Archive for February, 2008

How To Keep Yourself Safe In A Foreign Country - Part Two

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Following on from Lea’s first post about Keeping Your Stuff Safe, there are a few things you can do to keep yourself safe whilst out and about.
It’s easy to become another crime statistic to be filed in a report by a jaded police officer who’s seen it all before; uninformed tourist wanders into [...]

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Following on from Lea’s first post about Keeping Your Stuff Safe, there are a few things you can do to keep yourself safe whilst out and about.

It’s easy to become another crime statistic to be filed in a report by a jaded police officer who’s seen it all before; uninformed tourist wanders into a dangerous part of town by mistake, gets mugged and has their backpack, wallet and passport stolen.

However, I do believe that nowadays most LIPs, travellers or working nomads have heard of enough horror stories in the media to ensure that they take at least some precautions when they visit an unfamiliar place.

That said, I find that there are three elements that can lead you into trouble. The first two are distraction and surprise. The third is a lack of local knowledge.

Whilst you can tick all the necessary travel safety boxes and still be unlucky enough to get mugged or assaulted there are certain things you can do to reduce that risk significantly… Read the rest of this entry

Marketing Your Location Independent Business Online: Part 1 Overcoming The Challenges

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This is Part 1 of a series of posts for those of you new to marketing a business online.
To those of you who’ve been marketing your business online for years, skip this post…it’s not for you! It’s also not for you if you’re aiming to make your money purely via websites or blogs [...]

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This is Part 1 of a series of posts for those of you new to marketing a business online.

To those of you who’ve been marketing your business online for years, skip this post…it’s not for you! It’s also not for you if you’re aiming to make your money purely via websites or blogs (through affiliate income etc.) – although you may find some of the information useful.

This post is for you if you are considering becoming location independent but you’re worried about how and where you’ll find customers and clients for a business that needs to be marketed 100% online…
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An Update On Our Location Independent Life

Photo: The Wandering Woodwards with a cheetah at the Spier Estate, South Africa
If you take a quick look over on the right there, you’ll see that Thursday’s posts are “pot luck”…sometimes there will be one, sometimes there won’t and the topic will be pot luck!
So I thought I’d take this opportunity to give you all [...]

Photo: The Wandering Woodwards with a cheetah at the Spier Estate, South Africa

If you take a quick look over on the right there, you’ll see that Thursday’s posts are “pot luck”…sometimes there will be one, sometimes there won’t and the topic will be pot luck!

So I thought I’d take this opportunity to give you all a bit of a personal update on how things are going in our LIP lives right now… Read the rest of this entry

5 Realities of Being Location Independent That No-one Else Will Tell You

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It could be said that being location independent is one of the lifestyles that so many are striving to design for themselves – particularly since Tim Ferriss popularised the concept of “lifestyle design” and made it all seem so possible for everyone.
And yet whilst it has never seemed easier (is it easy?!?) [...]

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It could be said that being location independent is one of the lifestyles that so many are striving to design for themselves – particularly since Tim Ferriss popularised the concept of “lifestyle design” and made it all seem so possible for everyone.

And yet whilst it has never seemed easier (is it easy?!?) to create this kind of lifestyle, there are certain realities that few people will point out to you…preferring instead to highlight the glamour, excitement and fabulous-ness of it all and how anyone can do it.

I won’t disagree – travelling to wherever takes our fancy and running a business from wherever we are, feels like a privilege every day we do it; the kind of lifestyle I don’t think I’d ever even dreamed of because I just wasn’t sure it was possible but here I am living it.

Nonetheless, there are realities that make this kind of lifestyle seem not only less attractive but downright unappealing to people who haven’t thought it through with any seriousness.

So just what realities am I talking about? Read the rest of this entry