If you're considering blogging as the business platform to finance your untethered expat life, there's an online course opening up that will help you get your blogging business up to speed faster and better. Blog Masters Club Blog Masters Club is a comprehensive training program designed for aspiring professional bloggers. The core training consists of 92 videos, divided up into 16 modules. Each module comes with an action guide, transcript, and downloads. The program was created by David …
Support Yourself Overseas as a Travel Photographer: 6 Resources to Get You Started
Photography meets our definition of a location-independent career. You can do it anywhere in the world, and in this digital age you can sell your photos from anywhere you find an internet connection. But what if -- like me -- you're not an experienced photographer? How do you graduate from taking point-and-click snapshots to shooting photos someone is willing to pay for? While we all recognize the stunning quality of photos from National Geographic, Conde Nast Traveler and other high-end …
Profitable Blogging
Let's face it, you don't make money just by blogging. But there are lots of profitable bloggers, and some of them are very, very profitable. Gazillionaire profitable. They do it by using the blog to sell something. As I wrote recently, There are basically three ways to make money from a blog: Sell your own product Sell your own service Sell someone else’s product or service If you want to live the untethered expat life through a blog, you'll most likely start, as I did, by selling …
Imagine Yourself with a Different Life
Recently I wrote about chipping away at your stuff to free yourself for your untethered expat life. This presumes you're like most other readers of this website, and you're choosing your own expat destination, not being sent on an overseas assignment by a company. Just as you need to inventory and make decisions about material possessions, you need to decide what’s important to you after you move. This is a place where you can dream a bit, and envision the way you’d really like your life to …
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To Untether, First Take Inventory
The story goes that Michelangelo created his beautiful statues by visualizing what was trapped inside the marble and chipping away everything that wasn’t the statue. Before you can untether yourself as an expat you have to undergo a similar transformation. You need to chip away everything that won’t work with your new life so you can free yourself to enjoy it. There are two broad categories you need to chip away at: your stuff and your ideas. Chip Away the Stuff One way to start is by taking …
The Untethered Life
Untether Yourself is the title of the free e-book I recently released. (If you missed its release, you can grab your copy here.) But what does the untethered expat life mean? Is it: the freedom to travel constantly, flitting from place to place and exploring all the world has to offer? the opportunity to live on a tropical beach soaking up the sun? the ability to live where you want but travel back to your native land whenever you want to visit friends and family? simply a move from one …