Luis Congdon

Hey guys. Today, I want to talk to you about how to make money while traveling.

What do you need to do to get set-up so you can make money and profit while you’re traveling all over the world and visiting amazing places just like Kamala and I have done? What are some of the pitfalls of traveling and trying to run a business and, what are some of the things we’ve learned from making some of those mistakes?

The first thing I want you to know that if you have this dream to make money while traveling and this vision of being able to travel, you are living in a perfect time now to be able to have that dream for to be real and it’s easier than it’s ever been.

Luis Congdon

The first thing you’re going to want to do and this is something I had to do and I had to make this shift in my business because when Kamala and I first got together, I had a business where I was coaching couples and working one on one with couples and I was at a strong belief that I had to see people visually. I had to be there physically with them and I felt like this huge hurdle to try to travel and have a coaching business but it can totally be done and it might even feel elementary to a lot of you but we’ll have more advanced tips as we proceed. So, just stay tuned for some of those more advanced tips.

The first thing you can do if you’re doing anything that’s hands on with people is let people know that from now on, you’re only doing Skype sessions, phone sessions, email sessions, anything where it’s online. You can use Zoom if you want or Skype. There’s all sorts of options but you can still make the same amount of income.

So if you’re a coach and you’ve currently been seeing people at 2 – 3 – 4 -500 dollars a session and you’ve been doing them all in person, you can start telling your clients that you have this new way of seeing people. You’ve found that it’s more powerful, which it really can be. It’s more powerful and not only that, it allows people not to have to get dressed, hop in their car, find a parking space, come and see you and then, hop back in their car, be stuck in traffic and then go back home but they can just simply see you from the comfort of wherever they’re at and this is the new way that you’re doing things.

At first, it scared me to switch my clients to that method but what I found is that people were really okay with it. It was just about presentation. So just use the wording that I suggested. It’s more powerful this way. It’s easier because you don’t have to travel. I don’t have to travel. We don’t have to be in some new space. You get to do it from the comfort of your own home and then, have whatever fees that you want and I want you to realize that just because you’re not seeing people physically doesn’t mean you have to lower your prices. It doesn’t mean you have to change your prices and it totally allows you to raise your prices if you want.

That’s the first thing to make money while traveling and start removing yourself out of any location dependent services and make them so now, they’re available online.

Luis Congdon

When we talk about working, traveling, and to be able to make money while traveling, you don’t have to think about it as just something that is about traveling and leaving your own home. This tip really applies to anybody who has a business.

I’ve made a YouTube video about how to make money while traveling. We’ll include the link for that too where I talked a little bit more about this concept around promoting yourself.

If you’re serious about knowing how to make money while traveling no matter what level you’re at in your business, whether you’re at the $2000 a month or a couple $100 a month or here and there, making money, or millions of dollars a month, one of the key differentiators in your business will be how good you are at letting the world know about your service and offerings.

So if you’re a small business owner, a solo business owner, solopreneur, or you’re just a team of 1 or 2 like Kamala and I are, we have staff but Kamala and I are primarily the two people that run our business. First thing I want to say here is get good at letting the world know what you do if you interested to make money while traveling.

Here’s some ways that you can get good at this.

1. Go into social media and start letting people know what you do, what your offerings are, what those offerings look like. This is the first thing.

I have some more tips around how to make money while traveling which I’ll dive deeper in with another episode but right now, the first thing I want you to start doing is start letting people know and if you’ve never offered this service or you have a 9 to 5 or 9 to 8 like I did, you’ve got to start letting people know what you do.

So, go online, tell people, “Hey guys. If you need a coach, you need somebody to help you with X, Y, and Z,” let’s say you’re a health coach, “If you’re struggling with your health and you have stomach problems and digestion issues, I’m a pro at this. I can help you. Private message me if you’re interested.”

If you have a website and you have some emails, start letting people know through your email list. Like recently, I decided to email our list and say, “Hey guys. I want to let you know that I’ve never publicly announced that I do private coaching. I’ve only allowed people to come to me if when I have the time and if and when they actually ask.” People had to find out about my coaching by thinking of it themselves and then, taking the action of emailing me and asking me and then they could only sign up if I decided, first, I’m interested, and second if I have the time.

Recently I decided, “I love coaching. I’m going to open up more time for this.” Well, nobody knows that until I let the world know. Be sure you’re letting the world know what you do, what your services and offerings are and while it might feel a little bit nerve-wracking to this or it might feel like “Wait, I have an amazing service that world should just know,” or “Hey, I’ve been doing this for 10 years. I’ve added this new program,” nobody’s coming through the door for this for the program.

Well, your biggest problem is likely because you’re not letting the world know. So, I want you to start letting people know about your service and offerings because as you do that, people will come and they’ll ask you about it and if you set it up so that they can meet with you on Skype or through email or you have a digital product like Kamala teaches, then you don’t even have to physically be there and that’s the key to all of this.

The key to traveling and making money is that you don’t physically have to be there.

Now, there are other ways to travel and make money but today, we’re talking about being able to pretty much pack up your backpack and leave anytime you want and go somewhere else.

Luis Congdon

One of the other things I wanted to suggest to you and this is a really great way to start, Kamala and I sometimes leave the country for 4 to 7 months at a time or a couple months at a time or couple of weeks. This year, we’ve travelled at least 6 months out of the year at the same time we are able to make money while traveling.

One of the things I really recommend to you if this is something you’re thinking about is start doing small batches. Start doing tests. Try traveling to another country or another state for a week or 2-3 weeks or something short. So that if you don’t get any business or influx of income, it’s okay. You’re going to come back and go back to what you’re doing and you can re-up but try doing small tests.

That’s one of my first tips is just start trying this out. While you’re gone, start offering your services before you leave and then, while you’re gone, make sure that you’re consistently promoting yourself. Have some clients lined up if you can or try to line them up while you’re there. You’d be surprised. Things can really click.

The next thing I’ll also recommend if you are willing to make money while traveling, is if you travel to another country like we’ve been to The Philippines, we’ve been to Thailand and this is a mistake that we’ve made while traveling to other countries is while you’re in another country, see if you can find like a workforces or people that can work for you in other countries because you can outsource so much of your work.

Now, it might seem like I’m suggesting that you spend more money while you’re traveling but if you have business that’s profiting or making some money and you want to make money while traveling, imagine you can hire a graphic designer, somebody that can do some of the work in your business for cheaper.

If you go to The Philippines, you could write it off as a travel or as a business expense while you’re traveling and you can go over to another country and you can find people to work for you at a cheaper rate and you can meet them and you can be over there and now, it’s a right off for your business and you’ll actually save money doing that and it won’t really be like you’re putting too much expenses because of the write off.