Plan to Get Serious About Your Business Right Now with Your $100 Coupon
When I first started freelance travel writing, there were no websites dedicated to the business side of the travel writer’s life.
And there were only a handful of solid sources on creating a stable income as a freelance writer.
Most people simply thought it couldn’t be done, and the ones out there doing it were too busy working for their clients and living awesome freelance lives to tell the rest of us how to do it!
We Want to Help You with Exactly What You Need. Will You Let Us?
Just this week, I had a coaching call with someone who has someone working for her who is not meeting her expectations.
Has this happened to you? Perhaps with a client? Or even a spouse or a friend?
And We’re Back
In 2015, when I was first working on what would become Dream of Travel Writing, I had a surprising discussion with the head of one of the main conferences for travel content creators about how much I was paid to write blog posts for my tour company clients.
The Single, Biggest Thing That Holds You Back From Travel Writing Success
I know this sounds crazy, but you really can have travel writing success and get yourself officially up and running with a flourishing business in one hour!
Have you tried before? I can feel the head shakes and sighs.
But what makes this process take longer than an hour is not the time required to announce to the world that you are a travel writer, via various forms of social media and your own shiny new website. It’s the decision making.
Don’t Let the Haters Sell You on These 3 Mega Myths About Freelance Travel Writing
It’s a breath of fresh air to see more and more websites talking about six-figure freelance writing. Particularly six-figure freelance travel writing, as a reality rather than a pipe dream, but I am still shocked by the various ways people who are not successful freelance writers deride the profession.
Editors Have Needs. Please Fill Them.
Let’s turn your usual visions of editors around. Rather than envisioning an editor:
- seeing an email come in from someone they don’t know and either ignoring or deleting it;
- finding something fundamentally wrong with your subject line and deleting your email without reading it;
- opening your email, checking if you have any clips from national magazines and deleting it when they find none;
- reading your email, liking the idea, and then sending it off to one of his or her writers to work on
Why Do We Need Travel Writers? Why Do You Need to Be One?
Don George, editor of Lonely Planet’s annual travel anthologies and author of the seminal travel writing handbook Travel Writing: Expert Advice from the World’s Leading Travel Publisher, sat down with close friend, Jeff Greenwald, author of six books on his travel adventures and founder of EthicalTraveler.org, to talk about what it means to be a travel writer with a flourishing business.
Which of These 3 Types of Travel Writer Are You?
When I start any conversation with someone who wants to be a travel writer, or has been trying to make a career in travel writing for a while and isn’t getting any traction, first and foremost, I ask:
Why are you doing this in the first place?
WTF Are You Doing with Your Travel Writing Time?
I have to ask.
What did you do today?
Do you know? Is that because it just happened? Let’s try a harder one.
What did you do during your work hours last Monday?
People Die of Exposure – Why Give Away Your Work For It?
I will never stop being surprised that brand new websites and magazines continue to post ads on Craigslist, BloggingPro, ProBlogger and other writing job sites asking people to write for them for free in exchange for “writing exposure.”
Having started websites myself and consulted for many others, I promise you that any website so new that it is hiring people to write its content doesn’t have any more readers for you to be “exposed” to than you would if you just went and started your own blog.
You’d probably have more eyeballs on your own, actually.