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…
Arriving In Las Vegas
Here’s a video I just edited together of some of the early footage I recorded after arriving in Las Vegas. Please excuse some of the commentary – I was quite tired so I went a bit silly at times.
I’ve been in Vegas for a few days now and finally found some time to string together some of the video footage from my Creative Vado.
It’s an amazing yet bizarre place, and I’ve got lots to share with you including about 15 minutes worth of video footage and some photos. I did some short interviews with people at the Product Launch Formula 2.0 Top Affiliates Networking bash plus some shots from around the hotel strip.
Today is my last full day here so I’m going to venture out now. Over the next few days I’ll publish more video and stories. It’s been an amazing trip so far, especially the networking yesterday with some of the top Internet marketers in the world.
Make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed to catch the videos coming up and I’ve also posted updates to my Twitter Profile, including links to some of the tools I’m using to create and edit the videos and what I’m up to around Vegas.
