Cloud Living – Freedom, Expression, and Financial Abundance: Book Review
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Glen Allsopp has written an e-book, Cloud Living, based on the term he ‘coined’ for the lifestyle that he lives: he generates a 5-figure monthly income on-line and built a blog with 4,000 subscribers in less than one year. So, he earns money from the Cloud (Internet) and makes enough to be free from corporate slavery and literally do whatever he wants. It is a lifestyle he dreamed about and now, just like he did, he shows you how to make it a reality. Cloud Living is more than just one e-book. More specifically, it contains:
- a 176-page eBook: which covers two different ways to make money on-line: minisites and blogs. The book is split into two sections so you can read just one or both, depending on your interests. Glen walks through the process of setting up each kind of site and what is involved in making it successful.
- 6 Tutorial Videos (ranging from 4-10 minutes in length)
- A Free Affiliate Website Template
- 8-page Documentation Guide
- 100% Free Email Support
About the Author
Here is a quick background on how Glens life has panned out and how people have referred to his previous work:
- At 16 one of his websites was mentioned in the book “DJ’ing for Dummies”
- At 17 he featured on the Official Blog of a Google Engineer
- At 17 he made over $4,000 on-line in one month
- At 18 he became the Social Media Manager for multiple Fortune 100 Companies
- One of his clients was featured on the Digg homepage over 40 times
- At 19 he quit my job to work on-line full-time with my own websites
- At 20 he’s still doing it
- He has been featured on 10 of the Top 100 Blogs in the World (According to Technorati)
So you can see he’s not some scam artist who is promising things he hasn’t actually achieved himself.
Detail
The guide is written with the total beginner in mind. Whether you’ve never even registered a domain or you run sites already, this guide will be educational. If any of the following terms confuse you then don’t stress as they are all explained in more detail in the guide.
The introduction includes information about his current life situation and then why your current life situation is as it is. From there, the course veers off into two directions: Minisites and Blogs. These are the two ways he makes money on-line and he shows you how to be successful with both. (Note: You don’t have to do both, you can just focus on one and still make a lot of money).
After this, he shares his simple productivity guide which enabled him to make all of this money while working a full-time job and partying 5 nights per week.
Minisites
Minisites are basically small websites which are created to promote products or services as an affiliate. Working as an affiliate means that you don’t have to create anything or even handle any stock, you simply send people to a website through your affiliate link and you make a commission if they purchase anything.
He makes around 40 – 50% of my income with this method and right now, he does absolutely nothing to sustain his income. Minisites take about 2 weeks to set up and promote properly but once that is done, you can practically leave them for good and they’ll continue to make money.
Blogs
If you don’t know what a blog is then take a good look around this website because you’re reading one. Blogs are content based websites and typically on a certain topic rather than just general ramblings. Around half of his income is from blogs (he runs three) and the monetisation options he has in place.
This section shares his story with blogging and how it enabled him to both make $20,000 in 4 months and land his dream job. In addition to the content he released in BloggingBlueprint about creating a blog and generating traffic, this section also covers his actual website statistics and where his visitors come from. Finally, he’s added a detailed section on blog monetisation and how to turn your content into income.
Interviews
In the guide Glen includes an interview with Jonathan Fields. Jonathan is the author of Career Renegade which is a book about getting paid to do what you love.
Also included is an interview with a blogger who is quickly rising to fame, Chris Guillebeau. Chris is the blogger behind The Art of Nonconformity and has never actually had a job in his life. He generates all of his income on-line and is currently on a mission to visit every single country in the world – talk about a perfect example of Cloud Living!
Productivity
The guide concludes with a solid overview of Glens current productivity strategy. It is probably one of the simplest productivity strategies you will ever come across but I believe its simple nature is why it works so well. In my experience, people tend to adopt productivity methods that are so complex that they need other productivity methods to keep up with the first one.
My section here is nothing like that. Instead, he shares the two most important ideas he’s implemented into his life which help him to get more done. These are polished versions of the tactics he used to work on projects when he was in a 9-6 job and was partying 5 nights per week. Their core elements also worked well for him when he was in college 5 days per week and had a job that took up my whole weekend.
Conclusion
If you have been wanting to learn how to make money on-line, or if you have tried before but didn’t really know what to do or where you went wrong, the step-by-step instructions and explanations will give you a clear picture of the process. Therefore, if you are looking to for some trustworthy guidance about making a living on-line, I recommend that you check out Cloud Living.
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