Making money while you travel about
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Since I have decided that I am going to shoot for being a vegabond for a while once I move out, I have started doing some of the things mentioned in “The 4 Hour Work Week” such as:
- Limiting checking my email to twice per day
- Removing unnecessary distraction from my life
- Deciding on a few initial things I want to accomplish within the next six months to a year
- Mapping out what I will need to do those things
- Doing two important things each day to move towards accomplishing them
Required Cashflow
To do what I want to do, I realistically need about $500 per month for myself and another $800+ per month to send back to my family to help make ends meet.
The problem of course, is how exactly does one make money while wandering about and pursuing ones dreams? While $1300 per month is not a lot if you have a day job, coming up with a way to make that without a job while traveling might seem to fall under the “yeah, right” clause for most.
Well, $1300 per month breaks down to just over $40 per day in a 30 day month.
Since I have one month before I head out, I started brainstorming and came up with a couple of initial ideas.
Vegabond work idea #1: Remote sales
The first is simply to get a mobile job where I don’t need to be in any particular place. To that end I went out and picked up a job telemarketing to businesses…which I start this coming monday and will involve two or more hours each morning. If it goes well and I don’t find myself pulling my hair out, I’ll stick with it for at least a while as I build up other things in between wandering and studying things I am interested in.
Vegabond work idea #2: Door to door affiliate sales
Since I plan on wandering about and seeing different places within the states to start with, I decided to take something that works online and adapt it to the outside world…affiliate sales.
I figure as long as I can find something that is of general interest to your average joe, package it properly so as to catch their attention and not end up in the trash immediately, and give them ways to take advantage of the deal offered, then I can simply spend an hour here and there doing door to door affiliate marketing.
No, I’m not going to knock on peoples doors and try to sell product. I don’t much like it when people come knock on my door and try to sell me things…so I won’t do that to others.
However, over the last four days I have done the following:
- Found a product that there is a lot of interest in
- Found an affiliate program for the product
- Created door to door sales materials for the product
- Came up with a clean quick method of distributing over a hundred per hour
Today was my initial test. During the fifteen minutes that the rain let up I delivered my first 45 brochures. If even one results in a sale, I will have made well over $200 per hour for my time.
It is true that I live in a depressed area and that few people have the extra money to buy random things…which is part of why I chose the product that I did.
If you were short on spending cash, what kind of product would you be willing to buy?
How about one that will obviously give you more spending cash?
Now I’m off to work on my second important task for the day…and look forward to see if my initial six hour time investment (research, product selection, sales material creation), my initial cash expenditure ($10.00), and my initial fifteen minute selling experiment (door to door time spent) results in any sales.
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