6 weeks ago I went location independent.

I got rid of almost all my stuff except for what fit in my backpack and then I left Berlin, Germany to become a digital nomad traveling the world indefinitely.

This has been my goal for a while now and I am truly proud to have made it a reality. It did take some dedication and a lot of hard work but it’s possible.

There are many ways to go location independent but the way I do it, is through my online business: the CreativeWebBiz website and the services I offer on it (webite building and online biz consulting). All I need is my laptop which doubles as my office and I’m ready to go wherever my heart takes me.

And if I can do it, you can do it too!

We all have gifts and talents we can share with the world. And most of these can be built into an online business of your own. Just be a little creative and dare to think outside the box.

If you need help thinking about a way to make it work for you, just share the challenges you are facing in the comments below and I will be happy to share some tips, tricks, tools and resources with you!

from Arzon, France

Yamile Yemoonyah

Creative Web Biz - the art of creating an online business

Today it ‘s Thanksgiving in the US.

So I was planning to write a list of all the things that I’m thankful for in my business and beyond.

But you know what…right now I don’t feel like it ( because I already read too many of those lists today).

And as Goddess Leonie taught me today, I don’t have to do anything I do not truly want to do!

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Don’t get me wrong, it’s not that I’m not thankful, I am, very much so indeed.

In fact I just took a long walk and thanked the Universe for all it has given me this last year.

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But here, on the Creative Web Biz blog I just want to thank YOU!

My readers, supporters and clients.

Without you there would be no point in keeping this site up, right?

But instead of telling you how much I appreciate y’all, I’ll do  something else instead:

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I’m holding a sale!

You can get the Creative Web Biz Kit for 55 € (73$) instead of 77€ (103$)

Just use ‘CreativeEntrepreneur’ as the discount code during checkout and you’re all set.

This offer is not only valid today, on Thanksgiving itself, but also tomorrow on Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and all the way up till Cyber Monday.

Get it HERE!

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Enjoy the weekend

Yamile

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Limited time only!

This offer is only valid until Oct 31, 2010!

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What you will get:

• Instructions on how to get an account with a web host (or how to rent online property to build your site on). The hosting company I recommend is also officially recommended by the WordPress team and costs 7$ a month, free domain name included, payable one year in advance. (This money goes to the web host for their services, not to me).

• free WordPress website set-up on your new web host account.

• plus a free eCourse that will teach you the basics of WordPress so you can design it and make changes to the site any time you’d like, in any way you’d like and to then build it into the foundation of your own creative online biz. It will also teach you how to integrate your site with Twitter and Facebook and how to sell your creations or creative services directly from your site. Check out the details of what you’re gonna get.

The website set-up and  eCourse are a service that usually costs 55Euros (about 75$).

It is called the Creative Web Biz Kit and after Oct 31, the price will go up to 77Euros (about 105$).

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Sign up to get it all for free:

This free service is for newsletter subscribers only, as I obviously need your email addy to send you the discount code. So if you’re not on the list yet, just sign up below and you will automatically get the code delivered right to your inbox (after you confirmed your subscription). You can then go over to the Creative Web Biz Kit page, add the Kit to your shopping cart by clicking the ‘add to cart’ button, enter the discount code in the appropriate field at checkout and you’re all set.

If you were already signed up, check your email inbox for a mail from me with the dicount code in it!

Let others know about this!

Please let others also take advantage of the free Creative Web Biz Kit by using the ‘share’ and retweet’ buttons on this page. Thank you!

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Kabai33 has a new name!

During these last weeks I had the time to reconsider my business strategies concerning this blog. As you all know, the focus of Kabai33 has shifted over time from being  an artist blog to a site that focuses on tips, tools and resources for creative entrepreneurs. I don’t really know how this happened, but  it did almost by itself, so I guess I’ll call it fate! I just meet so many people who want to know how I  started my own online art biz because they want to do it too and I am happy to answer their questions  and create services, like the Creative Web Biz Kit, to get them started.

Now I decided to let this also reflect in the name of my blog: From now on this site will be found under http://CreativeWebBiz.com. This is not an easy step to take and it involves lots of organizational work, but I think it will be worth it. It will take a while to change all the internal and external links and get Google to understand what’s going on. For now the site can be reached via the old http://kabai33.com and the new http://creativewebbiz. com

Here is how you can help:

If you linked to Kabai33 on your own blog or anywhere else, please change the link to http://creativewebbiz.com and if you find any dead links while reading the blog, please let me know, so I can fix it!

The Future of CreativeWebBiz.com

So, what does all this mean for the future of this site?

Well, there will be a much clearer focus, namely tips, tools and resources for creative entrepreneurs! There will be more info, more services and more products to help you build and grow your own creative web biz. You will be updated on all this as soon as possible.

What about the art and the jewelry?

They will be taken off the site and moved to my Etsy store (which is still empty for now). As soon as this is done, you will be updated about this too.

Soooo excited…

I’m really excited about the change and I hope you are too. Let me know what you think about the new name in the comments.

have a great week

Yamile

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Creative Entrepreneur

When in my final high school years people started asking me what I was gonna do for a living, I never knew what to answer. None of the available options (that I knew of) sounded attractive to me. So I opted for going to college because it was the choice with the most freedom involved…or so I thought.  My college years ended with me dropping out and my parents having nightmares about my now surely somber future. I can’t blame them, I actually had the same nightmares but started concentrating on my art because that was what I really wanted to do.

