Last updated: January 2023 So, you’ve seen how wickedly awesome my blog is and you want one of your own (cough). Not a problem. Starting your own blog is actually a lot easier than you think. You can be up and running in a couple of hours, depending on how fast you work, and could even have

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By far the most common email I get these days is “Hey Bren, I would love to travel the world, I just don’t have the money right now. How do you afford to pay for it all? How do you make money while you’re travelling all the time?”

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Updated: January 2021. So I’ve got another fun little experiment to share with you guys today. A while ago I heard about the idea of a “micro-niche site”, and a few months back I finally decided to build one. Not for any particular reason – out of procrastination more than anything. But it turned out to be

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I’ve been making money online since I was 16 years old. First it was selling old crap on auction sites, then buying other people’s crap and selling it, then buying wholesale, eventually I started importing product from overseas. Then I started trading shares, using “get paid to” sites and survey sites to kill time at

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Woooooaah! What’s up people. Today we’re going to talk about money. And blogging. There are a few reasons I’ve finally decided to write this post. The first is, you’ve all been asking me about making money with a blog since forever ago. The second is, there is a lot (a lot!) of crap getting sold

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Update: Elance has now merged with Odesk to form Upwork. The platform is more or less the same, and operates in the same manner. The advice below is still applicable. Good luck! Surprisingly, the world of freelancing had eluded me until recently. It was by complete accident that I stumbled across a website called Elance

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I normally don’t publish guest posts but today I’ve made an exception. JY is a good friend of mine who recently completed TTC (Teach and Travel China) with i-to-i. I actually remember wanting to do this programme back in 2011, but couldn’t find a review of it anywhere! So, I’ve decided to publish this recap of

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