Join Us for Free Travel Writing Lessons on Taking Control and Writing for Tourism Boards
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, January 6, 5pm EST: Taking Control of How You Track and Reach Your Travel Goals
In the third hour of our series on running the operations of your freelance travel writing business, we expand the big picture and how to ensure your big dreams become tangible reality.
To grow your travel writing income, you need a reliable, repeatable system for ensuring your have your eye on your benchmarks and pivot to meet them. We’ll explore how to adopt the systems big businesses use to great success for your solopreneaur writing business.
Register to attend this webinar at 5pm EST on Monday, January 6.
Missed the free replay? You can grab a downloadable version of this webinar from our library here.
Tuesday, January 7, 5pm EST: Taking Control of Your Ideas, Pitches and Follow-ups
Join us for the final chapter in our series on operating the business side of your freelance travel writing business.
You can have all the article ideas in the world, but if you can’t find the information you need to pitch them to the right markets, you’re toast. We’ll explore how to capture ideas the second you have them, store them for later, and how to adapt best practices to what works for you.
Register to attend this webinar at 5pm EST on Tuesday, January 7.
Missed the free replay? You can grab a downloadable version of this webinar from our library here.
Wednesday, January 8, 5pm EST: How to Earn Big with Travel Content Marketing Writing
Have you had a blog at any time in the past? Even if you never got the numbers to where you felt like you could become a professional blogger, you have a valuable skill set that travel companies and tourism boards need.
In this webinar, we talk about the different opportunities for travel content marketing writing–from blog posts to content strategy to choosing and editing photos for Instagram–what kind of pay you can expect, and where to start looking for these opportunities.
Register to attend this webinar at 5pm EST on Wednesday, January 8.
Missed the free replay? You can grab a downloadable version of this webinar from our library here.
Thursday, January 9, 5pm EST: Tourism Board and Company Blogs vs. Personal Blogs and How to Make the Jump
We’ve got a series of webinars on how to land specific types of travel content marketing gigs coming up, and for this week’s webinar on Tourism Board and Company Blogs vs. Personal Blogs and How to Make the Jump , I’m bringing in the director of communications from Visit Tucson, Dan Gibson.
Dan himself was formerly a journalist before making the jump into the tourism board side, so he has a unique perspective on what you need to know to transition into this type of writing.
In this webinar, I’ll go through examples of the content travel companies and tourism boards are looking for before Dan comes in to talk about how own transition and how freelancers can working with tourism boards like his.
Register to attend this webinar at 5pm EST on Thursday, January 9.
Missed the free replay? You can grab a downloadable version of this webinar from our library here.
Friday, January 10, 5pm EST: How to Sell Blogging to Tourism Boards and Travel Companies
We’ve looked in our January month on finding travel content marketing clients in-depth at the process of identifying, pitching, calling, and writing proposals for travel content marketing gigs of all stripes.
But this week, we’re going to follow up on last week’s call with the director of communications for Visit Tucson on exactly what statistics, industry terms, and buttons to push you need to know to get yourself in the door with, fielding assignments from, and signing recurring contracts with tourism boards and travel companies.
Register to attend this webinar at 5pm EST on Friday, January 10.
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.