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September 17, 2017

Protected: BoredAF.com is for sale

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Published on September 17, 2017 21:23

February 1, 2017

2017 Goals

Every year I go through my results from the previous year and goals for the upcoming year. Being February, with some clarity about what I'm up to this year, I'm ready for some 2017 goals so here they are. While I sold 1 business last year, I was reminded by my son today that I still have 5, so there's plenty on.


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Published on February 01, 2017 03:21

December 26, 2016

2016 did not suck – year in review

Every year I write a post publicly committing to my goals for the year and reviewing the year that was. This is my 3rd post, here is the 2015 one and the 2016 one. Every year I fail almost all of my goals. In some cases I aim too high, in others I just have ...


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Published on December 26, 2016 15:19

November 21, 2016

Storytelling in business: how to use it to grow your brand

Throughout my business journey I've taken every opportunity to use storytelling as a way to build trust, loyalty and grow my brand. In this post I take you through the 7 step process I've followed to tell my story often and effectively.


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Published on November 21, 2016 22:10

November 9, 2016

How to build an audience: my unconventional approach to rebuilding mine in a few years

People often ask me how I've built my audience, but what a lot of people don’t know, is while I’ve been online for a decade, I actually started almost entirely from scratch 4 years ago, giving up virtually everything I’d done in the 7 years prior. In this post I'll take you through the unconventional approach I took to rebuild my audience in a few years.


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Published on November 09, 2016 20:21

November 1, 2016

How to build a 6 figure side business by self publishing books

I never considered myself to be a writer, so building a 6 figure side business by self-publishing books has been a pretty amazing experience! In this post I share my key strategies and lessons on making it as a successful self published author, based on a recent talk I gave at the Dynamite Circle event in Bangkok.


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Published on November 01, 2016 19:04

October 26, 2016

No funding no worries, check out these multiple 7-figure self funded startup success stories

Bootstrapping a business to growth and profitability can be a viable alternative to the more commonly accepted wisdom of sourcing outside investors. So don’t let a lack of startup capital via outside investment discourage you from launching. For inspiration on becoming a self funded start-up, here are 9 examples of highly successful businesses that bootstrapped their way to 7 figures plus.


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Published on October 26, 2016 22:58

October 19, 2016

21 Harvey Specter quotes to help you win at life and entrepreneurship

If you haven’t been watching Suits, you should have been. Here are some of Harvey’s best quotes, to make you a more epic entrepreneur and win at life.


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Published on October 19, 2016 00:58

October 10, 2016

11 (mostly) free self publishing tools for your next best seller

If you’ve got the creative urge to put out a book, there’s a bunch of (mostly) free self publishing tools and resources to help you achieve it as a self-made author. In this post I talk about the support tools I used to help get my four self-published books out there.


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Published on October 10, 2016 19:56

August 31, 2016

Be more grateful, be more creative

In my upcoming book, Create Or Hate, I discuss ways to get more creative by managing the inner self-sabotage mechanism that I choose to call ‘Hate’. In this blog post I discuss one of these strategies, the concept of how being more grateful will make you less hateful and therefore more creative.


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Published on August 31, 2016 22:31