It’s not a herculean task, let me tell you that. It’s perfectly doable, like spreading jam on toast. What’s this ‘it’ you ask? Capturing your most recent travel experience and composing a harmonious blog post around it. A post that inspires your readers and gives them a proper adrenaline rush. All you need is a sturdy combination of observation, dedication & direction, and you’re good to go.
[Read more…]Don’t Lose Your Travel Photos: Find a New Way to Back Them Up
Let’s face it: Apple has a lot of great ways to backup your photos and when you’re a travel blogger, that’s absolutely essential. Sometimes, though, life takes you off the beaten path and using their cloud storage isn’t as reliable enough. Your photos are the lifeblood of your travel blog — they give readers the detail that helps your words come to life. If you lose those once in a lifetime snapshots, you won’t be able to fully share the experience. That’s why it’s important to have a foolproof method of backing up your data no matter where you are. [Read more…]
Smart Tips for Travel Bloggers
Travel blogging is a unique and exciting profession, but you’re not the only one who thinks so. If you want to make it as a travel blogger, you’ll need to be a skilled writer, a decent photographer and a relentless promoter. If you think you’ve got the skills, check out these smart tips for travel bloggers. [Read more…]
How to Travel and Blog Without Missing a Beat
As a professional blogger, you have a dream setup that most other professionals would take a significant pay cut in order to enjoy. So, if you’re simply blogging from your bedroom on a week-in and week-out basis, you should probably question what you’re really doing with your time. You have the ability to work from anywhere in the world – so do it! [Read more…]
4 Mistakes Newbie Travel Bloggers Make
Earning money from traveling and writing about your journeys is an undeniably alluring concept. However, as with any business venture, success doesn’t come easily. After all, travel blogging isn’t just about constantly waiting for good deals from travel portals. You need to make sure that you’re doing everything correctly if you want to make your travel blog a sustainable source of income. Otherwise, you’ll just end up burning out and giving up before you can enjoy the fruits of your labor. In this article, we’ll discuss a few mistakes that newbie travel bloggers tend to make and how you can avoid them. [Read more…]
8 Tips to Become An Expert Travel Blogger
There is passion, adventure, exploration and of course travelling, in the vast realm of travel blogging. However, once you decide to become a pro or an expert in travel blogging you are deemed to play a very different game. This intricately designed world is full of hobbyist writing about their trips and tours to worlds unknown, and the minute you want to convert this into a profession, you are walking a straight road towards hard work and commitment. [Read more…]
Thirsty for Adventure? Blogging In The World’s Most Dangerous Places
What do Moby Dick, The Hobbit, and The Odyssey have in common? They all rely on a narrative technique called the hero’s journey. It’s a ubiquitous theme across storytelling traditions: a hero must leave behind all that is familiar and safe and venture into the unknown. [Read more…]
Freelancing from Anywhere: Tips for Living and Working Abroad
They say travel broadens the mind. If that’s true, what better activity could a writer undertake? There’s a slight problem with travel, however—it’s expensive. If you plan to stay somewhere a while, you’ll need a steady source of income. Barring a lottery win or trust fund payout, that means you’ll need to find employment. But it isn’t exactly easy finding a job in unfamiliar surroundings, and that’s if you’re legally allowed to work there.
Luckily, we freelancers have a bit of an edge when it comes to work and travel. Since we typically don’t work in brick-and-mortar establishments, we don’t have to worry about leaving our job behind. In fact, we can take our job with us. Here are some tips for freelancers looking to live and work abroad. [Read more…]
