Archive for May, 2008
The Impracticalities Of Working From Anywhere
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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You Know You’re in South East Asia When…
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…
Basic Social Media Tips For Location Independent Professionals & Nomadic Web Workers
Photo by Felix Francis
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…
The Myths & Traps Of A Location Independent Life
Image by vgm8383
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…
