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10 lessons to quit your
job and become a
digital nomad
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10 lessons to quit your job and become a digital nomad
Our ten lessons
1. PREPARE FOR THE ROAD AHEAD
2. FIND YOUR NICHE
3 . C R E AT E YO U R I D E N T I T Y
4 . C R E AT E YO U R P O R T F O L I O
5. DISCOVER YOUR VALUE
6. LEARN TO PITCH
7. FIND THE RIGHT CLIENTS
8. ACQUIRE WORK
9. QUIT YOUR JOB
1 0 . S TA R T G R O W I N G
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INTRODUCTION
What you’ll learn
from this eBook
• Get started as a digital nomad
• Streamline your path to freelancing
• Define your objectives as a freelancer
• Create a winning brand
• Work remotely
• Get jobs on the spot
• Learn to charge well for your work
• Present ideas clearly and convincingly
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10 lessons to quit your job and become a digital nomad
INTRODUCTION
Who is this
eBook for?
WHO IS IT FOR?
• Designers
• Digital nomads
• Entrepreneurs
• Freelancers
• Adventure seekers
• Explorers
• Creatives
• Travelers that want to keep growing
professionally
• People that need a career change
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INTRODUCTION
Why you should
try this lifestyle?
• To escape the rat race
• To experience new and exciting adventures
• To keep growing as a professional
• To break the routine
• To gain new and exciting clients
• To create a profitable online business
• To travel the world
• To enjoy life at it’s fullest
• To escape the office
• To become a digital nomad
• To become a freelancer
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10 lessons to quit your job and become a digital nomad
Lessons
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LESSON 1
CONS
Prepare for the
road ahead
• Risky
• Too much hustle
• No benefits
• It’s hard to separate work from personal life
• Hard to create a social life
• It’s easy to get distracted
• You won’t be spoon fed work
• No sense of belonging somewhere
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10 lessons to quit your job and become a digital nomad
LESSON 1
Prepare for the
road ahead
PROS
• You have a flexible schedule
• Be Your Own Boss
• Low cost to setup
• You can follow your own interests
• You can work from anywhere
• You have control over your earnings
• You’ll gain experience and learn
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10 lessons to quit your job and become a digital nomad
LESSON 1
Prepare for the
road ahead
• Remote Work, Freelancing, or Entrepreneurship: Figuring
Out Which Path is Right For You
• Set a preparation time-line
• Find out what kind of freelancer you want to become
• Calculate your expenses
• Save enough money to travel for 6 months
• Sort out your taxes
• Health insurance
• Get the right stuff
• Pick where to start
• Sell what you don’t need
• Quit any commitments
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10 lessons to quit your job and become a digital nomad
LESSON 2
Find your niche
• D
efine what kind of nomad you want to become (employee,
freelancer, entrepreneur)
• Find out if you’re currently in the right area
• D
efine what kind of job you want to do (career sweet spot)
what’s your passion, what are you good at, what makes you
money
• Figure out if there’s a market for your niche. Is it profitable?
• Research your competition
• Test your niche
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LESSON 3
Create your
identity
• Define what you do and how you do it
• Describe yourself in a paragraph
• Consider your audience
• Develop a personality
• Create a website wire-frame (it will help you structure
everything you do)
• Create a brand (logo, fonts, colors, tone of voice)
• Create a set of guidelines or rules for your brand
• Create all the assets needed (website, email accounts, email
signatures, stationary, portfolio, case studies, reviews
• Evaluate and adjust
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10 lessons to quit your job and become a digital nomad
LESSON 4
Create your
portfolio
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• Compile all the material you have (projects, reviews,
photographs, text, portfolio, CV, etc.
• Discover what platforms work best for you
• Display the work accordingly in each platform
• Take professional shots of yourself
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LESSON 4
Create your
portfolio
1. No portfolio = No clients
2. Get inspired by others
3. Make it flexible
4. Use templates for case studies
5. Make it extremely easy to read
6. Quality not quantity
7.
Use mock-ups and real images
8. Create a story
9. Focus on results
10. Always have it with you
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LESSON 5
Discover your
value
• Find out how much you’re worth
• Recognize That People Are Buying Time
• Figure out how much value are you giving the client
• Discover and learn different pricing systems
• How much do you want to make a year?
•
Calculate expenses and overhead
• Costs of business
• Costs of living
• Get to your adjusted annual salary
• Determine number of billable hours per year
• Divide annual salary/billable hours
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LESSON 6
• Pitch to the right person/company
Learn to pitch
• Personalize and speak to their needs
• Establish credibility
• Add value
• Sell your strengths
• Select and include relevant samples
• Using a visually appealing structured layout
• Anticipating and answering questions
• Do your research
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LESSON 7
Find the right
clients
• Get clear about who you want to work with
• Describe the perfect client
• Know what your ideal client wants
• Review your competition
• Focus on the benefits
•
They are open-minded and flexible
• They recognize your adding value
• They treat you as a collaborative partner
• They can offer you long term, consistent work
• They don’t feel the need to control you
• They will not try to pay you less because you live in a
cheaper country
• They won’t mind that you are in a different time zone
• They will pay you on time, every time
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10 lessons to quit your job and become a digital nomad
LESSON 8
• Always work smart
Start freelancing
•
Define the full picture before you start
• Define a clear brief and understand it
• Create a contract
• Sell client on single presentation
• Put the client in the shoes of the end user
• Deliver with context
• Deliver in milestones
• Keep clients happy
• Create your own projects to gain portfolio
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LESSON 9
• Make sure you leave an open door
Quit your job
• Consider the option of freelancing for your company
• Plan it well (in time to start traveling)
• Find out how it will affect your taxes
• Get references
• Gather what you’ve created
• Ask for permission to display work publicly
• Create case studies of your work
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LESSON 10
• Refine your work-flow
Start growing
• Be productive on the road
• Create a process
• Refine your audience
• Increase prices
• Work less, travel more
• Hire people
• Use productivity techniques
• Build better client relationships
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