How Gary Arndt Built an Adventure-Based Portable Career
In 2007, Gary Arndt dropped everything for a life of travel, adventure, and photography. Today, that adventurous life also includes a booming business as a travel blogger, podcaster, and photographer....
View ArticleChoosing a Niche for Your Portable Career
Which way will lead to a more profitable portable career? Offering to do “everything” in your industry, or offering a service or product that’s very specific? If you’re a writer, will you write...
View ArticleSupport Yourself Overseas as a Photographer — Even if You’ve Only Taken...
Ah, the glamour, the glitz, the satisfaction of supporting your overseas lifestyle from anywhere you happen to be. All you need is your educated eye and your trusty camera. Travel photography. . ....
View ArticlePinfluence: Marketing Your Business with Pinterest
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,...
View ArticleDevelop a Portable Career with Stock Photography
Have camera — will travel. Or not. The beautiful thing about creating a portable photography career for yourself is, it’s easily portable to anywhere in the world. But what if you’re not traveling?...
View ArticlePortable Careers — Can You Really Make a Location-Independent Living? (Part 2)
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...
View ArticleThis is the Delectable Skill Sandwich of Portable Careers
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...
View ArticleWhat’s the Weakest Link in YOUR Portable Career?
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,...
View ArticleYour Portable Career Needs Authority — Get Yours Here!
A couple years ago, Brian Clark and the team at Copyblogger Media started something called Authority. It’s a combination teaching/training/resources/forums site that teaches you, the online business...
View ArticleHow to be a Happiness Hero Overseas!
Before 2009, I had never heard of a portable career, laptop lifestyle, digital nomad or location-independent lifestyle. If I ever considered work and not being tied to a place in the same thought, it...
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