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I’m Will Hatton, founder of Ditch Your Desk and founder of The Broke Backpacker travel blog. I’ve been backpacking around the world for over a decade and have some gold to share. I have a passion for hustle, entrepreneurship and building habits. I firmly believe that true freedom can only be achieved when working for yourself.

Over the last five years, I have experimented with numerous online models and strategies in my quest to earn enough money online to live the life I want.  I have founded nine different businesses, some succeeded and some failed, lessons were learnt. 

Ditch Your Desk is the ultimate resource centre for aspiring entrepreneurs, crafted with intel and case studies from these experiments. I aim to teach 1000 people to Ditch their Desks, earn money online and live a life of real freedom… 

Where to Start on DYD

Don’t know where to begin your journey? Start with one of the following topics! These are my favorite (and most important) things to talk about first…

Looking to optimize your website and rocket past the competition to position #1 on Google? Enter my secret lab and I’ll share some of what I know on how to build sites, maximise your revenue and generate traffic through SEO.

If you truly want to succeed as an entrepreneur, you need to be constantly learning, experimenting and working on yourself as a person. Here, I speak about what it takes to do all this and handle the grind at the same time.

Some might call my story a “rags to riches” type. Indeed, I started out hustling and, although I still hustle to this day, I’m not selling shirts at festivals anymore. Find out how I became successful entrepreneur in this special post.

DYD Fresh Reads

The latest and greatest from yours truly: these are my most recent posts…