’s nothing more annoying than some guy saying, “Yeah, sure, you had to declare bankruptcy but at least you can learn how to experience happiness without materialism now!” That…
On Traditional Crafts And Old Fashioned Stuff This’ll be a quick article with an easy idea. I’ve been delving into a new hobby recently, and it brought to mind an idea I’ve used over the course of multiple ventures. Take old stuff and bring it into the 21st Century. I watched a TV show a…