I have a steady stream of enquiries now regarding direct advertising on my sites. This is all good but I often find myself not knowing where to pitch my rates. I have been thinking for a while about creating a rate card for individual sites. I am wondering whether any of you guys have adopted … Read more
Being a working nomad gives you freedom in two flavours; time and location. For me I am now experiencing more of the benefits of freedom of time after two years of going where I want. In the early days back in 2004 when I first starting imagining working on a tropical beach somewhere with a … Read more
Long suffering misery might soon be over for followers of this site and forum. My web host are finally upgrading the server and when you get to read this the site should work much faster! I appreciate the comments on the forum about how slow this site has been recently. It never seems so slow … Read more
OK if it was not for the fact that I have someone sitting here with me working away I would probably not be writing this now. I am not sure what I would be doing but it’s a sunny 23 degrees outside and I live near a beach! For the last month I have had … Read more
Firstly here is a picture of my new (used) car that I purchased from the Internet auction site trademe here in NZ and my house in the background. Things are going pretty well and I have a couple of people helping me out now on a casual basis. It will be a while before I … Read more
I have been in Auckland for three weeks now and have found somewhere to live. I am staying in a big house share in the suburb of Ponsonby which is one of the nicer areas of the city. My house has 14 other rooms so lots of people to meet! I have not really been … Read more
Anyone who has travelled a lot or done the working nomad thing will have probably met many great friends on the road. This is one of the high points of travel and has certainly opened up my mind. For instance I recently met a guy from Zimbabwe who certainly gave me an insight into his … Read more