I’ve been traveling internationally on and off for many years now. When traveling internationally these days, not only do I have the usual costs associated with airfares, hotels and ground transportation, but also I have the additional cost of using my smart phone. If one doesn’t plan for international cell phone roaming, the costs can literally run away, and on returning home you’re greeted with a two to three thousand […]
We are becoming more and more of a paperless society as each day goes buy. But who’s really pushing this? Believe it or not, its not you or I.It’s the big companies and their interest is not in saving the environment! It’s in saving costs associated with not having to print your bills, bank statements and other documents and sending them through the postal mail system. Instead you are sent […]
Now here’s a big time saver for me if not a Tim Ferris time hack, the CardStore.com! Let’s take a look at buying a birthday card, filling it out and mailing it. For me to run up to the store (10 minutes), pick out a card, (another 5 minutes) fill it out, stuff it into an envelope and address it (5 minutes) and run up to the post office to […]
One tool I find very useful on the road is the ability to send postal mail through the Internet. There are number of these services out there. All you have to do is a simple Google search for “sending postal mail through the internet” to find one of them. Before I knew these services existed, I would rely on the nice staff at the front desk of the hotel where I […]
In order to work smart while traveling you need to keep your personal life in order whilst on the road. Although not that popular, one of the best tools you can use is a virtual mailbox. They are many virtual mailboxes available, many from small mom-and-pop or husband-and-wife size companies. But the premier service I’ve been able to find is from the company by the name of Earth Class Mail. […]
I use two computers, one is my main desktop in my home office and the other is my laptop that I travel around with. I’ve done this for many years now. But until I came across SugarSync, I had problem keeping files on the two computers synchronized. At first, I started using a hard drive or a flash drive and copying the important files that I needed for the week […]
