The Germany Expat Business Show

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

Season 2
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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 https://thegermanylist.de/the-germany-expat-business-show-podcast/

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