Nomad Numbers Blog

Detailed Look at Quarterly Blog Income Report – Q4 2020

If you’ve been reading our blog, you know how much we love numbers and since we ourselves enjoy reading about others’ blog income, we thought we would share our blog income on a quarterly basis.

Since we are still a modest blog, our numbers won’t blow your mind but you might be interested to see that there is still a bit of income trickling in that requires little effort to maintain once they have been properly set up. And you might also appreciate seeing how much progress we have made overtime.  

Don’t be fooled though! Living off a blog requires a LOT of work that includes:

  • publishing quality content on a regular basis (consistency is your friend) 
  • promoting your content (and your identity) on other platforms that will help amplify your story (ie. guest posts, podcast interviews…). 
  • building a newsletter to get your 1000 True Fans (a concept Kevin Kelly talk about in his book: 1000 True Fans: Simple Idea to Earn A Living Doing What You Love.)

This is why you should first and foremost blog about things you are passionate about before thinking about how to monetize your content.

In this article, we explain how we monetize our blog, what works, what doesn’t, and how much we made in the last quarter of 2020 (which covers the period from 10/1/2020 to 12/31/2020). Are you ready to dive in?

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By Mr. Nomad Numbers, ago

9 months Stuck in Taiwan during the pandemic – Did we break the bank?

We are very grateful for the outstanding work that Taiwan has done to keep all its residents safe during this unprecedented global pandemic and we are also grateful that we as nomads can choose where we want to stay.

In this article, we won’t go over all the wonders of Taiwan that we already covered at length. Instead we will be digging into our expenses in Taiwan – during the pandemic for the past 9 months!

By Mr. Nomad Numbers, ago

10 Surprising Things You May Not know About Taiwan

Taiwan is so much more than the Taipei 101 building and the label “Made in Taiwan”. More recently, Taiwan is deservingly getting more attention for its 220+ days without a local transmission of Covid-19.

Now that we’ve been in Taiwan for more than 250 days, we’ve learned a few interesting tidbits that we felt were worth sharing.

In this article we share 10 surprising things you may not know about Taiwan.

By Mr. Nomad Numbers, ago

Black Friday / Cyber Monday deals on our favorite essential items (2020 Edition)

As aspiring minimalists, we don’t extensively buy stuff and rather focus on experiences. However, we are savers that can’t pass on a good deal especially for an essential item we needed to buy anyway. This makes Black Friday sales the perfect time to make these thoughtful purchases as they are usually heavily discounted. The key here obviously is “essential item”.

Since everyone will likely be looking at deals online (especially in 2020 – a big year for online deliveries), we decided to put together a list of our favorite slow travel essentials items that we have found discounted as part of the 2020 Black Friday season.

By Mr. Nomad Numbers, ago

[Interview #020] How to Have Your Cake and Eat It Too! Choose Work You Love and FIRE by 40+

Tara and Squash live on the outskirts of a large urban county in the western United States. While Squash can trace at least three generations back to his home state, Tara is a second-generation American whose parents immigrated to the US in the 1970s. She have been a financial independence/retire early (FIRE) adherent since 2015. Squash joined her in its pursuit after they were engaged to be married. While she is a social worker by profession, she currently is employed in higher education administration. Squash is employed as a programmer analyst in a research institute.

In this interview you will learn how they are on track to reach financial independence and retire from their job in their 40s while choosing work they love. What does a typical day in their life look like for them today vs before, what inflection point led them to decide to change their life trajectory, what were some of the limiting beliefs that hold them back, how much they spent per year and so much more!

By Mr. Nomad Numbers, ago