Join Us This Week for Free Travel Writing Lessons on the Art of the Followup and Crafting the Perfect Travel Article Pitch
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 though all of them over the course of four months.
Here’s what we’ve got for you this week:
Monday, December 17, 5pm EST: How to Hone your Travel Article Ideas to Perfectly Fit Each Magazine
In this webinar we workshopped article concepts into ready-to-pitch, focused ideas with multiple angles matched to specific magazines.
I pre-matched them with specific sections from multiple magazines and walked through the process of honing an article “idea” from your concept into something adapted to a magazine and ready to pitch.
Register to attend this webinar at 5pm EST on Monday, December 17.
Missed the free replay? You can grab a downloadable version of this webinar from our library here.
Tuesday, December 18, 5pm EST: How to Use the Travel Magazine Database to Power Up Your Pitches
Experienced pitchers dive right in and start pounding out queries and increasing their income, but newer writers (or those new to pitching) need more dot connecting in terms of how the sections in a magazine that are open to freelancers translate to the actual words on the page of a pitch.
In this webinar, I not only walk through some different ways to use the database that can open up new avenues for your pitching, but also write some pitches live based on sections in the database to show how it’s done.
Register to attend this webinar at 5pm EST on Tuesday, December 18.
Missed the free replay? You can grab a downloadable version of this webinar from our library here.
Wednesday, December 19, 5pm EST: How to Craft the Perfect Travel Article Pitch
You can take workshop after workshop on how to write the perfect travel article, but if your pitches aren’t landing assignments, it’s all for naught. In this webinar, we walk step-by-step through what you need to know to write the perfect pitch–and everything that you should leave out.
Register to attend this webinar at 5pm EST on Wednesday, December 19.
Missed the free replay? You can grab a downloadable version of this webinar from our library here.
Thursday, December 20, 5pm EST: The Art of The Follow Up—The Simple Key to Dramatically More Assignments
We’ll talk about timing, scripts, and mechanics of following up with editors on your pitches.
I’ll discuss tricky editor responses you aren’t (or weren’t if they’ve come in in the past and you let the coals go cold because you weren’t sure what to do) sure how to respond to and how to handle them.
Register to attend this webinar at 5pm EST on Thursday, December 20.
Missed the free replay? You can grab a downloadable version of this webinar from our library here.
Friday, December 21, 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 Friday, December 21.
Missed the free replay? You can grab a downloadable version of this webinar from our library here.
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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.