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Sayonara, LiveLifeBig. As 2010 comes to an end, it’s time to say good bye. You served me well.

Dear reader,

don’t worry. This blog will continue to exist in 2011. With the start of the new year and a slight shift in focus, it was time for a rebranding.

LiveLifeBig.net will be be known as NicheDash.com.

Welcome to the dark side.

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I’m writing this in Doha, Qatar as I wait for my connecting flight to Vienna, Austria. Gotta wait 9 hours, but at least I got free dinner at the airport + there’s a designated room to sleep here. As of posting, I’ve already been spending 3 days in Austria.

(Click here if you can’t see the video: Last Day in the Philippines.)

8 months ago, I hopped on a plane with a one way ticket to Thailand. I had no clear plan what the future will bring. All I knew is that I wanted to see the world. In retrospect, taking that risk and buying that one-way ticket was the best decision of my life.

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Over the last weeks, I came across a few great posts that all relate to SEO. Time for an “Awesome Posts You Should Check Out”-roundup, SEO edition.

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I did not post as many updates as I wanted to on this blog (especially over the last few weeks). But don’t worry, this is about to change.

I applied for the Second Semester of TropicalMBA and am happy to announce that I was chosen. Basically, I will live on Mindoro, an island in the Philippines, for the next months and will work on some Internet projects with Dan. If you are interested in Internet businesses, make sure to check out Dan’s awesome LifestyleBusinessPodcast.

Besides working with Dan, I will have plenty of time to focus on my own projects. LiveLifeBig is one of them, so you can expect lots of posts about my adventures in Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines. I will also start to write about (online) businesses and Lifestyle Design.

David

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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

-Confucius


Hi! Welcome to my blog. This is my first post. After thinking about starting to blog for some time I decided to just go for it.

In the near future, I’ll be blogging mostly about my upcoming adventures and travels throughout Southeast Asia. I’ll post a lot of pictures and some videos to keep things interesting. Additionally, I might also be writing about lifestyle design.  Only time will tell where this blog will be heading in the long run, but it’ll be definitely about living life big. Rest assured that I’ll give my best to create interesting and valuable posts that you will enjoy.

As a sidenote: I’m from Austria and my mother tongue is German. I’m writing in English because I can reach a way larger audience this way. So please don’t be too upset if you find any grammatical or spelling errors ;-) .

Within the next days, you can expect posts about

  • testing the effects of rapture of the deep at a recompression chamber
  • travel preparations

If you have any questions, suggestions or just want to say hi, leave me a comment. I’ll appreciate it.

David

Pic by OneEighteen

OneEighteen

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Even though there’s no Black Friday going down here in Asia, I just stumbled over two great promotions.

Hosting

The guys from Hostgator announced their best deal in 8 years of hosting.

Hostgator is the host of my choice. I host all my sites with them.

Hostgator provides high levels of uptime (I never noticed any of my sites being offline so far) and an easy-to-use control panel to manage your sites. Their support is world class. At any time of the day and at any time of the year, there are dozens of technicians on stand-by, available on the phone or support chat.

The promotion:

The Black Friday promo starts at 12:00 AM Friday November 26th CST (-6 GMT) and will run until 11:59PM CST (-6 GMT) 11/26/2010.

  • Hostgator offers 50% OFF EVERYTHING From 12:00AM CST – 5AM CST
  • Hostgator offers 80% OFF EVERYTHING From 5AM – 9AM CST WHILE SUPPLIES LAST (first come, first receive; so definitely don’t miss out!)
  • From 9AM – 11:59PM CST OR after 80% OFF accounts have sold out, Hostgator will continue to offer 50% OFF EVERYTHING

This applies to ALL Accounts and ALL Term Lengths. For example, you could get 3 years of hosting for $35.64.

Which plan to get?

The discount applies to all of Hostgators plans (Shared, Reseller, VPS – Hosting, Dedicated Servers).

For 90% of you, the “Baby Plan” of Hostgators Shared Hosting – service is the best choice. It allows you to have unlimited sites, unlimited disk space and unlimited bandwidth.

I wouldn’t limit myself to the Hatchling-plan which allows only one site. Don’t bother with anything like Dedicated Servers or dedicated SSL & IP if you are just starting out.

Click here to check out the promo.

Domains

GoDaddy just announced a pretty good promo too. From 11/26-11/29 (or after 10,000 redemptions – whatever comes first) you can buy .COM domains for 5$.

While not being as insane as the Hostgator promotion, it’s still pretty good if you have been thinking about picking some domains up. Unfortunately, I got 3 domains this week before finding out about this promotion.

Click here to check it out.

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I thought this promo might be of interest for some of my readers. If you don’t have a hosting account yet, I’d recommend that you get it today. Hosting is one of the few expenses that you have when you’re starting out blogging or online marketing.

Unfortunately, making money online doesn’t happen overnight. The sooner you start, the sooner you will succeed. (If you don’t know where and how to start, check out this post.)

If I find any other deals that could be of interest for you, I’ll update the post.

(There are affiliate links in this post. They don’t bite or increase the price ;-) , they support me to keep providing valuable content.)

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