Hello and Welcome again – we’re glad you’re interested to discover what we’re up to in the world.

What do we do exactly? We run our own online business and are living the laptop lifestyle working where we want and when we want. But we also enthusiastically help people like you, establish or enhance your online business and get comfortable with marketing and technology.

So our blog is all about freely sharing fundamental tips, golden nuggets, and practical advice that works, for you to implement in your online business today. Plus we’ll help with your Success Mindset.

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The big question is: Would you love to live the laptop lifestyle and enjoy the freedom that goes with it, but avoid the mistakes and pitfalls made by most people beginning an online business?

Maybe you’re like a most newcomers online and you struggle with technology, you waste a lot of time and effort researching stuff, you worry constantly that you’ll get ripped off and given the wrong information, or you get completely overwhelmed with what task to tackle first.

Well, we’re the most qualified people in the world to help you as we’ve invested £49,800 and over 18 months research to unearth the winning online business model and the simplest ethical marketing strategies that have made us the success story that we are!

But first who are we? We’re Greg and Fiona Scott, expat Kiwi’s (we’re from New Zealand but the nickname comes from our national bird, which happens to be flightless) and live in London, UK, for the past 12 years.

We’ve got a huge passion for travel, and get a big kick out of experiencing other cultures.

We crave pure adventure instead of spending weeks lying on sun beds in resort hotels and at one point we had all seven continents stamped in our passports!

We’re not armchair tourists, so have a deep need to fund our passion for travel – which drove us to become successful marketers. But we haven’t always been in the Internet Marketing game, and we started out later than most do.

Our big change happened on our last world trip, when we were travelling the globe for three months back in 2009. There we were in Bangkok, on the last night of a wonderful adventure through Canada, Japan, Borneo, New Zealand and Thailand. We were staying in a gorgeous hotel with a luxurious rooftop restaurant gearing up to celebrate the end of our fantastic journey before the return to a well paid job in London – but then – our world, as we knew it – fell apart.

Fiona got a call from her employer. The news was all bad – don’t turn up for work on Monday as we’ve had to make some budget cuts and we’re letting you go!

That was a bombshell. Those nine long, dedicated, years of tedious hours, hard slog, stroppy managers, building up a strong, diligent team of efficient and effective workers, all gone in one phone call.

Redundant!

We were gobsmacked, unbelieving – and there were certainly floods of tears. It was so gut wrenchingly galling to be dispensed like that with no second thought. We felt used. Empty!
We were certainly in no mood to celebrate the last night of our fabulous three month vacation. And to make matters worse, the heavens opened, and rain pelted down incessantly – washing away our life as we knew it. There was definitely no dining on the rooftop restaurant admiring the twinkling vibrant nightlife of Bangkok.

To complicate things further, Greg had resigned from his job before travelling as he was sick of the corporate world and it seemed like a good time for a break.

So we’re both out of work together. Oh Dear! (It was actually a lot stronger word than that!) What do we do now?

We’d been married for 23 years and have travelled an enormous amount together, so wondered if we could work together? But doing what?

Fiona was emphatic that she wasn’t going back to the corporate world working hard to make profits for someone else’s wallet! No way!

That’s when our Internet Marketing journey started.

Completely out of the blue, an email landed that contained an invitation to a 3 day seminar. It was a pitch fest where each speaker sells their stuff at the end of their presentation. We hung on every word of every presenter! We wrote a whole book of notes, as it was all totally new to us.

With Fiona’s redundancy money burning a hole in our pocket, we were keen to invest in our new venture together. So we signed up for almost everything that was going – Internet Marketing, Personal Development and the odd Shyster!

Finally – we had all the information we needed to become Internet Marketers and would be millionaires before our next birthdays!

Well it didn’t quite work out like that…

After the pitch fest we had three things:

1. A Business in a Box System
2. 40 Automated cookie cutter websites that worked completely on autopilot.
3. Gold membership to a marketing course jam-packed with all the information that we could ever need at our fingertips

Actually four…

4. No Experience, but lashings of talent!

To cut a long story short, the business in a box was way too advanced for beginning marketers with no experience like us, and involved selling physical products offline. Whatever happened to creating a good old downloadable ebook?!

Then there were the automated cookie cutter websites: When they were demo’d to us, the salesman created a web site, and showed how it started making money immediately – right in front of our eyes. Unbelievable! We were going to make a fortune! (We didn’t remotely consider that the salesman had someone at the back of the room buying his stuff – live!)

But… after four months and a measly $20 in revenue we questioned whether it worked. We were told that we needed to buy more automated sites, because the more we had the more money we would make! Yeah, Right! Doh! We realised we’d been had. Which isn’t a great feeling – we might have been tricked by a talented salesman, but in reality, we should have done our research properly.

The Gold membership site. Now this is a fantastic website, there really is everything you need to create a sustainable business online. But there’s a vast amount of information, so we tried to be experts at everything, but had no structure and the complete wrong mindset, and therefore jumped from pillar to post. Maybe you can associate with this?

We’d spent tens of thousands of dollars but after many long months of learning and researching, we finally started to realise that in order to succeed we had to persist at one thing until it worked. Up until that stage we were running around like headless chickens, jumping from one subject to another, from one shiny object to another and from one traffic generating product to another. Maybe you’ve done that too?

It took each of us years of study and exams to learn our previous professions, so we were very naïve to believe all of the sales headlines that proclaim:

“[Weird Geek/High School Dropout/Granddad/Solo Mum] Made [$$$$ Huge Figure] In [Very Low Number Of Days]… Guaranteed!”

Have you seen them? They’re everywhere. They’re selling someone else’s dream – which will be paid for by people like us. They’re not selling your dream!

The recipe for success is very simple. Learn a system that’s made money for other people, then practice and implement it until you make money from it. But above all, take action instead of just learning about it.

FOCUS = Follow One Course Until Successful – is now our motto!

FOCUS, a passion for travel, and a burning desire to succeed, led us to living the laptop lifestyle.

Do you have what it takes too?

Being successful online marketers means being honest, being trustworthy, being liked, and over delivering massive value to our customers. All the products that we’ve created, by ourselves, and in joint venture with others, do exactly that.

We’re absolutely loving our journey, and have met many wonderful, supportive, helpful people on the way.

So, if you learn one thing from us, it’s that you have to avoid all the shiny objects. There’s NO get rich quick scheme that’s going to make you a fortune overnight.

All you need is a great Mentor to model, and a support group to hold you accountable, and laser sharp focus. Believe us.

Thanks for sticking with us. We hope you take a passionate interest in discovering how to make a passive income online, like us. We’d love to hear from you with any questions or any feedback whatsoever 

Wishing You Every Success

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