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Check out a quick breakdown of the four tools that can build you a secure travel-based income -- travel writing, photography, import/export, and tours.
Travel Writing Sales Tip
The good and the bad of writing queries to editors. Check out these samples and make sure you're avoiding critical mistakes.
How to Make Six Figures a Year, Traveling
Five mistakes photographers make and how to avoid them.
Can You Make $100K a Year Traveling?
Don't miss out on this series of reports showing how you can make six figures a year while traveling the world.
Reader Scores Published Articles and Freebies
Dear Right Way to Travel Reader, Jennifer Blair, one of your fellow readers, attended our Ultimate Travel Writer’s Workshop last July in San Francisco. Ninety days later, she got published (and paid for her article) in Brave New Traveler e-zine. Even better... she used her travel writer status to score free entry for herself and [...]
Free Report: What’s Working in Newspapers
The landscape for newspaper travel writing is shifting dramatically. But, amid all the predicted doom and gloom, lie some intriguing new opportunities for freelancers. What follows are the trends I see for 2009. By the way, everything (or almost everything) I say about newspapers applies also to magazines, albeit to a lesser degree right now. [...]
Reader Explains: 10 Press Trips in 2 Years
One writer explains how after taking the Ultimate Travel Writer's Workshop, she took ten press trips in two years. She discusses the best way to create your story while you travel and reveals the best ways to market your articles.
How to power up your sentences with strong verbs
Jen Stevens shares how to make your writing more powerful and get editors' attention.
How One Reader Scored Two Paid Vacations and 41 Bylines: Interview with AWAI Member Sandra Kennedy
BONNIE: Hi Sandra. I understand you've turned your travels into paid vacations. Can you tell us a little bit more about how you got started and how, specifically, you went from sitting in a chair at the Ultimate Travel Writer's Workshop to sitting in an airplane seat on your way to an all-expenses-paid trip to [...]
Are you a scaredy-cat writer? Four Steps to Conquer Your Fears and Set Yourself Up For Success This Week
If you have yet to find success as a travel writer, odds are, it's not because the three articles a week you're sending out are all ill-suited for the publications to which you're sending them. No, I'm willing to bet you're not yet finding success because, in fact, you aren't writing articles. Now, now, no [...]
A Reader's Question: 100 Articles in 7 Months
In case you haven't heard, Roy Stevenson -- who came to our Ultimate Travel Writing workshop in Portland last July -- has now published more than 100 articles in the seven months since that workshop. And it seems he's creating quite a stir among our readers... Two weeks ago, I sent you an article in [...]
Writing free articles can help the beginning freelance writer
I've just finished an analysis of the 93 articles I've had accepted for publication, and I found something very interesting. I noticed that a total of 64 (or 69%) are paid articles, while the remaining 29 are gratis. At first glance, the high number of freebies may look dismal. In fact, they've paid off in [...]
How to Create a Sacred Bond with Editors
Wouldn't it be great if you had a cadre of editors who accept your articles for every one of their issues? Realistically, though, freelance writing isn't always that stable. However, you can settle for second best -- getting your work into their magazines as frequently as possible. Since September 1, 2007, I've had over 70 [...]
