Webby
Sat 28 Jul 2007
I was recently interviewed and photographed by CNN’s Business 2.0 magazine. The very well written article is out now in the print version and is a good read for any wannabe nomads. There is a link to an online version below.
The picture of me was taken in a village called Playford just outside my home town by the way.
The article is pretty accurate apart from it mentions the way I make money; ‘by plastering ads all over his sites’ - this is not the case people! If you do this you will not make much money at all!
Talking of money this month could exceed $8000 which in my money represents £1000 a week which I guess is a major milestone! The magic figure of $10,000 a month is becoming realistic now.
July 29th, 2007 at 2:24 pm
That’s really cool. I hope the article brings in some new members to the forum.
From what I have seen with other people, once one magazine/newspaper picks up on your story others soon follow.
Well done!
July 29th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
Very cool.
July 30th, 2007 at 6:52 am
Good article.
It’s an interesting ezine format with the real-page feel to it.
Nice one. A little more inspiration once again.
Keep it up!
Rob
July 30th, 2007 at 11:24 am
Ya nice article. Shame about the ‘plastering ads’ bit but oh well. I wonder if we’ll see many new active members coming to the forum. It’s quite exciting though just to get into a mag like that, well done!
July 30th, 2007 at 11:53 am
The author apologised to me for the ‘plastering ads bit’ - he said one of the senior editors insisted on putting that in.
Makes me sound like a spammer but there is no such thing as bad publicity
July 30th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
You could sue. It’s not true, and intended to make you look bad. The damages probably wouldn’t be high enough to be worth it.
July 30th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
If I was an American I probably would!
July 30th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
Nice article. I regret not having enough time at the moment to participate in the forum. But I am still scanning your feed.
Keep up the work-travel-social balance !
Dionys
July 30th, 2007 at 3:59 pm
Please don’t. Geez.
July 31st, 2007 at 12:35 am
Nice one. Love the mag format aswell. I wish I could have read some of my mags from home on the road in a format like this, but that I could read offline. Congrats on the income as well.
July 31st, 2007 at 12:54 pm
I have just read the article in business2.0, Great stuff, have fun.
jayjay
July 31st, 2007 at 1:59 pm
It’s much easier to sue in the UK, because there intent rules. Even if something is true, if it was published maliciously, you can sue for libel. In the US truth is a defence.
July 31st, 2007 at 4:54 pm
‘Extreme Telecommuting’ has now made the front page of CNN Money, Business 2.0
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/
Would explain why I have sold double figures of ebooks today!
July 31st, 2007 at 5:04 pm
That’s great Webby.
Congrats on making it onto cnn.
August 1st, 2007 at 12:30 am
Wow, what a great concept, I found the site through the CNet post linking to the CNN article. I had no idea there was a community set up for this. I’ve been doing something similar for close to a decade in the US as a full time RVer working remotely as a software engineer. Not quite like backpacking with a laptop, I always pack whole house with me where ever I go
August 1st, 2007 at 10:37 am
Can you provide a link to the Cnet post?
Thanks
August 2nd, 2007 at 4:41 pm
[…] 8221;? C’mon. But I digress. CNN Money ran an article recently featuring Webby from WorkingNomad.com: Telecommuting, of course, is hardly a new idea […]
August 4th, 2007 at 6:50 pm
Hey Webby,
Just wondering, how much of a traffic boost (if any) did you receive from the cnn article. It’d be interesting for me to know how much of an impact a traditional media company, cnn, can have on a website that I assume gets most of its traffic from search engines.
Thanks in advance.
August 5th, 2007 at 11:59 am
On the day the article went live on the CNN site I got three times the usual traffic.
The next day was double as with the next day.
Still getting double as of today!
August 6th, 2007 at 9:26 pm
Wow that’s amazing!
Thanks for the info.
John