Location Rebel Content Archives : All of Our Best Content

Here at Location Rebel, we’ve been helping people build online businesses for over 10 years. So it’s safe to say in that time, we’ve covered a LOT of different topics.

While this page might seem to be a little overwhelming, we created it to help make it easier to find the type of content you’re looking for.

We’ve broken each topic into a different section, and you can use the menu below to help find what you’re looking for.

Within each section you’ll find some of our most popular blog posts on the topic, along with a link to read more and dig deeper into the archives for that content.

Table of Contents

Freelance Writing: How to Become a Freelance Writer

We believe freelance writing is the easiest way to start making money online and building a sustainable lifestyle business. We’ve covered this topic in a LOT of depth, so check out some of our best freelancing posts below.

The Definitive Guide: How to Start Freelance Writing (For Total Beginners)

Getting Started: How to Become a Writer
Why Freelancing? 7 Reasons Why Freelancing Writing is the Best Online Business.
Finding Writing Jobs: 105 Places to Find Writing Jobs Online
Best Job Boards: 5 Freelance Writing Job Boards That Don’t Suck
Copywriting: What is Copywriting and How to Become a Copywriter
Copywriting Tips: How to Make $1,000,000 Using These 5 Copywriting Tips
Freelance Copywriting: 5 Weird Ways to Land Freelance Copywriting Jobs (That Work)
B2B Writing: Everything You Need to Become a B2B Writer
Best Writing Tools: The 25 Best Writing Tools for Becoming a Freelance Writer
SEO Writing: How to Make $3,000 in Two Months SEO Writing
Ghostwriting: What is Ghostwriting and How to Become a Ghostwriter
Upwork: How to Get Upwork Clients to Come to You
Is Upwork Worth it: Is Upwork Worth it for Freelance Writers
Freelance Writing Checklist: 10 Things You Must Do if You Want to Get Freelance Work
Finding Freelance Work: 12 Strategies to Find More Freelance Work
Pitching: How to Write a Pitch: The Ultimate Guide for Freelancers
How to Set Your Rates: An Easy Framework for Setting Your Freelance Writing Rates
Freelance Writing for Beginners: 10 Strategies for Getting Your Very First Freelance Client
10 Tips: 10 Freelancing Tips for New Freelance Writers
Gifts: 20 Best Gifts for Writers
Portfolio Website: How to Choose a Theme for Your Freelance Writing Portfolio Site
Letter of Introduction: What is a Letter of Introduction in Freelance Writing?
How to Make Time: How to Make Time to Start a Blog or Freelance Writing Business
Freelance Blogging: How to Make $150 an Hour Freelance Blogging
Business Structure: How to Choose Your Business Structure as a Freelance Writer

More About Freelance Writing

Blogging and Writing: Creating a Blog and Writing on a Regular Basis

The Definitive Guide: How to Start a Blog in 2021 (Step by Step)

Reasons to Start: Why Blog? 56 Reasons to Start a Blog RIGHT NOW
Testing an Idea: 50 Posts
Writing Everyday: How to Write Everyday (And Why You Should)
Magic Bullet: The Closest Thing I Have to a Business Magic Bullet
Guest Posting: The Ultimate Guide to Guest Posting (Over 10k Words!)
Is Blogging Dead: Is Blogging Dead? 5 Ways to Grow Your Blog
Being Different: How My Blog Became a Commodity (and How We’re Fixing It)
Success as a Blogger: How to Become a Successful Blogger
Headlines: 15 Blog Post Titles that Get Clicked
Blog Audit: The 60 Minute Blog Audit
Blog Post Ideas: 100+ Fool Ideas for Your Next Blog Post
Blog Images: Social Media Images – How to Create Killer Graphics for Your Blog
Building an Audience: How to Build an Audience (Why Traffic Isn’t Enough)

Affiliate Marketing: How to Make Passive Income Affiliate Marketing

If you want to get into blogging or niche sites, affiliate marketing is the best way to start monetizing your site and generating passive income. It can take some time to grow, but once it does, it can be a fantastic revenue stream that’s easy to manage.

How to Start: How to Start Affiliate Marketing (The Complete Beginners Guide)

How to Choose a Niche: How to Choose a Niche For Your New Blog or Business
Niche Site vs Freelancing: Should You Start a Niche Site or a Freelancing Business?
Building Niche Sites: How to Build a Niche Site that Brings in $500/Month
Amazon Affiliate Program: Amazon Affiliate Marketing: The Complete Beginner’s Guide
Affiliate Marketing Mistakes: Don’t Make These 5 Big Affiliate Marketing Mistakes Like I Did
Best Affiliate Programs: The Three Best Affiliate Programs for Beginners
Make $100: How to Make $100 Fast: 10 Strategies to Make Money Online

More About Affiliate Marketing and Niche Sites

Lifestyle Business Ideas: Different Approaches to Becoming a Lifestyle Entrepreneur

There are a lot of different types of lifestyle businesses you can start online. Each with their own pros and cons. These are some of our favorite ways to begin making money and building an online business.

