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If you want to build an online lifestyle business you can run from anywhere in the world whether that be your kitchen table or a beach in Fiji, you're in the right place! Nomadic solopreneur of 14+ years, host Jo Barnes is on a mission to arm action takers like you with the knowledge, tools, strategies & inspiration to do just that! Join Jo & guests to explore the world of living life by your own design.
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In this episode I’m diving into the transformative power of taking action—right here, right now. Inspired by Noah Kagan's new book & insights, and my own journey, I explore why so many of us get stuck in the planning phase, endlessly waiting for the 'perfect' moment that never arrives. From personal anecdotes of triumphs and setbacks to the common pitfalls of overcomplication and the fear of imperfection, I unravel the threads that hold us back. But more importantly, I'll arm you with practical, actionable strategies to break free from the cycle of procrastination. Whether you're a seasoned entrepreneur or just starting out on your journey, this episode is a call to embrace the beauty of action, to learn by doing, and to redefine failure as a stepping stone to success. So, if you're ready to shed the weight of 'how' and embrace the liberating simplicity of 'now,' tune in and take the first step towards turning your dreams into reality.
Returning guest Dan Worthington updates us as to his ecommerce progress having moved from Amazon to his own store on Shopify in the last year.
Working with influencers and now creating celebrity collaborations all over the world Dan is on a meteoric rise with his brand, and the future looks so exciting.
I managed to catch up with Dan at a little marine cafe not far from my house here in Phuket, Thailand where we have an in-depth chat about why he moved to Shopify, how he’s grown his brand, how to approach influencers, a crazy exciting surprise he didn’t tell me about before the podcast and what’s next on his journey both for his business and his travel plans.
A very inspiring talk with a true action taker!
I hope it puts a fire in your belly!
Find Dan here - https://instagram.com/wanderingworthy
Dan's Store on Shopify - https://www.craftamo.com/
Full podcast playlist available at - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/podcast/
Come join the Your Lifestyle Business FB Community - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/fbcommunity
Find us on Instagram here - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/instagram
What a year it has been! It's certainly been a challenge for many around the globe.
It's been an interesting year for me personally with regards to starting and growing a new business and in todays episode I'm sharing my 12 biggest lessons, not just from the last year, but what I've learned about myself in preceding years and how I'm now growing my business to both meet the needs of my customers and to ensure I'm putting my lifestyle first!
I'm hoping this both inspires you to action and reduces the chances of you making some of the silly mistakes I have!
Happy New Year! :)
Full podcast playlist available at - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/podcast/
Come join the Your Lifestyle Business FB Community - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/fbcommunity
Find us on Instagram here - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/instagram
Welcome to the final episode of my blogging series.
Part 1 - How to Make Money Blogging
Part 2 - How to Setup Your Money Making Blog
Part 3 - Essential Pages & Plugins
Part 4 - Your Money Making Blog Content Strategy
Today I'm going to share with you the strategies I'll be using over the next 12 months to 100x my traffic!
Yep, my goal is to get to 100k sessions by August 2021, up from 1000 in August 2020.
Here's how I'm going to do it;
1. Massive Content
2. Guest Posting
3. Networking (Dream 100)
4. Link Building
5. Social Media
6. Reviewing Priorities
7. Experimenting
8. Email List
Listen in to hear how you can incorporate these strategies into your own blogging business.
Links Mentioned in Todays Podcast;
adamenfroy.com
How to Build an Email List
Full podcast playlist available at - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/podcast/
Come join the Your Lifestyle Business FB Community - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/fbcommunity
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Welcome to Part 4 of my blogging series.
Ep 78 - Part 1 - How to Make Money Blogging
Ep 79 - Part 2 - How to Setup Your Money Making Blog
Ep 80 - Part 3 - Essential Pages & Plugins
Today we're going to start creating the content for your money making blog!
Listen in to discover;
How to get clear on your long term goals and how these will determine the kind of content you create
How to ensure the content you create is precisely what your audience is searching for
How to do some basic keyword research to ensure what you create can rank in the search engines
The basic rules for creating content that both meets the needs of your audience and ranks on google.
Lots to get through!
