After flying to Tanzania to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in 2019, Louise Truman, 22, says she fell in love with travel. King’s College London is a public research university in London, England.

She said studying online because of the pandemic gave her a great opportunity to “invest in herself” and secure a steady digital marketing income by 2021. Tanzania, South Korea.

After posting on TikTok, she gained a social following. Soon, social media and content creation became her main source of income. She now earns her $11,000 a month while traveling the world as a “digital nomad” to share adventures with her 139,000 followers.

“Becoming a digital nomad was purely accidental, but it didn’t surprise anyone around me. It was the best decision I ever made,” said Truman from Surrey, Southern England. Her love of travel began at age 13 when she registered and raised money for a scientific study measuring radiation in Greenland.

“I went purely to spend three weeks trekking glaciers, climbing mountains, and occasionally avoiding polar bears,” she said.

At 17, she and her best friend spent a weekend in Barcelona, ​​Spain, splashing the money they earned from their weekend job at British grocery chain Tesco. She even skipped preparing for her university qualification exams to visit Tanzania and climb Mount Kilimanjaro.

After I finished my exams at 18, the pandemic hit and my Spanish degree and history moved online. Truman had also secured his job as his assistant in digital marketing, which was also fully virtualized, which proved to be an invaluable stepping stone.

“No matter how mentally tough the pandemic has been for me, I have never had such an opportunity to invest in myself. During the first six months of lockdown and interim reopening, I I fell in love with LinkedIn.

“I signed two new freelance marketing deals, learned an incredible amount from my mentors, and started a social mobility project to help college students,” says Truman. By spring 2021, when the world began to open up again, she had established herself with “reliable and consistent digital marketing income.”

“I have never seen so much money in my life. When I was working remotely as a marketer, I had a month with five figures. It’s due to the sale of shares,” she said.

Sweat equity shares are shares of a company (usually a startup) that are issued to employees at a discounted price. A successful business can be very lucrative.

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But Truman said despite her success, she felt burned out and desperate for a change.

“I felt like my level of Spanish had really stepped back. So I decided to go to Costa Rica. I think that’s when I became a digital nomad,” she recalls. Since then, Truman’s revenue stream has become more based on content creation, specifically $11,000 a month from brand deals.

“I’m not tired of doing remote marketing jobs. TikTok has given me a better opportunity. I’ll explain,” she explained.

Today she boasts 139,000 followers and her account has amassed over 7 million total likes. She attributes this to her digital marketing experience. Because she knows how to create her own personal brand and put a price on creating content.

“As a content creator, most of my time is focused on creating content. I don’t have to because I’m being paid to do more to surpass my previous income levels,” Truman said. She revealed that over the past two months, she has earned $11,000 just from creating content.

“The best thing about this is that as my social circle continues to grow, I can charge more for the same amount of work. It’s already a much happier work-life balance. I’ll see where it goes I am very much looking forward to seeing…in the next few years,” she said.

Truman is currently in Vietnam for a TikTok brand deal, and her next stop will be in Southeast Asia in the coming weeks. “It’s for almost consecutive brand deals that are incredibly exciting,” Truman said.

Truman’s Tips for Living the Digital Nomad Lifestyle:

1. “Get away, stay away from networking girls (pyramid schemes) via DM (direct message). The vast majority of people paying to start these ‘businesses’ spend a lot of money. lose. “

2. “If companies trust you to work fully remotely, they must have complete confidence and trust in your expertise. will be needed.”

3. “If you don’t build a network, you’re putting yourself at a disadvantage. It’s as easy as sending a personalized LinkedIn message.”

Her TikTok also recommends apps like Upwork, Fiverr and LinkedIn to make money online.

4. “If you don’t start now, you’ll regret not starting sooner.”

5. “Even if you fail, you’ll learn a lot about yourself traveling the world, or about the way you work best.”

Co-produced with SWNS.

This article was contributed to Newsweek by Zenger News.