Turning into a Location Independent Professional

Producing a wage with a business that might be run from anyplace is the fantasy of numerous individuals who might want to be location independent.

There are different approaches to profit as a customary consultant (visual communication, web outline, creator and so forth.). The accompanying recommendations are more thoughts of the individuals who don't have the average outsourcing aptitudes

1) Virtual Assistant to different experts - A location independent, proficient has extraordinary necessities regarding searching for help. They require some person to research their venture arrangements (flights and settlement), help running their business as they venture to the far corners of the planet and general administrative support.

2) Online Coach - There are any number of undiscovered specialty coaching organizations which I can consider. On the off chance that you as of now run an instructing business, however it’s not doing fine yet to give you a chance to carry on with your area free life, and then consider tapping into a portion of the corners out there to develop or add extra streams to your business.

3) Blog & compose online for pay - There are numerous destinations which pay you to blog & advertise certain administrations. Attempt website systems which could help you get a paid blogging post.

4) Build an enrolment or membership site - Whilst this may take a while to develop enormous enough to pay you an average salary, it is viably a latent stream of wage which is the thing that an area autonomous expert ought to dependably be searching for.

5) How To items - Like the online mentor business, consider what information you have or things you've attained that others would pay to learn and afterward get imaginative with the diverse conveyance groups you could use to impart this learning (ebooks, sound books, features, gathering classes and so forth.).

And remember, in case you're shrewd about where you pick for your location independent  way of life, your monetary prerequisites could drop radically and empower you to carry on with a far superior way of life than you right now live in spite of procuring less.

Tips for Location Independent Professionals

Being location independent professional is more than simply having the capacity to work from coffeehouses and shorelines through a portable computer, whilst chatting with customers around the world. The real location free proficient will invest a considerable measure of time really travelling around. A short time back, read an article on the site as to travel tips for ambitious people, which was truly well known. In any case, this was pointed more towards individuals who are normally situated in the same location, who head out occasionally and needed to augment their work on the jump, through using certain business travel tips.

Thus, for the more travelling current business people that read the website who share tips and stories, here are a pack of basic tips that you can use to expand the time you use out and about travelling around, and by and large delight in the travel itself, somewhat more than common.

Avoid Airline Foods

For any of us who have invested any constant undetermined, we all realize that air transport sustenance is appalling.

That, as well as the snacks that they offer is generally either:

Ø  Too small.

Ø  Sometime too salty.

Ø  Just plain.

Continuously verify that you express a conventional determination of nutritious, solid snacks in your portable bag. These might be anything from a basic biscuit, a fruit, right the path down to prebottled protein shake.

Travelling around softly as a roaming ambitious person and location independent professional is an absolute need. Pack all that you can into one bag, or knapsack and take simply indisputably the minimum needs in your grasp convey. When travel by and by, normally have essentially the same stuff in portable bag, to be specific:

Ø  Laptop & USB Hard Drive

Ø  Cell Phone & Charger

Ø  Notebook & Pen

Ø  Snacks & Vitamin C

Ø  Passport

Relax and Rejuvenate

Frequently when location independent experts are travelling, they concentrate on different business travel tips and not most likely the most supreme travel tip ever. What's more, that is, to rest appropriately? Yes, it is advisable that always carry a pillow for sound sleep while you are travelling for your business tour.

So there you have it, a gathering of business travel tips for the cutting edge, ambitious person, location free proficient and nomadic adventurer determined to profit from a laptop or notebook.

Few Tips for Blogging while Travelling

Are you planning for travelling and taking a long leave from the hectic daily schedule, And as a blogger missing blog writing, here are a few tips to write a blog while travelling and also maintain your blog with updating content on a regular basis.

1.       Never update about your Leave - This possibly goes without saying anything, but it is very important to mention here! Never forget that your blog or content is public and syndicate din all social media websites and Networking websites. A person can read and see them very easily, so you should never make any statements or even declare to the fact that you will be out of your work that is very popular for all, until you return. Please always prefer to post a guest blog while travelling, never do this. But, yes, you could ask for guest posts before 4, 5 week to your trip. Always post a guest post in a week, and spend your additional time writing your own fresh content for the week you will be on travel. Through these steps you have always fresh content for your blog while you are away.

2.       Limit Your Work time - If you have already planned to use the laptop or mobile apps for writing at all while you are out of the station always make sure your time limitation with writing blogs. It is incredible what can be achieved in even just 10 minutes a day, if you will remain strict with yourself.

3.       Hoot suite -  If you are single the person who is handling own social networking websites and all public sites, then preshedule your social media post from your mobile in your absence using Hoot suite or another  social website that permits you to reschedule social media posts. In my opinion that these types of programs sometimes drop tweets or statuses, but it’s fine without posting any single tweet or post, post few while travelling.

4.       Write it in the Diary or Notebook – If you do not want to do blogging while travelling in the proper way to open the laptop and write down with dedication, just keep a diary and write into it and once you returned from travelling post it.

Through all the above mentioned way you will have fresh content and able to post it once you return from the travel.

Retain staff and save money

A most recent situation has given me the opportunity to take a break from the "how to" blogs and report a bit about "what happens if?". 

There are many cost saving and other benefits that come with setting up your business to be able to  "Work from Anywhere" and retaining staff is probably not one that may immediately come to mind but believe me it is a big one.

Losing key personnel out of your business can be a very costly exercise in so many ways.The cost of employing and training a new staff member is significant, not to mention the fact that being able to get the "right" one is not that easy. 

