Hi and welcome to my blog about an on-line journey to make passive income online one website at a time. Read my backstory here.

Passive Income Online: Best Posts of 2009

Making Money Online 27 comments
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Well this seems to be the tradition at this time of the year to look back at your “best of” posts of the previous year. In fact its not a bad idea because internal linking is really a good idea – and hey some of your visitors may even find some benefit.
To (mis)-quote Dickens it [...]

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Improving Time Management to Improve Passive Income

Making Money Online 38 comments
Pomodoro time technique

While I was figuring out my passive income goals for 2010 – I went thru the tired but true exercise:

What went well last year?
What went badly?

Oddly enough – it was quite easy for me answer both questions – I think this is an important skill that being in business for yourself develops – one thing [...]

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Move to New Zealand – Australia Compared

Moving Overseas 46 comments
Wellington on a good day

Well as always its always quite amusing going home after being overseas a while. Leaving Australia after nearly three years – I am back in New Zealand.  Moving to New Zealand after not setting foot in the country for 18 months has been interesting. Here is my entirely non-scientific first impressions of  living in New [...]

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Passive Income Goals 2010

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I’ve been doing some planning – well its better than doing some work right? Although you many of you, like me, will have sat through the annual corporate planning wank – “failing to plan is a plan to fail” – in the business of making passive income online planning is a often just another way [...]

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Global Warming is Just Like the Y2K Bug!

Rants 61 comments

The whole Copenhagen/ Climate Change is tediously boringly dominating the Australian news at the moment. Its right up there with the irritating Christmas carols in the malls. So you have to love the people who combined the two annoying things to come up with a rather good youtube video:

What gets me – is that we [...]

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Passive Income – Leaving Australia – the Practicalities

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OK I have confession – although I love travelling I bloody hate packing – and leaving a country is like the worst packing in the world because everything has to go or be shipped. We have only been here two years – why we have so much crap is beyond me! Oh and its Christmas [...]

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I joined the cloud – do me a favour and join too!

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I joined the Cloud! You know cloud computing, personal PCs are so 2008 and now everyone lives in the cloud – well that’s what the Economist said a week or two back so it must be true.  Seriously though – I have just migrated all my important files onto an online backup system and I [...]

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Warning From Adsense!

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I think a few people at HubPages recently have had warning emails from Adsense – in part the email goes something like this:
While reviewing your account, we noticed that you are currently displaying
Google ads in a manner that is not compliant with our policies. For
instance, we found violations of AdSense policies on pages such as
h**p://cdn.hubpages.com/hub/XXGoogleXAdsenseX.
Please [...]

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Is It Worth Trying to Make an Income Online?

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I quite often get people emailing me because they saw my semi-illiterate ramblings somewhere on the Interwebs. I had another one recently which asked – “are my efforts going to be worth it?” – or in other words – is worth trying to make an income online?
What I wrote back was – in part:
I can’t [...]

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Need to Make Online Cash Now? Consider a Freelancing Business

Freelance Writing 12 comments
Freelance SuperStar eBook

Yup you read that right- if you are desperate to make an income right now. You have been told your job ends in two weeks and you don’t know how you will make next month’s mortgage repayments – then making passive income online won’t help you – yet.
I have been playing this website building game [...]

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Buying and Selling Websites

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Well its done – my first eBook is about to hit the stands! Well I decided I couldn’t really call19 pages a book – more like a long short story. I could have upped the font to 24 pitch – and triple spaced all the lines, added fluff and lots of pictures and got it [...]

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