Cheap cost of living, cheap and modern apartments and excellent food. Three of the many reasons that a shoot in the head, if you remember to start his business in low-cost countries such as Thailand or the Philippines. But appearances are deceptive, and it can often backfire abroad raise your online business.
If you look through the many blogs, you will see many digital nomads who have settled over the winter abroad in the coming weeks and months. Many are drawn to Southeast Asia, where the cost of living is very low in comparison with Germany and the quality of life seems to be better. But appearances are often deceiving. What you see are mostly already successful bloggers who can afford to work from anywhere, because they have many long days and short nights behind them, where they have done everything humanly possible to pull up their business in vietnam.
1. Thanks to its low cost, you can postpone the launch again
Life in Thailand is so cheap that you still can survive quite a big losing streak with your savings and are thus not (yet) be forced to launch your business. Since a business is never finished, you’ll always move until you run out of money and you fly with his head down back to Germany. Then you fallen into the trap of not being changed in the Doing mode. You let yourself fooled by the cheap cost.
2. You’re doing just as much as you really need!
But if you manage to start your business, then the event is also an evil number two, also linked to the low cost of living. The fact that you need only a little, you’ll do just as much to cover these costs. But would you be in Germany, would you have ass off to cover the high cost of living. In Thailand, however, it is easier to hang comfortably around the pool and only make the most necessary!
3. You want to and must not permanently in Thailand or similar countries live
Thailand has recently introduced a more stringent immigration law for Digital Nomads, which makes it difficult for you longer time to stay in the country and work. Many other countries have already or will introduce in the future similar legislation, which makes it difficult for you to live longer in these places. In addition, you may not want to live there forever and must eventually move to other, more expensive countries. To do this, your business must discard so much that you can live there without problems and to be put aside before something can.
4. You think you’re more successful than you really are
Success is very subjective and I can have a different opinion on the subject of success than you. But in low-cost countries such as Thailand or the Philippines, you can fast times get the impression that you are super successful, because you go out every day and afford massages ,
5. You can not locally abroad networks
Of course you can do your own thing and pull through but networks is important in any industry. As a blogger you should go regularly to Meet Ups. As a founder, you should go to various start up parties and share yourself with others. If you do this somewhere abroad, you can not locally networks. If you’ve focused on the German market, it is difficult in Thailand for this purpose to networks. There are many benefits and reasons why you should network. For example, other bloggers are more willing to link to you in a post if they know you personally. In Chiang Mai or Bangkok you will meet a lot of travel bloggers and digital nomads, but it is something else when you hit the masses with a drink in Berlin, Munich and Hamburg.
6. Too much distraction due to new impressions
The nice thing about traveling and to new countries is that you can gather new impressions. But these are often so overwhelming that it is you too distracted by your actual activity. Just drop by the Grand Palace, just a short time one of these great massage only times briefly … and the day is over and you’ve got nothing done!
7. Poor infrastructure can not you be effective
The problem in many countries such as cheaper in Nicaragua, in Bali is also available in some parts of Thailand but that the poor infrastructure does not let you be effective. You spend most of the day to upload a 3 MB file or to bring the Internet to work. If your business is already running, this is more likely to cope with, but if you just stand in the beginning, it goes much valuable time.
Conclusion:
As you can see, there are many reasons why you should not start in a cheap country like Thailand your business. To play it safe, I would recommend your business to start as a sideline to provide you a financial cushion. If your business finances yourself at home in Germany, you can travel and work from anywhere in the world and have you do not worry about the money. Especially on the way you will encounter many obstacles namely, which are difficult to cope with a new business.