A good existing team member not only has the skills but also the knowledge of how your business works, a relationship with your clientele and suppliers and is able to assist in running the business without supervision. 

Some of the scenarios may be you have staff that is:

• Returning from maternity leave and are unable to secure childcare places
• Relocating to be with partner or family
• Wanting to travel or temporarily relocate as a lifestyle choice but still would like to continue employment

If you have set your business up to "Work from Anywhere" you can offer the option for your key staff members to continue employment from wherever they are located and hence avoid the pain and cost of replacing them.

I speak from most recent experience on this topic as I do in fact have an employee that is relocating and I was extremely pleased with myself for having the foresight to make sure that I was in the position to be able to offer her continuance of employment after her move. This to me is a great opportunity to take our "Working from Anywhere" concept to the next level, we have already well and truly tested it over shorter periods but not on an ongoing basis. I look forward to reporting back on the success of using the systems we have in place on a more permanent level.

I urge you to consider the enormous benefit of retaining your key staff members and cost benefits next time you are debating whether its worth the effort to make a few changes.

 

Setting up Skype in your business

A bit more about our experience with Skype as the key form of communication in our office. 
I previously outlined a few of the benefits, this post will get you to the deployment stage and then I will get to the day to day use on my next post.

Firstly I need to qualify that our business is only small so we have few staff members, consequently using Skype exclusively is not a problem for us, for larger businesses with more team members it may be more practical to use Skype in conjunction with your office system.

Here is the process we used to deploy Skype in our business

Skype Manager

Set up Skype Manager : The first thing you will need to do is sign up for Skype Manager for your business, Skype Manager allows you to set up and control user accounts, distribute subscriptions and many other functions.

Follow the instructions on the Skype Manager quick start guide to set up:

Register for Skype Manager : It is recommended that you create a new Skype account using your business name.

Add members to Skype Manager : it is possible to add users with personal accounts to your Skype Manager but these accounts will have restricted functionality so it is recommended that business accounts be created for team members.

Add Skype Credit : You will need to purchase Skype credit for your company, this credit can then be used to purchase products/subscriptions which in turn can be allocated to your team members.

Assign features to members : You can then allocate subscriptions, credit, numbers and other features to members

Numbers, subscriptions and credit

Request Skype numbers : You will need to request some Skype numbers, unfortunately it can be a bit of lucky draw and a pain staking process trying to secure some suitable numbers. We purchased a number for each user and an office number. You do have the choice of which area code you would like but the actual number is a matter of scrolling through the pickings and try to find some in sequence.  

Purchase some subscriptions : next you will need to purchase some Skype subscriptions, you will need to purchase these on a per user basis. There are some great unlimited subscription deals to be had, most of which give you unlimited calls to landlines worldwide for 12 months from less than $140.00.

Once you have purchased numbers, subscriptions and credit you will be able to allocate these to your members from within Skype Manager.

You should be all set and ready to go now, more about how to get the best out of Skype on a day to day basis will follow in my next blog…

Using Skype for flexibility and cost effectiveness

Changing your business phone over to use Skype may not have been a great idea a few years ago with call quality and other issues but now with the increase in internet speed and other improvements, using Skype for your business is a very viable option, the call quality is excellent and its very financially effective.

Most people relate the use of Skype as a useful way to keep in touch with family and friends by skype to skype calls or video but it can be so much more. Skype can be used very effectively in your business, even to he point of replacing your office phone system which is exactly the path we have taken. There is still some downside but the upside more than makes up for the this.

This is what we have done and what you can do to implement it in your business:

Skype number : you can request a Skype number, this is a local number and you are able to request the area code for where you are based. Clients/customers that call this number as a local call and you get to answer it where ever you are working from at the time even overseas. The cost of each number is AUD40.00 for 12 months.

Skype subscription : Skype subscriptions are great value, you can save huge amounts on your call costs, Skype currently has an unlimited premium subscription that includes unlimited calls to landlines and mobiles in over 50 countries for only AUD116.49 for 12 months. You will need to buy a subscription for each user but there is no doubt that each user is currently costing your company much more than this amount each year for their calls.

Call Quality : Forget about the bad old days of noisy lines and delayed voice, Skype call quality is very close to as good as landline and for overseas calls better, there is still a ever so slight delay but with a good internet connection this is hardly noticeable.

Instant Messaging : The other major benefit of using Skype is using the instant messaging function, I know there are plenty of other IM options out there but the whole idea is minimize the number of platforms you are using rather than switching from one to the other. One of the other benefits of using IM is that you can see when the person you would like to chat to is online. We use Skype IM as the main form of communication during the working day between staff members working from different locations, it is very effective.

This is a brief summary of the benefits and uses of Skype in your "Working from Anywhere" office or even for your bricks and mortar office, there is much more that I will address in a future post.

Time to start again

I recently spent some time with my sister Karen at her place "Sharing Bali" in the hills above Ubud in Bali. Traditional antique balinese bungalows all slightly different with outdoor bathrooms are set among the rice paddies in one of the most calming peaceful places you could ever imagine.
I spent a wonderful 4 nights at this amazing place, experienced some great jungle treks, canyon tubing, a flying fox, some fitness sessions with trainer Jo Sharp and some amazing fresh, tasty and healthy food.
My time at this wonderful place gave me the time to reflect and the motivation to get back into blogging about how I have created a lifestyle for myself by converting my conference and event management business to able to "work from anywhere".
There are so many benefits that have been realised from this change and I feel its worthwhile sharing. I will be sharing the why, how and the results with the hope that this encourages others to consider working towards this great lifestyle.