One man's FIRE journey by opening up passive income streams from side hustles
As you can see on my Twitter profile, I’ve been on Twitter since 2007. However, I didn’t gain a lot of value from the platform in the beginning, and was kind of posting pretty random stuff, much like Facebook statuses in their initial days. I also posted sporadically, and didn’t have any specific voice or … Read more
I started this blog in November of 2018 on a whim, to document my trials and tribulations into various side hustles I was doing, and will try out, as well as an overall peek into my journey as I strive for FI as a family man. A small part of the blog also evolved into … Read more
Recently, I’ve started to see myself less as a blogger, and more as a creator. As platforms get decentralised and we’re equipped with more and more resources, it is now super easy to become more than just a blogger. Content can be consumed in so many different ways and should be packaged differently, into soundbites, … Read more
WordPress recently released a new feature with an integration with Twitter, allowing for entire blog posts to be simultaneously published on Twitter as a thread, or a tweetstorm. So naturally, this post will be both a tutorial on how to do it, as well as a test of it on my twitter account. Apparently, formatting, … Read more
If you’re a numbers geek like me, and love to see data visualisations and creating dashboards, then you’ve got to use Google Data Studio. Imagine this to be Google Analytics on steroids! Best of all, Google Data Studio is free to use. With that said, let’s dive in. Why use Google Data Studio over Google … Read more
We all know SEO is a tough nut to crack. Between Google algorithm changes, strong competition, and a very thin window (between pages 1 and 2 of SERP) for SEO to drive significant results, it can be a long and frustrating journey. I will share with you my journey of getting this site to rank … Read more
Recently, one of my tweets linking out to a blog post got picked up and retweeted by a celebrity with 1.4M followers, and I wanted to share the impact that retweet had on traffic to my blog.
We all know how Google Analytics is an amazing tool to observe and analyse huge data sets with. But sometimes, it is also extremely useful to do a deep-dive into a user level session centric report. This is where the user explorer report comes in really handy. The Google Analytics User Explorer report looks at … Read more
SEO is a constantly evolving game. You have to come back constantly to revisit your old content, keep them updated and refreshed, and sometimes enhance it when Google introduces something new that can change the game. If you haven’t heard or used it much, structured data (or rich snippets) can really help boost your SEO … Read more
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
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
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
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
We all know that a fast loading website is key to ranking in search results, and also the possibility of getting featured on Google Discover. Of course, the fastest loading website is still nothing if you don’t have great content that helps the reader to solve a problem, or answering their queries. So, content aside, … Read more
There’s a popular phrase “if money can solve a problem, then it’s not a problem”. My background is in paid media, meaning I help bring awareness, traffic, and revenue to brands by investing into platforms such as Facebook, Google and Twitter, to help amplify their presence, product or message. So in a way, that has … Read more
Here are 6 reports I absolutely love and use in Google Analytics, and so should you.
The new Gutenberg editor for Wordpress has you thinking in blocks, and I love it. Here’s a short review and general thoughts about the new wordpress editor.
We all want to jazz up our words with a succinct little picture to complete our story. So today, I’ll show you how to create beautiful and attention grabbing visuals with Canva.