Itinerant Lifestyle

Landing Repeat Freelance Work

Your decision to taken on work on a freelance basis must have surely made you feel liberated. And the high that you have from landing your first few projects and especially on receiving those initial payments would surely be memorable. But once the initial euphoria wears off, the reality of having to find enough work [...]

Follow The Crowd Or Break The Rules

I will break all the rules. I will write in the style I wish to write in, and damn the readers. I can’t get anything done writing to please everyone else. On Friday, I watched a really good lecture on thinking differently. It was by one of the authors of a book aimed at thinking [...]

3 Keys to Business

Below is a short lecture from Edgar Bronfman, Jr., CEO of Warner Music Group, highlighting his 3 keys to business and entrepreneurship. Believe – in your vision, yourself and your opportunity Listen – to the marketplace Act – upon what you have learnt What do you think?

Starting Out In Online Business

Internet Entrepreneur. This is the age of liberation. Internet has liberated us from the tyranny of the 9 to 5 job, reporting to a boss, and breaking one’s back for a pittance. We can choose our hours of work, our place of work and indeed our price of work. Sounds Utopian? Not quite. Consider this – [...]

Benefits of Virtual Assistants (VA)

Despite our best intentions, we can’t do everything. In trying to raise awareness of Mejia & Jones Cost Associates, my new Quantity Surveying & Estimating business venture, I am guilty of trying to do too much, which in turn leaves me accomplishing little. I find myself fluttering from day-to-day without a real plan, trying little things [...]

Freakonomics Style Marketing Ideas

I like the book Freakonomics and the blog of the same name which relates everyday stuff into economic and marketing principles. On the same topic, I’ve read couple of good posts recently which apply marketing principles to everyday life. The best two of these posts focus on fairground workers (Carnies) and little girls selling lemonade. [...]

6 Steps to a Successful Business Hoax

The Times recently published a feature article about a teenager from the UK who spent six months creating a fake airline, only to be caught at the last minute when officials became suspicious. Although I’m not advocating the creation of fake airlines, I think the article gives an insight into the requirements for creating and [...]

Mejia & Jones Business Startup

The journey to self-employment has commenced. The first business startup on the road to the empire is live. The first commercial website is written and promotion has begun. Firstly, a small 125×125 banner ad, has been placed on roylloydjones.com and at the bottom of posts on this website. What is the website? It’s a cost [...]

Blogs Itinerant Lifestyle Follows…Part Three

Hello and welcome to the third and final instalment in the series entitles “Blogs Itinerant Lifestyle Follows”. So far we’ve identified eight of the blogs followed here at Itinerant Lifestyle, and below are the final four selections. We’ve seen posts on topics as diverse as moving to Mexico for six months, 101 ways to get [...]

Living The Expat Life – Part One

As a the 2009 guide to the most expensive cities in the world is released, I thought it would be a good time to start another series, this time entitled “Living the Expat Life.” Living as an expat is something a lot of people dream of, and although it is a big step to take, the [...]