Three-part series on my strategy to cope with and financially benefit from the coronavirus and the related financial crisis.

Three-part series on my strategy to cope with and financially benefit from the coronavirus and the related financial crisis.

Three-part series on my strategy to cope with and financially benefit from the coronavirus and the related financial crisis.

Buddy is a missionary and digital nomad. He is the founder of the not-for-profit stopslavery.org and supports himself and his work through online business. Buddy also provides coaching and accountability. For a special discount of $99 and a 14-day free trial for listeners please go to: pleasekickmybutt.com/lazy

We cover ten different unethical strategies that people are using to make money online.

Specialisation or generalisation? Which is the better path for a lazy entrepreneur? 

I tell Emma the stories behind five professional gamblers who each managed to beat the system and make a fortune in completely different ways. 

What's the point of being an entrepreneur when you got responsibilities? In this episode, we examine this quote from Breaking Bad and talk about the motivations for becoming an entrepreneur. How the control and freedom that drove many of us to start a business is often at odds with the realities of running a business.

Running around London in disguises trying to place as many bets as possible without getting banned.

If you are selling on Amazon FBA then you will have had issues and had to deal with Amazon Seller Support. Maybe they didn't even let you set up an account. They are notoriously bad and even if you are in the right, you can come up against a brick wall. But don't despair. In this episode, we discuss hints and tips to help you deal with them and get what you want.

My professional gambling stories. In this episode, I tell Emma some stories about my attempts to make money trading on Betfair. Recommended Listening: Episode 11: My Professional Gambling Story – Matched Betting & Arbitrage Episode 33: Value Betting

And that's OK. Recommended Listening: Episode 43: Don’t Compete On Price Episode 14: The Pros & Cons Of A Digital Nomad Lifestyle Episode 4: When Should You Go All In On A New Business?

For the first time ever I have started keeping a budget. In this episode, I try and convince a sceptical Emma that budgets are great. Recommended Listening: Episode 46: The More You Earn, The Harder It Is To Start A Business Episode 32: Financial Independence & Early Retirement

For most businesses, nothing is more important than money.

A new challenge. We are going to take a brand new Instagram and turn it into a business. Follow along as we succeed or crash and burn. The account is: @ThePoshNomad

The older you get the harder it becomes to quit your career and start something new. The more you earn, the harder it is to replace your income. The more you spend, the harder it is to survive on a low income. And the more responsibilities you have the Now is the best time ever for you to start.

Sam tells Emma about what led up to and how exactly his obscure table tennis video went viral and got more than 12 million views. They delve into the numbers of how much it made, and the long-term impact it has had on his different businesses. They also discuss how to recreate the success - a small number of views in the right place in front of the right people can snowball and lead to massive results.

Sam & Emma have hit the road again and are recording this episode from Bangkok Thailand. So how have their opinions changed on what it's like living on the road?  To quote wikipedia: "Digital nomads are a type of people who use telecommunications technologies to earn a living and, more generally, conduct their life in a nomadicmanner."

Oscar runs pay-per-click agency Anuncia. He specialises in Google advertising and was kind enough to take a look at some of my businesses to see how we could improve our advertising. In this episode of The Lazy Entrepreneur Podcast he goes over when and how a business new to PPC should set up their campaigns. 

Whatever your business is you shouldn't try and beat your competitors on price. In this episode, we talk through three different types of businesses that we have run or run in the past and why it was the wrong decision for each of them to compete on price.

It is really easy to start a business from your home. In this episode we delve into Emma's home business.

If you could be anyone in the world, who would you be? I believe that we can change our personality and so in this episode we discuss our role models and who we want future Sam and Emma to be.

The guilt that you are never working hard enough. That there is always more you can do. The constant pressure of work on your mind. 

We flip our normal conversation on its head and talk about the benefits of having a job.