Affiliate Marketing: How to Start Affiliate Marketing on Your Blog
Bridge Business: Why a Bridge Business is the Best Starting Point for New Entrepreneurs
Niche Sites: How to Build a Niche Site that Brings in $500/Month
Blogging: 56 Reasons to Start a Blog
Freelance Writing: How to Become a Writer
Freelance SEO: How to Become an SEO Freelancer in 48 Hours
Membership Sites: How to Build a Membership Site in 48 Hours
Physical Products: How to Manufacture a Physical Product
Online Business: How to Start an Online Business (It’s Easier than You Think)
Start Now: 10 Things You Can Do Today to Start a Lifestyle Business
Make Money Now: 14 Ways to Make Your First Dollar Online (And Instructions for Each)
Make Money Fast: How to Make $100 Fast: 10 Weird Ways to Make Money Online
Business Ideas: How to Come Up with an Incredible Business Idea (and Validate It)

More About Lifestyle Businesses

Lifestyle Design and Travel

A lot of the Location Rebel lifestyle comes down to being able to travel, spend more time doing the things you love, and having freedom. Here are some of our favorite posts about that.

Bucket List Inspiration: My Bucket List
Creating a Bucket List: How to Create a Bucket List in 10 Easy Steps
Taking a Sabbatical: 24 Things I Learned from Taking a Two Month Global Sabbatical
Start a Blog: Why Blog? Here are 56 Reasons You Should Start a Blog in 2018
Location Independent Jobs: 17 Businesses You Can Run from Anywhere on Earth (And Start Today)
Business Mistakes: 7 Biggest Mistakes Beginning Lifestyle Entrepreneurs Make (and How to Avoid Them)
Downsides: 10 Things that Totally Suck About Being a Solopreneur
Asia: 10 Reasons You Should Move to Asia to Start Your Lifestyle Business
Staying Fit: 7 Exercises to Do From Your Airplane Seat
Your Travel Thing: How to Make Travel More Enjoyable by Finding Your Thing
Is Lifestyle Design a Fad? Why Lifestyle Design Will Never Die

Physical Products: How to Manufacture Your Own Products

There are more barriers to entry when it comes to creating a physical product, but there can be greater rewards as well. If you’re willing to put up a little more cash, work with factories, and have a novel idea? Creating an e-commerce or product based business could be the way to go.

Creating Products in China: How to Manufacture Products in China (Step by Step!)
Finding Suppliers: How to Find High Quality Suppliers on Alibaba
Using Amazon FBA: How to Launch a Physical Product Business on Amazon From Anywhere in the World
How I (Almost) Got into the China Market: How I (Almost) Became a Chinese Import Magnate
Creating Products with Kickstarter: How to Create a Product in China (And Make $100k in a Week on Kickstarter)
Creating Physical Products While Location Independent: How to Run a Physical Product Business from Anywhere
Remote Teams: How to Build an Awesome Remote Team from Anywhere
E-Commerce Mistakes: 5 Things to Watch Out for When Starting an E-Commerce Business
Manufacturing Mistakes: China Manufacturing – 4 Mistakes New Entrepreneurs Make

More About Physical Products

SEO and Marketing: Strategies for Optimizing Your Site or Becoming an SEO Freelancer

The way I first paid the bills when I was beginning this site was by doing freelance SEO. The SEO world has changed a lot, but understanding how it works, and how to make it work to your advantage is one of the most valuable skills you can have as an online business owner.

Definitive Guide: How to Become an SEO Freelancer in 48 Hours

SEO Tool: Why SEMrush is Our Recommended SEO Tool
Link Building: Link Building 101: Step by Step Strategy to Get Backlinks
Increasing Traffic: How We Doubled Our Traffic in 12 Months
SEO for Freelance Writers: Do Freelance Writers Need to Know SEO?
Split-Testing: 10 Easy Split Tests for New (and Established Bloggers)
Content Marketing Tools: 59 Content Marketing Tools for Your Blog

Bucket List: How Creating a Bucket List Can Change Your Life

My bucket list was the very first post I published on this site in 2009. I’ve since done dozens of things I never thought I’d do, and created new “bucket list quests” to enhance my life in different ways. Here are all the posts we’ve written on the topic:

My Bucket List: The post that started it all on this site.

Create Your Own: 10 Steps to Creating the Ultimate Bucket List
Making Progress: How to Actually Cross Things Off Your Bucket List
Reverse Bucket List: How and Why To Create a Reverse Bucket List
Bucket List Books: The Best Bucket List Books to Read for Inspiration
Why Make One (Piece I wrote for Forbes): The Importance of a Bucket List
Bucket List Niche: How to Make Travel More Enjoyable By Finding Your “Thing”
Golf Bucket List: Trying to Play the Top 100 Golf Courses in the World
Bar Bucket List: Trying to Visit the Top 100 Bars in the World
Running a Marathon: How I Ran a Marathon With (Almost) No Training
Pebble Beach: Pebble Beach, a Camaro, and Running Into an MVP
Climbing a Mountain: Off the List: Climbing My First Mountain

