New project - strength training website

I’ve been on a bit of a roll recently and I’m developing another website already. This isn’t either Project Red or Project Blue, which I have referred to before. It’s another small, personal site on a subject close to my heart: strength training.
There seems to be a huge gap in the market for websites that […]

Revamp of dropoutdiaries.com

I’ve been spending all my spare time recently working on this site. I’ve moved it to its own domain (dropoutdiaries.com), changed the design so that the site is easier to navigate and I am sharpening the focus of the site to make it clear that it is primarily about ways of leaving the rat race, […]

Business plan for Project Red

Could I face the dragons… and survive?
Project Red, my online project, has now begun in earnest. I am writing the initial business plan, attempting to answer such basic questions as: How does it work? How does it make money?
The site doesn’t exist yet, so I am plucking numbers out of the air based on what […]

Manifesto for business success

I’ve been having a minor crisis of confidence recently. This can easily happen when you are on your own and don’t have anyone to pep you up. I lost confidence in my business ideas, the projects I want to develop to earn an income for myself. I became temporarily unconvinced that they were good ideas […]

Paying yourself first

My current temping assignment is coming to an end and I have decided to have a week off before going back to work. I had been planning to go straight on to another assignment. But even though I could do with the money, getting caught up in yet another 9-to-5 maelstrom is so not the […]

Cornwall training camp

I will miss a lot of my group training when I move, particularly British Military Fitness. I should organise a training camp down in Cornwall. I might do the first one just for friends but turn it into a commercial enterprise thereafter. The concept is a boot-camp style experience with the added excitement of some […]

Should I publicise this blog more widely?

I am considering whether to publicise this blog more widely. I need to email friends, acquaintances and colleagues to tell people that I am moving, invite them to leaving do’s and so on, and I have the option of letting people know about this blog.
I have held back from doing it thus far, as it […]

Getting used to ebay

I have spent most of today reading pages of advice about buying and selling on ebay. There is a lot to get to grips with and it’s not all as simple as you might think.
Take recorded delivery, for example. If you don’t have proof of delivery, you have little recourse if your buyer says that […]

Growing confidence in my business ideas

I am feeling much more confident about my business ideas now that I have spent a few weeks mulling them over. At first I had no real idea how I would go about making any money (other than temp jobs or waitressing) but now the ideas are starting to flow.
The majority of my ideas are […]

First ebay selling experience

Within a few hours of putting my first item (a DVD) on ebay I started to get offers to buy the thing right away. Initially I responded to these offers in good faith, telling Buyer A what Buyer B had offered and so on. But all the time I was wondering why they weren’t just […]