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Need Portable Income? Create a Money-Making Website

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If you have a particular area of interest or expertise, you can develop an income by creating a website or blog around that topic. Then, when you move overseas you can make that income portable -- as long as you have a computer and an internet connection. There are lots of different versions of these money-making websites. Some of them are pretty awful, with more advertisements than useful content. Others do a fantastic job of purveying high quality, useful information to their …

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Rent Before You Buy Overseas. . . Or Maybe Not

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I always advise readers to rent first -- for at least six months to a year -- in a new country. It's what we're doing ourselves. When you rent first, you give yourself time to settle in and assure yourself that you're where you want to be. You also save yourself the potential agony of buying what you think will be your dream home and finding instead that it's the stuff of nightmares. But there's always the contrarian point of view. . . Guest Post by Lee Harrison If you've done any …

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A New Visa for Panama

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In May, Panama president Ricardo Martinelli signed an executive order that created a new type of visa. It's a visa that will be relatively easy to get, and will help to solve some of Panama's shortage of skilled labor. There were more questions than answers about it initially. A couple of weeks after the order was signed, I went with a native Panamanian to the local immigration office to try to get specific information. I was interested to see if this was a visa that would work for …

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Get Some (Free) Expert Help to Profit from the Digital Revolution

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Many of you are looking for ways to earn an income no matter where in the world you live. You want a portable career. In this digital age, a portable career almost always means some form of working online. If you're working online, you probably have a website. Your website isn't the business, though, it's just the virtual real estate your business occupies. So if you want to succeed with a portable career, you need the website and you also need, well, a business. Build your Website with …

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Three Ways to Learn Your New Country’s Language Before You Arrive

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Now that I've been here in Panama for a few months, I really wish I'd put more into learning Spanish before I arrived. Oh, I worked on it, don't get me wrong. I took three semesters of conversational Spanish at my local community college, and I continued on my own using a couple of different programs. So I'm doing better than many of my expat friends. I can phone for a taxi. I can mostly understand and make myself understood -- sometimes with a lot of hand gestures -- when I'm ordering food in …

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2012 International Freelancers Day

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Whether you're a portable careerist overseas or developing a freelance career in your home country, this is good news! Ed Gandia of the International Freelancers Academy has now completed his second annual study of freelancers, and come up with this englightening infographic. And here's some even better news -- the third annual International Freelancers Day is coming up on September 21. It's a day-long, online event featuring 13 expert speakers on a variety of topics. I've attended both …

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