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- Apr 27, 2021
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E106: Life As A Digital Nomad, Killing Ego, & Scaling A Creative Business W/ Max Sher

@max_sher

E106:

Ever wanted to travel the world while working doing what you love? Consider being a digital nomad then. It’s possible in today’s age with the tools we have at the ready to work a creative business and travel the world and we hear a bit about it from Max Sher of the Sher Agency. Max works with a agency team he put together in some unique ways to work from moving every couple months to explore while creating custom websites for customers. We talk through the process of doing something like this, scaling a creative business, and overall killing ego so you can let others work in your business with you so you can help more people and live with more freedom.

In This Episode We Cover

Being a digital nomad
Starting an agency
Starting up a business in college
Networking in new places
Challenges of travel life
Getting into the digital nomad life
Controlling your overhead
Looking at real estate choices of overhead
Bringing in income online
Tricks to get a better rate at long term airbnb
How to manage a creative business team remote
Niching down in your business
Working with a team across different countries and states ,,,
Taking a step back to go forward
Growing pains

Quotes

“I feel like everywhere I go, this is where I’m staying but then someone tell’s me some cool place I should go then I go.” - Max Sher

“We had to spend the night at a gas station. We were in our chairs sleeping in this car at a pump waiting for a tow truck that was not coming!” - Max Sher

“It’s a game of I need to keep my overhead down, I need to control the overhead that I induce and I need to control and generate income from something that can be facilitated perfectly online.” - Host Dave Swillum

Max’s Links

@max_sher

Website

sheragency.com

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