Quit Your Job: How to Create a Plan to Leave Your Job

The goal for so many of us is to quit our jobs and have the freedom to make money on our own, and live a life that makes us happier. Here’s all of our content to help you quit your job

How to Quit Your Job: The 13 Approaches to Quitting Your Job (Without Burning Bridges)
Motivation: How a Photo on My Desk Led to Me Quitting My Job (Cool Story)
Qutting and Moving: How to Quit Your Job and Move to Hawaii
Benefits of Quitting: 14 Things Location Rebels Can Do That Employees Can’t
Before You Quit: When Should You Quit Your Job? 6 Questions to Answer First
After You Quit: What to Do After You Quit Your Job
It Might Not Work Out: Is Everything Going to Be Ok? Well, it Depends
Remote Work: How to Make the Case to Your Boss to Let You Work Remotely
Why You Shouldn’t Quit: You Shouldn’t Quit Your Job…Yet.

Product Reviews: Our Favorite Products at Location Rebel

We use a lot of different products to run this lifestyle business, as well as to create content and to travel. Here are some of our favorites

All our Favorite Products: 50+ Digital Nomad Tools and Resources to Help You Work from Anywhere

ConvertKit Review: Why ConvertKit is the Best Email Marketing Software for 2020
SEMrush Review: Our Most Important SEO Tool We Use
Bluehost Review: The Best Web Host for Beginners
WP Engine Review: Why I *Really* Love WP Engine Hosting
SumoReview: The Tool We Used to Triple Our Email Opt Ins
BluffWorks Review: The Best Travel Pants I Own
Contently Review: Contently Review – A Killer Portfolio Tool for Freelance Writers
Epidemic Sound Review: How to Find Music for YouTube Videos
Middle Finger Project Book Review: Calling Ash Ambirge for the First Time in 10 Years (aka, just go buy the book)

Web Hosting: How to Choose a Webhost and Start a Blog

One of the first decisions you’ll have to make as a business owner, is to decide what kind of web hosting you want and how you’ll build your website. It can be daunting, but it doesn’t have to be. Because of this, we’ve created a lot of resources to help guide you through the process.

Best Web Hosting: How to Choose the Best Web Host for Your Blog
Questions to Ask: 10 Questions to Answer Before Choosing a Web Host
Bluehost Review: Why We Think Bluehost is the Best Hosting for Beginners
WP Engine Review: Why I *Really* Love WP Engine Hosting
How to Start a Blog: Step by Step Everything You Need to Do to Start a Blog
Online Asset: How to Create Your First Online Asset in 48 Hours

Productivity for Entrepreneurs

Productivity and mindset is one of the most crucial elements that often gets overlooked for solopreneurs and lifestyle business owners. As people who deal with the ups and downs of this on a daily basis, this is something we’ve covered extensively. No matter what productivity issue you’re dealing with – we can help.

Taking Action: How To Finally Take Action: The 30 Day Challenge
Goal Setting: How to Accomplish Your Goals: The Stair Step Method and How to Set Goals and Achieve Them in 2021
Managing Stress: How to Relieve Stress (A Practical Guide)
Managing Email Overload: How to Use Streak for Gmail (And Why It’s Such an Awesome Tool for Freelancers)
Waking up Early: How Waking Up at 6am Everyday for 2 Weeks Changed My Business Trajectory
Morning Routine: 31 Things You Can Add to Your Morning Routine to Increase Productivity
Stopping Early: Why You Should Stop Working at Noon Everyday
Wasting Time: The Killer Problem with Killing Time
Co-Working: Why You Need to Find a “Third Place” and Why I Commute for 90 Minutes Each Day
Deliberate Action: Productivity Isn’t Your Problem, This Is…
30 Day Challenge: How to Create Your Own 30 Day Challenge
Momentum: How to Maintain Momentum AFTER Completing a 30 Day Challenge
Managing Multiple Projects: How to Manage Multiple Projects (And Actually Get Things Done)
Habit Building: Want to Start a New Habit? Here are 5 Easy Ways to Build Habits
Positivity: How to Stay Positive (When Everyone Else is Doing Better Than You)

More About Productivity and Stress Management

Self Publishing: Make Passive Income By Writing Books

If you have an expertise on a topic, self publishing could be one of the most effective long term businesses you can create. From passive income, to generating leads, to creating speaking opportunities, becoming an author can be an excellent way to build your business.

Blog to Book: How To Create A Book From Your Blog
Finding a Book Niche: How to Discover Profitable Book Niches on Amazon
Kindle Publishing: How to Make $4,000 in Six Months
Avoid Mistakes: 10 Mistakes I Made as a Successful First Time Kindle Author (So You Don’t Have To)
Launching Your Book: How to Launch Your First Kindle Book and Make $1,000 in 30 Days
KDP Publishing: What is Amazon KDP Publishing? (And How to Start)

More About Self Publishing

Youtube and Video: How to Use Video to Grow Your Business

Video is going to be increasingly important when it comes to business, traffic, and trust. We’ve made a pretty big deep dive into the world of YouTube, and written quite a bit about it.