First up, I’d like to say ‘thank you’ for all the well wishes I received from everyone last week, via Twitter, email and Facebook, as I lay in bed battling what turned out to be the worst flu of my entire life. I literally didn’t leave my bedroom for three full days. This month’s report comes to you in all the glory of video…
Six months in the making, and my new company is finally a GO! It’s your new one stop shop for everything project-based outsourcing related. We’ve been beta testing for months, and received rave reviews from our early clients. So, I’m super excited to now officially share with you my new company… YourWebPA.com!
Google’s Panda has had a dramatic effect on the ranking of many websites. Before, it was possible to place 100 related longtail keywords on a page, throw some links at things and rank for many of them. In fact I had such a page getting 15,000 visitors a month, which is now down to just 140 a month. How things have changed…
Here we are with another month worth of stats, highs, lows and earning reports for the niche site I’m working on as part of the VBL Niche Site Project. Some seriously important lessons learned this month, as traffic took a bit of a hit, and Adsense earnings went completely ‘weirdo’ on me. Read the report for more info!
This post by Benjamin Spall, is part of ‘VBL Guest Post Season 2′. I have a huge respect for entrepreneurs. Making it is tough. Real tough. Like so many other things, it’s not until you try it out yourself that you can really appreciate the difficulty of the game. Take professional sports stars. They often [...]
This post by Diggy, is part of ‘VBL Guest Post Season 2′. I was introduced to the concept of virtual business (making money on the internet) 3 years ago. In the last 3 years I’ve spent a lot of time, money and effort experimenting with different virtual business models. Needless to say, I wasted a [...]
Welcome to third exciting monthly installment of the VBL Niche Site Project! If it’s your first time here, just check this page out for all the background info on the project and to become a part of it. Botton line is… a few months back, I put together this experiment for myself, to research, create, [...]
Here’s the second monthly update in an estimated six reports that will go live charting the growth and earnings of just ONE niche site, generating passive income via Adsense and more. If you’ve not been following the Niche Site Project that kicked off a couple of months ago here at the VBL Blog, hop on our band-wagon now…
Today, I’m super excited to announce the winner of the Niche Site Giveaway contest I launched last week. Firstly, I’d like to say a massive thank you to all that entered. The responses I had were unbelievable. I expected 10 or 15 people to enter and I ended up having close to around 40, I believe. You all rock…!
A short time ago we all had a discussion on niche sites here on the blog. Following this, I announced my own niche site, and the VBL Community Niche Site Project kicked-off. After the dust on everything had settled, with a combined almost 300 comments on the subject, a couple of weeks back, I posted my first update [...]
As some of you may already know, a few weeks ago I announced my niche and domain for the VBL Community Niche Site Project, which went into full swing on July 11th. Along with monthly reports containing traffic numbers, adsense earnings, etc., I’ll be doing a few additional posts. Today I discuss my content creation strategy…
Just a couple of short weeks ago I published a VBL Discussion Post on the subject of niche sites, where I mentioned that I was challenging myself to start my first ‘true’ niche site online, a ton of VBLer’s said they wanted to join in… It’s not a competition, its a Community Project. Here’s the low-down…
One of the things I’m doing whilst I’m in London is developing a VBL Niche Challenge for myself, with the help of my VA’s. You’ve probably seen a lot of this type of stuff online recently, however, I’ve yet to jump on the bandwagon, as they say. That’s changing… I’ll be revealing exactly what niche it is soon. However…
Finding a niche as an aspiring lifestyle designer, digital nomad, web entrepreneur – whatever you want to call yourself – is about as important as remembering to take your skiing equipment on a visit to Switzerland! If you don’t, you won’t get very far. I’ve been in the ‘real world’ of marketing for 20-years…
Do you spend a lot of time looking for products to promote? If you’re like the vast majority of subscribers to my blog, the answers is a definite “Yes”. In this post, I’m going to propose that you take a step back from product-picking, and instead focus on finding a niche audience to serve. Why [...]
Passive Income streams should be one of your main focuses when building a Virtual Business Lifestyle. The ability to create numerous money-making vehicles, switch them onto auto-pilot and then reap the financial benefits is paramount to living a successful entrepreneurial life in the modern world. There are many people doing it successfully, and there is no reason why you [...]
Ever since Tim Ferriss wrote and published The 4 Hour Work-Week, there has been hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurial lifestyle fanatics looking to creating what Tim calls, their ‘muse’. Some have succeeded, some have failed – terribly. I wanted to write this quick post to be able to point out some simple things you can [...]
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