Hi there and welcome to Side Hustle School. I am your host, Chris Gellibau. And I've been traveling

this week, which is not surprising at all. I pretty much travel every week at least somewhere.

But long ago when I first got my start writing online, I thought I was going to be a travel

blogger. And I thought that because I had this quest to go to every country in the world,

so I started writing about it. And I just assumed that that was the kind of content I was going

to focus on, photojournalism, destination pieces, all about seeing the world. Now to make a long

story short, I realized I wasn't that great at chronicling what it's like to be in the Central

African Republic, for example, or seven tips to visit Salzburg. Like that just wasn't my thing.

But I did eventually start a little business selling travel guides focused on frequent

flyer miles and travel hacking. And today's story kind of reminds me of that. It's a travel

blogger who gets paid via Pinterest and guidebooks that she's written. Now becoming a travel blogger

is not usually the fast track to riches. Most travel bloggers do not get paid at all or if they do

it's very little. But here's one who does. Working on this project part time last year, she earned $4,500,

mostly by selling a guide to visiting Iceland. And this year she's exceeded $10,000. So what does she

do differently? What did she figure it out? How did she create that success? All of that's coming up.

And I might tell you a couple of other ways that you can make money being a travel blogger before I

sign off for the day.

Today's story comes from Claire Robinson, who is based in France, but also travels a lot. So like

me, who knows where she is right now. Claire's love for travel started in 2013 when she was working as

a quality manager for a medical device company. And was fortunate enough to travel around the world

for her job. Since she was traveling and sometimes living abroad, she began to blog about her

excursions. She set up a simple WordPress site and began sharing specific tips and itineraries

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