How to build a successful portable business and popular facebook groups with Lora McInturf

The Germany Expat Business Show

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Lora McInturf supports high-performing lawyers and business professionals primarily in law, IT, finance, accounting, and coaching.

Lora's business is 100% virtual. She's worked with professionals and businesses around the world - from over 40 countries and counting.

She is also a founder and co-leader of the following groundbreaking online networking communities: Lawyers Coaching Lawyers - International Network, Women Expat Lawyers and Law Students, and Women Expat Entrepreneurs Empowered Germany.
In this episode we talked about

• How being exchange student lead to her putting down roots in Germany
• The native English speakers conundrum when it comes to learning German while working in an international corporate environment
• How multiple international moves prompted her to create a portable business that made use of her background in law without actually being a lawyer
• How marketing ourselves on our backgrounds is effective;
• Why it’s important to try and do ‘all of the things’ when first starting out
• Where she got her first clients
• How and why she founded several successful Facebook groups and the highs and lows of running them
• Visas versus permanent residency permits
• The joy of a good tech stack

You can find this episode and all episodes as well as show notes for each at www.eleanormayrhofer.com/podcast
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Chapters

1. How to build a successful portable business and popular facebook groups with Lora McInturf (00:00:00)

2. Expat Business Owners in Germany (00:00:03)

3. Building a Coaching Business Strategy (00:05:54)

4. Online Networking Group Management (00:16:04)

5. Tech Tools for Business Growth (00:30:37)