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Time Machine: The World’s Leading Blogs Ten Years Ago

July 1, 2020 By jake Leave a Comment

How much have the world’s most entrepreneurial bloggers changed since they first launched? Let’s go back in time and see how far blogging has come over the last ten years.

2020 has been a wild ride, and it’s only the start of July! In the world of blogging and online business, a lot can change in six months, let alone in ten years.

Let’s take a look at four of the world’s most popular entrepreneurs and see how much their blogs have changed since they started out.

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Swapping smashed avo on toast for a…saxophone!?

June 16, 2020 By jake Leave a Comment

My social experiment Smashed Avo Project is a series of trades starting out with smashed avo on toast. The project exists to show what can be achieved by going without smashed avo, and this is how the sequence of swaps has played out so far:

1. Smashed avo on sourdough
2. Vintage cane magazine rack
3. Surfboard accessory (a tail-pad)
4. Hotel stay voucher
5. Moana doll set
6. Nine carat gold ring with amethyst stone

Despite the recent COVID-19 lockdown limiting my ability to physically meet potential swappers, the last few months have still seen some rather peculiar offers come through including a prehistoric shark tooth, a tile from the Titanic, a NOS bottle and a fragment of the Berlin Wall.

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8 fitness apps to reach new heights at home

April 7, 2020 By jake Leave a Comment

Stuck at home in isolation and don’t want your fitness to suffer? Me neither!

Isolation shouldn’t be all doom and gloom right? In fact, when you think about it, now is actually the perfect time to explore new opportunities and ways to achieve those fitness gains, and perhaps even take up some new pursuits that you have not considered before.

With these unprecedented restrictions now imposed to stay at home, you will probably be finding you have more time on your hands. Why not put that time to good use and focus on one of the most important things in your life…your very own physical wellbeing! To achieve this means adapting to the changes in your everyday lifestyle, setting new personal fitness goals and then finding the ongoing motivation in your home environment.

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It Pays To Blog: My book has officially launched!

March 27, 2020 By jake Leave a Comment

I’m delighted to announce that today marks the launch of my book, It Pays to Blog: The Ultimate to Making an Income from Blogging.

My blogging journey started way back in 2001 when I launched a tshirt blog that I later sold to renovate my family home. The book is like direct download of my blogging mind, and condenses 19 years of experience into a 220-page guide containing everything you’ll need to know to create a profitable blog from scratch.

My lovely wife will testify that this book has been a real labour of love for me. It’s taken almost 3 years to complete, and covers all of the essential topics you’ll need to consider to launch a successful blog.

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Airplane mode: Switching off in Vanuatu

October 3, 2019 By jake Leave a Comment

It’s 6:03am, barely light and 8 degrees outside. My wife’s already at the gym, finishing the workout she started an hour ago. The dog’s newly formed habit of barking for breakfast has kicked off already (sorry neighbours!) The familiar silhouette of our 7 year old daughter appears at our bedroom door, as rubs her eyes and peers in to see if I am awake. She catches the whites of my eyes, taking that as her cue to enter. ‘Can I please have a hot chocolate Daddy?’

It’s hard to say no.

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Long weekends: Plantation Resort at Rainbow Beach, Queensland

January 29, 2019 By jake Leave a Comment

3.5 hours drive North from our little home on the Gold Coast is picturesque coastal town known as Rainbow Beach. This long stretch of coastline gets its name from the coloured sands which, for miles, cascade dramatically down towards the pristine blue ocean.

Rainbow, as it is referred to by the locals, has all the characteristics of a sleepy Australian coastal town. There’s an old Queenslander style pub that churns out plenty of parmagianas on a Friday night, a well trodden fish and chippery and an independent servo that is absurdly spacious compared to the more modern petrol stations elsewhere (probably to house all of the random items they stock – postcards from the 90’s, life jackets and bait & tackle included).

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