Top 10 Easy to Start Small Business ideas for Expatriates

1. Teaching your native language

Teaching your native language (English, Dutch, Chinese, Spanish, French or any other) is one of the easiest ways to become self-employed as an expat. A smart idea is to choose a specific niche, such as teaching your language for business, personal tutoring, academic tutoring, etc.

A good way to start this business is to network with existing language schools; they may offer you a contract job to start with...

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To promote affiliate offers, you can set up a simple machine by using a simple 2 page website with an autoresponder.

Here’s what you’ll need:
1. A hosting account
2. A domain name
3. A text-editor or webpage editor
4. 2 very simple web pages
a. A “Squeeze” or “Opt-in” page
b. A “download page”
5. An autoresponder account
6. FTP software
7. The link to your affiliate offer

Lets look at each of these in a little more detail.

1. A Hosting Account

A hosting account is where y...

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HOW TO BE A SMART EXPAT WIFE

Basically an expat is a person who is voluntarily absent from his residence or home country. There could be many reasons behind it. Maybe your spouse might have gotten a new job abroad and you may feel the need to cement family ties. From afar it is usually viewed by many as a luxurious lifestyle that is admirable. The flights, hotels are what most wives wish. The move could be from a developed country to developed country: developed country to developing country...

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LOSING (Belly) FAT WITHOUT TRYING for Expat Wives

Fat loss can be easy and stress free if you follow these simple tips

Drink plenty of fresh, clean water.  The recommended daily intake of water is 8 glasses. Water helps to flush out toxins and waste products from the body, prevents dehydration, cushions the bones, speeds up all processes of the body and boosts immune infection. !  Nearly every chemical process place in your body, takes place in water!  Proper blood flow and digestion are bo...

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Easy and Fun ways to Incorporate Fitness into busy Schedules for Expat Wives

If you have a sitting job, stand up and stretch yourself every half an hour. Most of the jobs today are indeed sitting jobs that are in one word sedentary. This is especially true for those who sit and punch away at the keyboard or toy with the mouse all day long. While making telephone calls try walking up and down

 Use the stairs instead of the elevator whenever you can. Instead of waddling up and down the stairc...

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Expat Wife: How to Step up to your Profile as an Expat Wife

Although the world is increasingly becoming a global village and more companies do not have to send their employees overseas, there are those who still get to work away from their home country. As an Expat wife you will find that this move will necessitate reinvention of yourself. You will need a new profile of yourself to suit the circumstances or you will suit the circumstances to your profile. The latter is more often harder to w...

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Review of Home Business For Expat Wives

 

Home Business For Expat Wives: Building a Successful Home Business Even While Living Overseas - A complete guide for expatriate wives to starting and growing a successful home-based business by Bibi Apampa is a book described well by its title.

The book is meant for those who are required to travel frequently but may be struggling to find something that they can do to occupy their time and to provide for their families. It can be a fantastic way to s...

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While the wife’s away…

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Career-planning tips for expat stay-at-home moms

Many expat moms decide to re-establish a career while living overseas. Careful planning is the key to a smooth transition from stay-at-home mom to working woman.

Expatriate wives who are stay-at-home mothers might find that re-entering the workforce after a prolonged absence is fraught with issues that go far beyond cover letters and interviews. Many moms at the crossroads find themselves battling a crushing lack of confidence, the erosion of...

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The Expat Wife's Prayer
 

Heavenly Father, look down on us your humble obedient expat wives who are doomed to travel this earth following our loved ones through their working lives to lands unknown. We beseech you, oh Lord, to see that our plane is not hijacked or doesn't crash, our luggage is not lost or pillaged and our overweight baggage goes unnoticed.

Give us this day divine guidance in our selection of houses, maids and drivers. We pray that the telephone works, the roof does not leak, t...

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How To Create A Successful Home Business

Would you believe someone if he or she said you could work from home and be your own boss? A lot of people try to say that you can work from home. You can be successful, but you need to understand that it takes hard work and dedication. The following information is meant to help you understand what is involved in starting a business.

Decide on a place to keep every one of your contracts, so they are easily accessible if needed during client discussions. ...

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