Links Mentioned in This Episode
Episode 78 - How to Make Money Blogging
Episode 56 - 10 Ways to Find Awesome Content Ideas
ahrefs.com
ubersuggest.com
backlinko.com
Yoast plugin
Full podcast playlist available at - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/podcast/
Come join the Your Lifestyle Business FB Community - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/fbcommunity
Find us on Instagram here - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/instagram
Welcome to Part 3 of my blogging series!
See Episode #78 & #79 for parts one and two; How to Make Money Blogging and How to Set up Your Money Making Blog.
Today we're going to run through the essential pages & plugins you need for your money making blog.
Essential Pages;
Privacy policy
Terms of service
Contact page
About page
Home page!
Ideally - list building page
Recommended Plugins
1. Nitropack (or WP Rocket)
2. Yoast (or rankmath / SEOpress)
3. Monster Insights
4. Grow Social
5. Mammoth .docx converter
6. Easy Table of Contents
7. Thirsty Affiliates
8. Fusebox Player
9. Smash Balloon Instagram Feed
10. Pretty Links
Other Links Mentioned
Canva.com
Unsplash.com
https://privacyterms.io/en/terms-conditions-generator/
https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/contact/
Upwork.com
https://convertbox.com/
https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/podcast
Last week we discussed how to make money blogging. In this weeks episode, I'm walking through in detail how to set up your money making blog.
I'm covering;
1. Choosing Your Money Making Model
2. Picking Your Blog Topic
3. Researching Your Topic
4. Picking a Name & a Domain
5. Choosing Your Hosting Package - (I’ve been researching this a lot over the last few weeks for my own site and have some very interesting findings!)
Links Mentioned Include;
Adam Enfroy
https://namelix.com/
https://cunningbot.com/
bluehost.com
wpengine.com
https://www.matthewwoodward.co.uk/blogging/fastest-wordpress-hosting/
Full podcast playlist available at - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/podcast/
Come join the Your Lifestyle Business FB Community - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/fbcommunity
Find us on Instagram here - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/instagram
Welcome to the first in my blogging series!
This is what I love about podcasting, the opportunity to share my own journey with you and right now that journey is in growing and monetizing my website.
In this first episode I'm starting with the end in mind and exploring all the various ways you can monetize a blog as you grow, including digital products, physical products and services.
By choosing what you'd like your outcome to be, the path to get there becomes infinitely clearer!
So make a decision this week as to how you think you'd like to monetize your website and next week we'll start building your money making blog!
Links Mentioned
jamesclear.com
masalabody.com
jennakutcher.com
talkingshrimp.com
patflynn.com
adamenfroy.com
fatstacks.com
markmanson.com
msrachelhollis.com
nomadicmatt.com
Full podcast playlist available at - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/podcast/
Come join the Your Lifestyle Business FB Community - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/fbcommunity
Find us on Instagram here - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/instagram
Are you holding yourself back from starting your online business because you just can't decide what niche you'd like to pursue?
Perhaps you've got your business off the ground, but have found your niche is so broad you're not sure where you can compete.
If either of these scenarios run true or you're unhappy with the niche you've chosen and want to make a switch, todays episode is for you.
Here are 7 steps to get the creative side of the brain working and give you inspiration towards choosing your perfect niche.
Complete with examples of various niches and how to grow/monetize, by the time you've finished listening you should be ready to get started building your ideal business!
I hope it helps!
Links Mentioned in Todays Podcast
189 Lifestyle Business Ideas
How to Start a Life Changing Online Lifestyle Business
A Beautiful Mess
iPhone Photography School
Masala Body
Nomadic Matt
Full podcast playlist available at - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/podcast/
Come join the Your Lifestyle Business FB Community - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/fbcommunity
Find us on Instagram here - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/instagram
I wish someone had sat me down 10 years ago and said 'Jo, if you do anything, do these two things. If you focus on these two strategies and do them well, your chances of long term success are greatly increased'.
Not that we haven't had success over the years. We've had some great successes, but what I'm talking about here is setting up your business so it stands the test of time. Creating a lifestyle business that once you've put the hard work in up front pays you over and over again for years to come, without having to be on Instagram or TikTok 24 hours a day.
