How can a visit New Zealand

turn into moving to New Zealand?

When we took off to visit New Zealand, moving to New Zealand became almost the same step, though we were unaware to this.

We, these are Mariam, Karim and I, Beate Cisse, founder and editor of "New Zealand vacations in West Auckland". Probably the name Beate reveals our country of origin, Germany.

Following an inspiration, we took a trip to New Zealand before the children were to enter their school life. Travelling has always been one of my passions. Since studying and having children this passion was short lived. Therefore the prospect to travel for six months let us burst with excitement.

Rising energy of change

Incidents that favourably build up the new energy that transformed our visit New Zealand into moving to New Zealand were already underway during the 25-hour flight. We befriended a Mum travelling with her two girls about the same age as the twins. Sure enough this perfect match shortened the flight immensely since the children got on well. They were about to catch up with husband and father at the Auckland airport.

Beaming with excitement she explained, they only had returned to Germany from their holiday with a New Zealand motor home rental to sell their home and arrange shipment for their belongings. Their work permit and study permits were already approved and her husband had commenced work a month ago.

This high energy was stirring up long buried dreams of living elsewhere in a milder climate and close to the sea with endless beach vacations. Most importantly knowing someone who had just done that let personal fears and doubts about attainability diminish.

Send e-cards of New Zealand beach sunset photos.

Arriving at Auckland airport introductions and good byes were exchanged. The promise was given to stop by in Whangarei, their new hometown.

A couple of weeks went by, filled with adjusting from jet lag, catching up with friends, sourcing a suitable used car deal and exploring the region around Auckland. Then a phone call reached us to discuss arrival details in Whangarei.

Whangarei became the key to life changing decisions. Discovering first West Auckland, Auckland city, and Northland clarified soon Auckland, New Zealand was the place to become our new home. This wide country with its temperate marine climate, endless beaches, bush, fresh air, and the great mixture of population of New Zealand was mesmerizing.

Mom's first and last thoughts

Sure enough these thoughts are dedicated to her children. To visit New Zealand surprised and convinced all the way with a general appreciation towards children. Everywhere children were welcome and cared for. Festivals had special children events, playgrounds were plentiful, and appealing, camping parks with excellent children areas, museums are designed around family fun activities with own children discovery sections.

Last doubts towards moving to New Zealand vanished when we went to visit the primary school in Whangarei. It was such a welcoming atmosphere with spacious outdoors and inviting inside. The school was buzzing with proud and confident young students. The walls showed proudly off the children’s colourful artworks. The whole experience just resonated with us and reflected my wishes how the children could and should experience their school.

Back in Auckland discussions about whether to lodge an application of residence to immigration New Zealand or not ran high. The final decision to turn our visit New Zealand into a permanent stay was put on hold until the all important English language test had been passed successfully. 

Instead to just visit New Zealand, we were about to apply for permanent residence thanks to a positive test result.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

--Helen Keller-- More quotations about travel...

It happened instead to just visit New Zealand, we were about to apply for permanent residence. Life’s mission is living your dream and ours was moving to New Zealand.

The key to turn a visit New Zealand around

The next big task to turn our visit New Zealand into permanent staying was to find employment. Luckily a trade acquired in long gone times was short listed and a company found. Like this, working permit and finally the permanent residence were in reach. After two and a half years we received approval. This should have been our Heaven on Earth.

Working full time had its consequences that promoted soon the desire to guide the children better along their way. The balance tipped in favour to become a working at home Mom. Working at home from my computer was an envisioned ideal. Having had in mind to minimize commute time and maximize income to receive this video tour of flexibility and freedom.

Becoming a working at home Mom

The transition was driven by idealism with an enormous amount on lack of experience. Subsequently I found myself tangled up in a business opportunity that did not and could not work the way it was supposed to.

The learning curve was high but with no real structured guidance success was far fetched. Light into the feeling of confusion and information overload came with the Affiliate Masters Course from SBI. A free course I picked up somewhere along the path in search of how to tackle online success.

After skimming the content the conclusion followed that current approaches needed complete modification. The book presents a structured step by step guide to earn affiliate income. First ideas are researched to become possible site topics. A site concept is developed by examining demand, supply, and profitability. Only when the ways on how to earn money from the site's topic are explored a site name is chosen. With a name reflecting site concept, a concrete idea of your market, and possible ways to monetize the cycle is entered to create content that pre-sells. When it turns into enough traffic a site is ready to earn money. It is also known as the C+P+T=M process.

Implementing what I read into an existing site where name and concept differed greatly plus little knowledge about building a website, optimising, and submitting built pages to search engines each step remained quite time consuming. Any success was still distant. It took a long time to admit as an internet starter or intermediate user the tasks I wanted my site to accomplish always demanded more skill and more expensive tools and more learning to implement applications.

Luckily the contract was running out and I decided to start over with Site Build It to transform our visit New Zealand into a carefree move to New Zealand. This decision showed soon noticeable movement into the desired direction – generating traffic. Hereby I invite you to take a video tour .

A visit New Zealand at the coast features pied shags.

Growing momentum

In November 2010 the site statistic shows 7,500 unique visitors and 14,500 returning visitors with over 26,000 page views per month. Numbers increase steadily since the site launch almost three years ago.

The Action Guide and the fabulous SBI tool box are accountable to this upwards trend. A good structured guide helped to take the mind of searching for solutions and concentrating on building an online business from scratch. Still there is a lot to learn but the main focus went from site applications to business development. You can compare the hidden strengths of SBI in regards to traditional web-hosting.

Today SBI takes it even one step further to maximize outcome of time and effort. Building upon the University course "Building A Successful Business Using The Internet" taught on 30 Universities spread over the globe a 12 weeks e-learning course to build an online business is made available.

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