One of the neat things about the online business world is that it allows people (who are willing to take the risk and do the work) to monetize their personal knowledge and skills. This is most evident in what people are able to do with personal blogs and the hobby niches. Darren Enns is currently working full-time, and travels tons for work. While in a hotel room on a work trip one night, he decided to stop killing his brain cells with hours of television, and to start turning his hobby (fish...

I hate Done-For-You services and bonus templates. Yes, people love to sell them, love to include them with their offers to improve the perceived value of the product. People love the idea that they can use these products and services to skip the hard stuff, and get to the place in the make money online world where things are easy.There's not much that's easy about making money online.Yes, you can utilize DFU services, but in the end, are you ultimately better off? Do you have the knowle...

Many folks struggle to start. Of those who do, only a small percentage find a way to make that start into something real and significant. In the beginning, a few hundred extra dollars seems almost impossible. But when you find a way to get there, the next hurdle is a thousand, and two thousand, and so on. When you are still working a full time job, and have a family, those next goals can seem unreachable.Jesse Foutch inspires me. he is about the same age as me, and he knows a lot more than me...

Check out this interview I did in early May 2020 with rising blogger and Youtuber Steph Castelein of EachDaySlow.com. Steph is still in the beginning stages of her journey, but you don't have to talk with her long to hear and see that she has got it figured out. After building up her initial hobby blog on Wix to a respectable amount of traffic, Steph has gotten more serious about making her blogging hobby into a business.In this interview, we talk tons about where her business is now, how Pin...

Making money online is a continual exercise in faith. Belief. Knowing that your moves will take you in the right direction, even if there are mistakes and false starts on the way. This is especially the case when you take the leap and launch your own product.Many of us bloggers, content publishers and affiliate marketers...we create content that helps sell products every day! But seldom do we go that extra step of creating a product of our own. One that we put our real name on. One that embod...

Landing that first job out of college is harder than ever, especially if you have high expectations for yourself and big dreams. How do you overcome that hurdle of inexperience, in both your desired profession and in life?This is an interview with Sarah Clow, who at the time of publishing this episode (2020) is the Head of Social Media & Marketing Partnerships at Ezoic. While obviously intelligent and charismatic, Sarah seems to be an unlikely choice to be the head of anything, given her ...

Hello and welcome! This is the first episode of this new podcast. My name is Emilia Gardner, and I'm a brand new podcaster with brand new goals. I use this time to talk about starting a new project (like a podcast) when I'm not confident at all that it will be successful. Ultimately, I understand that this podcast will be a journey, and that I can't judge for a long time the success of the venture. I need to put in the work first, and then see how it plays out.If you want to get started with ...