Have you ever thought about becoming your own employer? On living on your blogging income? Well, this guy did it in just 279 days. He even wrote an excellent ebook (he calls it a manifesto) “279 Days to Overnight Success” to tell people interested in doing the same how he did it.
I find the manifesto really interesting because that’s something I would like to do myself, at least partially. I love writing, teaching people new things, sharing my experiences. I say partially because I wouldn’t have anything to write about if it were not for my work, where I get to learn so much. I have so many project ideas, but I don’t take the time to even start any of those. After having read the manifesto, I’m a little more motivated, I need to answer 2 important questions raised in the ebook (he calls them “the two most important questions in the universe”):
- What do you really want to get out of life?
- What can you offer the world that no one else can?
Anyway, if you ever thought about going solo and working on your own, give this ebook a chance and read it.
As you may know, I have started blogging a bit more regularly over at Crossbrowser.net. I’m still in my early attemps at blogging and the quality of the text probably shows that. I’m still happy so far of what I’ve written, hopefully a few more people will start following and commenting. My goal for this year is to write at least one entry per week, I already have content for a dozen posts, but I need to learn to take more time to write.
Here are a few interesting posts (in my opinion) you might’ve missed:
In the past few weeks I improved the navigation and layout. I also made some improvements to help with SEO (Search engine optimization) (on this website too). If the traffic gets good enough, I’ll probably try to put up some advertisements (non obtrusive of course). In the meantime, I’ll keep posting to improve my writing.
Over at my other blog, I talk about the importance of owning a domain even if you don’t plan on having a website.
Here’s a quote from the post:
The most important use you can make with your own domain is having access to an infinity of email addresses. You probably already have at least one @gmail.com, @yahoo.com, @hotmail.com, @whatever-free-email-service.com address, probably 2 or more, everyone does. However, none of these gives you as much freedom as having your own domain does.
