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You Don’t Have To Be An Expert
We just wrapped up a Laptop Lifestyle Academy live coaching webinar and I feel the need to reiterate a point I made during the session... The concept of 'being an expert' seems to be stopping people from starting their online business. If you're hunting for a topic...
If You’re Building A Personal Brand You Need A ‘Claim To Fame’ Breakthrough Result
I was recently a guest expert on a panel interview as part of a marketing summit. As I was listening to the other speakers and hearing their stories, it became clear that everyone involved had some kind of 'claim to fame' result. They had experienced a breakthrough...
The Social Media Content You Create Today Will Have Little To No Value Tomorrow
In recent years a new crop of entrepreneur/freelancer/coach has risen off the back of social media channels like Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat. These people use social platforms to distribute their knowledge or entertain people and thus attract clients. You share...
What Happens When All You Can Think About Is Making Money?
On all my program order pages, we run a ‘live chat’ box. This cool little tool lets potential customers chat with me or one of my team to ask questions before joining. We deal with a lot of different questions, but there’s one question I know is a bad sign... How long...
$10,000 A Month For 10 Years
In 2005, I had about 300 people reading my brand new blog. That year, I made my first ever dollar from blogging. In fact, it was $20, an affiliate commission from selling an ebook. Later that year I added advertising banners to my blog, and combined with affiliate...
Something New We Started Doing…
I'm Laura, EJ’s Team Leader, and I’ve been working with Yaro and the EJ Team for almost 3 years. Since I joined EJ, my role has morphed into a mix of project manager, HR lady and head cheerleader for our growing team. I still remember the first conversation I ever had...
Bitcoin or Business?
I've made a lot of money in the past few years from cryptocurrencies. It has not taken any skill whatsoever to do this. However, it has taken timing... and capital. I had to have money available, money I could afford to lose, and I had to invest this money during a...
What Is A Many-To-Many Business And How Can This Model Produce Billion Dollar Outcomes
During the dot-com boom around the year 2000, and the years that followed (before I started this blog in 2005), I was a guy in his early twenties looking for a business idea to make my riches. At that stage, I had built a handful of websites. They were hobby sites...
Which Business Model Is Best: Selling Services, Software, Information Or Physical Products?
I'm getting old, at least in internet years. It's almost 20 years now that I have been online and had some kind of website of my own. During this time I've played with all kinds of different business models, all kinds of different ways to make money online. Nearly...
How To Remain Productive When You Feel Like Giving Up
Like most people, some mornings I wake up and feel less than enthusiastic about working. Sometimes, this feeling doesn't stem from laziness or apathy, it's a stronger power, a sense of futility and helplessness. I know a lot of people look to my story of success as a...