Free blogger business cards from ooprint.co.uk

I’ve been thinking about how to promote my blogs to friends, acquaintances and random people offline. It’s easy to start talking about your blog, but how do you make sure people remember the address and take the time to log on and have a look?
I started looking into getting business cards printed, but then I […]

Blogging reality check

I have been watching too much tv recently. It’s not that I think tv is bad, but if I am watching tv, I am not blogging. Or playing the piano, thinking up new business ideas or working out at the gym. Not doing much, in other words, that I consider life-enhancing for myself.
If I am […]

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, […]

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 […]

Professional blogging as a business model

A blogger called Yaro Starak has written a series of articles on professional blogging as a business model. He contends that professional blogging is not a sustainable model because generally it is dependent on the owner creating their own content day after day, which means that there are limits to how much this content can […]

Professional blogging

I have been reading about professional blogging as a possible income stream for my portfolio. It takes time - maybe a year or more - to build up enough traffic to bring in a decent amount of money, provided you can create something that attracts people in the first place.
When I first started this blog, […]