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Successful travel blogger offers extensive course in making your own blog profitable
About to take a trip and hope to make a little cashola off your travel blog? Head over to Travel Blog Success (being launched today!), a website offering in-depth instruction on how to make your blog profitable. Travel Blog Success was created by David Lee, the founder of GoBackpacking.com. In advance of a 20-month, 22-country round-the-world trip, Lee started and maintained GoBackpacking, which was successful enough to now warrant roughly ten employees.
And now Lee has created Travel Blog Success, a website that intends to help writers "build a better travel blog."
The extremely thorough site not only offers podcasts, a forum, and its own blog, but also a 12-lesson course covering every aspect of travel blogging. Lessons range from design, content, and SEO to photography, video blogging, and both beginning and advanced methods for making money. There's even one lesson on the realities of blogging on the road.
The service isn't free, but for anyone who is new to blogging and serious about making money from it, the fees are probably a decent investment. A one-time $75 payment gets you immediate access to everything, or you can choose to pay $29/month for three months.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Michaela Potter Feb 1st 2010 4:59PM
David has gained a great deal of expertise in the three years of blogging, and has always been generous offering advice to fellow travel bloggers. Travel Blog Success just takes it up a notch!
I've had the opportunity to see Travel Blog Success in it's preview stage and feel it's definitely worth the investment as the resources go above and beyond the 12-week course. David has a regularly updated blog, that includes audio interviews with experienced and respected travel bloggers, as well as a very active forum.
I personally look forward to more great conversations happening in the forum!
Wes Nations Feb 4th 2010 2:00PM
I just signed up for Travel Blog Success yesterday and I'm feeling pretty good about the investment. I've only had a chance to read through the first 2 lessons but I found them to be helpful and comprehensive. For me, the real long-term value will be the forums -- being able to receive direct feedback and mentoring from successful travel bloggers is worth the sign-up price alone.
-Wes
http://johnnyvagabond.com/
Caitlin @ Roaming Tales Feb 5th 2010 7:47PM
It may or may not be a good course but this gushing post has the tone of an advertisement.
$75 isn't beer money either.
Caitlin @ Roaming Tales Feb 5th 2010 8:01PM
@Wes You might want to check out the forums at http://www.travelblogexchange.com/.
There are plenty of experienced travel bloggers hanging out there and it's free!
You can also make friends with travel bloggers on Twitter.
Happy Hotelier Feb 5th 2010 8:23PM
Is Gadling now in the Google forbiden link selling business?
Kevin May Feb 6th 2010 5:14AM
I doubt whether our dear Gadling is taking dimes for posts. Maybe just a slow news day.
I'm just wondering whether the $75 (remember, pretty tough for a Brit like me with our crappy exchange rate) also includes editing and subbing tutorials included in the "12-lesson course covering every aspect of travel blogging".
It surely must also be the basics that will also help a blog become "profitable"..
But why focus on this, I hear you ask...
Came across this (hopefully) unfortunate error on David Lee's post to plug Travel Blog Success via his MedellinLiving.com blog.
Screen grab: http://twitpic.com/11nmr9
As the travel writing debate rumbles on, it is also quality of writing itself, including spelling headlines correctly, which will help - but not guarantee - success.
Dave Feb 19th 2010 10:20AM
@Caitlin - I contacted Gadling in advance of the Travel Blog Success launch and offered a preview. I had no control over what the writer decided to say or focus on, and I certainly didn't pay for their coverage.
It wasn't easy coming up with a price, however based on the initial feedback I'm hearing from members, they have been satisfied with the value being delivered for their investment.
@Happy Hotelier - As I mentioned above, I did not pay for advertising. One of the things I've always appreciated about the online travel community is the way sites support one another. I only paid for a small amount of advertising for the launch, and that was on Facebook.
@Kevin - "As the travel writing debate rumbles on, it is also quality of writing itself, including spelling headlines correctly, which will help - but not guarantee - success."
Thank you for pointing out that misspelling. I'm not claiming to be infallible when it comes to delivering a quality experience for my blogs' readers. If you've been a regular reader of Go Backpacking for the last 3 years, you know misspellings are a rarity there, whether it's a post I published myself or one I've edited from a guest contributor.
johnnyvagabond Feb 6th 2010 12:29PM
@Caitlin Thanks -- I've been on TBE for a few weeks now and it is, indeed, a great community.
arnab lal mukherjee Mar 14th 2010 8:33AM
hi! i am arnab i have started a new blog for tours and travel which provides different useful info about travel destinations . i would like to know about the success rate of travel blogs.what is the max income of a travel blogger