How to Brand Yourself and Build Engagement with a Facebook Page
Social media is REAL. It’s life. And Facebook is the ultimate platform to be yourself and brand yourself to show the world the real you. My Facebook page swiftly became a standard extension to our blogs brand and message.
How to Do a Presentation for The Travel Industry
We have a lot of public speaking engagements coming up in the coming months, between the E-Tourism & E-Marketing Conference in Cairo on December 18th and TBU in Umbria, this April, we have our work cut out for us to make sure that we share the most important information that we can during our presentations to [...]
Get Your Travel Blog Noticed
Travel Blog Advice. The other night at a Toronto Travel Massive meet up someone asked how to work with tourism agencies and PR companies. People seem discouraged that only a handful of Travel Bloggers end up on press trips or partner with companies.
So You Want to Be a Pro Blogger in The Travel Business
So, you love to travel and you want to work in the travel business as a professional Blogger. Think you got what it takes? Ask yourself a few questions to find out.
A Travel Blogger’s Guide to Sponsorship
Finding a sponsor for your travel blog is an important part of achieving success in your field. We have found the working on partnerships and developing relationships with our sponsors has been of great value not only from our past adventures but for all of our future travels.
Getting to Know the New PlanetD
The past few months have seen a lot of changes here at ThePlanetD and the first order of business was a major overhaul of our website. Cosmetically, we have only made subtle changes but navigationally, user experience and organization, we have changed dramatically.
Travel Blog Success, It Will Help you Succeed
Who better to give advice about having success in Travel Blogging than one of the most successful guys in travel! Travel Blog Success is a very valuable recourse for bloggers.
A Travel Bloggers Guide to Press Trips
Over this past year we have been fortunate enough to have been invited on several press trips.We have learned a lot during these trips, At the same time we made a lot of mistakes.
ThePlanetD Around the Web
The past couple of months have been our busiest in travel ever! With all this traveling and tackling new and exciting adventures, we have had very little time to promote our life online.
Muay Thai, The Final Day
It is our last day if kickboxing at Rawai Muay Thai in Thailand and it started off with a bang. A very loud bang as our computers fell onto the tile floor that is. Oh, and on to our 1 terabyte external hard drive with all our photos from Fiji and China sitting inside. We didn’t have time to assess that damage as we had to leave for an orphanage in Phuket.
Free Advertising and Subscriber Giveaway
We are working on big things with our newsletter. We want to bring you the best information on travel and adventure we can find each month and we are offering an incentive to sign you up! Everyone that is already a subscriber plus any new subscriber to thePlanetD newsletter will receive a free 2011 desk top calendar of Dave’s incredible photos. We have already given away the January desktop as our Christmas gift to you and now you can change your photos each month and dream of an exotic destination while working at your computer.
Top Applications for Travel Bloggers
There are many tools that a blogger can use to make their website more interesting to the reader. Blogs are a visual medium and it is essential to keep your visitors attention by adding video, images and creative editing. Knowing what application to use can turn an ordinary post into an eye catching display. Before I started blogging, I thought that you needed an intense course in coding and website design to create anything unique on a website. It is amazing how much creativity a person can have with the right program or application on a computer.
Will Travel Blogs Take Over Guide Books?
With all the new electronics out there these days, I can’t help but wonder if blogs will soon take over the guide book.In today’s world a person can be in a new city, pop onto the internet in a coffee shop from their laptop or surf the web while standing on a street corner and find the best tings to do in a place by doing a simple search.
7 Links Blog Challenge
We interrupt this media week to bring you the 7 Links Challenge brought to you by Problogger. Problogger is the biggest Blogger on the Internet and when he recommends trying something new on your blog, we follow. So we decided to take his 7 Links Challenge. The concept is to make a link to 7 specific posts in your blog. He even gave guide lines as to what posts you had to link to. It was a challenge, but we finally came up with the links for the following posts listed below. Check out our 7 Links Challenge and then start your own!
Travel Blogging 3 Months In: How’s it Going?
It is a little over three months into our travels and running our travel blog has been fulfilling, exciting, time consuming and at times confusing. We wrote a post at TravelWritersExchange about how to keep up the blog while traveling to give you an idea of how we do it.
But we thought that we would share the things that we have had difficulties with, things that we want to change in the blog and directions that we want to take.
This Weeks Adventure’s in Blogging
The big news is that we are starting a monthly newsletter while we are away. Make sure to sign up for it at the top right hand corner of this page! All you have to do is leave your email address and first name and you will receive a monthly update from us. You can unsubscribe at any time. We won’t be doing these “week in review” posts once we start our travels, but we really do enjoy sharing our successes and failures of running the blog. It is in that newsletter that we will share recaps of what we have done with the website and what we have done on our travels. Plus, we will be giving some tips, tricks and insider scoops of our travels. Along with some more in depth articles regarding our experiences.
Our Blog Report, What We did This Week to Make a Better Blog
So, we are leaving for our next travel around the world in less than four months and we are feeling pretty pleased with the direction that our website is going, but we are feeling very overwhelmed with everything else that has to be done.
A Week in Review at ThePlanetd Blog, August 3
So many things happen each week that I understand why there are so many blogs out there dedicated to running a website. Now that I have made a point of stating that I will be starting a regular segment at the Planetd, I suddenly worry that I won’t have enough to write about, and yet I have been writing this weekly update for over a month. So let’s give it a shot.
Week in Review: The Slow Guide to Building a Better Travel Blog
I have found that every Monday or Tuesday, I have been writing a little review of what steps we have taken to build our travel blog each week. It helps me to organize my thoughts, but I also enjoy sharing my trials and tribulations with people.
The Week in Review
Well We did it. We have yet to make it to Australia and when we received a tweet about it, we just had to give it a try. Australia has always been high on our list of destinations, but at this point in our lives, we always choose to go to places that we can travel for a long period of time on a very small budget.
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