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How to Become a Permanent “Slasher”

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No, not that kind of slash Some people call them “slashers”.  Emile Wapnick calls them “multi-potentialites”. I call them Location Rebels. However you want to describe them, there’s a growing movement of people who are working to make their living doing a wide variety of things, rather than specializing in one. “So what do you do?” “Oh you know, I’m an “SEO specialist/affiliate marketer/HDR photographer/blogger/consultant/world traveler.” No joke, I’m pretty sure at one point or another that has actually come out of my mouth. Right now is the era of the slasher. I’m a blank slash blank slash blank.  Get it? When you combine books like Never Get a Real Job and the 4 Hour Work Week with a lifestyle

Continue Reading > 3 Comments posted: December 29th, 2011

The $100 Sandbox

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This is a guest post from my good friend and Location Rebel Expert Joel Runyon of the Blog of Impossible Things and Impossible HQ. As a kid, I used to play in the sandbox all the time. I’d move stuff around without a care – building, creating whatever I wanted. Everything from castles to landscapes to active volcanoes that I managed to make by putting the garden hose in at the base of a mountain of sand and wait for it to erupt. It was awesome. I had total freedom to do whatever I wanted to do and make whatever I wanted to make. Nobody could tell me what to do and whenever I got tired of building something, I

Continue Reading > 19 Comments posted: December 27th, 2011

How to Create Your Dream Job

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It wasn’t until recently that I really figured out what my dream job was. I wrestled with this back in the days when I was a financial analyst.  I knew I wanted to be doing something different than that, but I couldn’t really tell you what it was. I found that the first step towards figuring it out was simply a matter of doing more stuff that I liked doing. When you’re kicking it in a cube for 50 hours a week, there’s not a whole lot of extra time to explore hobbies and interests.  In other words, it’s very difficult to figure out what you’re dream job really is. However, there are certainly some steps we can take in

Continue Reading > 27 Comments posted: December 22nd, 2011

The SEO Freelancer’s Guide to Panda

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Sean’s Note: Today’s post is from David of twago, Europe’s largest online platform bringing together customers and freelancers in projects in the field of web design, SEO, graphic design, translation and copywriting. His joint passions are writing and long-boarding around Berlin. I chose to run it because as most of you know, I started my lifestyle business doing SEO.  I frequently get asked a lot of questions about my thoughts on the Panda algorithm changes, and this is a very good break down of what has changed and what hasn’t.  Regardless of whether you’re an SEO freelancer, or just want to work on your own sites, it’s valuable information to keep in the back of your mind. Since Google Panda went global

Continue Reading > 10 Comments posted: December 19th, 2011

How My Guitar Hero Let Me Down

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This is a very different post than I normally write.  I debated for a long time about posting it, but I think there’s a really important lesson that we can all take something from – and hopefully this doesn’t make me come across as the disgruntled kid who thinks his favorite band sold out Let’s start this with a little story… When I was 17 I stumbled upon a guitarist who I could tell was destined to be great.  He was young, had some of the best guitar skills I’d ever seen, and actually wrote good songs (unlike some guitar virtuosos). I was active on the message boards of his site and have probably turned hundreds of people on to

Continue Reading > 7 Comments posted: December 16th, 2011

10 Things I Rocked at in 2011 (And How You Can Rock Them Too)

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Hanging out at New Kuta Golf Course in Bali, Indonesia Man how modest do I sound with a headline like that?? The reality is, this is the third post in a series of reflections about the year of 2011, what went well, what didn’t, and what I need to do to move forward in the future. The first post looked at the 10 Coolest Offices I Had in 2011, while the most recent one looked not only at some of the things I could have done better at, but also identified people who already were killing it in the areas that I was lacking. Today we are looking at some areas in my life and business where I found some

Continue Reading > 11 Comments posted: December 12th, 2011

10 Things I’ve Sucked at With My Business in 2011

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December is a time for reflection in my life. A time to look at the things that went well over the past year, the things that didn’t go well, and a time to prepare for the future. Earlier this week I paid homage to the location independent lifestyle I’ve built for myself and reviewed the “10 Coolest Offices I Had in 2011“.  While it was really fun to write and reflect on some of the high points of the year, there’s no doubt that there are some things that I could have done a better job with. Ok, that’s putting it a bit lightly. There are some things that I really sucked at this year which I want to identify.

Continue Reading > 22 Comments posted: December 8th, 2011

My 10 Coolest Offices of 2011

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The W Hotel, Seminyak, Bali. Yeah, this one should probably be on this list… Well ladies and gentleman, its the beginning of the last month of the year and you know what that means… Ok, maybe you don’t. December marks a chance for me to reflect on the things I’ve done over the year, places I’ve gone, mistakes I’ve made, and most importantly, gives me a chance to make plans for the future. One of my favorite posts I wrote last year was called “19 Incredible Destinations I Visited in 2010“.  Not gonna lie, I was a little bit afraid that 2011 wasn’t going to be able to stack up to last year. Well lucky for me, this year didn’t

Continue Reading > 16 Comments posted: December 5th, 2011

How to Start a Successful Lifestyle Business

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My friend Zach and I at the Civil War football game last week.  The Ducks play in the first ever Pac-12 championship game today, so I had to show a little love Frequently I’m asked by aspiring entrepreneurs “how should I get started with my business?” It’s true there’s SO much information out there, and there are so many opinions on how to go about it, that it can be really easy to get paralyzed into inaction, and continue putting it off for an indefinite amount of time. Right now I’m going to give you the best piece of advice I’ve ever received regarding building a business.  It’s not technical, it’s extremely easy, and you can start right now. Are

Continue Reading > 13 Comments posted: December 2nd, 2011

25 Incredible Business Building Resources

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The gist: Want more time to spend with your friends and family, while still making enough money to keep living a great lifestyle? Check out the Only 72 Sale. You won’t be disappointed. Also scroll to the bottom for a VERY special offer from me. This is a pretty special week. This is one of the only times of the year where you have an opportunity to build a veritable library of tools and resources that have the power to completely change your life. Most of you know that I do very few big promotions each year here at Location 180, and the Only 72 sale is the only one that I heavily promote. Why is that? Because it blows anything

Continue Reading > 2 Comments posted: November 28th, 2011

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