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The Truth About Traveling Non-Stop

I’m writing you today from Castellon, a town that’s a one-hour drive from Valencia in Spain. I’m here visiting my father, my 9-year-old little half-brother, and his mother, who is Spanish. This is my first time in Spain. A couple of weeks...

I Haven’t Handled My Own Email In 12 Years

The other night I was at a small networking dinner event in Vancouver. As we were doing round the table problem solving, one of the other entrepreneurs commented about how much time she spends every evening keeping up with her email. I turned to her and...

I Just Did A Launch With No Webinars, No Videos, No Multimedia. Here’s What Happened…

In the last decade the world of internet marketing, like the internet itself, has become dominated by multimedia. It’s a different world to how I first started out online. For a good eight years from 1998 to 2006 all my online business projects were text...

This Is What A Live Coaching Webinar With Yaro Is Like…

I realize a small segment of people who join the Laptop Lifestyle Academy do so for one specific benefit – coaching with me! You may want my personal attention as a coach, to review your strategy, or web pages, or just to break through whatever you...

I Noticed A Pattern That I Now Look For As The Most Important Indicator Of Whether A Business Will Succeed Or Not

Back in 2012 I began a habit that continues to this day. This habit has led to more insights into why people succeed than anything else I have ever done. It all started when I decided to send a message to my past coaching members. My question was simple: I...

3 Online Businesses You Can Launch Today To Live The Laptop Lifestyle

It’s more than 20 years since I first started sitting at cafes with my laptop, making money from the internet. I thought it would be fun – and useful for you too – to review the three different business models I’ve applied to fuel a...

If I Was Only Allowed To Share One Marketing Idea With You, This Is It…

Think of a movie or television star… …Now think of the movie or show they are most known for. (Arnold Schwarzenegger = Terminator, David Schwimmer = Friends, Kate Winslet = Titanic, Julia Roberts = Pretty Woman) Next think of an author. What book...

The Day I Spent $5,000 On Something I Avoided For 10 Years

I remember the day very clearly. I was sitting in front of my computer, about to click the buy button on an order page for a very expensive purchase – $5,000 for an online business coaching program. $5,000 was 20% of my life savings at that point...

If I Could Start Over As An Entrepreneur Again This Is One Thing I Would Do Differently

It was the year 2003… Like most days, I started my morning lying in bed on my back, feeling a combination of excitement and stress as I stared at the ceiling, thinking about all the things I’d like to change about my life. I was 23 years old, graduated...

When Should You Quit Your Job To Focus Full Time On Your Online Business?

Over the years my motivation as an online entrepreneur has shifted from trying to make enough money to pay my living expenses, to then earn enough to move out of my parent’s house, to buying my own car and house, and having enough money to travel and...

I Killed Almost All My Income Streams, And I Did It On Purpose…

It felt like deja vu. I found myself in a place I didn’t think I could return to. I was lost. I didn’t know what to do next. The deja vu feeling appeared when I realised I was making mistakes I had made before. I was jumping from idea to idea, creating new...

Whom Do You Lean On When Nothing Is Working?

I’m at a party. The pretext is simple, people drinking and chatting, attempting to form meaningful connections, to bond over shared interests. As expected, everyone asks what I do. When I answer that I “work online” the response is an...

How Do You Make A Sale?

How do you make a sale online? You need a product or service. You need people who are motivated enough to buy it. And you need the technology to facilitate the transaction and delivery. Easy right? Some People Sell “Harder” In Order To Make A...

The Day My Life Changed

Almost a month ago I woke up to a phone call at 7am. It was my mother’s partner’s son calling me to tell me that my mum had a stroke and was in hospital. She had been watching TV, heard a buzzing noise, had a seizure and started speaking...

Why I Am Cutting Costs And Changing Business Models

This is an entrepreneur diary-style post I wrote back in 2011 during a transition period with my business. While this content is very old now, you might still enjoy reading through my thinking process and all the amazing comments people left in reply —...

Is Outsourcing Exploitation?

I wasn’t going to write this article. I was comfortable with my stance on outsourcing, comfortable enough to recommend it and promote products, and profit from the affiliate commissions, from people who use the catch-call of $2-per-hour labor and the...

How Freelancing Can Help You Make The Leap Into Entrepreneurship

Ali Hale has jumped in with this post explaining the virtues of becoming a freelancer as an in-between step to become a full on entrepreneur. Since this is the exact path she is walking now, Ali in a great position to help explain what it is like. If...

Living The 2-Hour Workday: How To Create Event Independent Income Streams

In the previous article on living the 2-hour workday I introduced the concept of travel buffers, cash created either through saving or selling assets that is designed to give you a buffer of capital you can comfortably spend if you need to while you travel....

Living The 2-Hour Workday: What Is A Travel Buffer & How Can You Create One

Towards the end of my trip around the world in 2008 I started to lose interest in seeing the typical tourist spots, even if the destinations were exotic countries or ancient monuments from cultures long passed. After visiting many amazing buildings and sites...

How To Work Less and Earn More By Leveraging The Synergy Between People And Technology

When I was managing BetterEdit, my proofreading company that I sold in 2007, I was knee deep learning from Rich Schefren, taking his Business Growth System course. Rich launched that program on the back of his most successful report to date, the Internet...

Laptop Lifestyle

The Truth About Traveling Non-Stop

I Haven’t Handled My Own Email In 12 Years

I Just Did A Launch With No Webinars, No Videos, No Multimedia. Here’s What Happened…

This Is What A Live Coaching Webinar With Yaro Is Like…

I Noticed A Pattern That I Now Look For As The Most Important Indicator Of Whether A Business Will Succeed Or Not

3 Online Businesses You Can Launch Today To Live The Laptop Lifestyle

If I Was Only Allowed To Share One Marketing Idea With You, This Is It…

The Day I Spent $5,000 On Something I Avoided For 10 Years

If I Could Start Over As An Entrepreneur Again This Is One Thing I Would Do Differently

When Should You Quit Your Job To Focus Full Time On Your Online Business?

I Killed Almost All My Income Streams, And I Did It On Purpose…

Whom Do You Lean On When Nothing Is Working?

How Do You Make A Sale?

The Day My Life Changed

Why I Am Cutting Costs And Changing Business Models

Is Outsourcing Exploitation?

How Freelancing Can Help You Make The Leap Into Entrepreneurship

Living The 2-Hour Workday: How To Create Event Independent Income Streams

Living The 2-Hour Workday: What Is A Travel Buffer & How Can You Create One

How To Work Less and Earn More By Leveraging The Synergy Between People And Technology

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