Heloise gave me a surprise ‘New Year’ present… “I think you’ll like this,” she said. It was the Atomic Habits Workbook - the companion to James Clear’s best selling classic book Atomic Habits, which I first read when it came out back in 2018. That original book had a...

Happy New Year! I had a powerful lightbulb moment yesterday. Literally. Every New Year’s Day, I get out a ladder and a damp cloth and clean a huge crystal chandelier in our bedroom. It’s become a slightly odd tradition of mine. We have very high ceilings, so I have to...

As the year draws to a close, I wanted to take a moment to express my genuine and heartfelt thanks. Thank you for opening these emails. Thank you for reading, reflecting, replying, and taking action. And thank you for staying with What Really Makes Money in a world...

Recently, Heloise and I attended one of our Mastermind events. These are where we discover cutting-edge new product ideas and marketing techniques, shared by top experts from around the world. Often, they’re held in glamorous overseas locations like Miami Beach. But...

I’m a bit of a Bowie fan… But aside from his music, I think one of his finest moments was his interview with Jeremy Paxman on Newsnight in 1999. They were talking about the internet, which at that point was still a new technology that most people weren’t yet using....

As we hurtle towards the end of 2025, I’ve been doing some reflecting… I’ve spent the year researching and publishing scores of home enterprise ideas - from PDF Farming and Digital downloads to Print On Demand, Drop Servicing, Ebooks and EBay… And of course the...

As 2025 draws to a close, Oxford and Cambridge dictionary publishers have released their words and phrases of the year. Now you might recall that a couple of weeks back I did a deep dive into ‘Parasocial’ - Cambridge University’s pick of the year. You can check it out...

I woke up this morning with a crushing sense of DREAD… But this wasn’t me worrying about how much the recent UK budget is going to cost me and my business (though that’s bad enough!). Or the depressing global conflicts. Or the rise of right wing populism. Or the...

I get a LOT of emails every week… People regularly ask for my insights into the best ways to make money from home (and what they should avoid!) And I’m always glad to help! After all, I’ve been writing about this subject since the 1990s! And in recent years, I’ve...

When I was a kid in the 1970s, cereal wasn’t just about cereal. It was about the free toy inside the box. These could include action figurines, trading cards, puzzles or ‘3D’ glasses! If it was something I really wanted, I’d pester my mum continually to buy the box...

My alarm clock went off this morning. At the usual 5.30am. It’s not just because I follow the ‘early to rise’ philosophy. (That’s the one where you get important things done before the rest of the world wakes up and starts hassling you.) It’s also because I have cats....

On Wednesday I told you about a great marketing book I found in a box of junk outside someone’s house. If you missed that issue, you can check out a version here. It was a chance discovery. I don’t generally make a habit of sourcing books from random bins! However,...

Last year, I was strolling down my street… When a cardboard box in a front garden caught my eye. It was one of those boxes people leave outside their house to get rid of unwanted stuff like DVDs, books and crockery, usually with a “FREE” sign on it. (This one actually...