Personal Outsourcing – 3 Quick Tips to Make YOU More Productive!

Personal Outsourcing

Location: Company HQ – Reading / Viewing Time: 4mins Personal Outsourcing isn’t anything new. However, the best selling book, the 4-Hour Work-week certainly helped push it into the limelight in more recent years. Savvy entrepreneurs from all around the world now ‘know’ what outsourcing is all about and more and more are getting turned onto [...]

Fearless Health – Review of a GREAT Free Resource!

Fearless-Health

Location: Company HQ – Reading Time: 4mins Imagine a life where you… Are rarely, if ever, sick. Have health care costs totaling only your preventative exams. Embody the physical ability and energy to do whatever you wish. Possess the mental courage and creativity to bring your dreams to life. This is not a dream world. [...]

July 2010 “Virtual CEO Goal” Monthly Report

Virtual CEO - Chris Ducker's July Monthly Report

Location: Home Office – Reading Time: 5mins Number of Days in the Office: 17, Total Number of Employees: 208 Happy Friday to each and every one of you! Wow. What a month… These monthly reports are always the posts that I enjoy putting together the most. What I do is jot down notes in my [...]

One Week in my Virtual Business Lifestyle – Searching, Stressing (a little!) and Producing!

One Week in my Virtual Business Lifestyle

Location: Company HQ – Reading / Viewing Time: 4mins Last Friday I shot this quick video (with my webcam, so quality is a little lower than usual), in regards to last week’s going-on’s. I originally thought I might just slam this up on our Facebook Fan Page, but then figured a post would get it [...]

VBL009 – How to Live a Thrilling Lifestyle, with Cody McKibben!

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As lifestyle designers go, my guest in this latest edition of the VBL Podcast, Cody McKibben, is a pretty cool cat. His blog, Thrilling Heroics is a thumper of a read, and although he doesnt do them nowhere near enough, his video posts are very enjoyable, shot around the world (mostly Asia) and give people [...]

Why I Want to be a Virtual CEO (Part 3 of 3)

Virtual CEO (Part 3 of 3)

Location: The Beach, Cebu – Reading / Viewing Time: 4mins First up, thank you so much for all the great comments and feedback on this short video series. I have thoroughly enjoyed reading all the blog comments, tweets and emails I’ve been getting all week long. I genuinely didn’t think they were going to be this popular, but, [...]

Why I Want to be a Virtual CEO (Part 2 of 3)

Virtual CEO (Part 2 of 3)

Location: The Beach, Cebu – Reading / Viewing Time: 4mins So, here we are with the second part in my short, but sweet three-part series of videos on why I want to be a Virtual CEO. In the last clip I discussed being location independent, which basically means I will be able to work from [...]

Why I Want to be a Virtual CEO (Part 1 of 3)

Virtual CEO (Part 1 of 3)

Location: The Beach, Cebu – Reading / Viewing Time: 4mins Last week I pulled my family out of the city and escaped to one of the many fantastic beach resorts we are blessed with, here in Cebu City, Philippines – getting a taste of the Virtual CEO life, shall we say! Whilst there, we stayed [...]

Great Escapes – Mexico, France, Canada. Where Next?

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Location: Home Office – Reading Time: 5mins This is a guest post by Brena Currelly, a fantastic photographer, frequent traveler and VBL fan. It’s not our usual guest post here, but Brena’s words and excellent photos just needed to be shared, as far as I’m concerned. Here we go… I’ve had a recurring dream since [...]

What’s it Like to Live and Work in the Philippines?

Live and Work in the Philippines

Location: Company HQ – Reading / Viewing Time: 10mins One of the questions I get asked a lot is the title of this post – What’s it like to live and work in the Philippines? As someone who has lived in the Philippines for the last 10 years, I have many stories to tell, of [...]

Business Travel Tips for Location Independent Professionals

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Location: Home Office – Reading Time: 5mins Being location independent is more than just being able to work from coffee shops and beaches via a laptop, whilst conversing with clients worldwide. The true location independent professional will spend a lot of time actually traveling. A little while ago, I posted an article here on the [...]

Customer Service – The ‘Forgotten’ Yin to the Yang in Business!

Customer Service

Location: Home Office – Reading / Viewing Time: 7mins In February this year I spent almost the entire month in the US, with my wife, traveling through San Francisco, Miami, LA and New York. On a trip like this we experienced quite a bit, as you can imagine. However, it was one particular experience that [...]

VBL005 – Creating a Juicy GenY Revolution, with Arielle Scott!

Arielle Scott

Entrepreneurial mindset is more abundant nowadays than ever before. The ‘youth’ of today (just saying that, in that tone makes me feel old…!) literally have the world at their feet – and more importantly, their finger tips. The way that entrepreneurial lifestyles are created and manifested today is waaaaaay different to the good old days [...]

What is Outsourcing and How Does it Actually Work, Anyway..?

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Location: Company HQ – Reading Time: 5mins Following on from the last post that I did on Outsourcing, I received quite a few emails on the subject, as well as having a TON of visitors download my free eBook (make sure you also do this if you haven’t already, at the bottom of this post, [...]

The Virtual Business Lifestyle Top 10 Travel Tips for Entrepreneurs!

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Location: Home Office – Reading Time: 7mins For the entrepreneur, traveling for both business and pleasure can be combined if you do your homework well. As someone that travels very regularly, combining the two, I have to say that I make it look pretty easy nowadays – however, it wasn’t always that way (check out [...]

Why Beating Entrepreneurial Burnout is More Important than EVER!

entrepreneurial-burnout

You must have gone through that stage in your life where you felt totally drained and exhausted. You’re almost there at the top. Your mind tells you to keep on going, but your body is too weak. You are physically and emotionally drained. You’re absolutely knackered and you feel totally helpless. Welcome, my friends, to [...]

How to Work with Virtual Staff to Build a Business Empire (Tips from the Trenches – via Manila!)

Dan Andrews

Location: At the Beach (Literally!) – Reading / Viewing Time: 9-10mins A real treat for you guys today. A couple of weeks ago I flew up from Cebu (where I live full time) to Manila (the capital of the Philippines) to do a little business, and whilst I was there I met up with Dan [...]

Mobility Tips for the Traveling Entrepreneur – Handling Email, Phone Calls & More!

Sanjay

Okay, so, here is the final installment (from the AT&T Ball Park!) from the 3-part video series that I shot whilst I was in San Francisco back in February (it’s a little windy in the clip, FYI!). A lot of people have asked for this one, out-right, saying that they enjoyed the other clips I [...]

Entrepreneurial Productivity: Stop Letting E-Mail Control Your Life!

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Location: Boracay Beach, Philippines (Literally!) – Reading Time: 6mins I wrote this post from one of the most beautiful places on earth – Boracay, Philippines. Where just a couple of weeks ago myself and my wife worked from, for a whole week, and enjoyed every second of being in the ‘office’ when we were there! [...]

My Top 10 Virtual Assistant Video Tip Series is LIVE on YouTube!

My Top 10 Virtual Assistant Video Tip

Location: Company Offices – Reading / Viewing Time: 6mins When I announced my Virtual Assistant Video Tip Series last week, with a quick, first clip from the fantastic island of Boracay here in the Philippines, I had no idea (seriously!) it would be as well received as it was. I have received a ton of [...]

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