So you want to build a membership site huh? Deciding to do it is the easy part! Once that decision is made there are SO many different factors that go into the actual creation of the site. Unlike a simple WordPress blog, where you can basically install and go, a membership site has MANY more components. You need to consider which membership plugin to use, how you’ll handle payments and affiliates, how to layout the site, how to deal with privacy etc. Bottom line, it can be really daunting. That said, it doesn’t have to be. After the success of my post “How to Become an SEO Freelancer in 48 Hours” I figured I would keep the series alive and
Continue Reading > 29 Comments posted: May 5th, 2011
So it’s been a week since I last posted, but I promise it hasn’t been without good reason. This week I’ve holed myself up at a cabin in Central Oregon to put the finishing touches on my new FREE ebook “Location Rebel Arsenal“. If you ever want to get a LOT of stuff done in a very short period of time, go someplace remote. Seriously, this has been the most productive week of my life. But I’ll save that for another post. Some of you may remember the first iteration of Location Rebel from about a year and a half ago. It debuted as a forum for lifestyle design/location independence and actually turned into a pretty good resource really quickly.
Continue Reading > 7 Comments posted: April 28th, 2011
Everyone has something they that say they are going to do sometime during their life. I’ve got about a 100 of them on my bucket list. I’ve learned over the past few years, that for all of those “somedays” unless you make a conscious decision to work towards those goals, the vast majority of them will never be experienced. Think about the last ten years of your life. How many times have you said out loud or thought to your self “Someday I’ll do that” or “I’ll do that when I have more time and/or money”. Now, for all the times you’ve said that, how many of those items have you actually made any type of progress towards achieving? I’m
Continue Reading > 22 Comments posted: September 22nd, 2010
As hard as this is to admit, my blog should probably be a fair amount bigger than it is. Maybe that sounds arrogant, but when you think about the fact that I’ve been working on it for nearly a year and a half, have had some incredible adventures to write about, and have built a substantial network of contacts and friends, those factors combined should equal a few more subscribers than I’m at currently. However the reason I’m not there is completely my fault and no one else’s. You look at people like Corbett Barr, who’s recent endeavor Think Traffic has more subscribers in 2 months than I’ve had in 15. It’s only a matter of time before Colin Wright
Continue Reading > 38 Comments posted: August 26th, 2010
Throughout the course of my life I have had no shortage of things to keep me busy. When I was younger I balanced tennis lessons every day after school, with learning to play guitar and skiing on the weekends. Not to mention wanting to go rock climbing with friends, and take as many trips as possible. There was always something going on. One of the biggest problems I face in life is my general interest in doing new things. It doesn’t take much for me to get excited about something, and for a period of time I will focus all my energy on this new activity. The problem lies in the fact that after awhile my ADD kicks in and
Continue Reading > 11 Comments posted: August 24th, 2009
There aren’t many of us who couldn’t use a little extra cash here and there. Maybe you want to hop over to Fiji and need a plane ticket. Maybe your computer got stolen and you need a new Macbook. Well the good news is, there are a wide variety of things you can do to make an extra buck or two. I will tell you how I personally made an extra $1,000 to fund my travels, and also provide a bunch of other ideas that could work as well. Each idea has a rating based on how easy it is to accomplish, and if I have personally made money doing it, I will specify how much it was.
Continue Reading > 15 Comments posted: July 13th, 2009
This is part three of three in a series of guest posts from Ryan Martin. In this post he will discuss the reality of finding work on the island. Follow the links if you haven’t read part 1 or part 2. So far I have been writing about how awesome Hawaii is and how it has pretty much been all fun and games. Now here comes the dark side…or so it was for me. After the honeymoon stage ended for me on Maui, I decided I needed to get a J-O-B. I mean, half the reason I came to Hawaii was to pursue a job in the hospitality/tourism industry. So I set out on a quest to find a way
Continue Reading > 7 Comments posted: June 12th, 2009
Every one has a list of things they want to do before they die. Whether it is written down or not, there is something in this world that you would like to do, but have yet to experience/accomplish. Writing out a “bucket list” is the first step you can make towards accomplishing some of these goals. However, this can be a harder list to write than you might expect. If you use the following tips, you should be able to not only write a meaningful list, but actually accomplish it as well. For reference, here is the beginning of my list. Mine still has a ways to go. 1) Don’t try to write it all at once. This isn’t an
Continue Reading > 24 Comments posted: June 8th, 2009
This is part two of three in a series of guest posts from Ryan Martin. In this post he will discuss his first few days adjusting to island life. If you haven’t read part one, you can find it here. Flying fish, humpback whales, spinner dolphins, shipwrecks…this definitely ain’t (insert the state you currently reside in here) anymore! This is how I spent my first full day in Hawaii. I am quickly learning that on Maui, it is not what you know, but WHO you know. Fortunately for me, my roommate is a hotel concierge and one of the perks of the job is getting to do any activity on the island for free with one guest. Insert me, the
Continue Reading > 8 Comments posted: May 29th, 2009
Bartleby: You could spend eighty thousand dollars or I could make eighty thousand dollars. Dad: So you’re saying you don’t want to go to college? Bartleby: No, I am saying it would be fiscally irresponsible for me to go to college. This is a quote from the movie Accepted, in which a high school graduate sets out to create his own college education. Sparked by his inability to be accepted to a real school, he ends up starting his own. He develops a place where students can learn about whatever it is they are passionate about, rather than getting a”traditional” education. I could write pages about how the current system for higher education is severely flawed, but I think most
Continue Reading > 9 Comments posted: May 28th, 2009
