Look I finally found it all of our dreams are now going to come true! Come here,
look it's the money tree! In this video we are going to answer the number one question that
we always get about how we create an income from the road plus we're going to give you three things
that you must have if you want to work and travel and then nine different ways that you can work and
travel at the same time and you'll want to make sure to watch to the end because i'm gonna share
the number one job that people think they're going to do from the road that just doesn't pan out so
you want to make sure to watch for that we are Charity, Ben, Dakota and Trinity we decided we
didn't want to wait for a life of adventure so in 2017 we bought our first rv and set off to live a
life of travel in the USA we've visited over 38 states in three years and have many more to go
follow along to learn all the best places to see RV and travel tips and much more
so first of all i want to share with you what it is that we do for work which has actually changed
somewhat over the past four years of rv living and then we'll get into the things that you need
to work from the road and ideas for things that you can do while you're traveling so what we
do for work is we actually had this goal of time and location freedom and i'll put a link above for
a video that we did just recently kind of about our whole journey and our story towards that time
and location freedom when we first started what we did is we had a physical products business selling
products on amazon so what we did is we took a business training that taught us how to create
a private label brand in a private label business so in short the business that we started has to do
with private labeling products selling those products on amazon under our own brand and so
we actually did that for five years and we do also still do that under this brand of grateful glamper
and we recently sold that very first brand that we started on amazon to a new buyer which is really
kind of what a lot of people that do that type of business do where they start a brand with selling
physical products they build it up to a certain point sell it and kind of rinse and repeat how
we got our start was a training called the amazing selling machine and i'll put a link for that below
as well and i'll talk a little bit later in the video how we actually now have used our expertise
in selling on amazon for another type of business so more on that here in just a few minutes what we
do now is we still have a few products on amazon under the Grateful Glamper brand but we really
focus on these videos bringing great content to you week in week out working on our blog but we
also provide coaching for people that are selling on amazon that just need some help or just aren't
quite sure how this whole thing works and maybe they didn't have just the same type of training
that we had and they need help so we provide a lot of coaching and consulting to other people
that are selling on amazon or have physical products businesses online if you want to work
and travel at the same time there are three things that you absolutely must have
number one you must have a good internet connection a good solid
internet connection don't rely on campground wi-fi and i'll put a link above and also at
the end of this video for a video that we've done on how we stay connected on the road
how we make sure that we always have a good solid internet connection and kind of what
our setup looks like for mobile internet here's a hint it's not super elaborate
and it's not super technical anyone can have the similar setup that we have for not a lot of money
number two absolute must-have if you plan on working while that you're on the road
and traveling is a laptop you need to be able to be mobile a lot of times we actually like
working from coffee shops when we can just because they have strong internet we have
strong internet at the rv too but sometimes you can find even better internet at a coffee shop
plus i've found for me especially i can be a little bit more laser focused when i'm in that
type of an environment then maybe when i'm at the campground and the kids are running around
and the dog and the cat are going at it and all the things so every once in a while it's nice to
go work from a coffee shop you need something that's a portable device you can take with you
number three a must have is some organizational skills and self-discipline when you are working
and traveling it can be super easy to want to put off work and just go adventure and just
go have fun you actually have to be able to carve out that time to get work done
while you're still on the road so we're going to talk about nine different ways to work while
traveling but before we do we want to thank the sponsor of today's video campground views we
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forward slash campground views so nine ways to work while still traveling
number one remote work positions for other companies there are many types of positions that
you can work those jobs remotely and one thing you could even do is potentially negotiate with your
current employer if your current job could even be done remotely some examples of remote positions
for other companies would include things like a virtual assistant which we actually have that
works in our business that works completely remote customer service rep or tech support and in just a
little bit of research that i did i found dozens of companies like bill trust ki kimi constant
contact apple zapier different insurance companies and many more that offer fully remote positions
and they actually pay pretty stinking well so all of these will be in the blog post that corresponds
with this video so you can check those out and learn more over on the blog at gratefulglamper.com
number two online teaching we've seen some pretty creative things that people have done on the road
in their rv when it comes to teaching including piano lessons online violin lessons online
teaching english to foreign students online one of my personal favorites that is actually a service
we use is an online tutor for our son now our son has dyslexia on a pretty moderate scale and
so he receives specialized tutoring for that dyslexia to help him learn how to spell and
read and do math and just basically be able to learn in a way that his brain understands
the program that is being used to help him along the way was developed by a gal named Susan Barton
and it's called the barton program and so he has a tutor that has been trained for the barton program
to provide tutoring for him and it's all done online and it has helped him leaps and bounds
and so that's another idea for something that you can do online remotely from a teaching perspective
as well when we were in Miami last spring we actually had a tour guide tell us that she
taught an online class on how to smoke cigars so really if it's something that you feel like
people are wanting to learn you could potentially teach it online from the road
number three online coaching consulting and counseling there are many options for online
