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Our guide puts his finger to his lips. We mustn’t disturb them in case they run for it. “They’re very sensitive to intrusion,” he says. “The slightest disruption can make them squawk in anguished pain. And if the herd starts stampeding, they can start lashing out wildly without any rhyme or reason.” We’re huddled behind [...]
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Changes coming I’m writing this down and publishing it, partly to inform, but mostly to force myself to actually do what I’ve promised myself for a long time. Over the next few months, I’m going to be making a few changes to Grumpy Traveller. How online publishing will change A couple of days down [...]
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As one of the more enjoyable parts of two shop-talking days, I sauntered along to Travel BlogCamp 2011 on Tuesday night, with the heavy elephantine feet of a man who had spent a day talking to irrelevant people on big flashy stalls. I’m still working out my overall impressions, but here are a few things [...]
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An approach… I want to share an e-mail I received last night with you all. It went as follows (with the odd bit of evidence blanked out): “Sorry for the unannounced email. The reason I am contacting you is because we are running a competition for [redacted product aimed at 16 to 25 year [...]
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The honesty survey A couple of weeks ago, I ran a post that I called ‘The Travel Blogger Honesty Survey’. Basically, I was a little sick of hearing all and sundry bang on about how to make money from blogging when few people are prepared to admit how much they actually make from blogging. Anonymity? [...]
Theories of monetising travel blogs For all the blog posts about how to monetise a travel blog (and I think 500 new ones get written every day), the subject keeps coming up. Everyone’s elaborated on their theory of how to make money from travel blogging and most of the usual suspects (including myself) have had [...]
Making money from travel blogging (again) It’s been ooh, at least two weeks, since the issue of how to make money from travel blogging has done the rounds on the web. It is a topic that many proclaim to be bored of, squealing that the conversation should move on. That’s a bit like saying you [...]
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Nomads and vagabonds There are, approximately, 40,768 bloggers out there whose ‘unique’ selling point is that they are constantly on the road. NomadicVagabondKevin and his cohorts have jacked in their jobs, and now spend their time travelling from one place to the next, seeing as much of our wonderful world as possible. This is, it [...]
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One question that I regularly get asked is: “How do I travel around the world and get paid for it?” Well, the obvious answer is: “Start a travel blog!” It’s an idea that’s so simple, it’s a wonder so few other people are doing it. Just buy a domain name, install WordPress and start writing [...]
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The following is a vague approximation of what I said when I was asked to speak at Travel Blog Camp 2010, to a room full of bloggers, journalists, editors, PRs and travel company owners. At least I think it’s what I said – what actually came out of my mouth may have been a stream-of [...]
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