Join Us for Free Travel Writing Lessons on Writing for Trade Magazines and Photography
In the two years since we began running regular one-hour travel writing classes, we’ve covered more than 80 topics, including:
- how to land free trips
- how to get paid really, really well for your writing
- how to get on magazine editors’ good sides
- how to navigate every step of the process to land travel content marketing work, including phone calls and proposals
- how to keep your hourly rate down so your bank account goes up
- how to get work done on the road
- how to write, step-by-step, 15 different types of travel articles
- how to land guidebook and other traditional publishing deals
You can grab access to all of our past webinars (and a ton of other resources you can’t find anywhere else) with a subscription to our Dream Buffet or grab them one-by-one when you need them in our On-Demand Webinar Library for a set with the video, audio, transcript, and slides.
But we also air a free replay of one of our travel writing classes each and every weekday.
Each weekday at 2pm PST / 5pm EST / 10pm GMT / 11pm CET (and 9am AEDT Tues-Sat), we show one webinar from our archives, rotating through all of them over the course of four months.
Here’s what we’ve got for you this week:
Monday, November 9, 5pm EST: Answers to Your Most Common Pitching Questions
In our weekly webinars, in my inbox, on coaching calls, and in my talks at conferences and workshops, I’m always getting questions on pitching. While there are some basic questions that come up again and again, there are also deeper, more “circumstance”-based questions that many are afraid to ask in a group setting because they think they’ve done something wrong in their pitch or editor-writer etiquette to get into the situation in the first place.
In this webinar, I share from my huge store of these pitching questions for both the newer writers and people who have been doing this for a while.
Register to attend this webinar at 5pm EST on Monday, November 9.
Missed the free replay? You can grab a downloadable version of this webinar from our library here.
Tuesday, November 10, 5pm EST: Writing for Travel Trade Magazines 101
These magazines work quite different than custom and consumer titles in many ways, notably editors pitch you ideas rather than the other way around, making your hourly rate go way up. Some trade editors will even provide you with interview sources!
Trade magazines are the single best way to establish a clear pipeline of assignments and also maximize your hourly rate when writing for magazines, and we look at how, why, and how to get started writing for them in this week’s webinar.
Register to attend this webinar at 5pm EST on Tuesday, November 10.
Missed the free replay? You can grab a downloadable version of this webinar from our library here.
Wednesday, November 11, 5pm EST: How to Write a Letter of Introduction – The Pitch Equivalent for Trade Magazines
Unlike consumer and custom magazines, trade magazine editors are approached by something called an LOI or letter or introduction, which has more in common with a cover letter on a job application than a magazine pitch.
We look at when to use a letter of introduction, how to craft your own boilerplate one for each vertical within the travel trade world that you’re looking to pitch, and how to avoid information overload.
Register to attend this webinar at 5pm EST on Wednesday, November 11.
Missed the free replay? You can grab a downloadable version of this webinar from our library here.
Thursday, November 12, 5pm EST: The Difference Between the Photos You’re Shooting Now and What Magazines are Publishing
Learn how to get the shots that editors need so you can get more assignments and make more money with your pieces.
We will look at the shots that work online and those that most of us shoot most of the time and what the difference is in terms of the approach to shot format, variety, and composition to generate the types of photos magazines can use.
Register to attend this webinar at 5pm EST on Thursday, November 12.
Missed the free replay? You can grab a downloadable version of this webinar from our library here.
Friday, November 13, 5pm EST: Creating a Shot List to Organize Your Trips Around Saleable Photography
Last week, we dove into the types of photographs that magazines are looking for. Now, we break down a step-by-step method to organize your trips to ensure you get the shots you need to fill out your stories and enter the (thriving, actually!) world of photo essays.
Register to attend this webinar at 5pm EST on Friday, November 13.
Missed the free replay? You can grab a downloadable version of this webinar from our library here.
Don’t be late! All the free replays start right on time, and the system isn’t able to accept late attendees.
You can read all about our free webinar replays and get answers to any questions you have on our comprehensive FAQ page, or grab any webinars you have missed in our On-Demand Webinar Library.