Some stories stick with you. Lucy’s is one of them. I’ve coached a lot of people over the years, and I’ve seen plenty of comeback journeys. But what Lucy and her partner Reefe pulled off sits in a category of its own. This is a woman who built the foundations of a six-figure online business
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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
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Most people who listen to the Digital Investors Podcast aren’t asking me how to sell a website for seven figures. That’s a nice problem to have down the track. What they’re really asking is far more urgent and far more human: how the hell do I quit my job, and can I do it earlier
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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
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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
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The online business world has a highlight reel problem. What gets shared is the success, the freedom, the income, the lifestyle. But what often gets overlooked is the messy middle – the part where things get hard, where doubt creeps in, and where most people would walk away. For anyone sitting in a corporate job
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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
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Every now and then, I sit down with one of our students and I’m reminded of exactly why Liz and I do what we do. My recent conversation with Lucy was one of those moments. Lucy is a millennial who spent eight years grinding away as a corporate lawyer before deciding that the traditional path
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On a coaching call recently, one of my students said five words that perfectly sum up everything we teach here at the eBusiness Institute. He said: “Matt, this is the perfect business.” His name is John. He’s a qualified large animal vet from Ireland. He moved to Australia knowing absolutely no one – no network,
What would it mean if you could work from home, choose your own hours, and live wherever you wanted – without sacrificing your income? That’s exactly what Jing Liu and Matt Jones have built over the past four years. Jing started with zero technical skills and zero business experience while raising for three boys under