One of the things I frequently hear is, “TBEX should come to <fill in the blank city>” or “< great location X> would be a wonderful place to have a TBEX” or “We’d love to have TBEX come to our city.”
5 Reasons Your Sponsorship Pitch Failed
We know that not every request travel bloggers make to destinations, publications, tour companies, and others in the travel industry will get a “yes” – but it may not always be clear why that proposal you thought was so great was rejected (or, worse yet, never got a reply at all). In this guest post, Viator’s Commissioning Editor, Katie Hammel, discusses some of the reasons why she has said no to sponsorship pitches in the past – and some of the lessons she’s learned as she’s sent out pitches of her own.
9 Criteria for Getting Invited on Travel Blog Trips
In his first guest post for the TBEX blog, William Bakker of Think! Social Media talked about the challenges of measuring the value bloggers bring to DMOs. In the second part of this two-part guest post, William talks about the nine things he and his Think! colleagues look at when evaluating bloggers they’re considering for invitations on press trips.
How can destinations measure the value of travel bloggers?
One of the most anticipated sessions leading up to TBEX Girona was on measuring blogger ROI – something most of us are pretty interested in figuring out. The session was co-anchored by Melvin Böcher, Keith Jenkins, and the author of today’s guest post, William Bakker of Think! Social Media. William came at the topic from a different angle than Melvin and Keith, and here he offers his perspective on how DMOs measure the value of working with a blogger.
How Attending TBEX Led Me to Start Blogging in Another Language
Some of us have enough trouble finding the motivation to write a blog post in the language we’ve spoken our entire lives, but how many of us can say we know what it’s like to blog in multiple languages? In today’s guest post, Italian blogger Emanuela Barbano talks about the encouragement she found at TBEX in Girona to start blogging in English. Maybe you’ll find inspiration in Emanuela’s experience to try something beyond your blogging comfort zone, too.
Toronto: Did You Know?
Toronto! We all know that it’s the site for TBEX 13, but did you know these other facts and factoids about the city? Our good friends at Toronto Tourism are trying to tempt us with additional reasons to visit. Is it working?
Eight Ways to Make More Money as an Affiliate
Every month, I make a few hundred dollars in affiliate sales as a blogger, and those who focus on this form of monetization make even more. When I first started selling products as an affiliate, I was lucky to make a few bucks a month with Amazon. Lots of bloggers have given brilliant advice about working as an affiliate, but today I wanted to talk about some tips that worked for me to increase affiliate sales. You can make a few changes to increase passive sales, like me, or you can really run with these tips to make a full-time income with affiliate sales.
TBEX Event at NMX
We’ve been putting the finishing touches on a couple of announcements – and an invitation – about TBEX at NMX, and we’re finally ready to show you what’s behind the curtain.
Happy New Year, TBEXers!
From all of us at TBEX and NMX, we want to wish you a very happy new year!
We’ve got lots to look forward to in 2013, with two excellent host cities in Toronto and Dublin to help us bring you the best possible travel blogging conference experiences, and we look forward to helping you achieve your blogging goals in 2013 and beyond.
How to Turn Twitter into a Feed Reader
I hate feed readers. Always have. Frankly, I just don’t have time to read every single post by every single blogger I like, not even close, so I only log into my feed reader once every day or two. Because I follow so many people, that means that every time I log in, my feed reader shows a billion unread posts. Some days, it looks so daunting to clear ‘em all out, that I just close my browser without reading anything.
