Money Matters
The Twitter Q&A Day: Your Questions About Being Location Independent
On Wednesday 10th June, the Community Outreach Team Leaders and I held the very first Twitter Q&A Day, inviting any questions from the Twitterverse about being or becoming location independent.
We had plenty of great questions – and fantastic answers, not just from the team but from others who chimed in to help – a big thanks to all who took part.
Here’s a summary of most of the questions asked and a selection of the best answers for each…
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Building A Location Independent Business: Monetizing Your Website (Part 2)
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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)
The first part of this post looked at 5 ways to monetize your website. This post looks at 6 more ways you can generate an income based upon the work you’ve done so far with your website…
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…
Is A Nomadic Location Independent Lifestyle Cheaper Than Living In One Place? A 12 Month Breakdown for 2008
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As I wrote when I did this last year for 2007, there are some things in life that are often just accepted without question: the notion that a jet set life of permanent travel is expensive and only for movie stars, millionaires and famous people is one of them.
These days a much larger community of people are now doing what we do – wise to the fact that living the nomadic, location independent life costs far less than you might think.
What has been interesting this year, is comparing our actual costs with the forecasts I made in last year’s post based on the lessons we’d learned in 2007. Here’s the forecast I made of what we hoped our cost of living for this unconventional lifestyle would look like in 2008:
