5 Tips to Starting a Location-Independent Business (Even If You're Not Tech-Savvy)

Keep it simple, silly

“I can’t turn it off”, I tried to say quietly to my husband as 200+ webinar attendees were gradually leaving the workshop I’d just ended.

I was frantically searching every button on my ‘gotowebinar’ app, but I could not find the one that ended the webinar.

After a few awkward moments, one of my attendees said he could jump on the shared screen and show me how to turn it off.

He walked me through it and I gratefully ended the webinar (so I thought,) turning to my husband and saying ‘well, that was a f***ing embarrassing disaster’.

My screen lit up as the remaining attendees wrote - ‘we’re still here!’ 😂

If I Can Do It, You Most Certainly Can!

That is just one of many, many examples I could give you as to the lack of technical skills I had when I started online.

And without being one of those Gen X parents, telling their Gen Z kids how easy they’ve got it, the fact is, the tech is much simpler these days.

Along the way, as very clever tech people have realized the needs of remote work and onli…