Some of us love to travel the world for extended periods, but many of us can’t live this dream because we can’t afford to be away from our jobs for long periods. And not all countries are willing to offer working visas; particularly when you are over the age of 30. Often saving up enough money for extended travel is not a viable option, so in order to live this dream there is only one option left. In this article I’ll show you how to make money while traveling abroad, as making money while you’re in transit is the very best way to finance an extended vacation.
The Dream
First, let’s take a moment to live the dream of a transient laptop lifestyle, roaming from one beautiful destination to the next without the financial pressure weighing you down every day you’re away from home.
There is just so much to see and do in this vast and wonderful world of ours. Going somewhere for a holiday for a week just doesn’t give us enough time to really live the environment or the culture, and it’s certainly not nearly enough time to explore all the exotic locations on your bucket list.
But if you could make money legally while you are travelling, without the need for a work visa in a foreign land, then that’s true freedom. You can hop from country to country with no stress, knowing each and every day that you are generating an income while still having plenty of time to enjoy your surrounds.
Imagine doing a tour of Europe, where all these countries, so rich in history, are all grouped so close together. You could probably tour for a lifetime and not see it all, but if you have the freedom to travel extensively for long periods, at least you can experience much of what is on offer.
An Online Business Is the Answer
The advantage of having a business that is run purely online means it’s portable. You can take your business with you anywhere you wish to go. It’s what people mean when they talk about the “laptop lifestyle”. True lifestyle freedom is having both money and the time to enjoy it without being tied to one location if you don’t want to be.
This is probably the main reason I started doing business online; for this very kind of lifestyle freedom. I don’t like to be tied to one spot and I’ve never really liked working for other people. I love to do my own thing, choose the hours I work and be the creator of my own destiny. I also don’t like having a ceiling placed on how much money I can potentially earn, and having a business means the sky is the limit if I put the effort it.
The same can apply to you. If you truly want the lifestyle freedom to be able to travel without worry or fear financially, then doing business online is the only way to go.
You can work from anywhere so long as you have a laptop and access to a half decent internet connection. Those are really the only tools you need as everything is done online.
My #1 Choice for Online Business
I chose affiliate marketing for my online business, and here is a quick list of the reasons why:
- Costs very little to get started and run an affiliate marketing business
- You don’t need to make/purchase products, store them, sell them and then ship them
- You can work from virtually anywhere in the world
- All income is generated online and goes straight into your bank or PayPal account
- Anyone of any age or background can do affiliate marketing
- It’s quite easy to do
- You merely promote the products and offers of established companies/businesses
- You just need a computer and internet connection
- It’s the perfect business for travellers
- Create multiple sources of income
- There is no limit on the amount of money you can earn
- Leads to residual and passive income streams
Imagine spending Christmas Eve in Paris, admiring the lights of the Eiffel Tower reflecting off the snow in vibrant colours. Eventually you go to bed, only to awake on Christmas Day, check your emails and discover you have made money while you’ve been blissfully asleep.
What a great way to start the day!
You see, this is absolutely possible when you set up a profitable affiliate marketing business. You can be travelling to Paris at Christmas time and enjoy the experience of waking up to see money in your online accounts. It happens to me every single day. And I’m no one extra special. If it is a reality for me, there’s no reason it can’t be for you too.
By the way, I’m from Australia, but I’m actually travelling in the Philippines as I write this very post.
How To Get Started
You really have 2 choices when it comes to starting your affiliate marketing business
- Go it alone and shoot in the dark, hoping for the best
- Get proper training and have the support of other like-minded people
I started out doing the first option, but soon realised I didn’t really have a clue how to even get started, let alone set up an online affiliate marketing business that had any chance of financial success. After months of frustration I settled on the second option and luckily found a great company called Wealthy Affiliate.
To get started you really need some decent training. It saves a hell of a lot of time, frustration and money; and you will start to see success much sooner as you can actually earn while you learn. When you train with Wealthy Affiliate you are not alone. The owners of the company are accessible and wiling to help out, and the other members there are phenomenal when it comes to supporting and helping each other.
The best thing about being a member of Wealthy Affiliate is the overall positive vibe. And that’s an essential ingredient for online business success.
Let’s quickly take a look at some of the advantages of joining Wealthy Affiliate
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It’s FREE to get started
- There is only one upsell to a paid membership (optional)
- The training is so easy to follow
- Earn while you learn
- Interact and get help from the awesome community of members
- Build and host 2 free websites (up to 50 for paid members)
- Build fantastic websites using SiteRubix and WordPress
- Managed quality WordPress hosting
- 1000s of beautiful website themes to choose from
- 24/7 tech support
- Member contributed training on all things online marketing
- Suitable from beginners right through to advanced marketers
The above list is just some of the many positives to becoming an active member of WA.
The Final Word
I have just shown you how to make money when you travel. It really is one of the very best solutions, leading to complete lifestyle freedom so you can enjoy this wondrous world of ours completely stress-free!
Darren Burton
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You bring up some fantastic points on the advantage and some of the best reasons for having an online business. Compared to a lot of different business many can be keeping you in a geographical area where you do not have the luxury of traveling around as you have mentioned.
Your idea is just what you need to do to get that real freedom you talk about in your article. I just recently started a site about photography where I could create just what your talking about doing. I also chose using photography so I could use all the traveling as a tax ride off for making money through the online business.
Great article for the possibilities!
Photography is a great idea for this kind of business, plus you have the scope to sell photos on stock sites as well, and maybe even sell some to magazines. Best of luck with your photography business.