At My Company's HQ in the Philippines

By the end of 2010, I want to be a Full-Time Virtual CEO. Take the journey with me, month-by-month to find out how I’m going to do it!

Thank you for checking out the VBL Blog. I’m a 20-year sales, marketing and PR professional originally from the UK and an entrepreneur at heart. I’m also the CEO of the Live2Sell Group of Companies, a thriving total business outsourcing provider based in Cebu City, Philippines, with almost 200 full-time staff working for me at this time – this also includes our Virtual Assistant company, Live2Care.

I started this blog after seeing an incredible amount of interest in relevant posts on my personal blog and wanted to focus more on the individual aspects of embracing and living what I like to call a Virtual Business Lifestyle (VBL), such as being a true entrepreneur, generating passive income streams, utilizing outsourcing and becoming super-mobile!

Through my business entities and various other partnerships, I help small to medium-sized business owners and entrepreneurs grow their business empires and maximize their personal production through various forms of outsourcing and business automation, branding and growth strategies.

Singing with my Soul & Blues Band

The big thing for me is that I’ve never liked to be handcuffed to my desk. So, I’ve started to spend more time out of the office, working remotely at coffee shops, beach resorts (there are a lot in the Philippines!) and various other locations. All gradually aiming towards achieving my 2010 Goal of becoming a full-time Virtual CEO. You can read more on that here.

I’m a member of the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals and author of two successful eBooks “Business Growth and the Outsourcing Lifestyle” and “Saving the Day, the Virtual Way”. Both give a birds-eye view of outsourcing and how to utilize it to create an awesome lifestyle. Download them for FREE, just sign-up to the top-right of the site!

On my 3rd Vacation of 2009 in Thailand

I love the virtual business lifestyle I am building for myself, and you will too – once you start embracing the idea and making the changes required to be able to live one! Throughout the course of my career, I have spent thousands of hours sitting behind desks, hundreds of hours on the telephone and more late nights and weekends ‘in the office’ than I care to count, or remember.

Although I am a businessman and a hard working entrepreneur, I am also someone that values the ‘really’ important things in life, more and more as I get older and perhaps a little wiser…!

The fact of the matter is that when I do achieve my goal of removing myself from the office environment on a full-time basis, I won’t be sitting around doing nothing all day. I’ll still be working – just not at this big desk. I’ll be working from anywhere I like, anywhere in the world.

My Desk - The One I Want to Give Away at the End of 2010

Nowadays, through spearheading the Live2Sell Group and its vision, and through the pages of this blog, I am more focused on practicing the life that I really do preach.

One of convenience, productivity, health, wealth and one which allows me to spend more time doing the things that count the most, as well being with the ones that matter the most.

Hope you enjoy the blog!