If you have to work staying put for a while is just what you have to do, just try do it somewhere you actually like. That said if you find yourself having to stop somewhere longer than expected too often you’ll need to address that so that whatever those issues are can be dealt with by someone else of more efficiently.

Whenever I’m out of the office I have to delegate super effectively. I write up the plans but mostly I try to have folks run things by the credo or principles.

The wonderful thing you get reminded on the road is — wherever you go, you take you with you, and your skills are your best asset.

I guess you’d really need to be at the stage where your business is semi-automatic to be able to travel with your business quite comfortably and enjoy the fun at the same time.

Traveling or not traveling, I know that this is something I really need to get set up and running. I’m beyond clueless on the whole subject! I tried to research it at one point, but I got confused somewhere and it died. I lost a lot of data a few months ago – scans – because I copied it to a disk in a hurry and then deleted it, later to find out that it hadn’t copied. I couldn’t recover it at all because they were all jpegs. This was a side-affect of travel to a degree because I was in a rush, packing and preparing for a flight, and I slipped up.

I would be very interested to know about good backup solutions! Especially something that could be done automatically regularly. But if you use Mac, you might not know what’s right for PC users. Just a thought though.

This article you left your comment on ended with me asking a question of my readers as to what questions they would like answered regarding traveling overseas with a business. Hence most of the comments are questions.

I haven’t answered these as I intend to respond to them, at least those that I think are relevant to the majority, in future resources, which I mentioned in the article.

I’m sorry if that wasn’t clear and I can understand how reading through all these comments without my response might make me look a little rude.

With so many questions it’s often best to respond in an article anyway, which generally is more widely read than comments to an article, so I’d actually suggest to bloggers that they respond with a new article rather than in comments if a lot of questions surface in response to one article. That’s a great way to create new content for your blog.

Obviously you need to plan for certain things like conference calls or interviews, but that’s just a case of keeping your calendar up to date.

If you are the kind of person like me who enjoys working, the balance between about 3 hours of work and the rest of the day doing other things works really well.

I’ve also learned that hotel connections are sometimes pretty awful, so I always have a backup way to connect. As a last resort, I’ll use the blackberry tethered as a modem, but my wireless card has been my best investment.

Robert Portillo
http://www.lapcfixer.com

Thanks to all of you for helping me learn to be a better business person.

Eventhough, when I’m not traveling, I always like to keep a backup of everything I have. It’s quick and safe.

Great post. I cant’ afford traveling, because I have a family, pets and an offline business I started this year. But one day I’ll do what you did and travel all over the world.

By the way. Are you traveling to Switzerland too? I’m living in Switzerland and would be pleased to help finding an appartment and we may meet each other one day?

Daniel

The lifestyle you are living in is a dream for many people, including me

At the moment, I can’t afford traveling, due to family and business issues, but one day (hopefully in the near future) I will be able to do what you did, at least in your blogging and traveling ways

Thanks!

Fabulous post. If you ask me, I coulda guessed that Vancouver would rock and New York would suck…That’s how it is every time I visit those towns!

I love your post about the new features of aweber too…really brings home the value in upgrading to the new features.

Regards,

Dave

This is a challenge I often face, traveling to Europe from the U.S. several times a year. Internet access is key, preferably in the hotel or apartment you are staying in. A cell phone is also critical. Here in the U.S., travelers abroad must activate their cell phones for international service through their providers (AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile). Keep in mind that the international rates can be very pricey ($1 a minute and up). Skype is a much better option when traveling but make sure you have SkypeOut minutes so that you can call land lines.

Most power sources from the U.S. work, at least in Europe, with a simple plug converter. Read the really fine print on your transformers and power sources. You will often see that these devices indicate the line voltage from 110-240 volts. If you see that, all you need is a prong converter and you are set.

I try to keep it fun whenever I can. I tell people that if there is an Internet connection on the moon, I can work there. For instance, on a nice day recently, I took a U.S. conference call from a bench in the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris. Another time to my surprise, while traveling in the back of a truck in the mountains of central Turkey my cell phone rang. It was the plumber working on my house in the U.S.

I try to NOT let technology frustrate me in my travels. A little pre-planning and some improvisation along the way and things usually work themselves out.

Sheila
http://www.livewell360.com

My husband and I have been to Hungary 15 times since he took me to Europe for the first time in 2000. We train real estate agents and managers and visit family while there. Where do you live? We have family in Budapest, Miscolz, Manfa (just outside of Pecs) and some other towns that I have no idea how to spell. I would love to hear back from you. Are you in Yaro’s Mastermind program?

Hope to meet you on some future trip. Sharon Beck