Adventures in doing business from a phone’s wifi hotspot
Published: Wed, 01/15/20
When I say boonies, I ain't just whistlin' dixie.
In fact, my new digs weren’t even wired for high speed internet.
The people who used to live here apparently were content with the frustrations and vagaries of satellite internet and never bothered to set the place up for cable internet. And, it turned out Spectrum had to do a lot of construction — including running 150 feet of cable underground — to get my place hooked up.
The entire process took over 3 months.
And, thus, I had to run my business mostly via my phone’s wifi hotspot.
It was a merry ol' time, too — mostly because of the dial-up like speed it ran at after I burned through my monthly hotspot allocated data, which made it so I couldn’t load most web pages, and it often took (no exaggeration) longer to load emails into my broadcast program and also put them on my blog than it took to actually write the emails.
Of course, there are a couple places I could go for high speed internet.
One of which is a local bookstore coffee shop.
But it’s a cramped and loud place (impossible to concentrate) with small tables and big voices, and uses spotty satellite internet which is sometimes just as frustrating.
There’s also the library, too.
And, while it has great functioning internet, they don’t open until 10 am and noon on weekends.
But by that time, I was already spent working.
Daddy is an early riser type who likes to get crackin’ before the crack of dawn.
Anyway, why should you care about any of this?
Probably you shouldn’t care.
Unless you want the hope and assurance that even under near internet-less conditions you can still run a fairly big and successful internet-based business. As during that 3 months at the time, I had not only record sales in new business, but hammered out several product re-launches, affiliate campaigns, and other assorted projects almost exclusively from my phone’s wifi hotspot.
Maybe that doesn’t impress you, or maybe it does.
But, either way, here’s why I bring it up:
A few days ago, my business partner in crime Troy Broussard — who has a similar kind of business, but also almost the polar opposite — and I riffed about how to run a 6 or possibly even a 7 figure business from your phone.
Not just “my” kind of business, though (publishing).
But coaching, service businesses, and others.
If this topic interests you, here’s all you have to do:
1. Get my app by registering at www.elBenbo.com with your mobile phone (the App is not on desktop yet, and not ideal for iPads yet either)
2. Access the training inside the App on this subject via your phone
I also have some other content in there, too.
Including valuable content that will not be free beginning next week.
Giddy-up…
Ben Settle