PPP029: I’m Eric and I Quit My Job Personal Profitability Podcast

This week I have some huge news to share. I am going full-time online, and we are packing up camp here in Portland to move down to Southern California! Get the entire story of how I got here, why we're going, and what's next in this episode of the Personal Profitability Podcast.





Resources Mentioned



* Ultimate Online Income Tracker 

* My Dream City – Portland



Full Transcript

Eric Rosenberg: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, welcome back to the Personal Profitability Podcast. I am your host, Eric Rosenberg and today I want to tell you a story. It's something a little different that I normally do. In this story is a really, really big announcement; probably the biggest announcement I've ever had to make to readers of this site. And listeners, sorry, those people who don't read, I wanna include everybody. 

I want to start at the beginning of this story, go way, way back in time. I started my blog…. the first time I ever started the blog was around 2007 that summer, no 2006, sorry, 2006 that summer. I don't have any notes in front of me I'm just kind of winging this one coz I just wanted to be in conversation with you guys. So I started in 2006 that summer. I was working at a Boy Scout Camp for my 7th summer and that summer my job shifted a little bit. I was the assistant business manager which meant that I was the guy that sat at the office and ran the office for the entire property. We had four camps on the property. And I was kind of the main administrative guy making sure that all the different troops paid their bills, making sure everything work the way it was supposed to.

I was in there a lot of the summer, you know, people come in and out and I help them. But I also have some down time while people are out, scouts doing classes, adults doing whatever adults do at Boy Scout camps, going around checking on their scouts and things. In those down times I had a laptop, I actually had my own laptop with me, and the building had internet; we were very high tech for 2006 having internet at a summer camp. We had high speed internet and all that down time I thought, oh I should do something with my time. 

Journey as a Blogger

So I went to this new thing called Blogger, it wasn't even owned by Google yet, it was just called Blogger. And I started a blog. It was called eric1985.blogspot.com. It doesn't exist anymore so you don't have to worry, go in to check on it. It was kind of a personal blog and I wrote my first blog post that summer in 2006. 

About halfway through that summer, maybe a little further I realized there's a lot of great political commentaries and things like that out there on these new blogs. And I wanna get in on that so I started a blog at the time I called, because I knew nothing about online marketing, I don't think many people knew much about online marketing at that point, I called it EricsPoliticalAndEconomicInsights.blogspot.com. Again that's one no longer there. And that blog actually I just shut down fully last year and it went through quite a metamorphosis and eventually became something called The Israel Situation. And I shut that down because I wanted to focus on more profitable endeavors. 

But that was really the first time I started to blog with the idea of trying to get out there and reach people and do something and maybe make a difference. I was writing primarily about Middle East politics and things and there's a lot of misinformation, a lot of really incorrect stuff going on out there and misrepresentations. I spent a lot of time in Israel and I wanted to mak...