How to Install WordPress

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Welcome to the third part in our Blogging for Expats WordPress tutorial series. Previously, we’ve looked at choosing a domain name and a web host and then purchasing and setting them up. Now you’re ready to install WordPress. WordPress is the most popular blogging platform in the world, used by over 25 million sites. (Read [...]

How to Start Your Expat Blog

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This is the second tutorial in the Blogging for Expats series. You can review the first one here. In the first tutorial in this series, you learned how to choose a domain name and a hosting company. Today, we’ll review the process of purchasing the domain name and signing up for your web hosting service. [...]

Learn the Business of Blogging

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If you’re considering blogging as the business platform to finance your untethered expat life, there’s an online course opening up that will help you get your blogging business up to speed faster and better. Blog Masters Club Blog Masters Club is a comprehensive training program designed for aspiring professional bloggers. The core training consists of [...]

Profitable Blogging

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Let’s face it, you don’t make money just by blogging. But there are lots of profitable bloggers, and some of them are very, very profitable. Gazillionaire profitable. They do it by using the blog to sell something. As I wrote recently, There are basically three ways to make money from a blog: Sell your own [...]

Blogging for Fun and Profit

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One way to support yourself overseas is through a blog. Not sure what a blog is? Here’s some basic information to get you started. What is a Blog? The word “blog” is short for “web log.” An entire website can be a blog, or the blog can be just part of the site. They can [...]

Support Yourself Overseas Using a Website or Blog

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In recent months, we’ve explored writing, photography, art, running a B&B, teaching English as a foreign language and other options for supporting yourself in your new overseas life. Some – running a B&B and teaching – require you to be in a specific place. Others – writing and photography – allow you to move around [...]

How I’m Going to Finance My New Life Overseas

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Last September, I started a series of posts talking about how you can finance your new overseas life if you’ll need to generate income. I stated: “In our recent poll, we discovered that most — at least 80% — of our readers will have to generate some income when they move overseas. None of them [...]