Hey, this is Stefan from projectlifemastery.com and in this video I'm going
to share with you how to build an online business while you travel the world. Now, one of
the greatest advantages and perks of building an online business is the
freedom that it can provide for you, the ability to travel the world, run and
operate your business from anywhere. It doesn't matter where you are in the
world, as long as you have a laptop and a WiFi connection, you're set ... I've been living
the Internet lifestyle, the laptop lifestyle as they call it for
several years now, traveled the world, different places. I primarily live in
Vancouver, Canada, but at the time of this video right now I'm in Miami. I was also
traveling for the last 3 months. I was in Japan, in Thailand, in Bali. Then
I went to Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. Now I'm in Miami, then I'm going
to Arizona and California. Traveling around for a few months is a really fun
lifestyle to be able to have, because when you have your online
online business that's running and operating for you, and all you essentially need to do is just check in
on your business. Maybe your business primarily provides passive income for
you, which is always the ultimate, the ideal scenario, but even then, even if
you're a freelancer or whatever it is, you still have got to spend the time, the hours
everyday on your business, at least being in different environments,
different settings is really exciting, is really fun. I know for me
just being able to work and then also be in a different environment, and explore, and
go to the beach, and do fun activities is a really fun lifestyle to live.
In this video I'm going to share with you a few different things. I'm going to share with you, number 1, how I was able
to build my online business at the beginning, the beginning stages, just
starting out and be able to travel the world, because I did that several years
ago when I was first starting out making maybe $20 a
month.
I don't think I was making any money at all, maybe a few sales here and there.
I went travel for 3 months and build my online business while I was traveling.
That was one of the things that really helped me start making money online.
I'll also share with you where I am right now, running multiple businesses, very
successful with my businesses and again having that freedom, that ability to
travel around ... I'm going to share a few different things and I'll also share a little bit about
how to be productive at the same time while traveling, because I know that's a
challenge for a lot of people is when they're traveling sometimes
it's hard for people to discipline themselves and actually get work done. There's so
many fun things and depending where you're living and staying it could be a challenge.
I'll share a few different things. First, let me share a little bit about the story when I was first
starting out. I first started my online business career, I think, when I was 23,
24 years old. I started my first business at 21. That business was more of an offline business
although I used the Internet and learned about online marketing to be able to promote
seminars and coaching that I did ... I started selling digital products around 23, 24
years old. I was selling e-books and I was trying a lot of different things. I was dabbling
around and I didn't have what's available today, the different courses,
and trainings, and stuff. I was trying to figure it all out on my own and
everything, and at the time I was making a little bit of money from this other
business that I had. I was doing some construction work
few days a week as well to make some extra cash flow, and at the time
I was struggling. I was struggling financially, I was really committed though to build an online
business ... I actually decided to travel for 3 months to purely
focus on building my online business at that stage. I think that when
you're younger, you have a bit of an advantage, because for me being
a young person at the time,
23 years old, I didn't have a lot of expenses. I was just living with
roommates, I didn't have a mortgage, I didn't have children. I didn't have anything
like that, and I think when you're in that position it's a little more challenging.
When you have a family, and a spouse, and other obligations like that,
you can't just think about yourself.
You've got to think what's best for your family and your children. Although I do know a lot
of families that live the Internet, laptop lifestyle as well, so I'm not saying
that you can't do it, but for me, I decided I need to be in an
environment where I can just purely focus on my online business and also
enjoy myself and travel around as well. What I decided to do was I decided
that I was going to put money aside and basically work my ass off so
that I could travel Southeast Asia for a few months and purely focus on my
online business. If you're someone that wants to just starting out,
focus on building an online business just at the beginning stages, I do
recommend that you either have some stream of income coming to you every
month whether that's from your job vacation or maybe seeing if you can
work your existing job on a virtual basis. Maybe they can actually allow you to travel and just
maybe do some work from abroad, or to put money aside like I did. I basically
determined I need about, at the time in Thailand, Southeast Asia, it's very inexpensive to live
there, but I determined I need like $1500 to $2000 a month to basically live there
in Thailand for 3 months. I needed total of about $6000 put aside, so I
prepared for that, I planned for that. Also, what I've decided to do, at different
points I did different things, but at that point I had moved out of my
apartment and traveled around, but at other points I subletted my apartment. If
you have a certain place, you might be able to sublet it for 1 month or
3 months, maybe on AirBnb. I'm actually renting out a place here in Miami on AirBnb. One of
my favorite websites to book places at and work from is on AirBnb ...
