by Mike | Oct 11, 2022 | Blog, Travel
How to Get Permanent Residency in Taiwan I’ve gotten a lot of questions about getting Permanent Residency in Taiwan so I decided to make a post about it instead of answering them individually. A foreigner can get residency in Taiwan by either working, studying...
by Mike | May 22, 2022 | Blog, Online Business
Empire Flippers Review: Selling a 6 Figure Website Selling a business that you start from scratch is as much of an emotional decision as it is a financial decision and after 7 years of starting and running my business, I was ready to sell. In fact, I was burnt out...
by Mike | Jan 4, 2021 | Blog, Travel
How to File Your US Taxes from Taiwan If you have moved abroad to start a business or teach English then you might be tempted to forget about all the bureaucracy in the US and not file your taxes. While this probably won’t matter much in the short term, in the...
by Mike | Dec 11, 2020 | Blog, Financial Independence
Best Schwab Index Fund Portfolios Schwab DIY Portfolios The internet has liberated the individual investor and companies like Vanguard and Charles Schwab have made it easy to set up an DIY Index Fund Portfolio. In about 10 minutes you can set everything up and...
by Mike | Dec 10, 2020 | Blog, Financial Independence
Robo-Advisors vs DIY Index Funds Robo-Advisors have become extremely popular in the last few years with companies like Wealthfront and Betterment making up most of the market share. These companies essentially create and manage a portfolio of low cost index funds...
by Mike | Nov 17, 2020 | Blog, Online Business
How to Migrate Hosting from Godaddy to Cloudways Why migrate from GoDaddy to Cloudways? I used GoDaddy hosting for years and this was mainly because Godaddy is where I registered my first domain name. This was about 10 years ago and I didn’t really have any...
by Mike | Aug 25, 2020 | Blog, Online Business
How to Build Your First Online Business How to Build Your First Online Business Building an Online Business is the best way to get out of a 9 to 5 job, achieve financial independence and travel the world. I started making Online Businesses 10 years ago and...
by Mike | Dec 25, 2019 | Blog, Online Business
Why I’m not selling my business I have this dream lingering in the back of my mind about selling my business and sitting on a beach somewhere drinking endless San Miguel Lights or Tiger Bacs. All without a care in the world and doing this while living off...
by Mike | Jun 11, 2018 | Blog, Financial Independence
What is Financial Freedom? While this number will vary for everybody, the basic math is: Cash Flow from Assets > Monthly Expenses It is actually a pretty simple concept but it can be hard to implement. Think of it like trying to lose weight. To lose weight, you...
by Mike | Sep 23, 2017 | Blog, Travel
Digital Nomads in Taiwan Taiwan has recently been ranked as one of the top places in the world for expats to live. This is mainly because Taiwan is an incredibly safe country with friendly locals, fast internet, access to great health care, modern...
by Mike | Jul 25, 2017 | Blog, Online Business
Why Most Dropshipping Businesses Fail Most People Don’t Treat Drop Shipping Like a REAL Business The number one reason most dropshipping businesses fail is because people don’t treat it like a real business. Whatever drop shipping...
by Mike | Jan 31, 2017 | Blog, Financial Independence
Money Doesn’t Take a Vacation, it Makes the Vacation Last month I went on a road trip in Kending, Taiwan (also frequently spelled Kenting) and decided to bring my laptop with me. I actually purposefully bought this scooter because the trunk was big...
by Mike | Aug 3, 2016 | Blog, Travel
Location Independent Entrepreneur in Taiwan Taiwan has been my home for the past 6 years. I originally came here to teach English and quickly realized that while Taiwan is awesome, teaching English isn’t. So I spent some time scheming ways to stay in...
by Mike | Aug 1, 2016 | Blog, Self Improvement
I’ll give you one minute to complain about anything you want, but if you’re still talking after that one minute, it’s time to shut the fuck up. The reason is not because I’m an insensitive asshole (although that’s been...
