Matt Raad

How does a former teacher go from knowing nothing about websites to building and ranking them, winning three national awards, and advising multimillion-dollar tradie businesses on SEO, AI and digital growth? How does someone actually make that leap? It wasn’t simply by becoming a better web designer. Steph learned the fundamentals of building and ranking […]

When most people hear the phrase “online business,” their mind jumps straight to selling Canva templates, dropshipping gadgets from Amazon, or signing up as an affiliate for some random water bottle company. I get it – that’s what the internet has trained people to think. But after 16 years of teaching everyday people how to

Every now and again, I get to interview a student who completely reframes what’s possible when it comes to building an online business. (You can check out more inspiring digital agency success stories here). Josh is exactly that kind of student. He’s a fly-in, fly-out (FIFO) mine site supervisor working 16-hour days on a remote

If you’d told Steph Sewell two years ago that she’d own her own digital agency, she would have never believed you. As a school teacher locked into the nine-to-five grind, the very idea of “starting a business” conjured up images of massive overheads, hiring staff, mountains of stress, and crippling debt. That’s the picture most