Reflections from an Online Lifestyle Entrepreneur
By Gary Melican
Reflections from an Online Lifestyle EntrepreneurDec 22, 2022
#8 | My 5-Year Online Business Journey: Highs and Lows
Whether you’re contemplating the start of your own business journey or already navigating it, I hope this retrospective offers you some insight and inspiration.
#7 | A New Niche Website on the Way
Launching a new niche website has been on my mind for some time now.
Ideally it would be a small, very simple, niche website which can generate about €10k/month without too much time input from me.
Today's episode talks about three niche website ideas which I decided not to pursue, and one idea which I HAVE decided to pursue.
#6 | Why I take Workcations
Over the last few years, the garymelican.com business has evolved to a point where I now could do the full-time digital nomad thing. However, all things considered, taking regular workcations appeal more strongly to me.
Today's episode explains why I love workcations and why I think they're beneficial to the business overall.
#5 | ReBride - An Inspiring Success in Uncertain Economic Times
Are you sceptical that now is a good time to launch your business?
Rebride launched their website just over a month ago and it went as successfully as a website launch could go really. It received great media coverage, acquired lots of happy customers already and had a great kick start for the brand overall.
Today’s podcast episode discusses why ReBride's launch was so successful and what learnings we can take from this to apply to our own business ideas.
#4 | Things to Consider when Niching Down your Offering
Niching down your offering is all about refining who you are targeting from a large, general audience to a smaller, more specific audience.
In this episode, I discuss good reasons to niche down your offering and some considerations to make when doing so too (using some first hand experiences as examples).
#3 | Our Marketing Strategy for 2023
In this episode, I discuss our Marketing Strategy for 2023 including inbound and outbound marketing strategies.
I also discuss how our marketing efforts have performed in recent years and what we hope to achieve with this plan.
Hope you enjoy!
#2 | 2022 in Review
We're very thankful for having had a really great 2022 at garymelican.com
We grew by 30% from 2021 and did so with much less stress than we had in previous years.
In this episode, I have reflected on what were our good and not so good points throughout the year and what we intend to do in 2023.
#1 | Experimenting to find a business for the long term
Between 2015 – 2020, I experimented with lots of different business ideas however nothing seemed to work. Call it the experimentation period.
This episode explores the difficulties of the experimentation period and why you shouldn't be too hard on yourself during it.