I bet that isn’t a title you expected to read on a blog where we mostly talk about how *possible* it is to work from anywhere, is it?

When it comes to the “live anywhere, work anywhere” lifestyle of a modern nomad, the usual images of tanned entrepreneurs tapping away at their laptops on the beach under a palm tree spring to mind.

The reality however is quite different.

Have you ever really tried working from a beach with your laptop? - where it’s so damn hot that the rivers of sweat pouring down your face make it impossible to see your screen, if that is, the sun weren’t causing such a glare that it’s practically invisible anyway.

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Yesterday we went out and about around Phuket to take some snaps of our home for the past month. We’ll be sad to leave here next week - but happy to return early next year. In the meantime, we hope you enjoy the photos…

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Running a business online for the past 15 months whilst moving around from country to country every couple of months, means we’ve had to get pretty smart, pretty fast about how to network online, market ourselves online and generate ongoing new business online.

We had a few false starts and some rather major flip-flops in what we’ve been doing business-wise but what it’s meant is that we’ve had to start from scratch each and every time, build up a client base from nothing and generate enough business to earn a living from to support our lifestyle in rather more expensive places like the Caribbean, Toronto and Dubai, as well as the cheaper places like South Africa, Panama and Thailand.

I’ve been following the internet marketing (IM) field for a couple of years at least now - but quickly decided that I disliked some of the underhand, sneaky and manipulative tactics used to get sign-ups to a list or buyers of a product. So if you’re looking for shortcuts or quick-result tips that will get you a flood of traffic in as short a space of time possible, keep looking because that’s not what this post is about!

Instead, I’m going to share with you the results of what we’ve learned about how to market ourselves online using some of the popular social media tools whilst travelling the globe…

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Wandering barefoot across golden beaches in Thailand and eating authentic, delicious Pad Thai (that costs just over 80p a dish) one month…Swanking it up surrounded by super-yachts in the Marina and eating Michelin-starred meals in Dubai the next…Diving with great whites and sampling world class wines in South Africa the month after that…

The Myths

It is easy to believe that location independent living is a lifestyle for the rich, famous or those with large trust funds only.

It’s easy to believe that a location independent life is only for those who are *extremely* fortunate and you’re not one of them.

It is easy to believe that you’ll never create the location independent lifestyle for yourself if you’re just starting out and you’ve got multiple hurdles to leap over.

It is easy to believe that once you start your location independent life, all your worries and troubles will be over and you’ll live the life I described above, trotting about the globe without a care in the world.

It is easy to believe that you’ll find the *perfect* place you can call home and that once you’ve found it, everything will feel alright.

The Traps

It is easy to become addicted to the excitement and adrenalin rush of visiting exotic new destinations every few months.

It is easy to look forward to the next destination so much that you sometimes forget to enjoy the here and now of where you are currently.

It is easy to compare one place favourably or otherwise to another and not take it on its own merits.

It is easy to let the time zones get the better of you.

It is easy to get distracted by your new surroundings, take too much time off and forget to focus on your business or means of income.

Some of you know me already, some of you might not.

The lifestyle I’ve described at the beginning of this post is mine…a 30 year old ‘normal’ person, who grew up in Nottingham (the gun capital of Europe, if you really want to know), who doesn’t have a huge trust fund but does consider herself *extremely* fortunate.

Jonathan, my husband, and I have disproved all of the above myths and fallen into all of the above traps. If we can do it, so you can you…enjoy the ride.