A few months ago, I moved all my Thailand-related blog posts to a new website: Thailand Starter Kit. Since creating that website, I received a number of commercial inquiries from people looking to buy exposure on it. Main reason is the website's prominence in search engines. My article on health insurance in Thailand alone receives close to 3,000 visitors from Google every month, resulting in between 50 and 100 requests for additional information by e-mail. Insurance companies pay commissions … [Read more...]

Things on karstenaichholz.com have been a bit quiet the last few weeks. One major reason for this has been my work over at traveloak.com, where I publish my travel writing. The site was due for a technical, design and editorial overhaul. The former two are pretty much done, and looking at what's online there now, I'm quite happy with the outcome. On the editorial side, some recent highlights published there include a trip narrative of a journey to Ladakh in India, an in-depth guide to … [Read more...]

Over the last eighteen months, I've been pondering the idea of starting my own podcast. My initial idea was 'Two Beers In', a podcast that does interviews with entrepreneurs and other people in business after both the interviewee and interviewer had two rounds of beer. Aside from making the interview a bit more lively, there would be an element of featuring different beers every week. The downside? I'd have to drink more beer, something I'm not entirely keen on. I could however befriend two … [Read more...]