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4 Ways to Make Money as a Travel Writer

admin — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 01:20:46 +0000

Have you ever wanted to travel the world and make money for writing about what you see? It’s not as hard as you may imagine. Using a few underground techniques, you can be making a healthy income in no-time flat for writing about traveling the world!

Here are the ways you can make money as a travel writer:

1) Traditional Method: Selling Your Stories To Travel Magazines and Newspapers.

This is the most common and most well-known method. Ironically, it also pays the least of all the methods.

You can take two paths when selling your article to a magazine. First you can query a magazine on their interest about a particular subject. If interested, they will agree to buy your article if it meets their standards. The second method is to write the article, then try and sell it.

To find magazines and periodicals that purchase travel stories, go to the library and check out the most recent Writers Market and you’ll have over a dozen periodicals that pay anywhere from a few hundred bucks to a few thousand dollars for an article.

The risky side to this is that there are no guarantees of payment, and you must either have a great story or be a great writer to make this work. Not impossible, just tough.

2) Writing For Other People’s Blogs.

If you can write a 400-1500 word post on any given subject, you can sell the post to a blog at a set price. Heres why: Blogs constantly need new content. It’s how they stay fresh with their readers and how they stay well-ranked in the search engines.

However, writing a new post every few days is a difficult task! If you take over that task for a blog owner, you’re going to be saving them a TON of time and effort, providing their readers with great value, and making an income for a project that is relatively easy for you to complete.

You can get paid anywhere from 20 bucks to a few hundred dollars for this kind of writing… and it’s a LOT easier to do that writing for a magazine.

Think of it: You spend a day writing 5 articles and sell the articles for $30 dollars each. Now you’ve made $150 dollars for a couple of hours of work and everyone is happy.

3) Writing for Your Own Blog.

Another option is to write your own blog and use your travel stories to drive traffic to it. You’d be surprised at the number of bored, lifeless people who want to live vicariously through someone traveling the world. You can then monetize your blog by selling adspace or selling products related to your blog. This sounds basic, but it has made many-a-traveler tens and even 100’s of thousands of dollars per year.

4) Completing Writing Projects on ‘Project’ Sites.

There are literally hundreds of writing projects posted every single day on Elance, Guru, DoMyStuff, and other ‘project’ posting websites.

All you have to do is set up a free account as a content provider, then answer people’s requests for writing projects. Once you’re done, the funds will be electronically deposited into your bank account, and you can withdraw the money from any ATM in the world. You can then pick up another project… or complete several projects all at once!

Many projects go for $1000+ dollars, so it doesn’t take a lot of these to be able to travel well and travel often. You can even do the work on the airplane ride to your next destination!

If you have any writing skill at all, you will be able to pick one of these methods and become a well-paid traveler.

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An Australian Travel Community for Travel Writing

admin — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:06:16 +0000

Planbooktravel.com.au is designed to allow unlimited users to create new content for Australian Travel by writing articles and contributing stories, photos and blogs. The site is pioneering in promoting the use of user-generated Travel Writing and cataloging content in a logical, usable way, by tagging every item to a relevant Australian town. This is done with the purpose of creating a vibrant Australian Travel Community.

As travel book publishers the site owners see the limitations in traditional publishing and packaging. Content is outdated before print and it takes exceptional Travel Writing to uncover the true spirit of a location. A task difficult to complete without local knowledge or having a personal involvement in the community.

The future for Travel publishing is to have an unlimited number of contributors from a diverse background. Only then can you properly and thoughtfully represent the Travel Information to a Broad readership.

The difficulty then, for such vast contribution, regarding so many locations, is how to present the information so it is easily found and logical to a reader.

Adding content to maps is one way, but that just makes for messy maps… and is not representative of the experience one has when reading a book, journal or magazine.

“We believe we have got the mix right with this site for reader and contributor alike. Nearly every location in Australia (10,000) has a unique page and is associated with its Region and State. Locations are given map references, not content, making for easy to digest, readable and navigate-able maps. Readers can drill down to content via maps or through a logical sequence of pages: National – State – Region – Location”, said Jeremy Baird, the spokesperson at www.planbooktravel.com.au

With web 2.0 come the tools necessary for contribution. Travel Reviews, Travel blogs and photos are tagged to relevant location pages. Content carries personal or creative common licenses achieving a catalog of content that can be then called and syndicated by location, Region, State or key word.

The site is getting lots of interest from writers, writing clubs and associations, as a new resource to promote writers and their articles. The site recently received contributions from Max Walker with an excellent article on his home town of Hobart in Tasmania which shows that even professional writers are viewing the site as a great means to attract a new audience to their publications.

Blog Make Money Online

admin — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:35:28 +0000

The latest mantra is to blog and make money online. A blog is a website usually maintained by an individual and it is updated regularly with the entries of commentary and description of events. There are different types of blog and they are political blogs, fashion blogs, travel blogs etc. There are several methods to earn money from blogs. Blogs could be effectively used to generate income. The most effective method to make money from blog is through Google’s Adsense. It is a method whereby a blogger can post the ad that is relevant to their content. This helps Google to analyze about the page and that finally results in the display of an ad. As a result the visitors to the blog increase and thereby it serves as a way to generate income. Though RSS advertising is a method whereby the bloggers earn money there are no proved results of it being profitable. Besides advertising campaigns sponsorship is another activity which helps in making money online. Bloggers are sponsored by the companies to post articles on certain topics and earn money by posting it in their blogs. Another effective method for blog make money online is that several bloggers have adopted digital assets to generate income. They have started conducting tele-seminars and courses, many bloggers run various programs to make money online. With the increasing popularity of blogging networks, bloggers have found another opportunity to earn more income. New bloggers are more welcome and some bloggers even combine with others to write and earn money. The growing popularity of the bloggers has encouraged several companies to start their blogs with their own staff. Some of them hire the bloggers and they are paid for their work. The popularity of the bloggers has even encouraged the non blogger medium to hire bloggers to write articles for their newspapers, magazines and non blog medium. Bloggers even earn money by trying to sell branded products through their blogs. As blogging has the ability to establish bloggers as specialists, some bloggers do earn money by offering consultancy on related topics. Blogosphere is one area which has witnessed a number of changes and has created a lot of opportunity to earn money. So it is left to the blogger to capitalize and monetize on the opportunities since most of them are temporary. The most effective method to make money online is by creating traffic. Though traffic building is a bit difficult it is a method to monetize funds. Traffic is nothing but making more visitors to visit the blog which indirectly leads to more sales, more ad clicks and all other related services. The main idea of any online business is to make money online and this has to be done in such a way that you don’t spend too much to promote your blog. Make your blog interesting and then find all the free advertising online that you can do. Make money fast by getting more and more traffic to your site.