Want to get paid to travel but still not sure if it can be a reality? Come on, let’s face it! Most travel bloggers make decent money by…simply traveling. But ask them and they will tell you how exhausting travel blogging can be. And it’s not too much luxurious especially in the early years of your online business. Until you become an influencer and have a huge community of followers behind your back. Well, behind your backpack, actually 🙂
Starting a travel blog means getting into a wild ride. And you should be ready to do it all over again. So, if you are the type who doesn’t bother if travel blogging is exhausting, then you should try this out.
First steps to becoming an influencer in travel blogging
First things first, if you want to get paid for traveling, you need to become an influencer in travel blogging. It’s like a formula.
Then things get even easier. As soon as you are an influencer, you can enjoy the fame and get money flowing into your pocket. It can be so rewarding to do your favorite thing and to get paid for it.
It’s important to start building your personal brand. For this, you can consider having the following in place:
- Solid content
- Strong social media presence (Public channels, social media channels etc.)
- Professional website
- Email subscribers
- Big network of influencers and simply interesting people
- Media kit
- Positive reviews
Note that the aforementioned components should work closely in order to ensure success. If you miss out a few of them, then you might end up wasting your time. For example, if you have a professional website, that’s cool. But if you have no social media presence, then how are you going to promote that website?
Take public channels, these are a great platform to promote content either visual or textual. A few mobile messengers have started the trend and it seems to be going quite well. Pinngle, for example, has launched its Public Channels which feature influencers all over the world. By influencers, we mean bloggers, content creators, social activists, dreamers, movers, and shakers. This is a private community meaning that you can only get accepted upon request. But being on platforms like this will help you make your voice heard by hundreds of thousands if not millions of people. So, it’s a good idea to start small and to apply to get a Pinngle Channel whenever you feel you have high-quality content.
How about making some money?
Starting a travel blog and starting it right can land you a few interesting gigs indeed. You just need to keep the good work going. Some bloggers settle on a few gigs and that’s it. But ask yourself – is money your priority? If you are doing your job out of pure love towards it, then money is an outcome nor a priority. Still, there are a few really awesome ways as to how you can monetize your travel blog’s content. Let’s look at them:
- Get paid for reviewing hotels and restaurants
- Write a blog post or make a social media post about a place
- Create a vlog=video blog about a certain place be it a museum, restaurant, sightseeing etc.
- Get money to be a tour guide for a group of people
- Participate in TV shows and ads
The possibilities are endless! Leading brands need high-quality influencers. The quality of your travel blog is paramount. So, if you are making good content, then you have nothing to worry about. Just keep on rocking!
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Create a Pinngle Channel today! Get the chance joining a selected community of influencers, feel free to send a global message that matters.
Also published on Medium.
