Posts by Jacob Aldridge
Being Responsible for Maintaining Relationships as Expats
I wrote previously about what to do with your stuff when you leave the country long term (longterm travel, digital nomad, or expat). What about the relationships you leave behind? Moving countries means you’re choosing a different life path to many of your family and long term friends. Maybe that means you were always a…
Read MoreWhere do you store your possessions for long term travel?
I spend a lot of time in digital nomad and long term travel communities (mostly online … because most of us are moving around regularly). One of the most common questions (that isn’t tax related) is “Where do you keep your stuff while you’re gone?” One school of thought is to donate everything you’re not…
Read MoreThe Start-up Business Guide
The Start-up Business Guide: 50 First Steps Every Successful Founder Completes in their First Year. Learn from 1000s of other business owners to help you thrive
Read MoreAre Digital Nomad Families who Homeschool Bad Parents?
In the beforetimes, and hopefully once more in the future, my family were digital nomads. My calm and happy daughter visited 19 countries before her first birthday, and if it weren’t for a global pandemic would have visited many more by now. As parents, we feel that extensive travel is a huge and beneficial opportunity…
Read MoreHow to Improve Staff Conditions for Trade Businesses
Over 16 years, I’ve definitely worked with more professional services firms than any other category. And in a “work from home” world, the perks for being an accountant or lawyer are on the rise. But you can’t send your termites to a pest control company by email, so their technicians can deal with the problem…
Read MoreCamp Fire History: Reconnecting Your Business Vision
A recession or economic downturn typically pushes a management team’s focus into becoming very micro (budgets, staffing, banks, costs, refinancing, saving money). If you’re not having a macro conversation right now, you’ll be disconnecting from your business vision – one of the reasons I have said previously that every business needs a counter-cyclical recession response.…
Read MoreHow to Run Better Business Meetings
Most businesses think they have too many meetings. In reality they don’t have enough, they just have the wrong meetings and run them inefficiently. Change that!
Read MoreIN THE MEDIA: How to prevent a K-shaped economic recovery
Source: In The Black Most economists agree that the gulf between rich and poor has widened as the result of the COVID-19 pandemic, raising concerns about a “K shaped” recovery. In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, many economists were hoping for a V-shaped recovery – a brief spell in the economic doldrums followed…
Read MoreVisionary Leaders Embrace Feminine Energy
Visionary Male Leaders (my new book) is now available for purchase! Learn how to use Masculine AND Feminine Energy to advance your business leadership skills
Read MoreWho Would Win a Fight Between Tony Robbins, Jacob Aldridge, and an Inflatable Doll?
A lesson in Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), that sadly lacks a definitive answer to the Tony Robbins / Inflatable Doll battle question you ask.
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