In the two years since we began running regular one-hour travel writing classes, we’ve covered more than 80 topics, including:

  • how to land free trips
  • how to get paid really, really well for your writing
  • how to get on magazine editors’ good sides
  • how to navigate every step of the process to land travel content marketing work, including phone calls and proposals
  • how to keep your hourly rate down so your bank account goes up
  • how to get work done on the road
  • how to write, step-by-step, 15 different types of travel articles
  • how to land guidebook and other traditional publishing deals

You can grab access to all of our past webinars (and a ton of other resources you can’t find anywhere else) with a subscription to our Dream Buffet or grab them one-by-one when you need them in our On-Demand Webinar Library for a set with the video, audio, transcript, and slides.

But we also air a free replay of one of our travel writing classes each and every weekday.

Each weekday at 2pm PST / 5pm EST / 10pm GMT / 11pm CET (and 9am AEDT Tues-Sat), we show one webinar from our archives, rotating through all of them over the course of four months.

Here’s what we’ve got for you this week:

Monday, April 26, 5pm EST: Setting Up Sponsored Trips 101

Getting on a sponsored trip is the holy grail of travel writing, right? Living a life in which you effortlessly hop from one free trip to another, spending your days enjoying haute cuisine and your nights in the fluffy king bed of your complimentary suite? Here we discuss the basic tenets of free travel as a travel writer, from ethics to minimum barrier of entry to the different types of trips, and their various pros and cons.

Register to attend this webinar at 5pm EST on Monday, April 26.

Missed the free replay? You can grab a downloadable version of this webinar from our library here.

Tuesday, April 27, 5pm EST: How to Set Up an Individual Sponsored Trip from Scratch

In this section we’re going to dive head first into how exactly to plan your own individual sponsored trips that fits your interests, travel preferences, and schedule.

Here we look at where to find these trips and best practices for applying. I pull real press trips, read between the lines, and break down exactly what you would do in each situation of your application.

Register to attend this webinar at 5pm EST on Tuesday, April 27.

Missed the free replay? You can grab a downloadable version of this webinar from our library here.

Wednesday, April 28, 5pm EST: Getting a Spot on a Group Fam or Press Trip

In the past few webinars, we’ve looked at the basic tenets of sponsored travel and how to piece together an individual sponsored trip.

In this webinar, we focused on group familiarization and press trips, which primarily come out of tourism boards and PR agencies, but can also appear in other surprising places. We look at where to find these trips and best practices for applying for them.

Register to attend this webinar at 5pm EST on Wednesday, April 28.

Missed the free replay? You can grab a downloadable version of this webinar from our library here.

Thursday, April 29, 5pm EST: Putting Together a Pitch Portfolio to Support a Big Trip

In this webinar, we walk through several press trip itineraries to show who and what to pitch to set up a varied portfolio of coverage for each trip. We discuss five techniques you can use to ensure an impressive pitch portfolio to accompany any press trip request, and how to handle this process whether you’ve never been published and have no connections or have editors that you work with already but perhaps want to branch out to a new subject or geographic area.

Register to attend this webinar at 5pm EST on Thursday, April 29.

Missed the free replay? You can grab a downloadable version of this webinar from our library here.

Friday, April 30, 5pm EST: How To Prepare For Your Press Trip

In the previous webinar, we looked in detail about all of the things that you need to clarify expectations on before your press trip (including several recommendations of how to handle requests for itinerary changes, additional nights, and flights).

In this webinar, we look more about the story side of pre-trip preparation, including how to break your trip into stories, what is safe to pitch based on a limited itinerary or destination you’re not familiar with, and how to handle the catch-22 of pitching when you haven’t yet been accepted on a trip.

Register to attend this webinar at 5pm EST on Friday, April 30.

Missed the free replay? You can grab a downloadable version of this webinar from our library here.

Don’t be late! All the free replays start right on time, and the system isn’t able to accept late attendees.

You can read all about our free webinar replays and get answers to any questions you have on our comprehensive FAQ page, or grab any webinars you have missed in our On-Demand Webinar Library.