Can you Value An Entrepreneur Salary?

The thing with most entrepreneurs is that their income is really whatever their business makes, minus all the expenses. So it definitely varies for each persons.

So is There a Way to Value an Entrepreneur Salary?

This is something that is almost impossible to do! Each entrepreneur would value themselves in a complete different way and with a unique figure that they would value as their ‘entrepreneur salary’.

What Can We Do Then?

I think that as entrepreneurs we need to stop comparing ourselves with each other and set a value that we would be comfortable working for.

Once you have a yearly entrepreneur salary for yourself, I encourage you to bring it back to an hourly rate. So divide the yearly figure into a weekly income and then once again divide it by the amount of hours that you work!

What this does is allow us as entrepreneurs to set a ‘hourly value’ on our time, which I believe will make us work a lot more efficiently.

Is ‘Checking Your Emails‘ worth your hourly rate?

How about ‘Article Writing‘ or ‘Sorting Out Your Website‘?

As entrepreneurs I find that a lot of us are completing tasks on a daily basis that are no where near worth the ‘hourly value’ that you have set for yourself.

If you are set on making your hourly value stand in your entrepreneur salary then you need to start outsourcing jobs overseas. This strategy is called geoarbitrage and will allow you to find workers who will complete your everyday tasks at a heavily discounted rate – saving you time and money!

Timothy Ferriss: Scam or Genius?

Timothy Ferriss has been able to gain quite a lot of publicity through the release of his New York Times best seller ‘The 4-Hour Workweek‘.

In it he claims to be a productivity guru and created the buzzword ‘geoarbitrage‘ (which is simply another word for outsourcing), sharing how he was able to create an $80,000/month business working 80 hours a week – and then how he turned those 80/hrs into just 4 hours of work a week!

If this all sounds too good to be true to you, then you are probably here to have me confirm your suspicions the Timothy Ferriss scam – but not so fast.

Before we start criticizing Timothy Ferriss, let’s first take a look at some of the accolades he has claimed:

  1. Created a $40,000/month Income From BrainQuicken
    I know there is a lot of debate on whether he actually achieved these figures and if it was gross or net income, but seriously, people are building $40,000/month businesses all the time – so why is it so hard to believe?

    Wikipedia notes that Tim sold BrainQuicken in January 2009 and is now a fulltime angel investor (If anyone can confirm this, please comment below).

  2. Timothy Ferriss Cheated His Way To Becoming The National Chinese Kickboxing Champion
    A lot of people bring up his kickboxing story when the call Timothy Ferriss a scam.

    For those of you who have not heard the story, Tim found a technicality that meant that if people went outside the ring multiple times in a fight – they would be disqualified. Using this to his advantage he proudly boasts how he literally shoved his competitors outside the ring for a technical knockout.

    The fact that he publicly boasts about the way that he did it, and that there was nothing against the rules in what he did – it is hard to call him a scam because he found a technicality and exploited it.

  3. Timothy Ferris Claims To Only Work Four Hours A Week
    Now while I highly doubt that Tim actually only works 4 hours a week with all his speaking and writing gigs now, I think the point he is getting across is that if you are doing what you love, then technically you are not working, and recommends that you start outsourcing jobs overseas and get rid of the time consuming, technical jobs and start doing the things that you love.

So I definitely do believe that Tim has done a little bit of exaggerating (story telling), but there well still a lot of things that I got out of ‘The 4-Hour Workweek
‘ , such as:

  • The Way That Timothy Approaches Problems
  • The Answer Isn’t To Do More….But To Do Less (Focus)
  • The Importance Of Enjoying Life All The Time (Not Just In Retirement)
  • The Ideas I Started To Get While Reading The Book!

So whether you believe that Timothy Ferriss is a scam or not, there are definitely a lot of things that you can learn from his lifestyle experiments and I highly recommend ‘The 4-Hour Workweek
‘ to anyone wanting to get away from the hold of a 9 to 5 job!

If you are interested in the ideas that Tim puts forward in his book then you may way to download my free ebook ‘GEO Arbitrage‘ that will take you through the steps to getting started with outsourcing.

What Is Geoarbitrage?

With the launch of my latest ebook, GEO Arbitrage, I have been getting a lot of questions from readers asking my to explain exactly what geoarbitrage is.

Now I could easily say, ‘Download My Free eBook‘ because there is a section in it that explains the whole concept. But to make it easier for you, let me explain it here.

A Quick Economics Lesson

Now I am sure that you have already worked out that geoarbitrage is made up of two root words. ‘geo‘ and ‘arbitage‘. Now we all know that geo is location – but what exactly is arbitrage?
Arbitrage Is: According To Wikipedia (link)

the practice of taking advantage of a price difference between two or more markets: striking a combination of matching deals that capitalize upon the imbalance, the profit being the difference between the market prices.

Successful stock market traders and professional gamblers use this technique to make large profits – and with geoarbitrage, everyday people can use arbitrage to work a lot smarter.

So What Is Geoarbitrage?

Well if geo means location, and arbitrage is taking advantage of the price difference between two or more markets, then geo arbitrage is simply:

the practice of taking advantage of a price difference between two or more geographical markets: striking a combination of matching deals that capitalize upon the imbalance.

A typical example of geoarbitrage is wages.

We all know that wages are different all around the world for the same jobs. So why not capitalize on this difference and hire staff from a cheaper country.

Now I know this isn’t possible in all industries – but why not take advantage of geoarbitrage in as many areas as you can!

But Isn’t Unethical?

I get this argument a lot when I tell people about how I utilize geoarbitrage to build my online business. For some reason people feel wrong people people as little as $2/hr (or less), because they are so used the the price of wages in the country that they live.

But the simple fact of the matter is, that you set your maximum price, but it is up to the market to decide if anyone will work for you. And in some countries $2/hr is a good wage.

A Local Example

Remember back to when you were a kid and your parents asked if you would mow the lawn for $10?

This is a perfect example of arbitrage!

The $10 is good money for you, and your parents are saving the extra $30-40 they would have had to pay a lawn mowing business. It is the exact same concept, but I don’t see anyone complaining about the ethics in this case.

Learn More About Geoarbitrage

If this sounds exciting (and it should), then you can download my ebook GEO Arbitrage – free of charge, and it will take you through the exact steps that you need to take to start out in geoarbitrage today!