Road Trip Story: How I Made $350 in San Diego, in 15mins – in a Hotel Lobby!!!

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I was recently in San Diego hanging out with my buddy, Pat Flynn, for a few days. Here’s a true story from that trip… Ever been sitting in a hotel lobby using the free wifi connection, only to have a complete stranger listen in on your conversation? Make you mad…? Next time, don’t get mad. Make money!!!

Answering the Tribe: A Day in the Life of a Virtual CEO (My Not-So-Usual Daily Routine!)

Day in the Life of a Virtual CEO!

I’ve had a bunch of requests recently from people wanting to know how I get so much done every day / week / month, especially online and in the creation of all my content, additional resources and the running and developing of my businesses. So, I thought I’d put a few things down in a post and then open the discussion a little.

Living the Virtual Business Lifestyle – First Mini-Vacation of 2011 (Singapore!)

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I’ve lived in Asia for ten years and I have never been to Singapore. Insane, I know. So, a 4-day trip was planned, we left the little one with his grandparents and we were off! Here’s my 5min video diary of the trip, complete with a running commentary of the places we checked out. It was an awesome trip! Hope you enjoy it…

November 2010 "Virtual CEO Goal" Monthly Report

November 2010

Number of Days in the Office: 13, Total Number of Employees: 215 I thought I’d shoot a video for this months report – hope you enjoy it. Its been another busy month, with the large majority of my focus spent on working with my management team, to be able to hit that Virtual CEO goal [...]

Why Being a Virtual CEO is Going to Make Me a Better Dad – The Importance of Setting Goals

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I have three awesome kids. I genuinely love being a Dad. But, if I was to be honest, I have missed out on a few things. Kick-starting my career as a young professional, working several jobs to pay the rent, creating my own businesses, building those businesses… It takes its toll. However, all that is [...]

October 2010 “Virtual CEO Goal” Monthly Report (Includes My BlogWorld2010 Report)

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Number of Days in the Office: 7, Total Number of Employees: 212 Ah… It’s good to be back! October was a whirlwind of a month, I must say. Above you’ll find a little (4mins) montage of my trip to the USA. I actually have a TON of footage I shot over there this time around, [...]

3 Awesome Steps to Virtual CEO Success

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This guest post by Ben Lumley is part of the VBL Guest Post Month! There are 3 keys to achievement: Common Sense, Hard work and Stick-with-it-ness – Thomas Edision I wanted to look at something that a lot of the readers of virtualbusinesslifestyle.com will be very familiar with, Chris’s goal of becoming a Virtual CEO by [...]

3 Daringly Different Ways To Run A Company From 3 Dangerously Different Countries!

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This is a Guest Post by Jonny Gibaud, founder of Emergency Food Storage. So it is guest post month of Virtual Business Lifestyle and so fittingly I have written a quest post. I know, I am very much on the ball. For those that have never heard of me, My names is Jonny and I [...]

September 2010 “Virtual CEO Goal” Monthly Report

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Number of Days in the Office: 19, Total Number of Employees: 211 This month literally flew by – faster than any other this year, without a doubt. And, if I was to be really honest, I probably worked harder and longer hours this month than I have over the entire year, too. People have even [...]

VBL010 – Tools to Help You Build a Location Independent Lifestyle!

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Utilizing technology, particularly the technology available to us online and for free, is paramount for any wannabe location independent entrepreneur. There are a multitude of services and online tools out there to help you become more mobile and start to embrace your very own Virtual Business Lifestyle. Instead of listing all of them down here, I thought [...]

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 [...]

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

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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 [...]

May 2010 “Virtual CEO Goal” Monthly Report

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Location: Company HQ – Reading Time: 5-6mins Number of Days in the Office: 19, Total Number of Employees: 186 So, another month passes, and I am now officially just 7 months away from my target of becoming a Full-Time Virtual CEO. Will I hit it? You bet your ass I will…! I don’t set targets [...]

4 Ways to Manage Your Healthy Lifestyle Like a Virtual CEO

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Location: Company HQ – Reading Time: 5mins I’m very happy to post this excellent Guest Post by Matt Gartland of HealthyLifestyleDesign.com. Matt comes to the VBL table with some great concepts and ideas on embracing lifestyle design, with the focus on health, more then anything else. Many people believe that business is boring. These are [...]

April 2010 “Virtual CEO Goal” Monthly Report

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Location: Home Office – Reading Time: 4-5mins Number of Days in the Office: 14, Total Number of Employees: 179 This month went by faster than I realized… Hence the slightly late post! My Virtual CEO Goal is still moving along nicely, and again, I feel like I am getting closer and closer to it with [...]

I’m Too Busy for Bullshit – The Things I’m Doing to Stay Productive!

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Location: Home Office – Reading Time: 4-5mins 2010 is shaping up to be an incredible year for me, business wise so far. As you’ll know by reading my Monthly Reports, by the end of the year I sincerely believe I will be a Full Time Virtual CEO, working from wherever I like, whenever I like, [...]

The Virtual Business Lifestyle Launch! (Includes my own 2010 Full-Time ‘Virtual CEO’ Goal)

The Virtual Business Lifestyle Launch

Location: Company Offices, Viewing / Reading Time: 5-6mins Hello everyone, and welcome to the first ever post here at VirtualBusinessLifestyle.com! This new blog will have more video posts, however, as its the first post, I figured a few words wouldn’t go amiss. As I mention in the video above, the main reason why I have [...]

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