The Great Marketing Experiment – PPC Update
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 by...
The Great Marketing Experiment Ep 1 – PPC Adverts
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...
Location Independent – My Digital Nomad Journey Pt 2
Following on from my article a few weeks ago when I declared that I'm giving up my flat and living the life of world travelling nomad, I have now finished most of my research into how actually to become location independent and am finally ready to go. Even if you're...
Riding The Storm Of A Stock Market Crash
For the first time since I have been seriously investing in the stock market, I am faced with a crash. I first started buying stocks and shares back in 2011 and enjoyed a very comfortable ride for the first few years. Then, just after the end of the tax year, I...
Becoming a Digital Nomad
In March, I am taking a drastic step. While my friends are slowly settling down, buying houses, moving to the suburbs. I am going in completely the opposite direction. I am giving up the flat I have been renting for the last four years, getting rid of most of my stuff...
2015, My Year In Review
2015 seems to have flown by. It has gone so fast that my first instinct is to assume that it has been uneventful. In fact I think 2015 might have been one of my laziest years ever, I have probably spent more time 'thinking' or in the clouds than ever before. So as...
Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone
Have you ever had that feeling of butterflies in your stomach? Your heart racing, your hands starting to sweat? That horrible, crippling feeling of nervousness and fear? Some people just seem to be naturally confident. Well good for them. But if you're like me then...
The Millionaire Tramp
Meet Curt Degerman. For 40 years he spent his days searching through the bins of a small Swedish town called Skellefteå. Looking for scrap metal and tin cans. After he died of a heart attack aged 60, it was discovered he had left behind a portfolio of stocks and...
This Blog’s First Year Earning Report
Wow, I can't believe I have been writing plugging away at this site for a year now! That's crazy. I had high hopes when I started, but I also have a history of getting excited about projects and then quitting shortly after the end of the honeymoon period. So let's...
This Is How Much We Made When Our YouTube Video Went Viral
In February, we were lucky enough to get an unexpected viral YouTube hit. I had spent almost every day of 2014 playing as part of what we called the Expert in a Year challenge. We videoed it all and as a final round-up put together a one-second-a-day video, published...
The Lazy Entrepreneur
I have a secret. A secret that I really shouldn't be telling you about. Something so bad and looked down on that by admitting it I am making myself almost unemployable. Something I have tried to hide and that most people won't believe. I am really incredibly lazy. Can...
How To Turn An Idea Into A Business
I believe that turning an idea into a business, or becoming any sort of entrepreneur, is all about the little logical baby-steps. Each step should be obvious, without the need for any massive risks or blind jumps. The key is to keep getting validation at each step you...
How to Self-Publish an Audiobook
I am completely in love with audiobooks. I have listened to thousands of hours of books and podcasts, and that's not even an exaggeration. So with the launch of our latest book, Expert in a Year, you will not be surprised that Ben Larcombe and I really really wanted...
Can You Buy/Sleep/Pray Your Way To Happiness?
Most people, if pushed, would tell you that what they want most out of life is happiness. But despite its importance, we really know very little about it. The question of 'how to be happy' has been keeping philosophers in business for millenniums! I've researched...
The Maths Behind My London Property Investment
If you're a regular reader of this blog, you may have gathered that I'm not the biggest fan of property as an investment. It's illiquid, undiversified, the fees are expensive and dealing with tenants can become a second job. But having said all that, I'm also a...
Introducing The Expert In A Year Book
Dear Beloved Readers, Today is a big day for me, it is the day when I can finally give myself another pretentious job title. That's right, I am now officially an author! The Expert in a Year book], which we have been working on for the last seven months, is finally...
Retire by 40
The definition of retirement is changing and we're all screwed. According to the government: "Default retirement age (formerly 65) has been phased out - most people can now work for as long as they want to." Well. Thanks a lot.... that's one way of putting it! Even...
Daily Ideas – Turn Yourself Into An Ideas Machine
I believe that coming up with good ideas is a skill, and just like any other skill it needs to be trained. Your 'ideas muscle' can be given a regular workout simply by coming up with daily ideas. I didn't come up with that myself, I stole it from James Altucher and...