From Video Games To Netbooks: How Chris Guthrie Made $150,000 Online After Losing His Job

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Chris Guthrie is like your every day guy. He’s into video games, he likes computers, he studied marketing at Western Washington University, worked… Read the rest of this entry »

Why Leave A Six Figure Corporate Job For Internet Entrepreneurship?

Sunil contacted me asking if he could apply to become a columnist on Entrepreneurs-Journey. I asked him what are the highlights of his “career” as an entrepreneur so I could be confident in his credibility and he had stories to tell that we could all learn from.

It turns out Sunil has done a few things. As you willRead the rest of this entry »

Has The Possibility Of Selling Your Business Crossed Your Mind?

In between trying to avoid causing a car accident, I managed to record this video for you. This is my first shoot with my new third generation VADO HD, which is just like a flip cam.

As you will hear in the video, the topic of my spiel was selling your business. My main message for… Read the rest of this entry »

Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

The response to the video I shared of my presentation – How I Made $180,000 Profit Buying And Selling Websites Part Time – was awesome, and as I promised, here is the text transcript for you.

I’ll also include the MP3 download if you just want the audio without the video.

I’d appreciate it if you shared this… Read the rest of this entry »

How I Made $180,000 Profit Buying And Selling Websites Part Time

I was rummaging around my apartment looking for my Canadian passport this week and came across a DVD recording of one of my presentations at an Andrew and Daryl Grant workshop. The focus of the workshop was quick cash ideas, and I was invited to tell my story of how I “flipped” websites part time and made $180,000 inRead the rest of this entry »

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Buying And Selling Websites – David Jenyns Asks Yaro The Tough Questions

While attending Ed Dale’s coming home live event in Melbourne last month, I met David Jenyns a serial entrepreneur and SEO expert.

David asked if I was willing to do an interview with him about buying and selling websites, however we ended up talking about a lot more.

Listen to this interview and you will hear how I first… Read the rest of this entry »

How Can You Make Passive Income Online?

I had a meeting with a friend and his business partner last week. The request was to “pick my brain” on the best way to move forward to generate some passive income streams online.

These two particular people are like a lot of people I know. They’ve got tech skills, they know the Internet well and they have lots of… Read the rest of this entry »

Can Your Business Make You Rich?

Many years ago I wrote a blog post that looked at the reality of how much money you actually make when you run your own business.

You can read the article here – Do You Want to Run Your Own Business? Read this First!

My premise back then was that most business owners don’t make a whole lot of… Read the rest of this entry »

How To Invest In Websites In Your Spare Time

I remember my first website sale. I made $13,000 Australian dollars selling a website that I had built from scratch myself. That sale was a big windfall for me and a moment I won’t forget because it was the first time I saw the real potential of online property investment.

Since that sale I’ve gone on to sell more thanRead the rest of this entry »

Small Business Branding Has A New Owner

You might remember a month or so back I posted about some websites I had for sale. One of the sites was my other blog, Small Business Branding.

I am pleased to announce that Vera Raposo has taken over Small Business Branding and will endeavor to continue to grow the site from where I left off.

I’d… Read the rest of this entry »

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Website Portfolio For Sale – Currently Generates $3000+ Per Month

In 2008 I am streamlining and simplifying my business. Part of this process involves divesting myself from projects not directly related to my core business.

What that means is I have some websites for sale – and some pretty darn good ones!

I won’t reveal the specific details in this blog post but I do have a PDF report that… Read the rest of this entry »

Why Are So Many Bloggers Selling Their Blogs?

In the past few weeks we have seen some fairly high profile blog sales, at least in the make money online niche, including -

If I had the writing resources available to me I would have loved to have snapped up all these… Read the rest of this entry »

How I Generate $1675 Per Month Passive Income From Buying Websites

Continuing the thread from yesterday’s post regarding Ed Dale and the Dominiche system for buying and selling websites, I thought I might relay the story of how I acquired a set of niche websites that presently generate roughly $1675 in monthly passive income.

Unhappy With My Blog Income

The reason why I decided to go looking to buy… Read the rest of this entry »

Buying and Selling Websites The Ed Dale Way – Dominiche Launches Tomorrow

I’ve mentioned before that I derive some of my income online from websites I have purchased – forums in particular – that bring in a steady stream of passive revenue.

It’s not a huge source of income for me (about low four figures at the moment), but given the return on investment – you can buy a website and earn… Read the rest of this entry »

How To Leverage Blog Income To Build A Web Property Portfolio

With a title like that you would think this article is going to be all about taking the money you make from blogging and sticking it in shares or property or some other form of investment, and you would be right, but the investment method I’m going to explain to you today is not exactly typical. In fact I bet… Read the rest of this entry »

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How To Outsource Your Blogging – A Case Study

The recent series of articles I wrote on blogging as a business model sparked a few queries about how I have gone about outsourcing the writing of my blogs. In the article I talked about how it is important to move away from being solely responsible for content output, otherwise you limit your potential for growth and are effectively… Read the rest of this entry »

How Does AlexaRank Work And Should You Pay It Any Attention?

I have a confession to make. Ever since I installed the SearchStatus extension into my FireFox browser I have discovered a new addiction to go right along with my healthy love for PageRank – it’s close cousin, AlexaRank. In this case the bar is blue, and unlike PageRank the statistic AlexaRank represents has more to do with traffic… Read the rest of this entry »

Conducting Competitive Intelligence Using Search Status: A Search Extension for Firefox

If you read Rich Schefren’s latest free e-book – The Final Chapter (aff) – you will have come across a link he provided to a great tool called Search Status for the Firefox browser.

You can download Search Status here

It’s a neat little Firefox extension that provides you with some handy shortcuts for things like PageRank, AlexaRank,… Read the rest of this entry »

Use RSS To Help You Buy A Business

I was just alerted to a neat feature from BusinessForSale.com where you can subscribe to an RSS feed of business for sale in your local area or by industry in your country.

If you are considering buying a business take a look at the full selection of RSS feeds available.

The service claims they add over 5,000 new… Read the rest of this entry »

Big Blog Sale

Jeremy Wright is building some presale interest in a very big blog sale – MASSIVE Blog for Sale.

This is one of the defining blogs in the industry. When I go to conferences and mention the blog, and the author, I get an “oh yeah!” kind of response. Everyone knows this blog. It’s no Engadget, but it is in

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