Meg is a content creator who has been blogging professionally since 2013 (Mappingmegan.com)

Her travel blog nets a higher income than her previous life in Family Law, and as a freelancer, her writing has appeared in publications such as National Geographic, the New York Times, Forbes, and British Airways High Life.

Mar is an ex- strategy consultant and Googler who traveled to 115 countries as part of her job.

She founded a boutique digital consulting practice for hospitality businesses and a luxury travel blog (Once in a Lifetime Journey) which receives close to 500k monthly views. Both these jobs now allows her to work for herself remotely.

What if in the next 30 DAYS you could start a successful virtual assistant business? Horkey’s 30 days or less VA course sets you up with the skills in social media management, email management, project management, content production, bookkeeping and more.

Gina has been doing this for a long time and evolved her craft into successfully teaching others, while also helping them find clients through her own job portal.

When you finish the course, you will also be added to the portal so you can land jobs quicker.  Click here to check it out.

If you want to earn money as a freelance writer, Gina Horkey’s Freelance Writing Success course will set you up with everything you need to build a high-paying freelance writing business.

You’ll learn how to choose the top-paying writing niches, how to bootstrap your business, and how to set up your business so you can start pitching for work and earning money right away.

We love Gina’s course because she focuses on the skills for establishing a predictable, DEPENDABLE long-term freelance writing income.

Whether you want to teach English online or abroad, International TEFL and TESOL Training is the most complete resource to gain your certifications.

In terms of flexibility and value for money, their courses are hard to beat. Their most popular online courses are the 60-hour and 120-hour TEFL certificate courses. 

Members of the Solo Female Travelers community get 10% OFF regular prices when applying for the courses here.

Watch our live session on Teaching English as a Foreign Language here.

Build Blog Freedom is the ultimate best blogging course, by Sharon Gourlay. She is the Queen of SEO and affiliate marketing and has set up and sold several 6 figure blogs.

Sharon is a blogging machine, and even though we each run successful blogs ourselves, we have been in her group for years and have taken her course. If you want to fast track your success and make money within the year, take her Build Blog Freedom Fast Track course.

Jessie Festa’s Travel Blog Prosperity course is structured as a monthly membership instead of an upfront cost, which means that you also get monthly encouragement and support, much like you would in a mastermind group.

This hand-holding is what makes this a favorite for many bloggers who find working online alone quite daunting. We reached out to her and asked for an offer for the community so you will get the first month at only $9 if you use code SFT and this link to sign-up.

Blogging Fastlane is a fantastic course by pro bloggers Tom and Anna from Adventure in You. They grew a business from nothing and now teach others how to. They have 70,000 members in their newsletter and are pro at monetizing their blog.

You can start with a free blogging course and see if this is for you first before you pay any money, maybe you’ll discover blogging is not really what you want. Join their FREE Blogging fastlane course.

Canva for Graphic Design

Canva is a free web based app that allows you to design anything, from creating reports, to social media graphics, banner art for blogs, infographics, posters, CV’s, resumes, invitations, flyers, newsletters, magazines, reports, memos, business cards.

Its drag and drop functionality makes it easy to do whatever you want – add text, add elements, add photos, change color – your imagination is the limit, and you can easily fool people into thinking you’re a design professional using their templates library.

Canva is free, though there’s a premium upgrade with extra perks like access to millions of stock photos, ability to upload your own fonts, and capacity to work as a large team. But the free version offers plenty of generous functionality, so a premium account isn’t really needed. Sign up here.

Zoom for Video Conferencing

Zoom is one of the leading video conferencing software apps, allowing you to virtually interact / hold meetings with clients, co-workers or your employers when you can’t meet in person.

You can run one-on-one meetings, group video conferences with up to 500 people (the free plan allows up to 100 people), and allows you to share your screen.

The free tier of zoom allows for unlimited meetings, but they cap you at 40 minutes, and meetings can’t be recorded. Check out their free and paid plans here.

Other video conferencing apps include:

• 8×8 Video Meetings
• Facebook Messenger
• Skype
• Facetime
• Google Hangouts

G Suite for Workflow

You’ll likely have software like Microsoft Office on your laptop (Word, Excel, Powerpoint etc), but Google’s office suite offers the same version of these programs in an online environment, completely for free. 

Google Sheets and Google Docs are particularly powerful for use in business, without having to spend hundreds of dollars on software licenses, and without having to battle through a new learning curve. 

Write reports and articles in Google Docs, create presentations in Slides, or set up Sheets to handle your accounting. Using docs means you can access online from any laptop or device, and don’t have to worry about backups or data storage. Google does all that for you.

• Google Docs
• Google Sheets
• Google Slides

Harvest for Timetracking & Invoicing

Harvest is a fantastic web and mobile app that not only allows you to create quick and easy invoices, it also allows you to track the time you spend working. It’s free for one person, or charged if you’re operating as a multi-person team.

It has start and stop timers you can use as you work through your to-do list, or you can enter your hours into a timesheet in one go (there are browser extensions and mobile apps to make it even easier).

Taskworld for Project Management & Tasktracking

Taskworld is a fantastic project management tool that allows you to seamlessly manage projects, track tasks and collaborate with your team across multiple projects; all from one tool.

We love how visually robust this is compared to other online remote tracking tools. It’s high end and highly organized, and like combining Slack, Asana and Trello into one app. 

Evernote for Digital Notes

Evernote is a great way to keep your digital notes organized. You can take notes anywhere, find information faster, and share ideas with anyone. It’s great for meeting notes, web pages, projects, to-do lists and you can manage everything from large scale projects, to your own personal achievements.

It allows for notes to be made in written, photo, or video formats, and acts as a single place for your notes, ideas, lists and reminders.