A working plan for building a small online business that pays for your time — designed around the life you want to be living, not the other way round.
Build it deliberately. Keep it small enough to run from anywhere.
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None of that means you're doing it wrong. It means nobody has handed you the thing in order.
A step-by-step plan for building a small, location-independent business from zero.
The three tests an idea has to pass before you give it any of your time.
Building the version that can be finished in a fortnight instead of the version that never ships.
Where they already are, what to say, and how not to sound like everyone else saying it.
Pricing without apology, and the two changes that stop the low-budget enquiries.
The handful of things to automate first so the business survives a week off.
Time zones, contracts, payments and the practical parts of working from somewhere else.
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Jenna built her business the slow, unglamorous way and then designed her life around it. The point was never the view from the balcony — it was owning the hours. The view is a side effect.
I'd been 'about to launch' for a year and a half. The two-week plan removed every decision I'd been hiding behind.
I doubled my rate. I lost two enquiries and gained better ones. Should have done it two years ago.
I've read plenty of freedom-lifestyle content. This one actually tells you what to do on Tuesday.
The guide stands on its own. If you'd rather have someone walk it through with you, these are the ways to do that.
Ninety minutes to turn a vague idea into a scoped, buildable plan.
Two weeks, working together, from nothing to a live offer with the first outreach sent.
Monthly sessions for people who have it running and want it running better.
Everything in The Portable Business is meant to be used, not admired. Work through it, put it into practice, and judge it on whether your situation is actually better than it was.
No. The whole first section assumes you have nobody, and the client-finding chapter is built for starting from zero.
No, and the plan is written on the assumption that you haven't. Everything is scoped to evenings and weekends until it isn't.
Service and knowledge businesses — the kind that run on a laptop. It's not about physical products or stock.
Only in the last section. The rest is about building something small and solid; where you take it is your business.
A PDF delivered immediately after checkout, with the launch plan and scripts as separate printable files.
A step-by-step plan for building a small, location-independent business from zero.
Payments are being connected to this site now. Email us and we will send you the link the moment it is live.