No matter what niche you're in or what business model you're pursuing (including selling physical products or building a business on Amazon or Etsy, etc,) if you truly want to set up an online business that funds your lifestyle without eating into all of your time then master and focus on these two strategies. I promise you, you'll thank me later!
Full podcast playlist available at - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/podcast/
Come join the Your Lifestyle Business FB Community - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/fbcommunity
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Welcome to Part 4 of my 3 part email marketing series.
Part 1 - 6 Steps to Building a High Converting Email Funnel
Part 2 - How to Create an Irresistible Lead Magnet: 6 Types
Part 3 - 6 Ways to Engage Your Email Subscribers
Part 4 - 21 Ways to Promote Your Lead Magnet
This was an unplanned episode, added at the request of a subscriber.
We talked about how to build your funnel, then how to create your lead magnet and then how to nurture your growing audience, but I didn't include where and how to promote your awesome list building free gift!
So in todays episode I'm running through 21 different places you can promote your lead generator!
I hope it helps!
Links Mentioned in This Episode
Biteable
Kapwing
Typorama
Headliner
Wavve
Amy Porterfield
Backlinko
Best Webinar Software
Full podcast playlist available at - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/podcast/
Your Lifestyle Business FB Community - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/fbcommunity
Your Lifestyle Business Instagram - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/instagram
Welcome to Part 3 of my 3 part email marketing series.
Part 1 - 6 Steps to Building a High Converting Email Funnel
Part 2 - How to Create an Irresistible Lead Magnet: 6 Types
Part 3 - 6 Ways to Engage Your Email Subscribers
It's all good and well building a fabulous lead magnet and a high converting funnel, but what happens once someone signs up?
How do you keep your subscribers engaged; consistently opening and consuming your content and clicking your links?
That's what today's episode is all about. Here are six ways to ensure your subscribers not only love receiving your emails but look forward to them! (ok ok a bit far fetched but you know what I mean) 😁
1. What's your objective?
2. Be human
3. Add value
4. Test & Measure
5. Show up
6. Share scars not wounds
I'm also giving you 8 email types you can start sending your subscribers today;
1. The Relationship Builder
2. The Expert
3. The Value Added Offer
4. The Link Roundup
5. Purely for Fun
6. The Reviewer
7. The No Sales, Sales Email
8. The Combo
Links Mentioned in Todays Episode
How to Build a Huge Email List of Hot Leads for Your Business
5 Bullet Friday
Marie Forleo
Amy Porterfield
Full podcast playlist available at - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/podcast/
Your Lifestyle Business FB Community - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/fbcommunity
Your Lifestyle Business Instagram - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/instagram
Welcome to part 2 of my 3 part email marketing series.
Last week I walked you through the 6 Steps to Building a High Converting Email Funnel.
Today we're looking at how to create a lead magnet people can't help but sign up too!
I'm going to demonstrate six different types of lead generation offer, how you create each one and then where and how to upload to make it easily available to your brand new subscriber!
Here's what we're covering;
1. How to create an eBook or PDF
2. How to record and upload an audio course
3. How to create a mini video course
4. The benefits of creating and scheduling an email course and some best practices
5. How to add some fun to your list building with quizzes
6. How to create and deliver attractive and relevant contests
The good news is that all of the above are far easier to put together these days, so listen in to today's podcast and get your list builder in place today!
Links Mentioned in This Episode
How to Build a Huge Email List of Hot Leads for Your Business
Top 10 Ways to Find Awesome Content Ideas
Upwork
Fiverr
Designerr.io
Smart Blogger - Ebook Mistakes
How to Create an Ebook - Hubspot
Anchor.fm
Rev.com
Temi.com
Screenflow
Audacity
Zoom
Soundcloud
Streamyard
Screencastify
Loom
Camtasia
Thinkific
Teachable
Podia
Full podcast playlist available at - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/podcast/
Your Lifestyle Business FB Community - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/fbcommunity
Your Lifestyle Business Instagram - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/instagram
You may wonder in the instant messaging, social media world we live in now, whether building an email list is still worth it.
The resounding answer is YES!
As fabulous as social media is, building an email list means building a database of very targeted subscribers.
Anyone who’s willing to trade an email address for your information is someone who’s very interested in what you have to offer. It doesn’t get much more targeted than that.
