I like making things. This is an overview of my different projects, and their current statuses. I’ll keep this updated as things evolve and change.
| Project | Started | Description | What Happened |
|---|---|---|---|
| Magic: The Gathering Ebay Sales | 2002 | I played a lot of Magic: The Gathering. I bought, sold, and flipped cards to pay for college. | Shut it down in 2009 when I graduated college. |
| Look Shiny | 2005 | WordPress freelancing and building marketing sites. | Shut it down in 2013 when I turned to other opportunities. |
| The Comic Press | 2008 | Started a newspaper in college with two friends and grew it to a staff of 20+ writers and admin. I was the publisher/editer. We ran it through three school years. | Shut it down in July 2009 after I graudated college. |
| DropWiki | 2009 | College startup and YCombinator application. We built a Wiki/CMS powered by Dropbox. Super easy and simplem to use. Interestingly, I’ve seen this same idea funded in ~2023. | Shut down |
| The iPhone Business | 2010 | I ran an eBay business buying and reselling used iPhones. It was a fun adventure — inspired from a Jason Fried article in Inc. magazine — and I kept the business going while I went digital nomading in Honolulu, Hawaii. | Shut it down in 2012 after the used iPhone market changed |
| Double Your Ecommerce | 2013 | SEO and growth consulting for Shopify merchants. | Active |
| Productized Consulting Roundtable | 2014 | A private mastermind group for solo consultants selling productized offers. | Shut down four years later |
| “The Freelancer Coaching Business” | 2014 | A long running business that I ran under my personal brand and never gave a name to. I launched a dozen+ educational products and coached 100+ freelancers and small business owners. | Shut it down in 2021 to focus on other opportunities |
| #PartyTown | 2014 | My private internet watercooler with entrepreneur and bootstrapper friends | Active – and one of my favorite parts of the internet |
| Double Your Audience | 2015 | My digital PR consultancy specializing in podcast placements and podcast tours. I was very early to this space and worked with some fun clients on digital PR. | Shut down three years later |
| The Outreach Blueprint | 2015 | My first educational product, a guidebook on outreach. Expanded over time with interviews, templates, and resources. | Shut down and removed from the market as part of my product cleanup in 2022 |
| Podcast Outreach Manual | 2015 | My second educational product, a guidebook on how to get on podcasts as a guest. | Shut down and removed from the market as part of my product cleanup in 2022 |
| Outreach Mastery | 2015 | A video course on how to run a high-impact automated outreach campaign at scale for b2b sales outreach and business development | Shut down and removed from the market as part of my product cleanup in 2022 |
| Initial Call Script | 2015 | The initial questions I use in my own business to this day | Active, not promoted |
| Raise Clients From The Dead! | 2015 | Email templates and a strategy to turn old clients into new projects | Active, not promoted |
| The Independent Consulting Manual | 2015 | A compilation of essays from 13 authors on how to run a successful independent consultancy | Active — made free in 2022 |
| Bootstrapping.io | 2016 | A domain name and email list. I acquired this from a friend in 2016. Paused and in holding for future opportunites. | Paused |
| TheMagicEmail.com | 2016 | A magic email to get replies. I acquired this from a friend in 2016 and it’s active to this day. | Active |
| Quick Start Roadmapping | 2016 | How to sell, run, and deliver paid discovery/roadmapping projects | Active, not promoted |
| Make Money Online | 2016 | A business podcast I co-hosted with nickd for 2+ years and over 100 episodes. | Stopped two years later |
| Freelance Camp | 2016 | A private community forum for freelancers and agency owners. Grew to ~200 members with multiple weekly events and a team of ~5 moderators and administrators. | Shut down five years later |
| Referral Systems | 2017 | An educational video product on how to systematize getting referrals for your business | Shut down and removed from the market as part of my product cleanup in 2022 |
| Shopify SEO Simplified 1.0 | 2018 | An educational auto product on SEO for Shopify Merchants created with Eric Davis | Shut down |
| Get More Leads! | 2018 | An educational product on lead generation systems for freelancers and consultants | Shut down |
| Official Consultant Card | 2018 | A novelty ID card for consultants confirmign that they’re an official card carrying consultant | Active, not promoted |
| HallwayConf | 2019 | A tiny private conference that’s an offshoot of my #PartyTown community | Paused – potentially reactivating in 2025 |
| The Business of Freelancing | 2020 | A roundtable podcast I co-hosted with five friends for two seasons and 24 episodes | Stopped a year later due to scheduling conflicts |
| Email Template Library | 2020 | A swipe file full of the email templates I use in my own business | Active, not promoted |
| The Battleboard Notion Template | 2020 | A task management board for Notion based off of my readings of popular productivity authors | Shut down |
| KeywordMagic.ai | 2024 | Something coming 🤫 | Launching shortly |
| Shopify SEO Simplified: The Video Course | 2024 | A video course on SEO for Shopify merchants, created with Ilana Davis | Launching shortly |