Tweet This is the latest addition to my Business Timeline, you can read the previous chapters here. ****** I turned 30 in 2009. I had been back in Australia a year after traveling around the world for 8 months in 2008. After returning from overseas, I was presented with the opportunity to become...

Tweet During the dot com boom around the year 2000, and the years that followed it (this was before I started blogging in 2004), I was a guy in his early twenties looking for a business idea to make my riches with online. At that stage I had only built a few handful of websites, hobby sites that...

Tweet Press play to begin streaming the audio or right click the text link and choose save as or save link. Download the MP3 [ 50 Minutes - 24 MB ] Download the text transcript PDF [ 21 Pages ] Subscribe to this Podcast in iTunes This is an interview for anyone who has found themselves in a situation...

Last week I presented at the Web Strategy Summit in Brisbane. The organisers of the event, Adam and Toby, invited me to come in and do a short presentation of 18 minutes, then a 10 minute question and answer session. The event featured panel discussions for about 45 minutes and several 18 minute “keynotes”,...

We are now living in the age of Vocational Darwinism, and the business skill that will make the difference in every professional life is the ability to adapt. At its core, Vocational Darwinism is the application of Charles Darwin’s principle of “survival of the fittest” to our working...

Subscribe to this Podcast in iTunes. Pete Williams is a long time Aussie friend, who lives in Melbourne, and is co-founder of three bricks and mortar businesses, all of which use online marketing to get customers. Pete’s first big business success was a telecommunications company that sells things...

When everyone looks up at the sky, do you do the same? If no one is buying a certain flavour of ice cream, do you stay clear of it too? If your friends all wear a certain brand of clothing do you desire to do the same, or the opposite? The force that influences you every day when it comes … Read...

Growing up like everyone living in a Western country, with shopping malls and TV informercials, I was well exposed to the concept of the time limited offer. Whether it was the 24 hours I had to order within to get the extra set of steak knives during the late night commercial, or the “Christmas...

During my early twenties I was introduced to the author Paulo Coelho, beginning with his book The Pilgrimage and then his most famous book, The Alchemist. I then went on a bit of a Coelho binge, reading everything I could find by him. Most of his books I loved and still do. His writing style has always...

Press play to begin streaming the audio or right click the text link and choose save as or save link. Download the MP3 [ 57 Minutes - 27 MB ] Subscribe to this Podcast in iTunes. I really do love these niche site success stories, especially when they feature such passion driven subjects (and I admit...