In todays podcast I’m walking you through the 6 Steps to Build an Email List of Subscribers who Love to Hear From You!
In fact this is Part 1 of what will ultimately be a 3 part podcast series.
In todays episode I walk you through the 6 steps to getting your email funnel setup;
How to create an attractive lead generation offer including all the different types of lead magnet you could offer and how to start building your list without a lead magnet.
Which email provider should you sign up for? I’ve been through quite a few and recently did a quite intensive costing exercise for my own business. Here’s my conclusion.
The 5 golden rules of creating a high converting landing page and the tools to help you do that, (plus a throwback to the days of building landing pages on Kompozer).
Why your thank you page is the second most important page in your lead generating funnel and what should be on it.
Your first follow up email. What it should achieve and some do’s and don’ts.
Nurturing your audience. The most important thing to always remember when creating all content including follow up emails.
In Parts 2 & 3, we’ll look at how to create a lead magnet and how to nurture your audience and keep them engaged in your content.
So without further ado, let’s make it happen!
Links Mentioned in This Episode
How to Build a Huge Email List of HOT Leads for Your Business
Marie Forleo
Jenna Kutcher
Amy Porterfield
Ryan Levesque - Ask
Vyper
Gleam.io
Upviral
Tim Ferris - 5 Bullet Friday
Mari Smith - Social Scoop
Active Campaign
Mailchimp
Full podcast playlist available at - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/podcast/
Your Lifestyle Business FB Community - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/fbcommunity
Your Lifestyle Business Instagram - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/instagram
Wouldn’t it be awesome if on any given day you could choose to work from anywhere? Your favourite coffee shop, your kitchen table in your PJ’s, a beautiful beach.
Well, that’s why we start lifestyle businesses. So we have that kind of choice.
This week I decided to head down to my local beautiful beach here in Phuket for the day & record today’s podcast! I felt recording on the beach would highlight the benefits of what I’m talking about nicely!
The podcast is an audio summary highlighting the main 8 steps to building your own online lifestyle business as detailed extensively in my step by step post here - How to Start a Life Changing Online Lifestyle Business.
I highly recommend once you’ve listened to the podcast & made a note of each of the steps you read through the main post & download my free guide (see full show notes here).
Here's what I cover in the podcast;
Step 1 - Choose & Define Your Niche
Step 2 - Get Clear on Your Life & Business Goals
Step 3 - Plan for Profit
Step 4 - Identify Your Target Market
Step 5 - Create Your Brand & Message
Step 6 - Build Your Audience
Step 7 - Develop Your Business Model
Step 8 - Diversify & Grow
Links Mentioned in This Episode
How to Start a Life Changing Online Lifestyle Business
How to Build a Huge Email List of HOT Leads For Your Business
How to Start an Ecommerce Business and Sell Stuff You Love!
How We Built a 7 Figure Amazon FBA Business in 12 Months
40+ Content Marketing Examples for Your Lifestyle Business
189 Online Lifestyle Business Ideas for 2020 & Beyond
Customer Avatar WorkSheet - Digital Marketer
Full podcast playlist available at - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/podcast/
Your Lifestyle Business FB Community - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/fbcommunity
Your Lifestyle Business Instagram - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/instagram
This was such an energetic chat with Paul Holman founder of Duchy Digital Publishing.
Paul contacted me a few weeks ago and asked if he could publish my free ebook ‘6 Ways to Build a Business You Can Run From Anywhere in the World’ on kindle as an experiment.
Always fascinated to learn new things I was curious about the process and so as soon as the book went live I jumped on a live with Paul to find out what he did to get the book published.
Unfortunately I was a few days late and so missed advertising the 5 ‘free’ days you get to encourage people to leave reviews, so watch the interview then watch this space as we update and republish the book to get the launch / promo stages right.
I have also published an in depth post all about ‘How to Easily Self Publish and Sell Kindle Books on Amazon KDP
This is a lifestyle business model you could get up and running in a weekend and the best part, you don’t even have to write the book!
See our video interview here - https://youtu.be/D49X45GN2V8
Full podcast playlist available at - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/podcast/
Your Lifestyle Business FB Community - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/fbcommunity
Your Lifestyle Business Instagram - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/instagram
If you’re looking to build a small side income and would love to sell physical products without any upfront investment todays episode is for you!
