One man's FIRE journey by opening up passive income streams from side hustles
richard
As a casual blogger with a professional background in paid media, I have to say I rarely ever paid attention to SEO. As a blogger, I thought content was everything, and that great content will rise to the top, even if user experience was not superb. But as the world shifted to mobile, alongside a … Read more
Over the past couple of weeks, I have been hard at work on a new project. One that gave me deeper insight into the world of WordPress, working on the Elementor theme as well as WooCommerce, but that’s another post for another day. Today, I want to unveil Intromaker, your partner in boosting your brand … Read more
Many of you know that I’m a crypto nut. And as the new uptrend of cryptocurrencies restart following Bitcoin’s recent halving in May, let’s take a look at the current Number 2 in the market. Ethereum itself is going through a major change, switching almost the entire infrastructure in its operations into what is known … Read more
Readers of my site will know that I am a ruby MCO VISA card holder. This card is from crypto.com, a company focused on making the onramp to crypto easy and intuitive. They have been working on a 2 token system, MCO and CRO, which can create some confusion, especially since they are both issued … Read more
For the month of July, I am happy to report tiny streams of side hustle income coming from 3 separate sources. A Crypto.com referral, a hustle trends signup referral, and income from car sharing. That’s the joy of setting up multiple passive-ish streams of income, and then growing them over time. Imagine if you can … Read more
Over the long weekend, I unlocked a new side hustle, which felt like an achievement, so I wanted to share it with you all. As we all know, car ownership in Singapore is crazy expensive, and we all do what we can to help alleviate the cost of car ownership. Some people drive grab hitch … Read more
I’m always excited to test into new features, and Google has recently published a beta plugin for WordPress to enable us to easily create Web Stories. What are Web Stories? Yes, Google Web Stories. They look exactly the same as your Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook Stories, except they now sit on your site, and can … Read more
As we celebrate Bitcoin climbing back up on the right side of USD10,000, I thought I’ll share an in depth article on all things bitcoin. Hopefully, this can provide you with some interesting information and the impetus to find out more, and also have a little fun reading about. What is Bitcoin? Bitcoin, as described … Read more
My previous article on property, about selling one to buy two, got pretty popular. So today, I’m going to follow it up with a deeper look into how and where to start researching into your investment property. This will be based on my discussions with my property agents, aligned with our overall strategy and combining … Read more
This is a bit of a fun one. I’d recently been tagged by Fire and Wide for the #awesomebloggeraward, which seems like a know-you-better type of post where you answer ten questions from the tagger, and in turn tag a few bloggers to answer ten questions of your own. Thanks for tagging me, and so … Read more
Covid has proven to be a game changer in many ways. We’ve seen the drastic changes to how we work, and how office buildings are less necessary than we think, which will lead to long term structural changes in the REITs landscape. Just like how covid massively bumped up Zoom’s usage, I believe the same … Read more
If you’ve already set up your own domain via Bluehost and are blogging, did you know that you can also have your custom email address with name@domain.com for free without incurring additional cost? In the next few minutes, we’ll go through the steps to finding this page, creating your custom domain email, and adding it … Read more
I had previously briefly written about my lucky break in property, and how we stumbled our way into becoming “property investors”. It has since become known as the “sell 1 buy 2 property” approach by property agents, and in the next few minutes I’ll elaborate more on this approach and the overarching strategy in mind … Read more
There’s been a growing trend of solopreneurs, or a one-man band, making a business work and scaling it alone to hit $1M in revenue before hiring a team. It has been a growing trend, and a confluence of factors will make it truly explode in the next decade. Let’s explore the idea around being a … Read more
I didn’t do much in June to generate any side income, and still ended up having some income streaming in. This is the power of truly passive incomes. I didn’t end up doing any trades, because I was busy working on a new project/product that I’m aiming to unveil in July. I did get a … Read more
We’re heading into the 2nd half of 2020 in a few days, and boy, is this an exhausting year or what? It feels like we crammed 5 years of events into half a year, and it ain’t even over yet. With the pandemic heading firmly into Wave II territory (Except for US, which hasn’t left … Read more
Most hobbyist bloggers want to try to minimise their costs of hosting and blogging by placing some ads, and maybe a referral link here and there. I’m no different. Money is money. Even if it’s just enough for coffee. But more importantly, I also like to share software or products I personally use, and can … Read more
For new bloggers thinking about monetising their blogs, there are a few ways to go about it. You could start adding affiliate links, typically from amazon, or a specific product/brand you may know well. Another common way to start monetising the blog is to add display banner ads. In this post, we’ll go through the … Read more
