By The Travel Writer's Life on February 28, 2008
Starting your own import-export business can be fun, exciting… and even lucrative. Your job is simple – shop for the kind of goods that people want, buy them, and then sell them for a profit. Most world travelers know that when you're shopping in The States, prices on imported goods can be marked up by [...]
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By The Travel Writer's Life on February 24, 2008
Get Paid to Travel! Become a Travel Writer Travel writing is quite possibly the best non-job in the world. It's fun. It gives you an excuse to travel -- and get paid to travel. It can bring with it instant "celebrity" status. (Just tell somebody that you write articles for magazines... and they'll start looking [...]
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By The Travel Writer's Life on February 23, 2008
The travel writer's and the photographer's pledge.
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By Lori Allen on February 22, 2008
We're making a lot of changes in the Travel Division this year. One change that I already told you about is that we're branching out from straight "travel-related" opportunities to bring you other, related ones too -- more ways you can make life fun and interesting (and get paid for it) -- like food writing [...]
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By The Travel Writer's Life on February 21, 2008
Wanderlust is a British travel magazine with eight issues per year (http://www.wanderlust.co.uk). They cover independent and semi-independent travel, as well as special-interest travel. They love local culture angles… and want writers to go soft on adventure.
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By Lori Allen on February 16, 2008
When your computer is running too slowly -- taking forever to do what you've told it to do -- you can make it work faster by "cleaning it up." How? If your computer runs on Microsoft Windows, "free up some space" on your hard drive. Here's what to do:
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By Roy Stevenson on February 14, 2008
If you have an interest in, or have visited fortresses, museums, or fortified castles that have lots of old cannon lying around, you could easily send a story about them to The Artilleryman Magazine.
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By Bonnie Caton on February 8, 2008
If you've been following this eletter and the weekly photo tips, you're probably familiar with the term "microstock photography."
But just to quickly clarify: Microstock photography refers to royalty-free images that people can search for and buy on what amount to photo-broker websites. For a buyer, it's a quick and easy way to find images for brochures, websites, album covers, and more. And it usually costs only a dollar or two per image.
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