Posts Tagged ‘Choosing a Niche’

Taking a Look at Your Own Backyard
By Karen Gibson
[Posted on: 23 January 2012]
[Posted in: Enhance Your Writing, Getting Readers, Getting Started, Guest Blog Posts]
[4 Comments]

Victorian towns with a touch of the Old West swaggering out the saloon doors.
Stickball in a 19th century Native American village. Discovering over 500 varieties of soda. A wildlife refuge where Teddy Roosevelt once hunted with Comanche war chief Quanah Parker. Celebrating a centennial. Oil barons and their riches. Experiencing the sights and smells of [...]

What Makes You an Expert Anyway?
By Susan Farewell
[Posted on: 2 May 2011]
[Posted in: Guest Blog Posts, The Ambidextrous Travel Writer]
[12 Comments]

Over the last several weeks, I received a couple of e-mails from writers who told me they were experts in various parts of the world.
One fancied himself an Asia expert; another, an Israel expert.
The first one really threw me, because I can’t even call myself an expert on the country I’ve spent my [...]

Finding Inspiration to Write About Far Off Places
By Jessica Spiegel

Some of us have the good fortune of living in the place we love most in the world…
… So that when it comes to writing about that place, all we have to do is look out the window for inspiration.
Every time I’m in Italy, my cup runneth over with ideas for articles that I [...]

The Importance of Finding Your Travel Niche
By Mariellen Ward
[Posted on: 18 January 2010]
[Posted in: First Person Experience, Getting Started, Guest Blog Posts]
[8 Comments]

I write about “all things India”.
I write about India in newspaper and magazine articles, on Facebook and Twitter, in emails and essays and, of course, especially on my travel blog, Breathedreamgo.com.
 
Every one who knows me is well-acquainted with my obsession, er passion, for India. But now and again someone asks me, “why India?” Like [...]

How “Canada’s Adventure Couple” Came to Be
By DaveAndDeb
[Posted on: 21 September 2009]
[Posted in: First Person Experience, Getting Started, Guest Blog Posts]
[27 Comments]

Starting up a travel blog can be a great way to share your stories and adventures from the road. 
But how does one transition their travel blog from having a few family and friends checking it out to actually making it a leader in the travel blog community?
Many aspiring travel writers start up a blog and [...]

Why Travel Writers Really Need A Niche
By Trisha Miller
[Posted on: 17 July 2009]
[Posted in: Enhance Your Writing, Getting Readers]
[23 Comments]

Earlier this week Rebecca did a great job of reviewing ExcellentGuide.com. She made a point about the fact that they were trying to be too many things, instead of just focusing on one and actually being excellent at it, which they weren’t.
I felt it was a perfect example of a mistake that [...]



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