So, I visit malaysia sat in the office this afternoon minding my own business, working on SEO projects for some of my clients, just thinking about ordering streamyx wireless from the sandwich shop - when BANG, all the power goes satellite internet service The server UPS starts beeping, all the lights go off, my monitors go off, the phones go dead, and all the alarms start going off up & down the street.
Power cut! Doh!
So I get on the internet tv program to the electricity company, who tell me that power has gone down to most of the homes & business in the area due to an underground cable error - and they can't say exactly when the power will return (it was off for the entire day).
(This is nothing compared to what a lot of people in Scotland have had to put up with recently, no power for days - in the cold winter we're having in the UK at the moment, not good!)
All the shops closed, business stopped - no power, no money.
BUT - This wasn't the case for me.
I sat there, in there dark & cold, and realized I was in quite a unique situation, in that the power being down didn't need to effect me.
Being an SEO & streamyx broadband promotion marketing consultant, I can work from anywhere!
I could take my laptop into a cafe' a couple of miles down the road where the power isn't effected, and work in there - plug into their power if the battery was running low, and use their wireless broadband connection.
Internet marketing doesn't require you to be fixed to one spot, although it's handy to have a base, you can broadband company work anywhere.
I could internet cable tv on a train to Manchester, (15 mins) and work in the cafe' of any of a number of very nice hotels, buy a coffee every so often & nobody will mind I'm using the cafe as my makeshift web marketing office - I can even take a stroll to another hotel if I get bored of the scenery.
Or I could work from home, anywhere in fact - even the beach if it was warm enough (I have actually things to do in malaysia from the beach car park while having a break from surfing, I didn't take the laptop on the beach though as sand tends to get everywhere. I've worked from airports, trains, car parks, cafe's, even sat in stationary traffic on a motorway traffic jam.)
Being a web marketing consultant is one of the rare businesses that can be operated just about anywhere, you don't need to even have an office, with a laptop & a mobile phone you have all you need.
Just one of the many reasons that web marketing is the business for me!
Kevin John Lewis is a professional search engine marketing / SEO Consultant.
Kevin is now offering a one to one SEO training Course in the UK - available in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Cornwall (Newquay), Glasgow & Dublin. There are only a small number of positions available on the training course in both 2008, and 2009 - so if you are interested in becoming a professional SEO consultant, act soon!
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