Incomes Abroad Archives

In this months issue of Incomes Abroad discover how to create a nomadic lifestyle with an online income, fuel your imagination for overseas earning. If you are a food lover, find out how expats in Ecuador, Costa Rica and Panama are growing, cooking, or prepping their produce. Elsewhere in your issue discover how one expat couple are funding life in a cool-weather Nicaraguan mountain town with their homemade ice cream… Plus, you’ll meet expats savoring life on Panama’s Caribbean island paradise of Bocas del Toro. They reveal how to tap into the stream of international travelers to the archipelago.

We have a super range of overseas income ideas for you in this issue of Incomes Abroad—from beer making to baking...a tropical island wellness center to life on the high seas…no sailing experience required. Latin America has proved to be an affordable place for craft brewers to turn their hobby into an income—and a whole new lifestyle—while an adorable European capital has a ready market for American-style baked goods like cupcakes and cheesecakes. Read how one expat brought her dream of a wellness retreat center to life on the balmy, Caribbean island of Roatan. And just wait until you discover how another funds her global trips—sailing around the world.

Get your ideas into action, says Barbara Winter, our resident self-employment writer…and we have some great ideas for you to act on this month. Like converting what you know into a digital product that sells over and over again…even while you’re sleeping. Or investing in an emerging country like the pioneering expats finding opportunities in the tiny European country of Montenegro…one has set up a tourism marketing business there, while another is running an adventure sports business. Meet a chef who dreamed of opening a restaurant in a beautiful location by the sea and find out why he did it in Mexico. Or follow the footsteps of an aspiring writer who made her dream come true in the beautiful city of Prague.

Meet expats running businesses in romantic Italy and living the sweet life—La Dolce Vita—and the expat artists and writers indulging their creative urges in Peru, where they’ve found low-cost living, artistic community, and a ready tourist market for their output in Cusco. You’ll also get the lowdown on a couple producing tropical liqueurs in the sunny Dominican Republic—without the kind of regulation they might have faced back in the U.S. And you can follow the fortunes of empty-nesters Jim and Jane Ann Engel who took off on their own adventures after the kids left. Now, they are both teaching English in Bogotá, loving the new experience, and planning to explore Colombia in greater depth. Plus you’ll get insights on stock photography and importing crafts from the experts. And we have details on: • a thriving business sector you may not have considered in the Philippines • a burger restaurant with a track record for sale in Brazil • vacation rental opportunities in the highlands of Mexico • and gap-in-the-market opportunities in Caribbean beach towns.

Here’s another great selection of earn-overseas ideas to help you fund a new life in a exciting place. Meet the American web designer who moved to Costa Rica’s Central Valley with his online income…the Canadian mom who set up a bohemian gift and surf shop on Nicaragua’s Pacific coast…and the Briton who sells his photographs in his own gallery in the colonial town of Mérida on the Yucatan Peninsula. A gallery isn’t the only way to make money from photography. Daniel Nahabedian funds his life in the Moorish city of Granada in southern Spain by selling photographs to magazines. “It only took an impulsive purchase of a small digital camera to discover a new passion that would completely change my life,” he says. “I had no skills in photography at all.” Yet a year later, Daniel was able to quit his job in human resources and become a freelance travel photographer.

Discover how to get a visa for teaching English in Europe…take your online business overseas…or build a holistic retreat center in Mexico. Mike Nelson decided to head for Europe when he turned 60. “I wasn’t happy with my job in the States,” he says. “I liked the people, but not the business. I wanted to try and do something that maybe I could actually love to do.” Now he teaches English in France and enjoys the relaxed European lifestyle, the famous food and wine, and the interesting, cosmopolitan people. Beverly Nelson took her passion for holistic healing to San Miguel de Allende and turned it into a successful business…now she enjoys a great social life in this very cultured Mexican town, going to concerts, plays, gallery openings, and dining out regularly with fellow expats… If your preference is for a portable online business, Mat Lewis reveals how he cut his expenses by moving to low-cost Southeast Asia…and Annette Emelity shows you how she makes a huge profit on eBay, often working from her beach home in Puerto Penasco in Mexico.

Inside this issue, you’ll find new ideas—like how chatting in English can earn you money—and new places, like tropical, low-cost Southeast Asia for digital nomads. Discover the various ways expats are creating enterprises in chocolate…growing beans…making pralines and truffles…giving tours and running workshops. If being out on the water is part of your overseas dream, you’ll love our story about an expat who bought an old Chinese junk in Hong Kong and now runs it as a tourism charter off the coast of Malaysia. And if Asia appeals to you, find out how Dani Leis supports herself holding Skype conversations with folks learning to speak English. She lives in low-cost northern Thailand where she earns $1,000 a month, spending just a few hours each day talking with her students. And there’s much more about how digital nomads are thriving in Southeast Asia…how Bolivia is the new kid on the block when it comes to opportunities…and how you can set up an online retail business that you can operate from anywhere in the world.

There’s no better time of year for making plans so we’ve packed this issue of Incomes Abroad with great ideas for making money overseas. Tourism hotspots are great places to start up a small publishing venture—newsletters, magazines, blogs, or websites—there’s an appetite for information and a willing supply of advertisers to tap. Meet expat publishers in this issue and discover the different ways you can go about this. You’ll also discover how expats in Costa Rica have found a market for small, artisan food enterprises…busy enough to create an income but small enough to allow for plenty of downtime. Alex Horst is making his own ice cream for sale…Shannon Russell is supplying restaurants with a range of desserts…Margaret and Bill Nevins are making healthy granolas and nut butters. Plus, you’ll discover how to get a visa in Germany for all manner of creative pursutis—graphic design, freelance writing, photography and filmmaking. Imagine all European hotspots you can visit from a base in Germany. And we bring you opportunities to teach English in Colombia…tap into the tourism business in Costa Rica…and set up a really simple income in pet care. Open your issue now…and you’ll be brimming with ideas for your own overseas adventure.

Imagine a business you can start immediately...one that needs zero capital investment and means you get to live on a Caribbean island... With no office, no staff, and no initial investment, expat Sophia Fedio found exactly such an opportunity and in your issue this month she reveals how... Discover the demand for eco-resorts in Ecuador and Cambodia. With a growing number of tourists looking for comfortable, ecologically sound accommodation you stand to profit from this niche. Michelle Klein and her husband, Gary Garces, found the perfect place for their eco-resort in Tena, Ecuador, and opened for business just a year ago. They awake to the sounds of birds every morning and the scent of orchids on the breeze. Kris Warner and his wife, Naome Pich, have a cluster of bungalows in Kep, Cambodia—a place that's making a name for itself among eco-tourists. As well as running profitable businesses overseas, both couples are living in warm climates with good communities around them. Read their stories in your December issue.

In this month’s issue you’ll meet the Texan family who moved to Costa Rica and surprised themselves with an income source they hadn't anticipated. In their first year, they got a lifestyle business up and running…now they’re thriving. There is so much happening around the world and you can be part of this great, enterprising trend. This and lots more in your November issue of Incomes Abroad.