Working on the road

I work a regular 9-5/salaried position (on a W2 and all) doing web development.

A lot of people, traveling or not locate a source and sell things on the Internet, often having it drop shipped and never touching the product.
Some sell things, from flea markets and an vast array, in small commerce.
After a few dollars get ready for paperwork and reporting taxes and so on.....and a whole lot more business than you may want to handle.

Some of the full timers I know use the internet for work and some don't. Anyone wanting to make sone money while living in their RV, need to take a hard look at what job skills they have to sell. I have friends that are RNs, live in a 40 ft class A and work the west coast as travelers, doing 3 month contracts with various hospitals. An Okie friend works as a traveling radiologist doing fill in work in OK, TX, MO and AR. Lives in his motorhome and works contract in those 4 states wher he keeps his medical licenses current. Works about 6 months out of the year. Some Colorado friends work out of their motorhome, she does medical billings for several medical clinics in Colorado. They don't know if she is at her home office or her RV office as everything is done over the Internet or by cell phone. Her husband makes music CDs for radio stations, Oldies but Goodies type. He has contracts to make X amount of hours per week for them to plug in and broadcast. He has duplicate equipment set up in the RV, the same as in his home office in Colorado. He is a retired radio DJ and former station manager.

Others work oil refinery turn arounds , so he and his family move 2 to 4 times a year to the next job. Met an employee at one of the Camping World stores here in Florida that works seasonal for them at different stores around the country. Michigan in the summer, Florida in the winter, etc.

A few years back in Jackson MS, I stopped for fuel at the Flying J and decided to spend the night in their parking lot. Noticed, not too far away from me, a large Class A parked. There were three young women with it, dressed like they were going clubbing There were 8 or 10 truck drivers gathered around talking to the women. Every once in a while one of the drivers and one of the women wound go inside. Suspected the women were financial advisors or psychic readers, as I know many truckers are interested in such.

Recently saw a Class A with a painted sign on the side, DOT Physicals to Go. Curiousness got the best of me so I went over to ask. Husband and wife team, doctor and nurse did on site DOT physicals for company drivers. Said they could do 20 or 25 a day. I doubt they worked over a week a month and just enjoyed life the rest of the time.

Bottom line is a person has to have something to sell. After retiring from my office job, I did some internet consulting with former clients in the fields of finance and also in security matters of interest to them. I had fiber optic cable at home and had AT&T and Verison hot spots for when we were on the road.

Down side was keeping clients in different time zones happy and having some time for myself, to do things like sleep, eat, shower, etc. LOL

Yeah, that "guru" stuff is a bunch of BS. I connect marketers with advertisers to help sell their products online. It's all commission based, so if you refer a customer that purchases a product, you get paid a commission. It makes a lot more sense to advertise online in this manner because as an advertiser you only pay for when someone generates a lead for you. It works out for the publisher because they can get paid a lot more than they would via traditional methods for their traffic.

Selling knowledge/information is typically a hoax. No good marketer gives away real secrets. They'll give you just enough info to pique your interest and get you to pay them.

Nevertheless there are plenty of legit ways to make money online including blogging as someone else on this thread mentioned. Pick a topic you love that will interest others, provide good content, include reviews on products you love or have tried (many of which have affiliate programs which will pay you to generate sales) and grow from there.

The internet can provide freedom that people 20-50 years ago could only dream about. I remember when we got our first trailer, we were 27 and we traveled the country for a few months. People used to get mad at me because they had waited and saved their whole lives to be able to have an RV and the freedom associated. I like to enjoy life and figured if I could travel at 27, why wait til I was 72. It's a whole new world out there and I'm trying to take advantage for a better quality of life for my family.

westernrvparkowner wrote:

tatest wrote:
Some of the people I know making (big) money on the Internet are selling their knowledge about how to make money on the Internet. It is a whole new world for a whole new breed of entrepreneurs. It is a lot like multi-level marketing, but without a physical product, the product is information. Many are part of several similar business, and might be multiple web sites, working social media, and services like YouTube. I had no idea about all this until I started traveling alone, meeting affluent people the age of my children who seemed to have no need for a job to enjoy their plush lifestyle, and started talking to them about how they make their money.

All you really need to do is make up a business plan for an interesting new product or service (think Shark Tank), make a great presentation on the Internet, and people will start sending you money to get the business going.

Or you could invent a great new kind of car (or some other product in that price class), put the proposal on the Internet, and start collecting deposits for first deliveries. I've seen evidence of deposits collected for more than five years without any actual production. That would never have worked without the Internet as a sales tool.

Taking deposits without delivering a product is fraud. So is making up a fake business proposal and getting investors. Spending investor money for personal gain will earn you several years of free accommodations in some of the government's finest resorts. BTW Ponzi schemes, fake investments, stealing deposits and the like predate the internet by several thousand years.

Elio thinks he is safe so far with his non-refundable deposits. The Internet crowdfunding programs make it clear that the donors are not investors. But living on the edge explains why some of these folks have residency in Costa Rica.

tatest wrote:
Some of the people I know making (big) money on the Internet are selling their knowledge about how to make money on the Internet. It is a whole new world for a whole new breed of entrepreneurs. It is a lot like multi-level marketing, but without a physical product, the product is information. Many are part of several similar business, and might be multiple web sites, working social media, and services like YouTube. I had no idea about all this until I started traveling alone, meeting affluent people the age of my children who seemed to have no need for a job to enjoy their plush lifestyle, and started talking to them about how they make their money.

All you really need to do is make up a business plan for an interesting new product or service (think Shark Tank), make a great presentation on the Internet, and people will start sending you money to get the business going.

Or you could invent a great new kind of car (or some other product in that price class), put the proposal on the Internet, and start collecting deposits for first deliveries. I've seen evidence of deposits collected for more than five years without any actual production. That would never have worked without the Internet as a sales tool.

Taking deposits without delivering a product is fraud. So is making up a fake business proposal and getting investors. Spending investor money for personal gain will earn you several years of free accommodations in some of the government's finest resorts. BTW Ponzi schemes, fake investments, stealing deposits and the like predate the internet by several thousand years.

Retired police detective, now working when I feel like it as a private investigator. When I get a case I can take the RV and wife to the location and make a trip of it in between working.

Some of the people I know making (big) money on the Internet are selling their knowledge about how to make money on the Internet. It is a whole new world for a whole new breed of entrepreneurs. It is a lot like multi-level marketing, but without a physical product, the product is information. Many are part of several similar business, and might be multiple web sites, working social media, and services like YouTube. I had no idea about all this until I started traveling alone, meeting affluent people the age of my children who seemed to have no need for a job to enjoy their plush lifestyle, and started talking to them about how they make their money.

All you really need to do is make up a business plan for an interesting new product or service (think Shark Tank), make a great presentation on the Internet, and people will start sending you money to get the business going.

Or you could invent a great new kind of car (or some other product in that price class), put the proposal on the Internet, and start collecting deposits for first deliveries. I've seen evidence of deposits collected for more than five years without any actual production. That would never have worked without the Internet as a sales tool.

Wife graduates from medical coding ICD 10,after internship,she can work from road on internet.

Our daughter works from home via the internet but her job could easily be done by a traveling RVer. She sets up companies with their tax programs. Bass Pro Shop is a new customer for her.

She also puts in much more than 40 hr/week which is only what she's paid for. However, her hours are flexible so she can go to the kids' school activities and games.

If you go into an office building nowadays, you will see everyone on their computers doing their work. Very little paper gets passed around.

Working from a RV you definitely would not be using a park's Wifi. You'd need to supply your own and be in an area to get good internet connection.