Dedicated to "future Global Managers," The Global You by Susan Bloch and Philip Whiteley sets out ten strategies for achieving success as a working expat. The book is aimed at the expat who works for a company that sends him on an overseas assignment, but there are lessons which expats by choice can learn to become more effective entrepeneurs overseas as well. The authors point out in the introduction that: "Even if you want to work for a "national" company, that option is rapidly …
Portable Careers for Expats: Stock Photographer
Photography is a wonderfully portable career. But even if your shots aren't up to National Geographic or haute couture standards, you can make a nice living creating and selling stock photography. What is "stock?" It's a picture that's licensed for specific use by advertisers, journalists, travel writers and others. Newspapers, magazines and other media love stock because it saves them money -- they don't need to hire a photographer. They can peruse huge databases of images and purchase just …
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Here Comes 2011 — Is This the Year You’ll Move Abroad?
The year 2010 is almost over. Will 2011 be the year you move to a new country? I'm pretty sure it will be for me. The only reason I'm not 100% sure is because there are parts of the process that aren't totally within my control. Because of the financial beating we took during the economic meltdown of 2009, we have to sell our house before we move. The market is bad, but holding on and renting it out isn't a viable option -- the Central Florida economy is just too messy. I'm trusting we can …
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Learn the Business of Blogging
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 …