Posts Tagged ‘Networking’
Can a Blog Network Really Benefit You?
By Trisha Miller
Many travel bloggers are aware of the benefits of a Blog Network, and may belong to one, or more than one.
For those unfamiliar, a Blog Network can be anything from an informal alliance of bloggers (who support each other through commenting, guest blogging, and cross-promotion) to a more structured membership platform that offers additional benefits.
Over [...]
Promote Yourself With a Portfolio Site
By Rebecca Sebek
Most of the travel writers and travel bloggers we work with focus most, if not all, of their writing on (own) their travel blog, or the travel blogs of other individuals or blog communities.
And yet I’m guessing that most, if not all, of you are freelancers, and – like most freelance writers – are willing [...]
Need Readers for your Travel Blog? Be a Guest Author!
By Trisha Miller
If you’re a Travel Blogger with your own travel blog, you should not only take advantage of any invitation that you receive to submit a guest post to other travel blogs or travel related website, you should also be actively seeking such opportunities, and offering to write for other travel blogs as well.
I can hear [...]
Extra, Extra! Submit Your Articles to YourNews
By Rebecca Sebek
YourNews.com is a local article marketing site. Similar to many local online news websites, except that YourNews.com makes it easy for you to sign up for an account and submit your travel articles based on your zip code, which you enter the first time you land on the site. You can also submit [...]
Social Media Do’s and Don’ts
By Trisha Miller
Everyone knows by now that Social Media has taken the business world by storm. It seems like it’s all anyone is talking about online these days.
Online communities such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and others that started out as a way for people to keep in touch with family and friends have morphed into valuable [...]
Travel Writers Use Ezine Finder to Get Readers
By Rebecca Sebek
Based on some of the email we’ve received lately there seems to be some confusion between EzineFinder.com and EzineArticles.com. These are two distinctly different websites with very different functions. EzineFinder.com, which is the focus of today’s review, is primarily a directory of ezines, also known as e-newsletters or online magazines. EzineArticles.com [...]
Avoid Extinction with Social Media Networking
By Trisha Miller
Lately I’ve been getting a lot of email from some, well let’s just say “traditional“, travel writers, asking me why everyone is making such a fuss over this “new online social stuff”. They don’t understand it.
They think that Twitter is just a way for kids to keep in touch, that Facebook is [...]
Take A Peek Inside A Media Trip
By Trisha Miller
A while back I wrote about a Media Trip I went on in April, to the Park Royal Holiday Resort in Cozumel, Mexico, and I followed that up with a list of “Top 10 Do’s and Don’ts for Media Trips“.
Most established writers have been invited – at one time or another, sometimes frequently – to [...]
Turn Your Travel Writing Hobby Into a Career
By Rebecca Sebek
There are tons of websites where people can post photos and comments about their latest trip, for the intended audience of family and friends, and plenty of people who write reviews of destinations for sites like TripAdvisor or Yahoo Travel, and even quite a large number of people who blog about travel as a part-time [...]
Travel Skills Can Look Good on a Travel Writer’s Resume
By Rebecca Sebek
I recently read a great blog post on Brave New Traveler titled “How to Make Travel Look Good on a Resume“, in which author Matthew Kepnes writes about people who have taken a year off to travel (commonly called a “gap year”), and how they can use that travel experience on their resume if [...]
Interview: Maralyn D. Hill, President of IFWTWA
By Trisha Miller
For those that don’t already know, IFWTWA stands for the International Food, Wine, and Travel Writers Association. It is a global network of people involved in the hospitality and lifestyle industries and the writers, bloggers, and journalists who promote them by informing others about them.
This past week I had the great pleasure of [...]
Travel Media Trips: Top 10 Do’s and Don’ts
By Trisha Miller
Many beginning Travel Writers and Bloggers ask us “what exactly is a ‘media trip’ (or a ‘press trip’)?” These two terms are used interchangeably, though you’ll see and hear Media Trip more frequently.
If you read my last post “Travel Media Trip – Cozumel Follow Up” you’ll have a good idea of what [...]