4 Ways You Can Easily Get Paid For Your Travel Videos
Once you have a video to show prospective clients, you can start getting paid. I have sample letters and tips for getting into these places in my program. But here’s a quick rundown of the best spots to get paid for your travel videos… Sell them as stock In my experience, depending on how much…
How to Grow Your Blog with Pinterest
Whether you’re a DIYer, looking for recipes, designing a house, or a budding bride to be, chances are you’ve found yourself seeking inspiration from one little platform that has it all. Pinterest is the perfect place for visual discovery, acting as a beautiful search engine for a broad range of topics. So if you haven’t…
5 Steps to Get Started on Instagram
Instagram is an ideal social platform for photographers and travelers. It’s a primarily a mobile-based app (though you can access it from a desktop as well) with a strong focus on aspirational photography. Nadia Ali Not only is it a great way to share the photos you take in the course of traveling or visiting…
5 Reasons to Spend 5 Minutes a Day on Social Media
If you’re like me and weren’t in the habit of doing as much on social media as you would have liked to, I have some exciting news. With everyone staying at home right now people are traveling virtually—dreaming of worldly adventures, pristine natural places and being anywhere rather than stuck at home. Bel Woodhouse –…
8 Ways to Use Social Media to Snag More Freebies and Perks
Social media can be an incredibly powerful tool if used correctly. Not only can it promote your work and reach audiences that traditional media can’t, social media can be a great way to land perks and freebies. Kristi Dosh Below, I share eight tips for using social media to snag perks as a travel writer/blogger/photographer.…
How to Find Stories in the New Normal
Pivot with Persistence COVID-19 has changed travel writing dramatically, at least for the near term. Think a year or more. Finding new outlets for our stories, in fact finding new types of stories, is a necessity. It isn’t easy getting the attention of a new editor at a new publication, especially if your portfolio is…
3 Things to Know About Lightroom’s Interface
Anybody opening Adobe Lightroom for the very first time will be taken aback by the multitude of options and windows they face. The good news is, this graphical user interface (GUI) is not as complicated as it first appears.Some readers may be asking themselves, what even is a GUI? Well, simply put, the graphical user…
Which Adobe Photo Editing Program Is Right for You?
In the world of post-production photography (aka photo editing) there’s one name that rules supreme: Adobe. There isn’t a professional photographer in all the land who doesn’t use this company’s suite of editing software. From portrait, sports, to landscape specialists and everyone in between, Adobe is their not-so-secret weapon of choice. But, which of Adobe’s many…
How to Submit Photos to Accompany Articles
Although there are many good articles published with no pictures and just as many excellent photographs that need no words, in today’s visual world, writing and photography go together. Editors want photographs to accompany your articles. Understanding how to take the right kind of photographs then has become key to selling your articles to magazines.…
5 Tips to Land Press Trips and Perks
By Noreen Kompanik in San Diego, CA One of the “perks” of being a travel writer is access to experiences. This access comes with the job because, in order to write about a destination, we have to experience it. Last year, I was privileged to be invited on 26 individual and group press trips, both…