Slide Show: How I Made $211,969 While Traveling The World & Two Unique Case Studies
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This is a fun video and it has some important information for you if you are wondering whether you have to be famous/have lots of exposure already to launch a membership site, and also whether my Membership Site Mastermind system works in markets outside of the making money niche.
In this video you will see case studies of two people starting the process of building their lists and conducting surveys like I talked about in the Blue-Sky video, in unique niches -
- Fran Kerr who you might know from my blog already, who targets acne sufferers at HighOnHealth.org
- Jay Jay the magician who targets the Magic and Illusions market at FreeMagicLive.com
I start the video with a brief trip around the world slide show, where I show you some of the places I visited as I traveled the planet last year visiting 25 cities in 8 months. I also show you how I was able to conduct two membership site launches during the trip and make more money while traveling than I had when I left Australia.
Membership Site Mastermind
Opens Tuesday May 5th
Early next week I’m opening the doors to my intensive training program on how to launch a profitable membership site to help you earn at least $100,000 in the next 12 months.
Stay tuned to the link below to secure your spot in the program as it will only be open for one week.
I’m Back Home In Australia After One Full Circle Around The World
Just a short post as I’m pretty drained after flying home and having a cold.
I made it back home to Brisbane today after 8 months traveling. The trip took me completely around the world and included these major cities (in the order visited)…
- Brisbane (home)
- Fiji
- Hawaii (Waikiki)
- Vancouver
- Toronto (spent summer here)
- Las Vegas
- Chicago
- New York City
- Niagara
- Montreal
- Quebec City
- Winnipeg
- Glasgow
- Edinburgh
- London
- Brussels
- Amsterdam
- Paris
- Rome
- Venice
- Florence
- Napoli
- Vouliagmeni (beach near Athens)
- Athens
- Dubai
- Singapore
- Brisbane
It was an amazing experience and something I’ve never done before. Obviously I have lots of photos and videos, most of which I simply haven’t had time to upload. I’ll slowly add them to my Flickr and YouTube accounts over the next few months.
During my travels I was able to run my business and of course blog too. This included completing two six figure product launches and generating six figures in affiliate sales. This is definitely a good thing because I can tell you - Europe is expensive for us Aussies!
Now that I’m back home my immediate priorities, besides getting over a cold, is to support all the new Become A Blogger Premium students and the Blog Mastermind students, clean up the email I’ve let pile up a little during the last couple of weeks and then just chill out for a bit before getting into 2009 project work.
I look forward to catching up with the Aussies and I hope everyone has a great holiday period wherever in the world you are.
Yaro
How To Travel, Grow a Business AND Take Your Family With You
Continuing the theme started with my previous article on 7 Pitfalls To Prepare For When Traveling With Your Business, Kathryn Alice has written a guest article that explains how she, with her husband and kids, manage to travel with their business and as a result, lower their overheads.
Kathryn with her husband Jon offer a guide called The Portable Lifestyle, which explains how they travel the world with their kids and run a business, which is so the rage these days 
. Thanks to Kathryn for sharing her experience with us in this article.
The Portable Lifestyle
Most people can literally live anywhere or run their business while traveling, but very few have realized it. If there ever were a time to consider doing this, it would be now, when the economy has been wobbly. Working where costs are lower is a great belt-tightening move, and what a great way to turn lemons into lemonade!
My husband and I are one year into a world trip that has so far included Hawaii, the South Pacific, Australia, Southeast Asia and Africa. Cancun and Belize are next. We run our business as we go - over the internet - and make money virtually. Every month that we’ve been away, our sales have gone up.
An Example of Life on the Road with The Portable Lifestyle
Our stay on a small tropical island in Indonesia, which lasted for a few months, is a prime example of how you can travel with your business.
7 Pitfalls To Prepare For When Traveling With Your Business
As many of you know I’ve been traveling for most of 2008, having left my home in Brisbane Australia back in April. As I type this I’m on the European leg of a worldwide journey, sitting in an apartment in Amsterdam.
My European travels have really highlighted some of the unique challenges you face when attempting to run a business and enjoy yourself no matter where you are in the world. The reason why it has been especially unique in Europe is because of how much moving around I am doing. Literally each week I am in a different city, which makes for fun times, but also means I am in a constantly changing environment.
As a result of my experiences I’ve learned quite a lot about traveling with an Internet business, some of which I’d like to share with you now.
Here are seven things you should consider if you decide to travel with your business…
New York Videos - Alex Interview, Central Park, US Open Tennis and Ice Cream Sandwiches
Although my New York City visit ended several weeks ago I still had some footage I wanted to get up for you, so here are the final two videos from my awesome time in the Big Apple.
This first video features a two minute interview with Alex from Guruofsales.com, who is a huge fan of my blog - so much so that he tracked me down while I was in New York, coming into Manhattan from Jersey by subway.
The video also includes exploring the markets and by far the highlight of my trip to NY - the ice cream sandwich from heaven.
The second video features a trip to Central Park, some brief footage on a tour bus over to Brooklyn with great views of the bridge at sunset, inside the world’s largest Toys R’ Us with me getting a little too excited about Lego, my day at the US Open tennis and ends with a look at the Statue of Liberty from Battery Park.
New York, well at least Manhattan where I spent my time, is an amazing place. I barely did half of what I wanted to in the week I had there. You could spend the entire week in just the museum of natural history or Soho of any of the cool little villages and hotspots. It’s definitely a city I recommend you visit if you get the chance. I’d like to live there some day myself for a few months in a row to really experience what being a New Yorker is like.
In case you are curious, we rented an apartment in the Upper West side for a week, which cost a total of $1755 USD, definitely the most expensive apartment I’ve rented so far on my travels, but for New York I wanted to splurge a little. It turned out to be in a great location, although for the price I was disappointed with the interior and the Internet wasn’t too reliable either.
Since we were rarely home the apartment’s shortcomings didn’t impact the trip too much, but as I’ve learned on my travels you can never be certain what you are going to get for your money. Sometimes I’ve been pleasantly surprised (like Vancouver), other times you’re not blown away (like New York). I’m certainly discovering a lot about how to locate short term rentals as I travel around the world this year.
I hope you have enjoyed the travel videos I post to this blog. Obviously they are not always strictly on topic, but they are certainly part of my entrepreneur’s journey. I’ve got more planned too. Next I have Montreal and Quebec City coming up (I just need to edit and produce them) and since I’m about to start the European leg of my trip the videos will keep coming.
Yaro Starak
Travel Blogger
