Twenty-plus businesses started since 2013. One pays the bills. One is just for fun.
That’s not a confession — it’s just the arithmetic of doing this for a decade. Instead of a portfolio page listing every domain I’ve ever owned, here’s the honest version.
Ecommerce Paradise
High-ticket dropshipping education, coaching, and done-for-you store builds. This is the business — it’s where my attention goes and it’s what pays for the life I write about on this site.
I teach people how to build stores that sell expensive products, usually $500–$10,000 each, sourced from US manufacturers who ship direct to the customer. Twenty to thirty percent gross margin, single-digit net after ads and fees. Fewer sales, bigger orders, less customer service noise.
Ecommerce Paradise covers the tactical side — niche selection, getting approved by suppliers, building the store, running the ads, closing high-ticket sales on the phone. There’s also a done-for-you build for people who’d rather skip the first ninety days of learning it the hard way.
Visit Ecommerce Paradise →Paradise Skate Mag
A passion project covering the expat and local skate scene here in Bali. It makes no money, and that’s fine — it’s not a business, it’s the thing I do on the days I need to not be working.
I grew up skating in Seattle and never stopped. I’m in my forties and still skate several times a week. Paradise Skate Mag documents the scene here — the spots, the people, the sessions, the parks that appear and disappear. There’s some merch, which covers roughly the cost of the domain and my conscience.
If you want to understand why I built a location-independent business in the first place, this is closer to the answer than anything on my resume.
Visit Paradise Skate Mag →What happened to everything else
I used to list every project I’d ever registered a domain for. Some were real, some were half-built, and a few existed mostly because I had an idea at midnight.
Running several things at once taught me something expensive: five half-built businesses generate the same revenue as zero businesses and roughly triple the stress. So I stopped spreading out. Ecommerce Paradise gets the focus. Everything else is either retired, parked, or being rebuilt quietly with no announcement until it’s actually worth your time.
When something new is genuinely ready, it will show up here and I’ll write about the lessons from it — the useful parts, without turning it into a running commentary on the business itself.
Where to start
For the business side
Choosing an online business model you can actually run — the five models I’ve personally operated, and which ones I quit.
For the life abroad side
Why I chose Bali as my base, and what nobody tells you before you move.
For the tools
Everything I actually use, on my resources page. Or if you’d rather talk it through, I do one-on-one calls.