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What’s the Weakest Link in YOUR Portable Career?

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The internet makes portable careers possible. Whether your portable career involves writing, building websites, photography or something else, you rely on the internet to keep you connected to clients, coworkers and bosses. You also need the internet to update your website or blog, offer items for sale, and myriad other tasks. So what happens when your internet lets you down? If you don't plan for it, you could find yourself unplugged and unemployed. I was reminded of this vividly just today. …

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Travel Blogging: It’s The Fluffernutter and Banana Sandwich of Portable Careers

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What on earth do fluffernutter and banana sandwiches have to do with travel blogging, I hear you ask. . . I remember loving fluffernutter and banana sandwiches as a kid. A thick layer of creamy peanut butter, another thick layer of marshmallow cream, topped with sliced banana circles. They were like an ice cream sundae in a sandwich as far as I was concerned. Heaven! Now there's an easy way to meld writing, photography and travel into an equally delectable skill sandwich that will …

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Portable Careers — Can You Really Make a Location-Independent Living? (Part 2)

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Is it possible in today's global economy to make a good living with a portable career as a writer? That's the question my friend Russell Ward asked recently. Here's Part 2 of my response. (You can see Part 1 here.) Yes, you can earn a living -- a very good living -- as a freelance writer. When thinking about this -- or any -- portable career, there's a catch, though. Make it Your Business You'll only succeed if you approach it your portable career as a business. That means you have to …

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Portable Careers — Can You Really Make a Location-Independent Living?

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Recently my online expat blogging friend Russell Ward asked that question. "I've been an office worker my entire adult working life. I've been in government for ten years, in a blue chip corporation prior to that. In both sectors, I've worked in traditional office jobs, devoid of flexibility and misaligned with my outlook on life. "Both roles have been a means to an end, a way to pay the bills while I worked on the other aspects of my life abroad - family, lifestyle, our home. "In the past …

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Pinfluence: Marketing Your Business with Pinterest

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If you've established a portable career as a writer, photographer, blogger or life coach, your marketing centers (or should center!) around a website that you own. Your website displays your skills, tells prospective clients or customers something about you, and gives them a way to get in touch with you. Unfortunately, the days of "build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door" are gone. You have to let the world know about your mousetrap in no uncertain terms. The old …

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Get Paid to Travel the World

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One of the most exciting aspects of my recent move to Panama is knowing that I can be paid for every trip to the beach, every exploration of a new town or museum. How? By writing travel articles about what I discover. If the prospect of getting paid to experience the best the world has to offer appeals to you, then you might want to consider travel writing as a portable career. Travel writing ticks all the boxes It's completely portable No special expertise required -- you can learn …

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