Or you can go to Craigslist, sublet your place for 2 months, 3
months, whatever it is that you decide, however long you're going away for.
Often times when you sublet your place and it's furnished, you can actually
make money from it. If your rent at your place is a $1000 a month
but it's furnished, you might to able to rent it out for $1500 a month. Now
you're pocketing an extra $500 that can be a positive cash flow, a passive income
for you that can help pay for your travels as well. I basically determine
okay, this is how much money that I
need, it might be different based on you depending on where you travel to,
but I did all the research and I planned and prepared for that. Then, I went
off to Bangkok and I traveled around Southeast Asia. I went to Bangkok,
Phuket, Koh Samui, Koh Phangan, and Koh Tao. I went around up north to
Chiang Mai in Thailand, and then I went to Laos, and I went to Cambodia as well.
Then I went back to Thailand, and my whole duration of the trip was about
3 months. I made a lot of sacrifices during that time. Basically during
those 3 months I decided I'm going to immerse myself to build my online business. I'm
going to work my ass off, I'm going to stay at hostels, because that's all I could afford.
In many cases I stayed in hostels where there was no air conditioning, and that was
very uncomfortable and very challenging. Other parts, a little bit easier because I got to go to coffee
shops, different environments and stuff. I remember at other points I was staying at a hostel
where there was bunk beds and there was like 12 different people staying in a room.
I remember at one point I was staying on the top bunk, I've got my laptop and it's like
midnight. I'm working on my online business and everyone else
that's traveling in the hostel, they're not there to work or build a business.
They're are there for the most part to party and have fun, so it's pretty funnny as
everyone else is getting drunk and partying, but I'm there focused. However, it's totally up to you
how you want to live, but at the time that's what I went through.
During that time I found, it was actually one of the best times of my
life, because before that trip I made a decision, I made a commitment to myself
that I was going to make $300 a month by the end of those 3 months. I was
just starting out with the business selling e-books online, and sure enough I was able
to achieve the goal. I still remember I got a YouTube video sharing the place in
Phuket when I first made my first $100 a month, I remember.
I committed myself, I didn't have any distractions, and I also got to have a lot of fun too.
That's what I did and that's what I recommend for someone that's in that
position, just starting out is you've got to make sure you're smart
with your money. You don't want to be getting in debt, and credit card debt
and credit card debt is tough to do it. You want to make sure you're
smart, put money aside or have a stream of income that can help support you
while you're traveling. That's number 1, that's what I did, and that's what I
recommend if you're in that position, just starting out. If you're not, then I do
recommend focus on building your business. Sometimes it's hard,
I understand, when you have a full-time job, you're just basically spending whatever extra
hours that you have. That's why I saw the value in committing myself and taking a break,
but I do know a lot of people, they take a break from their job, they go
on hiatus from your job, take a break, take a vacation, travel and they spend that time
build their business and their job is still there waiting for them. That's another
option there as well.
The situation I'm in right now, I make more than enough money from my
online business that I can travel anywhere and stay in nice places if I choose
and whatever kind of lifestyle. What I personally do is either I move out of my
place that I rent from and put everything in storage, or I sublet my
apartment for however long that I'm traveling for so that I can be there and
go back to it when I go back. When I'm traveling now, I'm traveling to a lot of
different locations, and there's a few travel tips that I have for you on how
to be productive and actually be able to grow your business while traveling.
You want to make sure you do a little bit of both and depending on how
your business is set up, some people I understand, you've got a totally passive
business and that's fine. You've just got to check in on it 4 hours a week, whether the
4-hour workweek or whatever. Just manage the business, make sure everything
is running smoothly.
