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Friends and Recommended Links

Here are some friends I’ve made doing great stuff; collectively they offer so many things to learn!

  • 9 to 5 alternative
  • Advanced Riskology
  • Almost Fearless
  • Blog of Impossible Things
  • Book Pleasures
  • Business Backpacker
  • Career Renegade
  • The Creative Penn
  • Derek Sivers
  • Documentation
  • Ev Bogue
  • Exile Lifestyle
  • Freedom From The Knows
  • Illuminated Mind
  • In Over Your Head
  • Jet Set Citizen
  • Jonathon Fields
  • Life After College
  • Life After The Cubicle
  • Life Dev
  • Life Outside The Box
  • Lifestyle Ignition
  • Living Half Full
  • Location 180
  • Location Independent
  • Location Less
  • Man vs. Debt
  • Mars Dorian
  • Nomadic Matt
  • Plugin ID
  • Plugins
  • Raam Dev
  • Ridiculously Extraordinary
  • Rowdy Kittens
  • Sitesketch101
  • Skelliewag
  • Smart Passive Income
  • Suggest Ideas
  • Support Forum
  • The Art of Non-Conformity
  • The Life Thing
  • The Mad To Live
  • The Middle Finger Project
  • The Simpler Life
  • The Skool of Life
  • Themes
  • Think Simple Now
  • Think Traffic
  • Thrilling Heroics
  • Twenty Something Travel
  • Uncornered Market
  • Where is Jenny
  • WordPress Blog
  • WordPress Planet
  • Worlds Strongest Librarian
  • Write to Done
  • Zen Habits

 

 

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★ You are awesome. Make something that matters.

★ How to build a profitable online business you can run from anywhere

★ How to write & publish a bestselling book without spending any money

★ Cover design secrets manipulate readers into buying books

★ The 8 brilliant fonts you NEED to use in your book layout (with type combinations and samples)

★ How to build an email list of supportive fans BEFORE you launch

★ How to build an author website (and actually get people to show up)

★ How to get massive amounts of free promotion and visibility for your self-published book

★ How much does book editing cost and are you being ripped off?

★ How much does the average author make publishing a book?

★ How to get more book reviews for your self-published books (the quick and easy way) 

★ The horrible hidden truth about self-publishing nobody wants you to know.

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