counseling and coaching and just people looking for therapists right now through organizations
like betterhelp.com if you have more knowledge about something than someone else you can share
that knowledge and expertise in a consulting or in a coaching manner and people are willing to
pay for coaching and consulting we've paid for coaching many many times when it comes to things
like marriage and family and business and how to run a business and even strategies for our youtube
channel all sorts of things that we've sought services for that have been completely done online
number four temporary jobs that can be seasonal so some great examples of this are things like
work camping at a campground or even work camping in a seasonal area so for example we know of some
rvers that actually worked this summer at a shop in west yellowstone and actually had their
campsite provided for them and then got paid to work in the shop in west Yellowstone there's
lots of different towns that are busy during the summers or during high tourist types of seasons
that are always needing seasonal type of help and that's a great way that you can travel from
place to place and work along the way so some other ideas for positions like that
would be a surf instructor a ski instructor a scuba instructor
hi julian how you doing i'm scuba sam scuba steve's father maybe even a boat captain
down in the florida keys there's all sorts of fishing charters and scuba charters and
snorkel trips all sorts of things that can be done kind of on a seasonal type of basis
and there's also things like farmers that need help with bringing in their harvest so just
a little bit of poking around on the internet definitely can prove to be fruitful in finding
some of those positions that you can do and travel from place to place while you're doing them
number five software development app development and website development most all of these types
of positions are remote types of positions in fact you can even get a google training certificate and
we'll put a link in the description below and over on our blog post to get training directly from
google for some of these types of positions and the training that google offers actually is not
super time involved and it's not super expensive and the jobs are in pretty high demand so that's
something that you can consider if you're willing to look at a career shift or if you're willing
to look at doing something new and getting some training to be able to take your show on the road
number six social media manager and i've actually done this on a full-time basis and i still do this
on a part-time basis now as well so in my former life i worked in the automotive industry for over
a decade on the service side in so what i did is i actually managed some social media pages for a
company that sells basically chemicals and things like that geared towards the automotive industry
so i worked with five different distributorships to manage their social media pages and create
contact and just interact with people on social media so if you have a background in a specific
industry or a lot of knowledge about a specific industry a social media manager could be a
great position that you could work from the road and especially if you have kind of an outgoing
personality if you're already spending a ton of time on facebook and instagram
then why not dive into that on more of a professional basis there's also a ton
of online courses out there on how to create content specifically for social media platforms
and social media managers are always in high demand
number seven freelancing now this can really be done with whatever skill that you might have
so whether you've done copy editing video editing graphic design just any type of skill that you may
already possess you could definitely take that skill and freelance with that particular skill
there's a lot of different websites that you can list yourself on and your types of services on
or even just do some searches for businesses that are looking for those types of skill sets
and services that you provide and basically you become part of the gig working economy
number eight start your own business so we started a physical products business of selling physical
products online you could do handmade items and open an etsy shop there's a ton of demand for
handcrafted items at local farmers markets we know of an rv family right now that's
staying in the florida keys for the winter and they're taking advantage of the farmers markets
that happen down in that area on the weekends custom built items always have a market as well so
if you could take your tools and on the road and work on those custom made items why not and then
ship them out as orders come in and you could always start your own mobile rv tech or rv wash
business as well there's plenty of demand for that at most any campground that you find yourself in
number nine is a multi-level marketing business now if you enjoy this particular business model
it's not for everyone but some people really enjoy that type of business model and that's something
that you can definitely do a hundred percent remotely on the road there's so many people
that actually run a mlm business based entirely on social media which of course can happen from
anywhere so remember i told you i was going to share the number one job that will not make you
money on the road that everyone thinks that you will so what that is is becoming a youtuber or
influencer or blogger no just just saying so at least in the beginning so it has taken us over
two and a half years and tons of work to even get to the place where youtube is just a little sliver
of our income now so if you're thinking that you want to hit the road and that youtube and
being an influencer or instagram and tick tock is going to be that income that you have while you're
on the road you just want to be prepared to have something else that is that income source for at
least two to three years while you're building that and then be ready to have a ton of time
going into that as you're building it if that is your plan to have that be your new income
and you'll want to make sure you watch or tech repo
for online counseling waiting for the chicken to stop screaming
okay are we ready ready okay we've been ready we're rolling hold on
the chicken's doing the chicken dance again chicken
okay number six right i think we got to do the chicken dance and we got totally
distracted into what we were doing okay number six the definition of 80d right there
that's like the chicken button maybe go give him like some corn
go get the chicken some corn or some like watermelon rinds or something to peck at
look i finally found it
it's the money tree show the money
so everything that we just talked about i do have over on our blog and there'll be a link for that
below or you can just go to gratefulglamper.com and click the blog tab links and resources for
all of these ideas will be over there for you as well so you can bookmark that and even come
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