Other people, they want to be productive at the same time. Usually for me when I
travel at the beginning of my trip, I want to have a bit of fun. I want to
go to different places, explore and do some touristy type stuff. I
might travel around a little bit, but then eventually I want a routine. I find
that in order to be really efficient and productive while traveling, you need to
have a routine, because if you're always in different environments,
that's not efficient at all. Every new location you travel to,
here's always an adjustment period. For example, if you're going to go to
Japan
or Thailand or something like that, well the first day you're traveling,
you're going to be tired, you're going to be jet-lagged. You're going to have to explore the area,
and find the store, and find the gym, and find all the different restaurants
and stuff. You're going to spend a day or two just adjusting and finding, exploring
the area and everything. Unpacking and all the stuff that you've got to do
there. Then if you're always traveling, like every week to a new location,
get a repeat test cycle so you're basically wasting a day or two having to
adjust and that's not efficient at all. For me, I like to do that at the
beginning of my travels, but then I like to settle in. By settling in I like to find a
place on AirBnb that has reliable Internet, reliable WiFi, which is very
important. That's one of the biggest challenges you'll have when traveling is
good Internet and depending on your business, I do a lot of
Skype calls and webinars and things like that, so I need really good Internet
connection also for uploading videos. A lot of WiFi connections that might
have good download speeds but not good upload speeds, so you want to make sure
that you do your research and even reach out to the locations before you decide
to book there to make sure they've got good, reliable WiFi. Every location that I go to, I always
go to a website called speedtest.net. That will
basically test the upload and the download speeds. It's important to have both,
because if you're streaming videos, uploading anything, you're going to have to
need good upload speeds for that. Or if you're going to restaurants, coffee shops,
Starbucks is always usually good, you want to make sure that you have good Internet
connection for that as well. That’s a very important piece, good Internet and
making sure that I do the research and place that I'm staying has that for
me. Also, making sure, I like to stay in a place that has a really good location.
For me, the most important things are always a gym, I need a place that has a
gym so that I can exercise and work out. Ideally, if there's a gym in the building,
in the hotel or across the street or somewhere close by, that's more ideal. Also, a place
that has a grocery store as well.
Again, these are just different things you want to think about to be more efficient,
because if you want to exercise but it takes you a half hour to get to
the gym, or you want to go to the store and it takes you an hour to get
there, then that's not very efficient at all. That's key. I found that AirBnb is
more ideal, because there's a kitchen, I can cook my own meals. If you're
going to restaurants a lot, I found that's not very efficient either, because
you have got to wait there and order the food and stuff, not unless you're working from your
laptop as you're at the restaurant. That's another option as well, but having to go to
the restaurant every time you want to eat is very inconvenient, it's not very
efficient either. So making sure you just set up the environment, the dynamic, the
location, the place that you're in, and that's ideal and optimized for the kind of
lifestyle that you want. I found that to be very important. I like to stay in
places where there's a lot of activities, there's different things that I can do, so if
I want to go out in the evening time or the weekend time, boom right there
I'm by the beach. Right there I'm by the shopping area,
the nightlife area, or whatever it is. That's also a very important thing that I found,
but for the most part when you're traveling you've got to be disciplined.
you have to make sure to schedule the times of when you're gonna work on your
business. For me, I always schedule things on my phone,
all throughout the way I've made different appointments with my team. I've got coaching calls,
I've got times that I'm focused on filming or recording videos. Then, I'll almost treat
it like evening times or weekends, that's the time where I can go and have fun.
Once you get to that routine point, you've got to make sure that you're
disciplined and you're not just goofing around, because you're still running a
business. You're still trying to grow your business and do your thing and be
productive while you're traveling as well. It's a bit of balance of both, but
I recommend getting into routine in order to do that, to be the most
efficient. Then, usually what I would do is if I'm traveling to a new location, I might take a few days,
a week off,
have some fun and do some fun things, but then again I'll settle back into a
routine. The routine I find, optimizing that, that's a very critical thing if you
want to be productive while growing your business while traveling. Those were a few different
tips on what you can do to
travel, live that lifestyle. There's a lot of amazing advantages of an
online business, travel being one of them. I've loved traveling to locations that are very
inexpensive because I live in Vancouver, it's a very expensive city, but when you
go to locations like Thailand and Southeast Asia, you can live
amazingly well, very inexpensively. Depending on the currency exchange
and also just the expenses of accommodations and food in some of these places, you
can live a really amazing life. In Vancouver it's raining and it gets
really cold during winter time, so I love to travel and live in the sun or by the
beach, and then during summertime come back to Vancouver. That's always
been the most optimal way that I've enjoyed doing things, and it's been a lot of fun.
That's one of the amazing advantages of building an online business. If you
guys want to know more about how to build a successful online business, then check out
the free course that I put together at projectlifemastery.com/
/freecourse. There'll be a link below in the description. I've been able to make
money online for years in different ways, and that's one of my favorite parts is
being able to travel around, and have fun, and live life, and have that freedom.
It's an amazing thing. Again, if you guys want to know more about how to build your own
online business and travel, click the link below in the description or go to
projectlifemastery.com/freecourse, but that's it for this video.
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