Passive income

In this post, I talked about how trading time for money doesn’t scale. Creating and selling digital products, on the other hand – ebooks, software and membership of your educational site, for example – does. Create a product once and sell it a thousand times for...

‘Trading time for money doesn’t scale’

One of the most fascinating things that got me interested in internet marketing in late 2006 was the business model of creating and selling digital products. The was advice everywhere, often in the form of ebooks with titles like “Make money while you sleep”, “Bum...

Don’t panic!

Every now and then – fortunately, very rarely these days – something happens when I’m doing something online that leaves me asking ‘what?’, ‘how?’, and wondering ‘what next?’. The thing is, there’s usually (almost always) a fix to be found online within seconds. In...

‘Sweet but psycho’ & Colin Hunts

Social media, like supermarket car parks, often brings out the worst in people.I ask my daughters that if they’d rather avoid people in their physical world who appear full of rage, ‘sweet but psycho’ or to have the comic prowess of Colin Hunt, why choose to listen to...

The back of Fatboy Slim’s laptop

I glanced up at the telly the other night when MTV was on.An advert came on with Fatboy Slim in it.I noticed a sticker he had on the back of his laptop while DJing somewhere massive.The sticker said:Put your phones away, let’s enjoy the moment(Photo: Guy...