Is it better to publish an article with a branded media site and get paid quickly? Or is it better to put it on your own blog and potentially earn far more in the long run? Could pitching a freelance travel article end up costing you? When a magazine offered Jeremy Jones a slot to […] The post Pitching a Freelance Travel Article vs. Keeping It for Your Blog appeared first on Travel Writing 2.0 Blog. Related posts: What’s Going to Work in Travel Writing Going Forward 11 Ways to Be a More Productive Writer (Who Makes Real $$) Are You Creating Helpful Content, Entertaining, or Copying ..read more

Rolf Potts put out his Vagabonding book around the same time I put out the first edition of The World's Cheapest Destinations book and we've been popping up next to each other on Amazon ever since. He has written several other books, dispatched articles from around the world for major magazines and online publications, and […] The post A Conversation with Rolf Potts appeared first on Travel Writing 2.0 Blog. Related posts: The Best Travel Writing Book for the Digital Age A Conversation with Kara Williams From the Editor’s Mouth: Larry Habegger of Travelers’ Tales ..read more

I traveled with Megan Jerrard while living it up on Boracay, Philippines many years ago. Earlier that decade, after a chance meeting on an airplane with one of the world's most successful bloggers at the time, Megan set out to create the life of her dreams.  Many later she is traveling the world with her […] The post Get to Know Megan Jerrard of Mapping Megan appeared first on Travel Writing 2.0 Blog. Related posts: There’s No Instant Success in Travel Blogging Marketing Campaign Tracking for Blog Partnerships Nina Clapperton on SEO and Exploding Your Blog Traffic ..read more

Did you hear the one about the Italian living in Malaysia who was writing in English and got stranded in Peru during the Pandemic? It's not a joke: that would be Marco Ferrarese, a travel writer and author who has contributed to my Perceptive Travel publication, but also has done guidebook work for Lonely Planet […] The post A Conversation with Marco Ferrarese, Author and Travel Writer appeared first on Travel Writing 2.0 Blog. Related posts: Dave Seminara: Freelance Travel Writer and Book Author Interview with Beebe Bahrami, Author and Anthropologist Writer An Interview With Robin Esrock, Tr ..read more

Claudia Laroye is an award-winning freelance writer, author, and content creator living in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is the Founding Editor of the award-winning Claudia Travels travel site (formerly The Travelling Mom), and Deputy Editor at Vacay.ca and Vacay Network. Her writing has scored awards from TMAC and NATJA.  What got you started in travel […] The post An Interview With Claudia Laroye, Canadian Travel Writer and Blogger appeared first on Travel Writing 2.0 Blog. Related posts: Interview with La Carmina, Multi-media Personality Interview With Kim Foley MacKinnon, Travel W ..read more

If you're on the Travel Writing Success Newsletter list, you already know this, but the brand new third edition of Travel Writing 2.0 book is out now across all platforms! I didn't post anything about it here on the blog when it went live on Amazon in early November because I hit a snag with […] The post The Best Travel Writing Book for the Digital Age appeared first on Travel Writing 2.0 Blog. Related posts: Are You Creating Helpful Content, Entertaining, or Copying? Four Ways to Jumpstart Your Travel Writing Income A Travel Blog or a Travel Content Business ..read more

I rubbed shoulders online with editor and traveler Jim Benning online back in the ‘00s when there weren’t many online magazines out there and World Hum and Perceptive Travel tended to come up a lot in the same sentences. Eventually we had a few beers together in my adopted city of Guanajuato, Mexico and more […] The post An Interview With Editor Jim Benning appeared first on Travel Writing 2.0 Blog. Related posts: 6 Ways to Stand Apart as a Writer An Interview With Freelance Writer Sharon McDonnell From the Editor’s Mouth: Larry Habegger of Travelers’ Tales ..read more

When I first started going to travel writer conferences back in the mid-'00s, I was just at the point where I was backing out of a "regular job" and going full-time as a travel writer. I had already been writing articles for ages, but online publishing was starting to pick up steam and I could […] The post Four Ways to Jumpstart Your Travel Writing Income appeared first on Travel Writing 2.0 Blog. Related posts: What’s Going to Work in Travel Writing Going Forward What’s Your Excuse for Not Succeeding? A Travel Blog or a Travel Content Business ..read more

Like me, Ian Ord is based in Mexico. He lives in Oaxaca, which frequently tops "world's best cities" lists from glossy travel mags. He runs the tour company Where Sidewalks End and was one of the first to transition from writing about travel to leading travel tours. After we connected in the past year at […] The post Ian Ord on Running Travel Tours Where Sidewalks End appeared first on Travel Writing 2.0 Blog. Related posts: A Travel Blog or a Travel Content Business? Why Face-to-face Communication Brings More Success to Writers An Interview with Amanda Ponzio-Mouttaki ..read more

I work with a lot of different affiliate partners, both direct and through aggregators, but the one that has been paying off the most consistently over the past six months has been Stay22. I first started using them years ago when they came out with their hotel maps function, but then they moved into other […] The post Why Travel Publishers Should Connect With Stay22 appeared first on Travel Writing 2.0 Blog. Related posts: Ideas Matter, but Successful Travel Bloggers Get the Work Done Modern Travel Blogging: How We Got Here and the Future of Storytelling Local and International Travel Bloggi ..read more