I started blogging about developer events I was attending in Japan back in 2010. As I was the only one writing about it in English, the content naturally ranked

I started blogging about developer events I was attending in Japan back in 2010. As I was the only one writing about it in English, the content naturally ranked well. That led a fellow Canadian to my blog, who asked how I found a job here. My email back to him started to get pretty long, and so I turned it into an article for the blog. That article attracted more people looking for developer jobs in Japan, so I started collecting their email addresses as I occasionally came across developer job opportunities that didn’t require Japanese. After about a year of this, I heard a company had made a successful hire through the list, and so I started charging companies. From there, the business organically expanded, until I was working with many of the major tech companies in Japan. It’s now a business generating a life-changing amount of income. It wouldn’t have happened if I hadn’t of started blogging with no real intent other than to share what I was learning.