The lovely Caroline Jones of Playful Pixel Designs kindly jumped on an FB live with me to talk through how she set up her Zazzle business.
Zazzle is a print on demand site meaning you create your designs and images, upload to various ‘blank’ products on the site and just like that the products are branded with your design!
Products like cards, buttons, bags, shoes, mugs, face masks, aprons, you name it, they have it!
Listen in as we talk about;
Setting up a totally free account! You don’t pay a penny until you start selling.
The types of products available and how to get started even if you’re not a designer
Setting up collections and following the trends to encourage sales
How you make money from the platform
The pros and cons of print on demand and Zazzle in particular
You have to love a business model you can start with literally no upfront costs whatsoever!
Give it a try! I’m certainly going to. :)
Links Mentioned in Todays Episode
Find Caroline's Zazzle Shop Here
Create your own Zazzle store here
See our video interview here - https://youtu.be/plkDn8svq7o
Full podcast playlist available at - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/podcast/
Your Lifestyle Business FB Community - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/fbcommunity
Your Lifestyle Business Instagram - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/instagram
Wouldn’t it be awesome if there was a way to create almost instant authority & credibility to our brand. A way to help us stand out from the crowd, get noticed and create opportunities we might not otherwise have!
Well, I’m happy to say there is. It involves a little up front work but according to todays guest it doesn’t have to be hard, it doesn’t have to take longer than a few days and once it’s live & published you can use it as your business card and extended marketing tool!
Sandra Spence and her business partner Sigrid de Kaste wrote the book ‘Build a Book to Build a Business’ to teach business owners how to create instant authority by publishing a book that showcases you as the expert in your niche.
Links Mentioned in Todays Episode
Click here to register and learn how to build your book
Download the book from Amazon
Find Sandra & Sigrid on Facebook
Join their Facebook Group
See our video interview here - https://youtu.be/BwH5vdWLPlk
Full podcast playlist available at - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/podcast/
Your Lifestyle Business FB Community - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/fbcommunity
Your Lifestyle Business Instagram - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/instagram
Cambodia is one of my favorite places in the world.
I was especially excited therefore to interview the awesome Roaming Rebels who at the time of interview were locked down in Cambodia due to the Covid 19 outbreak!
Barbara & Louis (aka Roaming Rebels) decided to pack up their lives in South Africa, reinvent themselves at age 50 and go traveling around the world on motorbikes!
Louis is the motorbike guy, for Barbara its been a new and interesting experience!
Along the way they’ve built a fabulously engaging Instagram account with almost 6000 followers already (they only set out last October) and hundreds of comments per post and do weekly travel videos on their YouTube channel.
I managed to catch up with them in the hotel they were staying in and find out;
What they were doing pre travel
What inspired them to make such a huge life change
How they found themselves re-grouting an entire swimming pool while locked down
How they’ve managed to create such an engaging Instagram following
What equipment they use to video their adventures
Where to next!
And loads more
An upbeat, inspiring, engaging interview with a beautiful couple living the dream!
Links Mentioned in Todays Episode
You can find the Roaming Rebels here:
https://www.facebook.com/RoamingRebels
https://www.youtube.com/RoamingRebels
https://www.instagram.com/roaming.rebels
See our video interview here - https://youtu.be/BpegSDKF-SY
Full podcast playlist available at - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/podcast/
Your Lifestyle Business FB Community - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/fbcommunity
Your Lifestyle Business Instagram - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/instagram
Renee Hassel - like tassle - dine, is the creator and founder of shareyourpassion.com.au an Australian based business built to help thought leaders & experts find their voice and core message and turn it into powerful visual models & online content.
What I loved about todays chat apart from Renees infectious enthusiasm is how she was able to deliver her messages in easy to remember acronyms and visual steps, and that’s exactly what she teaches brands to do!
Links Mentioned in Todays Episode
You can find Renee here - https://shareyourpassion.com.au/
And listen to her podcast here - https://shareyourpassion.com.au/podcast/
Full podcast playlist available at - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/podcast/
Your Lifestyle Business FB Community - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/fbcommunity
Your Lifestyle Business Instagram - https://yourlifestylebusiness.com/instagram