Digital Nomad Lifestyle Solopreneurship truths PPT by Joanna Vaiou, SEO Specialist and Founder at JoannaVaiou.com and MarketingforArchitecturalFirms.com

1. The Cube Athens with Joanna VaiouThe Cube Athens with Joanna Vaiou

2. March
2009
March
2013
May
2019
“Change” Starting Point:
•Investing in myself through a Personal
Development Course
•Investing my time and savings in
learning – building expertise online
(from home) on how to build wordpress
websites and rank them on top page of
Google for their keywords (SEO)
Sept 2011 –
September
2012
Got a Job at a Performance
Agency in Athens as an SEO
Manager and stayed for a full
year.
•After a ~2 month work and travel journey with an American digital nomad friend /
business partner, in March 2013 (4 years after I started my overall investments), I started
my own business where I support my own clients remotely with their corporate SEO
Project Management needs
•I am free to “slow pace” travel, choose my working hours, my working space, my clients,
partners and team members and set my own prices
•I have founded and have been working on 2 SEO Brands: JoannaVaiou.com and
MarketingforArchitecturalFirms.com - I would never go back to a conventional job or an
employee job because there is no freedom in this type of life or substantial potential for
growth.
2. Travel 2011 (Barcelona) 3. USA Travel 2012
(LV, LA, SF, DV)
1. Virgin Travel (USA: NY)
4. Travel 2016 (Madrid - Malaga) 5. Travel 2017 (Paris x 2)
6. Travel 2018
•Sofia (BG)
•Stuttgart (GERMANY)
•Cagliari (ITALY)
7. Travel 2019 (HU - Budapest)

3. PROS & Challenges of Digital Nomad Lifestyle
PROS:PROS:
Ultimate FREEFREEDOMDOM to Choose:
1.Your workspace & environment
2.Your own working hours
3.Your Partners, Clients, Trainees
4.Decide how much money you want to make
5.The overall quality of your life
6.Happiness
Challenges:Challenges:
1.Possible addiction to traveling
2.It can become an expensive “sport”
3.It is not for everyone (Emotionally, Mentally)
4.Dealing with Solitude – Being with Yourself Alone

4. Best practices for a Happy / Successful Digital Nomad Lifestyle
•Become AWARE of yourself, who you are and how you want to live the rest of your life.
•Learn how to love, trust & believe in, respect, accept, forgive, appreciate yourself – Always be improving YOU.
•Treat your clients, partners, team members & others the same way as above.
•Educate yourself in a new major (with an existing market that pays for experts) that you can actually love and be passionate
about (so it doesn’t feel like “tedious work”).
•Become THE EXPERT in your major – Build a portfolio of your results and the way you help people solve their problems (case
studies, documented samples of your successful work) - Ask your clients / partners for testimonials - Get your face on video –
Speak directly to your audience – Be authentic & Unique.
•Take risks regularly & be fiercely patient.
•Be fiercely DISCIPLINED with yourself and your responsibilities.
•Work on your SOFT / Communication SKILLS – Build & maintain meaningful & positive relationships with your clients, partners,
team members.
•Unplug regularly – so you can recharge and keep doing great work.
•Cut the noise & negativity – be very strict with who you surround yourself with in your daily life.

6. Thank you - Joanna VaiouThank you - Joanna Vaiou

7. Thank you - Joanna VaiouThank you - Joanna Vaiou