Most travel bloggers serve double-duty as both writers and photographers, even though we tend to be better at one than the other. Even if you’re not a professional photographer, however, you can learn easy techniques to improve your photography and make it more visually appealing. Today’s guest post by Kim Olson gives you five composition tips that will add variety to your shots.
No, I Don’t Want to Sign Up for Your Mailing List (And Here’s Why)
I need more emails like I need a hole in the head. I recommend that every online content creator out there has a mailing list, but I actually sign up for very few of them personally. I think mailing lists are great, but some people could have more subscribers if they used their lists slightly differently.
TBEX at NMX 2013: Light Bulb Moments
Have you ever had the pleasure of watching a light bulb go off over someone’s head?
When we’re in the bubble of a TBEX conference, everyone buzzing about the new people they’ve met or the food at the parties or how much they’ve learned, it’s hard to imagine that there are travel bloggers out there who are entirely unaware of TBEX’s existence. But y’know what? We’re still a very small fish, and when Mary Jo and I recently worked at the New Media Expo (NMX) conference in Las Vegas, a phrase we heard repeatedly was, “I had no idea there was a whole conference just for travel blogging!”
A Travel Blogger’s Guide to ITB Berlin
ITB Berlin – the biggest tourism trade fair in the world – is coming up in March, and with it come many questions. This guest post by Yvonne Zagermann is a beginner’s guide for all of you travel bloggers who never been to ITB and/or Berlin.
Now Accepting Bids to Host TBEX North America 2014
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?
