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Inspirational Destinations: An Interview With A LIP In Shanghai
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** This post was written by Andy Hayes. Find out more about Andy at the bottom. **
Welcome to one of the newest features on the Location Independent blog: Inspirational Destinations – a monthly interview with a LIP on location.
Up to now on the blog, we’ve focused on a lot of practical information and the nuts and bolts about location independent lifestyle; from the Ask The Coach Q&A to the book and business course. But the best part of being location independent is the ability to choose your home base – sometimes this can be the most difficult choice and the most emotional.
So at least once a month, I will be reaching out into the community and finding LIPs in vibrant, exciting (or perhaps tranquil and gorgeous – who knows) destinations who are willing to share their story.
These stories are all about all about inspiration: don’t do all that hard work to build yourself a nomadic lifestyle and then fail to take advantage of it fully. We’ve given you the tools to build a lifestyle the way you want it – and now we can help you decide where to spend it.
And with that I’d like to introduce our first victim interviewee, Leigh-Anne Russell. She’s based in Shanghai, China and has some interesting tips and trick so surviving personally and professionally in the People’s Republic…
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How To Tell Your Loved Ones You’re About To Leave Their Lives And Become Location Independent
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** This post was written by Leigh Haugseth. Find out more about Leigh below **
It’s not unusual to experience some backlash when telling your friends and family about your switch to a location independent lifestyle. Fortunately from my own personal experience, most people are very supportive and curious.
But there are also those who are unsure of and cynical about your choice. When you’re going through a major transition in your life, any sort of negativity can make you doubt yourself – and there is simply no room for doubt when taking the plunge and starting your own new business and location independent life.
Having a strategy to deal with the naysayers and doubters in your life is vital to keep you focused and on track. Here are three tactics that can help…
Jump Start Your Life Of Location Independence With A Sabbatical
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** This is a guest post by Corbett Barr. Find out more about Corbett below. **
Editor’s note: In conjunction with Corbett’s blog, Free Pursuits, we are co-hosting a survey about members of the Location Independent/Digital Nomad/Lifestyle Design community. The survey goes live today at 10am (PDT) – please head over here to complete it and help us all find out more about each other.
For those of you who are still stuck in the rat race and dream of creating a location independent lifestyle but can’t seem to get started, I have a foolproof way to ensure you’ll never go back to corporate life…
Building A Location Independent Business: Monetising Your Website (Part 1)
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** This post was written by Kirsty Henderson. Read more about Kirsty below. **
If you missed them, here are the rest of the posts in this ‘Back to Basics’ series about building a location independent business based on niche websites which make you money:
Part 1: Should you build a blog or static html website?
Part 2: Deciding On A Topic for Your Niche Website
Part 3: Getting Your Website Online (Part 1)
Part 4: Getting Your Website Online (Part 2)
Part 5: Getting Traffic To Your Website
Part 6: Optimising Your Website For The Search Engines
Part 7: Monetising Your Website (Part 1)
Part 8: Monetizing Your Website (Part 2)
You’ve got a website that is getting a good number of visitors…now it’s time to start making some money.
You need to put a lot of thought at this stage (or even before this) into what sort of monetization will work best for the type of site you have so don’t rush into just plastering ads all over the place in the hopes of seeing the money roll in – because it probably won’t.
How you choose to monetize your site depends on a bunch of factors including:
- The type of reader you attract
- How they find you
- What sort of information they’re looking for
So take a bit of time to research all of the available monetization options so that you choose the right ones…
