OUR TEAM
GET TO KNOW US A LITTLE BETTEROur Passion is Creating Independent Lifestyles for High-Level and Future High-Level Entrepreneurs
More Freedom
Find your way out of the conventional 40 hour work week, long commutes, and conventional living and trade it for a lifestyle of your dreams anywhere.
More Income
Build a Location Independent business that fulfills your dreams and gives you the jet setter lifestyle you’ve always wanted.
Less Tax
Legally reduce or eliminate tax using legal internationalization strategies previously only available to the 1%.
Go Beyond Borders
Run a business, invest, or protect your assets abroad. The world is now your playground so experience it to it’s fullest potential.
GLEN KOWALSKI - LOCATION INDEPENDENT ENTREPRENEUR
Glen is the founder of Palm Tree Research and it’s chief strategist. He is a funnel architect, customer acquisition expert, and direct response copywriter.
His personal mission and reason to be alive, is helping other liberty seekers find the lifestyle and freedom they are looking for. And giving them the ability to have true location independence anywhere in the world.
He is a Certified Customer Value Optimization Expert and Certified Customer Acquisition Specialist.
His work has appeared in and / or been used by Microsoft, International Living, Sovereign Society, David Morgan Report, Wall Street Daily, Hemisphere Publishing, and several other well known businesses and publications.
But his true passion is for entrepreneurs who want to find complete and total freedom and liberty. In essence, to live without borders.
Glen is living what he teaches, as an Unconventional Entrepreneur in the Republic of Panama, where he helps successful freedom focused entrepreneurs worldwide find more freedom, create more wealth, and pay less tax.
WHAT MAKES HIM AWESOME
LIVES HIS DREAM LIFE ON A BEACH IN PANAMA SO HE HAS THE RESOURCES AND CONTACTS TO HELP YOU DO THE SAME
FIERCE FREEDOM AND LIBERTY ADVOCATE SO HE'LL FEARLESSLY GO THE EXTRA MILE TO HELP YOURS
ENGINEER, REAL ESTATE INVESTOR, AND FUNNEL ARCHITECT, SO HE HAS THE MARKETING CHOPS TO GET THE WORK DONE FOR YOUR
STARTED HIS FIRST BUSINESS AT THE AGE OF 17 AFTER REALIZING YOU'LL NEVER BE FREE WORKING FOR SOMONE ELSE
HE PRACTICES JIU JITSU, SCUBA DIVES, SAILS, AND PLAYS PICKLEBALL BECAUSE TO HIM FREEDOM MEANS DOING WHAT YOU WANT, WITH WHO YOU WANT, WHEREVER YOU WANT, AS LONG AS YOU AREN'T HURTING ANYONE ELSE (Unless its choking an opponent or executing a perfect arm bar)
Glen Kowalski
Location Independent Unconventional Entrepreneur
Glen’s happiest when he’s on (or below) the water or choking out his friends at the gym.
Nikolaij Bjerck - MEDIA & PROJECT PLANNING
Nikolaij is what you get when you blend media buying, growth hacking, and email marketing together into a systematic potent mix.
Right now his main focus is on navigating the difficult traffic landscape in order to make sure the right people are reached at the right time.
He’s passionate about people achieving what he calls «life autonomy», a way of living that enables choice in peoples lives to achieve what they set their minds to, and helping others solve their problems to achieve this.
When he’s at his desk you’ll find him looking into the latest traffic stats and figuring out what the story behind them are.
And when he’s not at his desk he’s enjoying the rich nature and mountains surrounding where he currently lives.
WHAT MAKES HIM AWESOME
HE HAS A DIVERSE BACKGROUND FROM RUNNING MANY DIFFERNT TYPES OF PROJECTS
IN PINCH, HE CAN HERD A FLOCK OF SHEEP IF THE OCCASION CALLS FOR IT
ALWAYS READS, LEARNS, AND FOCUSES ON IMPROVING HIMSELF AND THE WORK THAT HE DOES
Nikolaij Bjerck
Media Planning
Nikolaij operates from a farm in Norway where he’s settled down to herd sheep after his extensive travels around the world.
James Fry - OFF THE GRID COPYCHIEF
James brings a potent blend to the team. With his razor sharp direct response copywriting skills combined with his passionate activism in the name of freedom, it’s no wonder James’ copy produces such staggering results for both our clients and our partners.
Simply put, James has the rare skill of turning words into money… That’s probably why renowned internet marketers such as Perry Marshall and Todd Brown have hired him to work on their campaigns. And it’s probably why almost every single thing he writes can beat any control.
When James isn’t at his desk with pen and paper, he’s teaching others how to break out of the system and live free using off-grid living strategies from natural building to high-yield survival gardening.
WHAT MAKES HIM AWESOME
GETS TO THE ROOT OF WHY PROSPECTS BUY AND MOVES THEM AT A DEEP EMOTIONAL LEVEL
LASER FOCUS, OBSESSED, AND EXPECTS A HIGH-LEVEL OF EXCELLENCE FROM HIS WORK
GROWS A MAJORITY OF HIS OWN FOOD AT HOME IN HIS VICTORY GARDEN
James Fry
Copychief / Off-Grid Living Expert
James is an expert at “off-grid” living strategies and creating high yield survival gardens.
Mari-Louise Kaplan - Communication Strategist
As law, business and marketing graduate, Mari-Louise has worked with major international brands over the past 20 years as communications strategist and writer. Her career journey has been truly rewarding – giving her the freedom to swim with dolphins in Cuba, play with pandas in China, run with huskies under the Aurora and walk the red carpet at Cannes. (As well as doing some really cool collaborations with some really cool people)
Is it any wonder she firmly believes that applying imagination strategically can literally take you (and your business) anywhere?
Her offering is somewhere between using left-brain neuromarketing to understand the behavior of the target consumer and applying right-brain linguistics to tell a story that triggers the right connection and desired action.
She says: “I’m passionate about plain language communications and simplifying complicated or overwhelming information into strategic bite-sized chunks of digestible and ‘sticky’ content that is easier to understand, easier to remember, easier to sell, and easier to buy.”
WHAT MAKES HER AWESOME
SHE HAS THE ENTHUSIASM OF A 20-YEAR OLD AND THE EXPERIENCE OF A 40-SOMETHING
SHE IS REALLY, REALLY GOOD AT MAKING MOLEHILLS OUT OF MOUNTAINS
SHE ENJOYS DONNING DIFFERENT HATS FOR DIFFERENT PROJECTS. STRATEGIST, EDITOR, WRITER. WHATEVER'S NECESSARY TO GET THE JOB DONE
Mari-Louise Kaplan
Communication Strategist
Sometimes she just swings in her bright pink hammock and conjures up copy. Because she likes to. And because she can.
Palm Tree Research was founded on a quest and passion for personal, financial, and location independence. In other words complete freedom and liberty. Unconventional Entrepreneurs want to throw away the 60 hour, commuting through traffic, and limited vacation time for a life where they can live where ever they want in the world, with all of the luxuries they can imagine.
OUR MISSION
Awakening people to the availability of personal, location, business, and financial independence… And serving those who are drawn to the unconventional.
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