Following on from the previous article where I talked about how we are living in a Star Trek world but without the space ships… today I am going to share with you a true story which reinforces what I was saying about the technology we have at our disposal.
We really are living in a wonderful time… technology wise at least.
One of our team (Andi) is relocating to Portugal in the not too distant future and as part of the visa application process, he needs to secure a place to live for a year.
Thanks to the internet, he and his good lady are able to search Portuguese properties on Portuguese estate agents websites.
And thanks to Wi-Fi, email and messaging apps, they were able to send property details to each other no matter wherever they were.
Andi’s good lady would receive an email from a Portuguese estate agent and she would either forward the email to him or send him the direct link to certain properties through WhatsApp.
She was often out of the house at the time either visiting family or at a supermarket. At other times she was in another part of the house.
There was no need to wait until they saw each other later in the day to tell each other about what they had found.
After quite a bit of time trawling through properties and being beaten to the post a few times, they found one which suited their needs and was still available.
In fact, the one they are going for is a property they tried to secure previously but were beaten at the post by someone else… but fortunately, that person pulled out which resulted in the property being relisted.
In what can only be described as a series of ‘spooky’ synchronicities (which is a story for another day), Andi checked that website and found that the property had been relisted.
Wanting to secure the property, Andi quickly opened up conversation by chatting to an agent using the ‘live chat box’ on the website and by sending an email directly to the agent dealing with that specific property… and he did it all in Portuguese.
Here’s the important thing…
Andi cannot speak a word of Portuguese.
He and his good lady have started learning a few words and phrases, but he doesn’t know enough to converse with a Portuguese estate agent.
He couldn’t write a sentence in Portuguese if he tried.
But that wasn’t a problem because he used a powerful free tool.
Similar to the Universal Translator as seen in Star Trek, Andi used a translator to convert written English into written Portuguese.
And it seems to have done the trick!
Google Translate has been an incredible tool as it has meant that Andi has been able to talk to many people in Portugal in their own language.
How accurate it is I cannot say. Portuguese uses masculine and feminine which means that certain words and sentences are said slightly different depending on who is saying it… something we English speakers don’t need to worry about.
Google translate didn’t take the masculine or feminine into consideration but it has allowed Andi to chat to people in their own tongue well enough for them to understand him.
Google’s email system Gmail also has a ‘Translate’ option and so Andi could simply translate the email content so that he could read it.
He says that the translations were good enough for him to understand clearly what was been said.
Sending emails in Portuguese shows willing and saves any confusion or annoyance which might have resulted if he sent an email written in English to a Portuguese person who cannot speak English.
It’s possible that an estate agent may not realise that they too can translate the email into Portuguese with ease.
As part of the process of securing the property, Andi needed to send proof of identification and residence and this is where it gets interesting…
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With the extended bank holiday for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, Andi and his good lady went away on a short city break…
So when the email came through asking for the proof of identification, they were sat in a coffee shop around 45 miles away from his laptop and not expected to be home for a couple of days.
Desperate to secure the property and nowhere near his laptop, Andi could have been concerned that he could possibly lose the property to someone else if he wasn’t able to act fast.
But he wasn’t concerned because he knew that he had everything he needed to hand.
Using his smartphone, he took a photograph of both drivers’ licences and emailed that picture to the estate agents in Portugal.
He also had a folder in his Google Drive – a cloud based folder which can be accessed by multiple devices – with scanned copies of notarised documents needed as proof for the Portuguese government; he decided to attach a couple of those to an email and sent them as further proof.
He did it all while sitting in a coffee shop scoffing a breakfast burrito (an egg, beans, mushrooms, one hash brown and tomato chutney in a wrap) and drinking coffee miles from home.
The email he received and the emails he sent were all translated so that he and the estate agent understood each other.
All of this was done using just his smartphone.
It’s mind blowing when you consider that the simplest of smartphones has more computer power than the Apollo spacecrafts which took Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the moon.
Andi used his mobile data but he could have easily used the free Wi-Fi that the coffee shop offered.
The hotel that he stayed at also provided free Wi-Fi as did many of the places they visited that weekend.
He had multiple opportunities to connect to the internet and he had the tools to complete tasks which in the past would have had to be done through the post possibly by several people in offices.
It’s fair to say, the smartphone has revolutionised our world.
Not only has it made it possible to manage administration a whole lot easier and communicate with people from anywhere and everywhere…
It has given us the freedom and tools to make money from wherever we are in the world too… mostly.
If you find yourself stranded on a desert island in the pacific or hibernating in an igloo in northern Canada then you may not get decent mobile coverage, but most places today will give you a decent internet connection.
An internet connection and a smartphone is all that you need to make money when buying and selling cheap digital assets.
To make money buying and selling cheap digital assets you only need to be able to make a purchase and write and send emails… that is it.
And that can all be done on a smartphone or tablet.
You can get started today buying your first digital asset.
Digital assets cost as little as £7.50 yet they can be sold for £75 or more.
What’s even better is that the actual buying and selling process is managed by other people online.
You personally do not touch anything.
You simply buy… then sell.
There is nothing to be delivered; it is all done online.
If you would like to know more click the link below.
www.MagicMultiplier.co.uk
Kind Regards
John Harrison
PS… This can be done from the comfort of your own home and you could easily do all of this on nothing more than your smartphone.
And you can get started today for as little as £7.50!
Here’s that link again.