Opting Out of The 9-5

Opting Out of The 9-5 In Style I sometimes wonder why everyone isn’t opting out of the 9-5 and running an online business. I mean, do people actually enjoy commuting to and from a job they don’t actually enjoy? Do they seriously want to spend 8hrs or more a day, 5 or more days a…

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Achieving Time Freedom Online

Time Freedom

Time Freedom – The Ultimate Prize I shot this video about achieving time freedom through an online business on the spur of the moment. I realised that I sort of take this for granted slightly now – the freedom to just play guitar or go and take some photos whenever the mood takes me. So…

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Managing Your Online Business – K.I.S.S

managing your online business

Managing Your Online Business The Easy Way Managing your online business should be simple – that’s the whole point of starting one in the first place – to get your time back. That’s the whole premise of the Six Figure Mentors digital business system. Their system and training provides a ready made, high commission affiliate…

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Running an Online Business in a Hazelnut Shell

What’s Running an online Business Really Like? Running an online business is attractive to many but also a scary prospect. It’s refreshing to escape from the hype and oversell that sometimes goes with the territory. This afternoon Satya Gillen as part of her Hazelnut interviews series interviewed me – via Google hangout. I felt quite…

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Solving Technical Problems

Solving Technical Problems – Tech Support Angels Solving technical problems seems to be a bit of a trend for me recently. It began last week with a Google Hangout I take part in with some other SFM guys. We were discussing “Do you need to be technical to run an online business” and were ironically…

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Best Second Income Ideas

Best Second Income Ideas In 2009 when the recession was biting deeply into the industry I was then employed in and people were losing their jobs all around me, I realised that a backup plan was definitely in order. Some second income ideas were the order of the day. Having been in a technology based…

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Distributed Denial of Service – The Impulse To Destroy

Distributed Denial of Service  – WTF ? The impulse to destroy is I guess the dark side of the human soul. A dramatic start to a blog post I know but inspired by a recent hacking attack on Aweber – the email management system that huge numbers of online marketers and online business owners use.…

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