Anywired

How to Work Anywhere and Still Get Local Clients

In Remote Business by Warren Greeley

This guest-post on outsourcing your work to a local sales-person is by Warren Greeley, writing from Chicago, Illinois.

There is this reoccurring daydream I have of working on my laptop while lounging on a beach somewhere I’ve never been, with white sandy shores and clear-blue water as far as the eye can see.

There is a problem though. I own a business that has a well establish local niche — and it’s my main source of my income.

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Full-throttle Productivity and Web-Work With Ubuntu

In Streamlining by Evan Meagher

This is a guest post by Evan Meagher. He writes about tech, design, music and gaming at evanmeagher.net.

If blogs are to be believed, it would seem that every aspect of the web worker’s life revolves around one Apple product or another. The image of the hip MacBook Pro-clad designer has become a meme to the point of becoming clichė. As a web worker, it seems like I should be subscribing to digg’s Apple feed, drinking copious amount of tea, and listening to bands that no one has heard of.

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Become a Lifestyle Entrepreneur: Complete Guide and 40+ Resources

In Entrepreneurship by Skellie

If you are — or would like to be — an entrepreneur, yet you’d be happy to earn enough to live the life you want rather than becoming filthy rich, lifestyle entrepreneurship might be a good fit for you.

Lifestyle entrepreneurs will generally base their ventures around time minimalism, or something they love, even if there are more profitable (but more time-consuming, or less interesting) options available.

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Trouble In Paradise: Freelancing From A Tropical Island, Part 2

In Remote Business by Sharon Hurley Hall

This is a guest-post from Sharon Hurley Hall, writing from the Caribbean. Read part 1 of this two-part series if you missed it.

Communications And Connectivity

Paradise: It’s great to know that even in the tropics, you don’t have to lose touch with the rest of the world. The Caribbean is wired, mostly thanks to Cable and Wireless. That means you have internet cafes, dialup, ADSL, WiFi and satellite TV. In fact, you’ve got everything the modern freelancer needs. Working in the tropics doesn’t always mean cutting yourself off from the rest of the world — or does it?

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If There Were Ten of Me…

In Kaizen by Skellie

What would you do if there were ten of you? (Putting aside the social and existential awkwardness that might cause, of course.)

Once you’ve answered that question, something to think about:

What will you do because there is only one of you?

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