#293 - Travel Blogger Gets Paid via Pinterest and Guidebooks
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2017
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
A nomadic employee writes a guidebook about Iceland and earns $10,000 after promoting it on Pinterest.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there and welcome to Side Hustle School. I am your host, Chris Gellibau. And I've been traveling |
| 0:12.0 | this week, which is not surprising at all. I pretty much travel every week at least somewhere. |
| 0:16.9 | But long ago when I first got my start writing online, I thought I was going to be a travel |
| 0:20.6 | blogger. And I thought that because I had this quest to go to every country in the world, |
| 0:24.4 | so I started writing about it. And I just assumed that that was the kind of content I was going |
| 0:28.0 | to focus on, photojournalism, destination pieces, all about seeing the world. Now to make a long |
| 0:33.9 | story short, I realized I wasn't that great at chronicling what it's like to be in the Central |
| 0:38.2 | African Republic, for example, or seven tips to visit Salzburg. Like that just wasn't my thing. |
| 0:43.7 | But I did eventually start a little business selling travel guides focused on frequent |
| 0:47.3 | flyer miles and travel hacking. And today's story kind of reminds me of that. It's a travel |
| 0:51.6 | blogger who gets paid via Pinterest and guidebooks that she's written. Now becoming a travel blogger |
| 0:57.0 | is not usually the fast track to riches. Most travel bloggers do not get paid at all or if they do |
| 1:01.4 | it's very little. But here's one who does. Working on this project part time last year, she earned $4,500, |
| 1:08.1 | mostly by selling a guide to visiting Iceland. And this year she's exceeded $10,000. So what does she |
| 1:13.9 | do differently? What did she figure it out? How did she create that success? All of that's coming up. |
| 1:18.4 | And I might tell you a couple of other ways that you can make money being a travel blogger before I |
| 1:22.3 | sign off for the day. |
| 1:27.0 | Today's story comes from Claire Robinson, who is based in France, but also travels a lot. So like |
| 1:40.1 | me, who knows where she is right now. Claire's love for travel started in 2013 when she was working as |
| 1:44.8 | a quality manager for a medical device company. And was fortunate enough to travel around the world |
| 1:49.0 | for her job. Since she was traveling and sometimes living abroad, she began to blog about her |
| 1:53.8 | excursions. She set up a simple WordPress site and began sharing specific tips and itineraries |
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