Monthly Archives: September 2007

5 Ways To Make Money As A LIP

Aside from the typical freelance or online ways to make money, these are some potential businesses that could help enable a LIP lifestyle…
1) Virtual Assistant to LIPs – a LIP has unique requirements when it comes to looking for help. Whilst my limited & novice relationship so far with my VA is proving fruitful & [...]

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More Travel Tools For Your LIP Trips

Some more useful services & tools for your LIP life…
Tipped – the UK version of Yelp which is a review service to share tips on the best local places in your area.
Orbitz Updates – the popular travel company, has released a new, potentially very useful service for getting real time updates from other travellers about [...]

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Top 5 'Cheap London' Tips

Having been to London recently as a ‘LIP’ and not a local, I was reminded of just how expensive it can be. It cost us £50 before we’d even started…just to get from the airport (Stansted) to our hotel Marriot at Marble Arch. That’s like 357 subte journeys in Buenos Aires (their equivalent of the [...]

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Managing Your Address As A LIP

One question which is always really difficult to answer as a Location Independent Professional is: “Where do you live?”. Still not quite got a succint enough answer for that one yet.
Despite moving around however, it is vital to maintain a couple of fixed addresses for correspondence – especially if the places you’re visiting have less-than-reliable [...]

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The Top 5 Tools for a LIP Business

Aside from the obvious business tools required for a LIP business (email, skype etc.), the following are tools which help me keep things running as smoothly as possible…

Camtasia – for screen recordings, presentations and ‘how to’ demos. The latest use I’ve found for this is to record ‘how to’ instructions for my new VA (virtual [...]

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