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Expedia Expanding – New Jobs in Europe

223 days ago by Alastair McKenzie 2

We’re fixing some glitches in the Travelllll.com Jobs Notice Board right now, so we’ll post these notices from our friends at Expedia, here for the time being.

This week Expedia are recruiting just for French and German bloggers. Next week they’ll be looking for for English, Spanish and Dutch. So stay tuned!

Expedia.fr vous invite à participer à son jeu-concours spécial blogueurs pour voyager à votre idée

Parce que chacun a son idée du voyage, Expedia.fr vous propose de Continue Reading

Are Google’s Travel Content Intentions Honourable?

272 days ago by Ethan Gelber 4

Google’s got its fingers in a lot of pies. A lot of them. But that’s not new news. What is new is what Google’s recent purchase of Frommer’s might mean to its undisclosed intentions in the travel space.

Speculation about Google’s ambitions in travel first spiked in July 2010 when, for $700 million, it purchased ITA Software, a leading provider of air search technology.

It was piqued again when, in September 2011, Google bought Zagat, the well-known Continue Reading

10 Tips For Making Travel Writing Your Career

273 days ago by Jessica Festa 8

As a full-time travel writer, I’m often asked how I got “so lucky.”

To them, I just simply started a website, wrote a few diary entries on my trips and started getting paid to travel the world. Of course, if you’ve read Gary Arndt and Matthew Kepnes’ open letters to travel bloggers, you’ll know this is really never the case.

Anybody can start a travel blog; however, if you’re looking to be able to quit your Continue Reading

Want to be a Successful Travel Blogger? Get Out of The Travel Blog Bubble

325 days ago by Christine Gilbert 76

Recently I was approached by two PR agencies offering me a chance to travel to their destination for free.

The first one offered my three nights stay in any of the global locations (it’s a luxury hotel chain). They gave me a three-month window to choose from. They wrote specifically to me and the entire email felt like they had written it about me and my site, not a copy/paste to a bunch of bloggers.

The second one sent me Continue Reading

How to Create a Travel Blog Media Kit

331 days ago by Ethan Gelber 4

A bag emptied of its content, surrounded by those contents

Can you describe what you do in less than 20 seconds? (What you do as a travel blogger, I mean. Not your day job.) After those key fleeting moments, are you routinely asked for more information? Do people express interest in who you are, what you write, how your readers think and whether you would be willing to contribute to a commercial effort in exchange some for cold hard cash? Then it’s time for a media kit! Actually, even if Continue Reading

Why You Need to Have a Killer Travel Blog Marketing Strategy. Now.

338 days ago by Ethan Gelber 17

Even selling banana requires some form of marketing strategy

When you flip a coin, is the head of a penny (or penny equivalent) any less decisive than a bigger, heavier coin of solid gold, or do the gleam and heft of the latter – not to mention its value – endow it with more tails-you-lose finality? And what the hell does this have to do with blog marketing strategies?

I see the two sides of the how-to-make-blogging-profitable coin as follows: Heads is the much-discussed challenge of monetisation (the word we Continue Reading

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