It seems like you can’t go anywhere these days without hearing the latest buzz words, “Personal Branding”
Seriously, I’d be surprised if it wasn’t mentioned in at least one – if not more – of the freelance writing newsletters you subscribe to.
In my email this week I learned that MediaBistro has an online course titled “Brand [...]

I chose this book for very personal reasons.
I’ve been so busy in recent years that I’d pretty much given up my journaling.
I haven’t written anything that I felt was meaningful in a long time.
Oh sure, I keep trip notes, pickup brochures and literature, and take photos when I travel, but I’ve allowed tight [...]

Where do you find the time to write?
That is a question most writers ask themselves at one time or another, or all of the time.
I’ve taken more time management classes than I can count and always pick up a hint or two that I can incorporate.
However, I discovered most people taking these classes are [...]

It’s been a while since I’ve indulged myself with a good rant.
But this one has been building steam.
It seems like lately I’ve been seeing certain mistakes being made by travel writers and bloggers that are clearly negatively impacting them, but they don’t realize it.
Some make me want to reach through my monitor and grab [...]

The first time I walked into a writer’s workshop, I had a story to tell and thought it was ready to rock and roll.
After all, hadn’t I just spent six months crouched over my laptop in the garage of my cousin’s house, wrapped in a blanket and writing my story?
Hadn’t the publisher agreed also [...]

 
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A couple of months ago I was honored and privileged to be asked by Andy Hayes to review an advance copy of a new eBook from Travel Online Partners.
Many of you already know Andy through social networks and his consumer travel website and travel blog, “Sharing Travel Experiences“, but you may not know that Andy [...]

 
Google offers a wide variety of free products, services, and tools.
Some of these tools are designed to help websites become successful.
I use Google Analytics and Google Webmaster tools on a regular basis to gather the information I need to improve my blog.
Yes, I look at how my numbers are doing – it’s nice to know. [...]

 
I’m a member of the Global Bloggers Network and next week we have an amazing travel contest that you’ll want to play.
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$2,000 cash prize thanks to Contiki
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3 hotel nights in a European city [...]

Here’s a secret that most traditional travel writers know, but only a few travel bloggers seem to.
Almost every city or town has a CVB (Convention and Visitor’s Bureau). A CVB’s mission is to promote their locale as a tourist destination, and they typically LOVE to work with travel writers and travel bloggers who have [...]

You’re at a Travel Writing Conference, and an editor or PR person wants to follow up with you.
So you quickly whip out a business card…..or do you?
I’m surprised by how few new media travel writers and bloggers take the time to create their own marketing tools such as business cards, post cards, etc…to market their [...]

It can happen to us all, eventually.
Dare I admit it in public though?
That travel writers and traveling can jade the adventurous spirit, that you can be in a dream location and suddenly have nothing to write about.
That you don’t want to write about coconut trees swaying in the tropical and scented breeze because [...]

I’ve had enough people ask me about the name of this column, so I think it’s time to define “ambidextrous travel writer”.
Before I explain what an ambidextrous travel writer is, I do need to take you back to what a travel writer used to be.
When I first started as an assistant travel editor at The [...]

While we are all travel “writers”, you may also want to consider adding podcast interviews to your repertoire.
Or even if you don’t want to use these recordings to publish on your site it is a great way to have a record of your conversation to listen to again as you write your article.
There are [...]