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 …
Retire Overseas — It’s Easy as 1, 2, 3
Guest Post by Kathleen Peddicord "I'm ready to make my move, Kathleen," explained an attendee at our conference in Panama City earlier this month. "I'm ready to go for it. "But I'm so confused. I mean, what do I do first? And then what do I do second? "Could you break it down for me, as though I were a child? Seriously, speak to me like one of your children. I need a step-by-step plan..." Step 1: Identify a destination. Where depends on what's important to you, what kind of lifestyle you …
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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 …
New Economic Report Can Help You Find Your Dream Expat Life
The Brookings Institution and the London School of Economics and Political Science have just released their Global Metro Monitor report, The Path to Economic Recovery: A Preliminary Overview of 150 Global Metropolitan Economies in the Wake of the Great Recession. While this information won't determine where in the world you'll be happiest as an expat, it can help you figure out where to start looking. Why? In the wake of what they are calling the Great Recession, Latin American and Asian …
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Learn a New Language Online — Before Your Overseas Move
When you imagine a different life for yourself overseas, do you hear yourself speaking English, or do you visualize yourself conversing with the local people in their own tongue? Should you learn a new language when you move? That’s a question only you can answer, and that answer will depend on several factors. What kind of expat are you? If you're a cultural or missionary-type expat, deciding to learn the language will feel like a no-brainer to you. Will your work require it? Will you live …
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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 …