“A virtual assistant is someone who assists you from where they are, not where you are” Virtual assistant matchmaker, VA trainer and coach Melissa Smith said. Not only does she train VAs, Melissa also matches clients with VAs and works to help them be successful in...
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Why Bullet-Journaling Is Important For Digital Nomads
As digital nomads, we move around quite a bit, and it might be hard to stay on top of things. We need to not only complete daily tasks such as sending emails and contacting team members but book flights and find good Airbnb deals. We could end up in complete...
One Year of the Digital Nomad Village in Madeira
“We were hoping for 500 registrations in total, we got 200 per day!!” Micaela Vieira, Project Manager in Startup Madeira tells us about the success of the Digital Nomad Village Project in Madeira. The project started in 2020 when Gonçalo Hall, a digital nomadism...
Best Destinations for First-Time Digital Nomads
At this moment, the estimated number of digital nomads around the world exceeds 35,000,000; and this is just an estimate, the real number may be much higher than that. You, yourself, are probably reading this either because you are a digital nomad already, you want to...
How to Progress your Career as a Remote Worker
Until the pandemic, remote work was principally the domain of established employees who already had a comfortable niche within their company and had earned the respect of their colleagues and superiors. They could afford to cut their face time to achieve a better...
Productivity Dysmorphia and How to Recognise Your Own Successes
Podcaster Anna Codrea-Rado recently coined the term ‘productivity dysmorphia’. It describes that feeling you get that you’re not enough - that you haven’t done enough or achieved enough - and that you’re generally not as productive as you should be. The term is linked...
Top 9 Digital Nomad Communities to Join in 2024
Being a digital nomad gives you a lot of freedom to travel and work around the world, but it can be lonely and that’s why nomads often enjoy joining digital nomad communities. And after two years of restrictions and lockdowns due to COVID-19, many people are keen to...
9 Time Management Techniques for Digital Nomads
Effective time management is essential for being productive and getting work done, whether it’s in the comfort of your rental home, modern office or a vintage cafe. But when it comes to digital nomads, time management takes a whole new level. We need to not only meet...
How to Know if Your Future Employer is Remote-Friendly or Remote-First
The number of "remote-friendly" companies has been steadily increasing in the last few decades with the rising popularity of high-speed internet and quality collaboration software. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the number is in fact growing even more, and many...
10 Most Important Cryptocurrencies Other Than Bitcoin
Although Bitcoin has long been the biggest and most well-known cryptocurrency, you may have heard names here and there of other lesser-known currencies. Some of the biggest are Ethereum and Litecoin, but in reality, there are hundreds of altcoins out there, all with...