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Your $100 Coupon Can Also Get You More Free Trips This Year

If you are new to travel writing, I bet there’s one thing that you feel would demarcate your successful entry into this world: scoring a spot on a free press trip.

If this is one of your goals right now, I’ve got great news for you:

Setting up free trips as a travel writer is dead simple.

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Learn How to Perfect Your Pitches with Your $100 Coupon

If you’ve thought to yourself lately: “I’ve got to get serious if I’m going to make sure my magazine writing career takes off,” then this one is for you.

We talk a lot about how proactive pitching–cold, to editors you have no relationship with–is the way to make your travel writing career rise by leaps and bounds quickly.

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Plan to Get Serious About Your Business Right Now with Your $100 Coupon

When I first started freelance travel writing, there were no websites dedicated to the business side of the travel writer’s life.

And there were only a handful of solid sources on creating a stable income as a freelance writer.
Most people simply thought it couldn’t be done, and the ones out there doing it were too busy working for their clients and living awesome freelance lives to tell the rest of us how to do it!

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How to Research on the Road and Find Salable Ideas While Traveling

When it comes to article ideas, I’m a bit of a pack rat.

Okay “a bit ” might be a bit of an understatement.

I have article ideas squirreled away eve rywhere :

  • my main inbox is full of them
  • my to do app has hundreds in the “Pitches” section
  • my personal email that I used as my freelance email when I started out has a few hundred
  • the other email address that I set up just to capture pitch ideas has around 400
  • and the notes that I take during trips and walking tours have thousands more that I haven’t extracted from those longer lists of trip notes

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Have You Ever Tried to Pitch a Travel Article Idea in Person?


A few years back, I went to one of the major writing conferences in the U.S.—more for writing books that journalism or blogging—and it included the opportunity to share a table with dozens of literary agents for three minutes each and directly pitch them your book in hopes that they would like it and offer to represent you and help you get a book deal.

You only got 90 seconds to present your case though. The rest of them time was for them to respond or ask questions.

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