Why you should persist with those passion projects

For us, pulling silly faces is a passion project - but the jury's out on whether it will make us millions.

When we quit our jobs back in 2012, the field was wide open when it came to ways in which we could make money. (Wide open-ish. I’m never going to be a dance teacher, for example, and Rob knows deep down that drawing animal pictures is not his strong suit, even if he won’t admit it yet.) After a few months of Elancing, Fiverring and taking a variety of classes and courses, we decided to create a web design and copywriting business called Mortified Cow. Using the depressing-but-unavoidable-given-our-circumstances method of…

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Find A Nomad has launched! Find out how we did it

Let's get more pins on this thing!

“You know what would be AMAZING?” says every digital nomad, all the time. “An online map that shows where other digital nomads are hanging out both right now and in the future. We’d have an instant bunch of buddies whenever we land somewhere new, and we could see who else would be in a city before we book our flights.” So we decided to create it. Here’s how it all happened… The idea A couple of years ago we found out about an online map for digital nomads called Nomad…

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How things change

Yikes - us 9 years ago

If you want to receive future newsletters in your inbox (which also contain lots and lots of links to articles, resources and tools), sign up at the bottom of the page. Nine years ago this week we had our very first kiss. It wasn’t really a long or particularly noteworthy kiss, because some teenager nearby on the banks of the Thames said “Ewwww they’re SNOGGING,” and that kind of ruined the moment. Also, we were meant to be best friends, and best friends don’t kiss. So it all got a…

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How to hire and get the best out of your employees

We used to simultaneously live by and resent the mantra, “If you want something done right, do it yourself” – and whenever we hired employees or contractors, everything seemed to confirm that we really shouldn’t have bothered. All the time we were well aware that we were the problem: we were doing something wrong during the hiring process, or once they actually started working for us, or both. We didn’t really know what to do about it though, so we kind of gave up and accepted that we’d spend a…

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The tactics, tools and rules we use to run multiple businesses while we travel

Working from anywhere...including beer gardens

We often get asked about the tools, software and processes we make use of while running our businesses while travelling – which is brilliant, because we absolutely love to talk about it. We do get asked A LOT though, so we thought it warranted a blog post in its own right. This post explains what’s working for us right now. As you’ll see, our processes are by no means perfect (and we’re rather embarrassed about the number of times “MS Word” gets namechecked), but we’re slowly streamlining everything and finding online, cloud-based solutions…

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