Make a Living Online while sipping a Piña Colada in Paradise
It’s your nth day at your desk doing the most tedious task. Then you suddenly saw yourself on the nth to the nth level day still doing the same thing. Your brain hurts! You ask yourself if the pay is worth all the effort. Argh! You want out! Before leaving, you snatch up that picture you had propped on your monitor, it was the picture of your perfect vacation.
So if you want to stop staring at pictures of people lounging back against the backdrop of coconut and white sands and manage your life to be able to travel and see the world, you might want to try your hand at being a nomadic type of lifestyle entrepreneur. Here are some tips for those interested in running a business from anywhere. Can you taste that piña colada in tropical paradise? Go! Read on!
1. Research or consult a top developer to come up with a web application that has a huge potential to capture a large segment of the online market. To aid marketing and branding, you can offer both free and premium accounts.
2. Start a popular blog that will attract a lot of profit-raking ads. Outsourcing content to highly-talented and skilled writers will usually do the trick. Of course, some training may be needed for writers to familiarize with the products and target market. But the long-term benefits far outweigh the costs.
3. Self-help e-books have been more popular these days due to the wider usage and access of the World Wide Web. Perhaps sharing your knowledge and expertise through e-books will be profitable for you.
4. If you don’t have time to write e-books, you may offer consulting services on your fields of expertise.
5. Online stock trading have, also been proven to work.
6. Establish contacts and hire locals to sell your products and run your grounded business remotely.
Meanwhile here are some tools that have been proven to successfully running a nomadic business venture:
1. Skype is a communication tool to collaborate with partners and virtual employees.
2. Basecamp for project management.
3. Highrise for managing customer relations.
4. Paypal and Google Checkout for payments.
5. Adwords (http://adwords.google.com) to have effort-free advertisement.
6. Google Analytics for tracking of returns of investment.
7. Send Out Cards from your computer to anyone in the world to your clients, family and friends. A send 2 Real Cards to Real People on me!!
Nomadic lifestyle entrepreneurs usually invest much time, energy, and money on building outsourced production teams, personal equipment to enable remote management, and capturing a target market for their products and services. Basically you will run your business similar to an offline business, however, the difference now lies in the fact that they can run their business from anywhere in the world. With a Piña Colada? Yeah sure! In paradise? No problem. You can even watch a sunset-kissed sea in Hawaii while your laptop is sending thousands of $$ worth of products or services to New York.
Take Business and Passion to the Global Level!
According to studies conducted, the number of lifestyle entrepreneurs has ballooned in just these few years. In fact in the USA, the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership reported 460,000 small business created every month in 2005! This trend has since become global as many people have caught on and realized that they can be both financially-secure while living the life that they only dreamed of before.
IALE or the International Association of Lifestyle Entrepreneurs was envisioned and realized by someone who has embraced lifestyle entrepreneurship both as a career and a way to enjoy life. IALE promotes the creation of a business around passion and lifestyle. It is a membership-based organization for women who are lifestyle entrepreneurs. It is a social network of like-minded women aged 35 and beyond who want to live life and do business on their terms. And, as lifestyle entrepreneurship goes, it promotes more the attainment of a balanced personal life with a business undertaking rather than pursuit of profit.
Venturing into small home-based businesses is now particularly practical because of the economic crisis. People are getting laid off all the time. There is really no job security. Setting up businesses in a locality also needs more capital and effort, not to mention your physical presence. As a lifestyle entrepreneur you now have the best of both worlds: income and location independence! No more staying put at an office. Just as long as you have an open mind, coupled with a reliable team of professionals, a supportive family, a laptop perhaps, and an internet connection, you are set to achieve the life you always wanted! The reach and use of the World Wide Web has become more global, opening new markets even in the other side of the world. This is where IALE comes in. As it grows bigger and reaches a broader scope globally, the market for our products and services becomes limitless!
Membership in IALE is invaluable for us women lifestyle entrepreneurs! Come and join us today! The world beckons.
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