Episode #16: 10 Ways You Can Create Location Independent Revenue

Today I’m going to be talking about how you can start to make your own location independent money. This is what fuels your dreams, the ability to earn money without having to go into an office or punch a clock. I’ll be sharing ten ways you can turn your expertise and your experience into legitimate location independent income. This is the key to creating a digital nomadic life. I’ll be talking about a number of different ways that you can start earning location independent money today.

Tune in to this week’s episode to find out:

• How learning to code can allow you to earn money online.
• How to find companies that are hiring remote staff.
• The benefits and challenges of drop shipping.
• What it takes to build and monetize websites through advertising.
• The differences between consulting and coaching.
• How people in a number of different occupations can become location independent.

Mentioned in the episode:

• Home Along the Way
• ConnexSocial
• Family Freedom: A Guide to Becoming a Location Independent Family
• How to Leave us a Review on iTunes
• Episode #13: Planning for Your Fact-Finding Journey with Anthony Fasano
• Awesome Remote Job on GitHub
• Automattic
• WordPress
• Woo Commerce
• Amazon Fulfillment
• AdSense
• PayPal
• Stripe
• The 23 Most Common Career Types According to CareerBuilder
• If you want to work a bit and have your schedule flexible, there’s being a VA for Fancy Hands.
• Fiverr is a much more rewarding market as you can create something that would be simple for you to replicate.
• If you want to build coursework that will continue to bring in revenue even while you’re not working, there’s Udemy.
• If you want to make something physical, there’s Etsy.
• Skillbridge allows you to be a consultant for hire. Pretty sweet deal if you’re in an in-demand field.
• You could find a short or long term location dependent job around the world specifically
  for couples via WorkingCouples.com.
• Be a Freelance Translator
• Sell your photos as stock photography through iStock, Shutterstock or Stocksy
• Write books and publish them as eBooks on Amazon/Kindle – Lots of strategies to explore here
• Develop Tee Shirt designs at TeeSpring and then run ads to that design. An unflooded market currently.
• Freelancing Through oDesk, Elance, Guru, Freelancer.
• Working Nomads curates remote-ready job postings.
• Hire My Mom is a job market for work at home moms.
• Demand Studios is a place for creatives to create content.
• Flex Jobs a job board for telecommuting, part-time, and flexible jobs.
• Mom Corps – Not sure how many of these jobs are remote, but they are flexible.
• Curated Job postings on a terribly designed site!
• Virtual Vocations, a paid-for job listing curation service.
• Indeed’s Remote jobs – Just the right search term to get remote work from a traditional job board.
• Monster (Also Career Builder but good luck searching there)
• Staff.com is for full time telecommuting positions.
• Curated SimplyHired job postings at Skip the Drive.
• Remote jobs that are more than just a paycheck, but have meaning: Idealist.
• Remote jobs on themuse.
• Remote Working – another jobs board.
• Nomad Jobs Brought to us from @levelsio the nomad behind nomadlist.com.
• Remote jobs posted at Stackoverflow.
• PHP Classes – job board for remote PHP developers.
• Specifically focused on Material Design.
• Dribbble – Designers and Creative type remote jobs.
• Brought to you by the team at 37signals: We Work Remotely.
• Authentic Jobs, the job board for web professionals.
• Angellist Jobs – All in Startups, some offer remote work.
• RubyNow – If you’re into Ruby and looking for a job, this is the board for you.
• A less US centric job board – Freelancermap.
• PowerToFly is focused on matching women in tech with work-from-anywhere jobs.
• Remote Ok is an aggregator of Remote jobs mostly for technical people (and marketers).
• Telecommuting jobs for IT pros at Jobmote.
• Work From Home for tech jobs.
• Gun.io is for experienced freelance programmers. Everyone is hand-picked, so you need a Github profile with open source contributions to apply.
• Here are a list of curated terms to search for job postings (add in your keywords of the skill set you have to find targeted positions).
• Article on how to be creative in getting a job including teaching English.
• Facts and Fiction on earning money while on the road.
• A curated list of awesome remote working resources.
• A list of more spammy work from home opportunities From Clark Howard.

The following resources give practical advice more generally about earning money online while being location independent:

• Making it Anywhere: Mish and Rob have made a successful life being location independent, running a number of businesses, including copywriting, brand consulting and digital nomad coaching. Their site includes a great blog which has a lot of free information on earning money online.
• Tropical MBA: A popular website created by Dan Andrews designed squarely for the online entrepreneur, focusing on how to build an online business that fits in with your lifestyle (rather than the other way around). He is also quite the prolific podcaster .
• Nomad List: The definitive list for location independent hotspots, including a breakdown of the cost of
  living for each city. Number 1 on the trending list is currently Chiang Mai, Thailand.
• #nomads: A spin off from Nomad List, it’s a chat community where you can talk to other digital nomads in your location, or field of work. As I mentioned above, you need to be social to get the most out of this lifestyle, both personally and professionally.
• Around the World in 80 Jobs: Turner Barr chronicles his adventures doing weird and wonderful jobs abroad, and along the way shows other people how they can earn money on the road.
• Web Work Travel: Johannes Voelkner, a German online marketer, shares his productivity tips for being location independent.
• Nomadic Notes: A travel blog with the most comprehensive list of resources 1 on the internet for location independent workers. The list includes digital nomad websites, blogs, courses, books and magazines, and podcasts.
• The Suitcase Entrepreneur: Create Freedom in Business and Adventure in Life: If ebooks are more your thing, I highly recommend this one by Natalie Sisson, which goes into considerable detail about packaging and selling your skills, and building a business online.

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