Aug 2, 2016 | Entrepreneurship
One of my biggest flaws is that I am an eternal optimist. Even if all the evidence points to the opposite, I expect whatever I try will always work out. It is a problem. Whenever I come up with a new idea I start daydreaming about how awesome it is going to be. Then I...
Jul 5, 2016 | Entrepreneurship
I have a had a few successful businesses. I’ve created a successful sporting goods brand, built and sold a tech startup, and started a popular coffee shop. But those are the odd ones out. I have failed at far more businesses than I have succeeded at. I...
Jun 26, 2016 | Business Ideas, Investing & Saving
What is going to happen? It’s the middle of the weekend after Britain has just voted to leave the EU and my Facebook feed is full of gnashing of teeth and wailing. A lot of people are scared and worried. Regardless of what our politicians tell us, nobody knows...
Jun 1, 2016 | Income Reports
The blog has now been going 18 months. Mental! I’ve written over 50 posts, spent countless hours on it and had over 250,000 visitors. What fun. But more excitingly, the blog has started to become a decent income source. At the one-year point, the blog had made a...
Apr 3, 2016 | Amazon FBA, Entrepreneurship
You may have read my post a few weeks ago about the post about experimenting with PPC adverts. During that post, I spent just under £300 on different forms of pay-per-click advertising. I didn’t get much out of that £300, but I did learn a lot. I ended the post...
Mar 5, 2016 | Amazon FBA, Entrepreneurship
This post is the start of a new and very unscientific series where I am going to try to learn as much as possible about online marketing through trial and error. Hopefully, we will all learn something from my mistakes, starting with PPC advertising. I am setting...