Practical guidance for building a sustainable online income
Getting people to notice what you’re doing online can quickly become a numbers game. More visitors. More clicks. More followers. More has to be better. So naturally, much of the attention goes towards one question: How do I get more people to see what I’m doing? There’s nothing wrong with wanting to reach more people. … Read more
When I first started trying to build an online business, I thought I needed to have all the pieces figured out. What sort of website should I build? How would I get traffic? What should I write about? Which tools do I need? How do I build an email list? There was always something else … Read more
You’ve created something useful and someone has found it. Now what? That’s a question I think is easy to overlook when you’re building an online business. We can spend so much time thinking about getting people to our website, writing content and building an audience that we forget to think about what happens when someone … Read more
When you’re trying to build an online business, it doesn’t take long before you start hearing the same advice. You need to create content. Write blog posts. Post on Facebook. Send emails. Make videos. Stay visible. And there’s nothing necessarily wrong with any of that. The problem starts when creating content becomes the goal. You … Read more
When you’re trying to build an income online, sooner or later you need people to actually see what you’re doing. You can build a website, create a landing page, set up an email list and find something you believe is worth promoting. But none of it does much good if nobody sees it. That’s where … Read more
For years, I thought my biggest problem with online business was that I hadn’t found the right answer yet. Maybe I needed a better system. A better course. A better product to promote. A better way to get traffic. Or maybe I just needed to learn a little more before everything finally started to make … Read more
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” There are times when I look back at my online journey and think about how much further ahead I might have been if I’d got serious about this years ago. Maybe I’d have built the email list by … Read more
I used to tell myself things would settle down eventually. Once I got past the next lot of bills, the unexpected expense, or whatever else happened to come along, there’d be a bit more breathing room. The trouble is, there was always something. And I eventually realised that simply hoping things would improve wasn’t much … Read more
When I first started trying to build an online business, I was all over the place. One day I was watching YouTube tutorials. The next I was looking at another tool, strategy or opportunity that seemed as though it might be the missing piece. I was certainly doing things. But looking back, I’m not sure … Read more
When I first started trying to build an income online, I thought effort was probably the most important ingredient. Put in the hours. Keep learning. Keep trying things. Eventually something should work. There was certainly no shortage of effort. But over time I began to realise that working hard and building something that can grow … Read more