In 2007 I set up Kabai33 (now Creative Web Biz) using WordPress. I wanted to sell my art online.  A year later I attended  a WordPress meet-up here in Berlin, Germany.  @photomatt" href="http://twitter.com/photomatt" target="_blank">Matt Mullenweg, the founder and developer of WordPress was there as well as @Janerri" href="http://twitter.com/Janerri" target="_blank">Janetti Chon of Web 2.0 Expo and @tinythoughts" href="http://twitter.com/tinythoughts" target="_blank">Jody Church, the then community manager of Lifestream.fm as well as lots of other people.  For me it was the first time meeting people who made a living through and with  the internet, blogging and social media.  At the end of the night we set with maybe 7 people on a tiny balcony in Friedrichshain and discovered that almost all of us were college drop-outs. I looked around at all those bright, inspiring people and I knew I was in good company and I never thought leaving college was a bad idea anymore.

Helping Others

Back then I decided to do more than just sell my art online. I wanted to  teach other artists how to use wordpress, how to blog and how to eventually make money with it. So I started writing some blog posts for fellow artists and other creative souls:  blogs to follow if you want to sell art online, how to create a Facebook fan page and some other stuff I had learned while building my own blog. These posts got a lot of attention because there seems to be a real need for this kind of information.

Creative Web Biz Kit

So I decided to take it a step further and actually help creative people set up a blog and start their own online biz and set up  the Creative Web Biz Kit for Artists and other Creative Entrepreneurs. It includes instructions on how to get a web host + the actual site set-up (by me) + 10 preinstalled themes (all designed with artists in mind)  + 10 preinstalled plugins which extend the functionality of your blog so you can sell your creations directly from your site and do other cool stuff. And because I really want you to succeed you will also get a 3 week email course that will teach you how to start and grow your own creative web biz! Sounds good right? Head on over and check it out!

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Yep,  it’s finally 2010!

Now, if you @Yemoonyah om Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/yemoonyah" target="_blank">follow me on Twitter or are a fan of  Creative Web Biz on Facebook, then you already know that I am convinced that 2010 is going to be my year!

Yes, you heard it right, I am absolutely sure that this year is going to change my life. How do I know? Well, because I will take all my manifestation skills and create the life I want for myself. No excuses!

2009 has been hard on many of us and I too had to go through some very challenging times. But now, that we got rid of any unwanted energies, we are going to fly! We? Yes, we, because part of my plan is to help you do it too!

Last year I wrote some posts to help artists, designers, crafters, clowns, cooks and other creative entrepreneurs to start and grow their own creative web biz. The feedback was amazing and Google Analytics tells me that lots and lots of people have read them and still do.  I guess I’m not the only one trying to create a sustainable and independent lifestyle using my talents and gifts :)

If you haven’t read them yet, here is your chance to do so:

- How to Set Up Your Own Creative Web Biz in 5 Steps

- 21 Blogs to Follow if You Want to Sell Art or Crafts Online

- 10 Facebook FanPage Tips for Creative Entrepreneurs

- 10 WordPress Themes for Creative Entrepreneurs

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Win a Blog, Free Ecourse and other plans for this coming year:

While building my own online biz I have learned sooooo much and it would be a waste not to share this knowledge with all of you. And you know what? I am convinced that the more people can sustain and live their desired lifestyle, the better for Mother Earth cause happy people don’t go to war!

That is why from now on I will be writing  weekly biz articles! But that’s not all. I will also create a free ecourse for artists, crafters, musicians, designers and other creative entrepreneurs. If you want to get notified of upcoming posts, the free ecourse and other goodies , just sign up to my  bimonthly newletter below. Issue#1 will go out on Jan14th and one of the readers will win a free professional blog set-up! I will help the winner to sign up for a web host and then install the wordpress blogging software complete with ten themes and ten plugins that are handpicked and especially suited for blogs with highly visual content. I will even enable you to sell your creations directly from your very own blog. So sign up and start thinking about what your free domain name is going to be!

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And don’t forget to @Yemoonyah on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/yemoonyah" target="_blank">follow me on Twitter for your daily dose of  tips, tools and resources for Creative Entrepreneurs.
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Let’s rock!

p.s. the beautiful pic above was shot by 1suisse

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Creative Web Biz - the art of creating an online business

Spider Woman, as known by some Native-American tribes, is the goddess that sits at the center of the galaxy and spins the web of life. Her web is the matrix of our reality as we know it and connects us to everybody and everything in our own and throughout all other dimensions and universes.

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By listening to her lessons we are being enabled to perceive these other realities through psychic vision and telepathy. In a dream state we alter our consciousness and are therefore able to move along these threads of her web to faraway places while our body is safely resting at home.

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The internet represents this web of life in our three-dimensional reality. It connects people from all over the world with each other and therefore makes boundaries in every sense pretty meaningless.

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This is really good news for all artists, as we are now finally able to publicize, promote and sell our own art, without being dependent on others (who will only help you with these tasks if they think you will make them good money), and even without any initial investment !

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When I discovered these possibilities for myself, I celebrated my own personal independence day. Being slightly autistic, it has always been rather hard for me to socialize with other people, which is not a very convenient treat if you try to leave the ‘starving artist’ stigma behind.

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So here I am starting my very own WordPress blog to see if Spider Woman will bless me and help me prosper.

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And as I know many other gifted people who sadly gave up their talents because they didn’t see the possibilities Spider Woman is offering all of us, I plan to post about web2.0 for independent artists regularly. I want all of you to be able to follow your calling, for your calling comes from the spirit world and will help transform Mother Earthinto the beautiful planet she is supposed to be !

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