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The Best SEO Strategy for Your New Blog

SEO Strategy

It’s no secret that I think starting a blog is the best way possible to create change in your life.  Whether it’s for the benefits of building a support system and community, establishing yourself as an expert in a given niche, or merely as an outlet to figure out what to do with your life, a blog can be a powerful change agent. With that said, when you’re starting a new blog, there are a lot of different things to think about.  You have to consider everything from branding, to content creation, to the technicalities of dealing with WordPress – and if you’re new to the whole thing this can be extremely overwhelming. Due to this, I’d like to make

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

Feeling Stuck? Go Someplace You Love

L180 Fireworks

We all have times in our lives where we get stressed out, start feeling uninspired, or just need a change of pace. It can be really easy to get in a stagnant position, where nothing really seems exciting and you feel as though you’re just going through the motions of routine. In situations like that, sometimes the best thing you can do is go away.  Go someplace else where it’s impossible to follow the same routine. To take that a step farther, I’d say that if you can go someplace you love, you’re going to get even more benefit.  Maybe it’s a relaxing cabin, maybe it’s just taking a hike on your favorite trail, or spending an afternoon hanging out

Continue Reading > 4 Comments posted: July 5th, 2011

The Biggest Change in Location 180 History

sean-paraguay

Well if you haven’t figured it out by now, we have a new look here at Location 180.  For well over a year I’ve been wanting to redesign the site, and get something more flexible and much more fitting of the brand and what it stands for. Well today is the day it finally happened. I’ve been telling people for months that I’ve done a great job of building authority and having a good story to tell.  However the fact remains that even after over 215 posts, when you first show up on the site, you have no idea what the hell it’s about.  What’s a Location 180? Who are you? What do you do? None of those questions were

Continue Reading > 47 Comments posted: June 30th, 2011

How to Live and Work In Bali for Free

View of Ubud from the Teba Guest house

Nearly two years ago now I received an email from a guy that I’d hardly heard of and had very little online presence.  Essentially it said he was testing out an idea for an internship where he brings someone out to Asia, and pays for basic living expenses in exchange for help building his business. Considering I got this email a few days after quitting my job and I had no clue what was next, it seemed to good to be true.  Fast forward a couple months and I was sitting on a beach in Thailand, drinking ice cold Chang’s with him and his business partner Ian. Over that six month period I quickly learned how to do SEO, internet

Continue Reading > 8 Comments posted: June 27th, 2011

The Hardest Part About Lifestyle Entrepreneurship

Reserve Golf Course Portland, Oregon

It’s about 4 oclock on a Thursday afternoon and I’m just getting down to work for the day. No I didn’t have a bunch of errands, or appointments or anything that was all that productive. I had a tee time for 18 holes. Oh, and it’s the fifth time I’ve played in the last seven days. If I didn’t know any better, I’d think I was a 70 year old retiree. It’s that time of the year where the weather in Portland is actually half decent, and people around here make up for the last nine months of gloominess by heading outside. I’m no exception. This flexible lifestyle, along with my propensity to never turn down a good time is

Continue Reading > 18 Comments posted: June 24th, 2011

22 Incredible Resources to Improve Your Health & Happiness

Only72 Sale

If you’ve been reading Location 180 lately, you know that I’ve been talking a lot about the idea of education.  More specifically how there are numerous ways you can get an education that is not only more relevant, but much less expensive than a typical 4 year degree. This post is the perfect example of that, and is something that I’ve personally been looking forward to for quite some time. Has there ever been a time where you found a book or resource that has you really excited?  A few days ago when I first saw the lineup for the Only 72 Rock Your Life sale I got really excited.  There are at least 8 different books in the offering of

Continue Reading > No comments yet. posted: June 20th, 2011

Why You Shouldn’t Go to College

College Campus

In the past I’ve written a fair amount about my dissatisfaction with the current model for higher education. Posts like “Create Your Own College Education” and “How to Get Your Education for $48,000 Less Than I Did” sum up my thoughts pretty well. That said, I want to reframe things a little bit in a way that might hit you over the head a little bit more. I understand the majority of my audience is out of high school, and most of you are out of college.  However, if you know someone who might benefit from looking at things in a different perspective as it comes to their education, I encourage you to share this with them. You Just Won

Continue Reading > 39 Comments posted: June 16th, 2011

Why My Lifestyle Business Has Been So Successful

Baiyoke Sky Tower Office

If you haven’t noticed I’ve been talking a lot more about business building lately than I have in the past. Why? Because the site is evolving. I am evolving. Two years ago I was unhappy, clueless, and didn’t know how to get the things I wanted in life. Now? I’ve traveled the world, built a business around things I actually like doing, and have the freedom to pretty much do whatever I want. This post is one that many of you have been hounding me on for awhile (see comments).  This is the post where I will actually reveal some of the financial details surrounding my income. I realize that if I’m going to launch Location Rebel and essentially tell

Continue Reading > 42 Comments posted: June 13th, 2011

The Year of Confidence

World Domination Summit

At the beginning of this year, I spent a lot of time thinking about what I wanted to achieve in 2011.  I thought hard about what I could focus on that would have the most substantial impact across my life as a whole. I kept coming back to one word: confidence. When you’re confident in what you do, everything becomes easier. Growing up, I was confident in small aspects of my life, but I wouldn’t necessarily say as a whole I was a confident person.  When it came to skills I was good at such as tennis, skiing, or guitar, I could hold my own. Aside from that, I was pretty content to just follow what others were doing, not

Continue Reading > 26 Comments posted: June 9th, 2011

#WDS Attendees Guide to Portland

View of Steel Bridge in Portland Oregon

I’ve been wanting to write a post about Portland, Oregon for awhile now. Back when I first started this site I struggled for things to write about, so I used to write about Portland quite a bit.  These days there isn’t much room to talk about the best happy hours in Portland. That said, tomorrow the World Domination Summit will descend upon Portland. Over 500 of the coolest people I know will be showing up for a weekend of unconventional thinking, networking, and a hell of a lot of fun. For those of you that will be coming to Portland I thought I’d throw together a quick best of list of things to see in Portland in case you had

Continue Reading > 14 Comments posted: June 2nd, 2011

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