Find Your Passion, Achieve Success
It took us many years to find our passion and at one point in our lives, we didn’t think we’d ever find it. We always said to each other – “I know we could be successful at something, if only we knew what we wanted to do!” To achieve success, you have to find your passion.
Travel Bloggers Unite – Our POV
My mind is abuzz after Travel Bloggers Unite in Italy. From our side of the weekend’s events, we can state that it was a rousing success. Spending the Saturday leading and attending sessions for Industry professionals was one of the highlights of the event. Now, two days later we are more motivated than ever and have come away with the feeling that the future looks bright for Travel Blogging in Europe.
The New StumbleUpon Explained
There has been a lot of talk about the new StumbleUpon these days. We’ve been big StumbleUpon supporters since starting our blog and we’ve been exploring the new look and getting to know it better.
Video Tips for Travel Bloggers Part 2
This is the second instalment of creating engaging travel video content. In Part 1 of Video Tips for Travel Bloggers we talked about equipment, telling a story, and keeping track of ideas. The focus of this article is Post Production, the fancy word for Editing.
Video Tips for Travel Bloggers
Video. Viewing it? Awesome. Making it? Intimidating. In this 2 part series we are delving deep into the intricacies of creating engaging travel video content. Mike Corey of Kick the Grind TV has won 2 travel video blogging competitions, been featured in the Huffington post,
Brand and Bloggers: Where Do We Start?
Flight Centre Social Media Specialist in Canada shares valuable lessons she’s learned over the past year and tells us the Do’s and Don’ts when it comes to working with brands.
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.
How to Use StumbleUpon
We’ve had a lot of requests to write a post about how to use StumbleUpon. This can be one of the most exciting tools in driving traffic to your site. So here is a step by step guide on what we do each week when using StumbleUpon.
What’s With All the Hatin’ in Travel Blogging?
What is with all the hating going on between travel bloggers? Has everyone forgotten why they got into this business? Is it not for the love of travel? This past week a well known travel website decided to spread anger and distrust within the travel community.
Dark Days for ThePlanetD
At first we thought that nobody cared about the Mongol Rally. We were feeling pretty bummed as we watched our readership plummet each day that we drove from England to Mongolia.
My 7 Links
Recently we were nominated by Inspiring Travelers to take part in the 7 Links Project started by Trip Base. I actually first saw this exercise at ProBlogger and thought it was a great idea.
Search Engine Optimization, Get Traffic Now
As a blog, even at the beginning, you should take those small extra steps toward search engine optimization (SEO) for your travel website.
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.
Honesty, Fear and Triumph – Dear Reader
Dear Reader. Have you ever had one of those weeks where everything seems to be going wrong? It’s not like we have had to deal with the Tornadoes of Mississippi or a Tsunami or Earthquake so it feels trivial to complain, however we have learned that stress can be relative.
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.
Happy New Year 2011!
Wow! Has a year gone by already. Time has flown by and yet stood still all at once. It feels like a lifetime ago that we were standing on the roof of our friend Hussein’s hotel in Jaipur, India a year ago today. Was it really only 13 months ago that we left our careers to pursue the life of full time travel bloggers?
Social Media and Blogging-Balancing Both
With all the lists that are coming out lately we are beginning to wonder what we are supposed to be focusing on in the travel blogging world. It seems that Klout and other social media monitoring sites are becomming the new standard for who is influential in the travel world. These sites are actually dictating who people should follow and paying attention to. It seems that the more active you are on things like Twitter and Facebook, the more people are taking notice of your writing and photography. We had heard that Virgin Airlines went to Klout.com and gave away flights to all the top tweeters on Klout.
Make Money with Your Travel Blog Holiday Sale
NomadicMatt’s excellent ebook is on sale for the Holidays! We are now traveling the world fulfilling our dream of being full time travelers. It wasn’t always this way. We had loved to travel, but had to keep coming home to work and save money between trips.
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- What’s With All the Hatin’ in Travel Blogging? on October 29, 2011 by debndave - 127 Comments
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