Learn how reverse engineering, risk reduction, and brand positioning can make an unconventional business work remotely. ============================ Get the Monday Minute my weekly email with 3 personal recs for travel, culture, and living beyond borders you can read in 60 seconds. ============================ ON THIS EPISODE Matt Bowles dissects the Maverick Investor Group business model and shares 5 tips for building a location independent business in a space that is not traditionally virtual. He begins by explaining the importance of believing it can be done, ignoring the naysayers and perceived limitations, and surrounding yourself with or at least consuming content by people that have done similar things. Matt shares multiple examples of entrepreneurs interviewed on The Maverick Show that have built businesses with a location-independent infrastructure that many people initially thought was impossible to do. He then talks about the importance of reverse engineering your business model to ensure you don’t make any geographically restrictive mistakes. Next, he talks about the importance of mitigating any additional perceived risk in the mind of the buyer, and then to go beyond that and to actually make your location independent infrastructure part of your value proposition and explain how it is advantageous to your buyer. Matt provides examples of how Maverick Investor Group does this with their buying opportunities for cash-flowing rental properties that people can buy in the most investor advantaged markets regardless of where they live. And finally, he talks about integrating your location independent lifestyle into your brand identity, using it to be more interesting than your competitors and also to establish affinities with other people that live or aspire to that lifestyle. → Full show notes with direct links to everything discussed are available here. ============================ FIND YOUR NEXT EPISODE Explore The Maverick Show Starter Packs — some of my favorite conversations curated by theme so you can easily find the episodes that match your interests. ============================ FREE RESOURCES FOR YOU See my Top 10 Travel Apps See my Top 10 Books that Shaped the Way I Travel See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ============================ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram and DM Matt to continue the conversation Please leave a rating and review — it really helps the show and I read each one personally Support the show by buying me a coffee — espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes!

Five Tips for Building a Location Independent Business in a Space that is Not Traditionally Virtual with Matt Bowles (Ep 70)

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Learn how reverse engineering, risk reduction, and brand positioning can make an unconventional business work remotely.  ============================  Get the Monday Minute my weekly email with 3 personal recs for travel, culture, and living beyond borders you can read in 60 seconds.  ============================  ON THIS EPISODE  Matt Bowles dissects the Maverick Investor Group business model and shares 5 tips for building a location independent business in a space that is not traditionally virtual.  He begins by explaining the importance of believing it can be done, ignoring the naysayers and perceived limitations, and surrounding yourself with or at least consuming content by people that have done similar things. Matt shares multiple examples of entrepreneurs interviewed on The Maverick Show that have built businesses with a location-independent infrastructure that many people initially thought was impossible to do.  He then talks about the importance of reverse engineering your business model to ensure you don’t make any geographically restrictive mistakes. Next, he talks about the importance of mitigating any additional perceived risk in the mind of the buyer, and then to go beyond that and to actually make your location independent infrastructure part of your value proposition and explain how it is advantageous to your buyer. Matt provides examples of how Maverick Investor Group does this with their buying opportunities for cash-flowing rental properties that people can buy in the most investor advantaged markets regardless of where they live. And finally, he talks about integrating your location independent lifestyle into your brand identity, using it to be more interesting than your competitors and also to establish affinities with other people that live or aspire to that lifestyle.   → Full show notes with direct links to everything discussed are available here.  ============================  FIND YOUR NEXT EPISODE  Explore The Maverick Show Starter Packs — some of my favorite conversations curated by theme so you can easily find the episodes that match your interests.  ============================  FREE RESOURCES FOR YOU  See my Top 10 Travel Apps  See my Top 10 Books that Shaped the Way I Travel  See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual)  Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn  See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend  See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use)  ============================  ENJOYING THE SHOW?  Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram and DM Matt to continue the conversation  Please leave a rating and review — it really helps the show and I read each one personally  Support the show by buying me a coffee — espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes!

The Maverick Show is a global travel podcast about what really happens when people cross borders and build lives across cultures. Hosted by full-time world traveler Matt Bowles, each episode features intimate, unfiltered conversations (often over a bottle of wine) exploring the human stories behind global travel and what the journey teaches us about the world and ourselves.  Guests include expats, digital nomads, women and diaspora storytellers, worldschooling families, and human rights advocates, all sharing travel stories that are funny, moving, and deeply human.  In addition to hearing about extraordinary places and the people who live there, you’ll learn what it’s really like to move abroad, build an expat life, or travel long-term, as guests open up about their personal journeys navigating culture, race, power, identity, and belonging in an unequal world. If you’ve ever felt that travel changes you in ways no one talks about, you’re in the right place.  The Maverick Show hit the Top 100 on Apple Podcasts (including #1 in Places & Travel), was ranked in the Top 1% of podcasts globally by Listen Notes, and was named the #1 Digital Nomad Podcast and #1 Remote Work Podcast by Million Podcasts — with hundreds of five-star listener reviews.

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