Here’s a look inside the tribe of the modern day nomads, a group of men and women who have established full time careers working online. Will their secret to freedom, independence, and passive income be revealed?
The nomads of our day are “choose your own adventurers”, men and women traveling and enjoying incredible lifestyles of freedom and independence. They’ve chosen careers as Bloggers and Internet Marketers so that their physical location rarely ever matters. This tribe of nomads consists of many unique personalities, but they all share one main “secret ingredient” in common.
Let’s take a look at just a few of the usual suspects so we can figure out what they share in common.
Tim Ferris
Author of The 4-Hour Work Week and The 4-Hour Body. Blogs about “Experiments in Lifestyle Design”.
https://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/
Tim travels the world filling us in throughout his books and blogs on the various adventures and episodes of his life. Tim has built a massive following of over 260,000 people on Twitter, over 100,000 people on Facebook, and many readers of his blog and books.
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Adam Baker
Blogs about selling your crap, paying off your debt and doing what you love.
Adam sold all his crap and moved his family into an RV so that they could live cheap, pay off their debt, and enjoy life. He’s been blogging about his battle against the debt, the internet based business he’s created and all the great memories being made while traveling. He also offers a training course to help others get out of debt. Adam now has an email list of over 14,000, has almost 12,000 twitter followers, over 4,000 on Facebook, and a highly active blog reader and subscriber base.
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Trey Ratcliff
Artist, Photographer, Digital Content Developer, World Traveller and Explorer.
https://www.stuckincustoms.com
If you’ve spent any time on Google+ it’s hard to miss Trey’s incredible work, because it’s worthy of stopping and allowing it to grab your attention (and everyone is resharing it). He’s been circled over 60,000 times on G+, has over 24,000 followers on Twitter, and over 21,000 on Facebook. He blogs on his gorgeous website and offers training courses and ebooks.
Natalie Sisson
(Hint — you’re on her blog now!) Business Design Coach, Blogger and Entrepreneur).
https://www.suitcaseentrepreneur.com
Our talented and lovely host, Natalie, has done an incredible job developing this blog that is dedicated to providing creative ways to run your business from anywhere. She has built up a following of tremendously loyal and active readers and subscribers (the best in the world, *wink*… you and me), over 12,000 Twitter followers, and over 2,700 Facebook Fans.
The Secret Ingredient
I could go on and on with another dozen or more examples with folks like Chris Guillebeau, Corbett Barr, Karol Gajda, and many more. I think we have enough, however, to take a good, solid look at the “secret ingredient” commonality that exists amongst these Nomads.
It’s true that they all travel the world, enjoy some lifestyle design of their own, but what enables them to step outside the box of your normal 9 to 5… (dare I say it?)…job? Between finances, limited vacation time, career and family responsibilities, most people can only dream of travelling the world. How can these Nomads swing it?
One word… Tribes.
Tribes are the lifeblood of the internet, they are the catalysts of change, and they are the means of income for many tribe leaders, including the aforementioned Nomads.
Organizing communities of raving fans, followers, subscribers, and/or friends has some incredible benefits…
one of which is that the community is always willing to pay for something of value and interest like training materials, ebooks, membership sites, artwork and other such premium content. Once properly organized, a well built tribe can offer opportunities for passive, residual income, which will ultimately enable the tribe leader to disconnect from a trading time for money type of income model (aka job).
Even more importantly then the income benefit, though, is the reach, influence, and leverage that the tribe can provide to a movement of change, to make a real difference in people’s lives and our world.
Seth Godin made the term Tribes popular with his book published in 2008, “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”. I’ll leave you with a video of Seth explaining “Why You Need A Tribe”. My hope is that you will be inspired by the Nomads and by Seth Godin who is looking for the world changers to step up and start leading their tribes.
My name is Jason Spencer and I Build Tribes.
Build and grow your online community at tribe.ly