Archive for August, 2008

How We Get Clients For Our Business Without Ever Meeting Them In Person

Posted by Lea Woodward

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This is the one question friends and family ask us over and over again - and was recently asked by a new reader. Most of our friends and family don’t live in the online world as much as we do and so the concept of people trusting us enough to hand over their [...]

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This is the one question friends and family ask us over and over again - and was recently asked by a new reader. Most of our friends and family don’t live in the online world as much as we do and so the concept of people trusting us enough to hand over their hard-earned cash without ever having met us (and often spoken to us) seems completely foreign.

They have a fair point…what would make you hand over money (in some cases $2,000+) to someone you’ve never met?

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Categories : Business Tips, Ways To Make Money

24 Things We Wish We’d Known Before Becoming Location Independent

Posted by Lea Woodward

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Where & When To Go

1. Planning to travel through Dubai frequently with an overnight stopover? Get yourself an e-gate card and waltz straight through passport control bypassing all the horrendous queues. If you don’t plan to route through Dubai frequently, then consider booking the Marhaba meet & greet service which gives you a [...]

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Where & When To Go

1. Planning to travel through Dubai frequently with an overnight stopover? Get yourself an e-gate card and waltz straight through passport control bypassing all the horrendous queues. If you don’t plan to route through Dubai frequently, then consider booking the Marhaba meet & greet service which gives you a dedicated, quicker route through immigration.

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Categories : Business Tips, Getting There & Around, Money Matters, On Location Tips

Planning For Crises: What To Do When Your Dream Lifestyle Becomes A Nightmare, Part 3

Posted by Lea Woodward

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In the first part of this post, I covered what to do when you realise that you’re not enjoying the experience of your location independent lifestyle; we then looked at what to do when a lack of funds threatens to end your dream lifestyle and finally in this part, we’re going to take [...]

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In the first part of this post, I covered what to do when you realise that you’re not enjoying the experience of your location independent lifestyle; we then looked at what to do when a lack of funds threatens to end your dream lifestyle and finally in this part, we’re going to take a look at what to do if something awful happens.

This is a tactic your friends and family might throw at you when you’re in the exploration and planning mode of lifestyle design - particularly something as unconventional as a nomadic, location independent lifestyle.

They’ll invent all sorts of weird and wonderful scenarios to put you off taking the plunge…

  • But what if there’s an earthquake/tsunami/other natural disaster when you’re there?
  • But what if something happens back home that we need you for?
  • But what if you get ill or have an awful accident?

So let’s take look at each of these in a bit more detail…

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Categories : Becoming A Location Independent Professional, On Location Tips, Preparing To Leave

Planning For Crises: What To Do When Your Dream Lifestyle Becomes A Nightmare, Part 2

Posted by Lea Woodward

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The first part of this post focused on what to do if you get on the road and find you hate it. In this part we’ll look at what to do if you love your nomadic, location independent lifestyle but your money runs out and you can’t keep going…

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The first part of this post focused on what to do if you get on the road and find you hate it. In this part we’ll look at what to do if you love your nomadic, location independent lifestyle but your money runs out and you can’t keep going…

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Categories : Becoming A Location Independent Professional, Money Matters, On Location Tips, Ways To Make Money