The Flourishing Creator

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The Single, Biggest Thing That Holds You Back From Travel Writing Success

I know this sounds crazy, but you really can have travel writing success and get yourself officially up and running with a flourishing business in one hour!

Have you tried before? I can feel the head shakes and sighs.

But what makes this process take longer than an hour is not the time required to announce to the world that you are a travel writer, via various forms of social media and your own shiny new website. It’s the decision making.

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People Die of Exposure – Why Give Away Your Work For It?


I will never stop being surprised that brand new websites and magazines continue to post ads on Craigslist, BloggingPro, ProBlogger and other writing job sites asking people to write for them for free in exchange for “writing exposure.”

Having started websites myself and consulted for many others, I promise you that any website so new that it is hiring people to write its content doesn’t have any more readers for you to be “exposed” to than you would if you just went and started your own blog.

You’d probably have more eyeballs on your own, actually.

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You Only Get One First Impression–How Not to Botch It


Do you struggle with how to tell people what you do or how to introduce yourself at networking events (in a travel writing context that is)?

It is an unfortunate paradox for travel writers. On the one hand, we have a job so “cool” that it often seems like everyone wants to do it. But at the same time, a lot of people—often even the same people that say they would love to be travel writers—act like this profession is not really a job…it’s a hobby.

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