Early retirement through passive income opportunities

Love blogging but hate the techy stuff? My blogging essentials series makes it simple.

3 Lessons learned from my first proper niche sites

1 Comment 28 March 2012

Finally, Michelle has a niche site! Actually two! Actually, one and a half? Actually no, one of them is aiming for more of an authority site status and the other one isn’t quite live yet so all of those statements were false. Actually. Anyway, here are three things I learned during this process: 1. Basic [...]

Personal projects

FreeBloggr – free WordPress blog setup service

0 Comments 22 February 2012

My latest new venture is FreeBloggr, a service where users can get their hands on free WordPress blog setup from the experts (me and my assistant). Basically, after providing us with your hosting information the service goes something like this: WordPress install Configuration of various settings, permalinks etc for maximum effect Installation of various popular [...]

Practical advice

Blogging Essentials: Designing your opt-in form

3 Comments 20 January 2012

If you’ve not heard the phrase “the money is in the list”, you’ve probably been living under a rock at the bottom of the ocean for quite some time. It’s common knowledge that in blogging, the most reliable interactions come from people who have willingly volunteered their contact details and signed up to your mailing [...]

Odds and sods

New year, new attempt: Happy 2012!

6 Comments 07 January 2012

Well well well, it’s certainly been a while. My last blog update was in September, while I was still recovering from some personal drama, and then I disappeared from your RSS readers seemingly for good. You may or may not be glad to know that I am in fact alive and kicking, and very much [...]

Realities of retirement

How much money will I need to retire?

7 Comments 19 September 2011

Well, I did warn you all in a recent post that some maths was incoming, and now seems like as good a time as any. Obviously I’ve been talking about retirement for a few months now, but haven’t really gone into detail on the numbers. Truth is, I’m not any sort of expert on what’s [...]

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