As a travel blogger, Instagram is perhaps one of the best tools at our disposal to building your brand. While it sounds easy, it is a heck of a lot more work than how easy it seems popular Instagrammers seem to draw in likes and follows. Not to fret though because I’ve brought in Melissa of A Broken Backpack to spill all of her secrets to success and how she was able to get to 10,000 IG followers in a matter of 6 months. Enjoy the episode! : Play in new window | Download |...
One of the first things that happened to me as a travel blogger that gave me feedback that I was heading in the right direction was when I was invited to my first press trip. This was in large part thanks to a referral from another travel blogger (again…the power of networking!) and I was excited as heck. Thing was, I didn’t really know what to expect or how to prepare. I ended up having to learn and improvise on the fly but you don’t have to. My interview with...
Pinterest is on the rise and I know a lot of you have been feeling the heat because it’s something that’s just not easy to crack. The problem is that Pinterest takes a lot more time to nurture and grow than any other platform I’ve worked with so far. You know me though, I’m always a proponent of finding new systems, strategies and hacks to make my life easier. And if you’re like me, you don’t have the time to dedicate to pinning all day. You can exhale...
Without a doubt, CoSchedule is one of the few tools I’ve encountered in my 3 years of travel blogging that have TRULY been a game changer. For those that are already using CoSchedule, you’re nodding in agreement with me. For those that don’t know about CoSchedule, get ready for your mind to be blown. Tell me if this sounds familiar. You started your blog as a hobby but you’ve begun to take it seriously after seeing traction. You continue to write but you wonder how...
There’s always that love-hate relationship with social media and so to bring a little clarity to what you guys are doing on social with your travel blogs, I’ve brought on another great guest to chat with us on the TBB podcast. We’re chatting with Scott Eddy, a personality unto itself on Twitter. He’s someone that’s really made a name for himself from the ground up and with through it he’s started up several digital agencies, done public speaking, 1 on 1...
Triberr is an interesting platform that I discovered last year. It really started from my search for the answer for “How the heck do all these other bloggers have so much to Tweet about?” That’s when I started to do some of my own digging and I noticed something very interesting. A lot of the content being shared on Twitter had a very similar format. It was always a [Title] [Link] via [Twitter Handle]. Interesting… Stelle di Stelle – 3 Michelin Star...
As most of you know, getting Facebook likes on your blog’s page. There’s a natural reluctancy to give away likes freely on FB because most people are afraid of spam that show up on their newsfeeds. It’s naturally more “expensive” for someone to give you a like on Facebook versus Twitter because Facebook is that much more personal for people. So for me, while my Twitter follower count was trending up to 10K, my Facebook like count was growing a measly 10-20...
Acquiring new Twitter followers is one of those great mysteries that seems impossible to crack. Around the blogging circles, I always hear “I really need to work on my Twitter following” or “It’s so tough to build followers”. I too had the same thoughts running through my mind as I was ramping up. Growing at 100-200 followers a month was great and all but at that rate, I calculated that 3 and a half years to get to 10k followers. That was completely...
When I first started blogging, I barely used Twitter. It wasn’t because I didn’t want to try new technologies but it just wasn’t something any of my friends were on nor something they understood when I asked them about it. So as I learned more about what was going on in the travel blogverse, I warmed up to the idea that “man I really need to get on this Twitter thing”. I’m sure a lot of you are or were in my boat. Now Twitter alone is a massive topic...
We all know the power of social media, Twitter, building a following, pushing out content blah blah blah. Today is not one of those days where I talk about that. Instead, I’m very excited to tell you guys about a new feature that Twitter launched: Twitter Cards. I had a whole bunch of other topics I wanted to get to but this honestly just couldn’t wait. I first found out about Twitter Cards actually through one of my SEO plugins I use called All in One SEO. One of the...
