I run not just one, but two online businesses. Yet I spend a lot of time offline on airplanes and expedition ships, and I take road trips frequently. It might seem strange for someone who makes their living online to constantly espouse the importance of consistency in being offline for stretches of time…but it’s quite…
Ahhh, long distance relationships. They start out so full of hope and enthusiasm – but all that sizzle can quickly fizzle. The phone calls become texts, the texts become emails…and before you know it, your communication has been reduced to a “Happy Birthday” one-liner on your Facebook wall once a year. That’s because long distance…
We’ve all read articles about running a location-independent business and working four hours a week, while sitting on the beach and raking in the money. This isn’t one of those articles. What this is: My honest version of what my location-independent lifestyle looks like as I travel and run my solo business. In my reading…
Have you ever picked one coffee shop over another just because it had better wifi? Yep, me too. The ability to work anywhere is amazing, but it comes with a catch — constant reliance on connecting to the Internet. Needless to say, as digital solopreneurs, we live on wifi — and tend to panic when…
Remember when Facebook decided to update its newsfeed algorithm so you pretty much had to pay any time you wanted to show up in your fans’ newsfeeds? Sucked, didn’t it? So now you’re faced with keeping a social media advertising budget, but making sure you get the absolute most out of the money you spend…
Hop into any Facebook group, Twitter chat, or other space where entrepreneurs get together and mention working for free, and you are likely to start a riot of voices exclaiming that a business owner working for free is the cause of entire industries being devalued. They will stand up and exclaim things like, “Charge what…
