How Influencers Travel the World for FREE (and how you can too!) | S1 E7

Full-Time Influencer Podcast

Tina Lee

Education, Business, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, How To

5 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

"How are you able to travel so much?" "How can I become a travel influencer?" "How many followers do I need before I pitch to hotels?" In today's episode we will be answering all of these questions and more as we discuss how influencers are able to travel for free (AND get paid on top of that!).

Welcome to the Full-Time Influencer Podcast. I'm your host Tina Lee (@ofleatherandlace) I'm sharing some of my expertise and industry information, to help you decode social media, and create content that helps aspiring creatives like you become full-time influencers so you can also do what you love for a living!

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Timestamps:

(3:51) -We are powerful marketing sources for travel industry.

(5:38) - Influencers save money by reaching specific audience demographics.

(9:28) - We show behind-the-scenes and unedited realities of locations.

(9:57) - We drive traffic and provide repurposable content for brands.

(12:31) - Online advertising is cheaper and more effective with influencers.

(24:08) - Number of followers is less important than audience and brand fit.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I've also gotten responses where it's just like straight up no.
0:04.1	Like I got an email where I wrote like a full pitch and I spoke about all of the
0:09.0	deliverables that we can provide for them and the hotel just came back with one word, no.
0:23.6	Welcome to the full-time influencer podcast.
0:31.4	I'm your host, Tina Lee, and I'll be sharing industry knowledge and social media tips through weekly interviews with established creators and Q&A sessions.
0:37.3	Our goal is to help you decode social media, become a full-time influencer, and do what you love for a living. Let's dive in.
0:42.5	Hi, creators, welcome back to the full-time influencer podcast. Today, we're going to talk all about
0:48.1	travel, specifically about how influencers are able to travel the world for free or even get paid on top of a free trip.
0:57.0	Now, when I say the word free, let's be real, it's never really like free free where you don't have to do any work and you just get a free trip.
1:07.0	However, it is often the case that influencers pay very little parts of their trip because
1:12.6	they're able to garner a lot of partnerships or sometimes even get paid on top of that.
1:17.6	We're going to cover the different ways that influencers can do that, how you can get started as a travel influencer,
1:23.6	how many followers you need to get started, and so on. So recently my husband and I went on a 25 or 6 day trip to Italy and we got a lot of questions about how much money we spent on the trip.
1:37.3	So when I disclosed to my story is that the total expenditure actually came close to zero.
1:42.3	People were very shocked and they also wanted to know a lot about how we were able to travel for free.
1:49.0	In fact, since I've become a travel influencer, I've been able to experience some amazing travel experiences that I'm honestly so so grateful for.
1:58.0	Some of the most memorable ones include saying at Andas Tokyo at their Sky Suite.
2:04.9	It is this gorgeous suite, one bedroom suite with sweeping views of the city and directly
2:12.6	facing the Tokyo Tower.
2:15.1	I just remember sitting there in disbelief. like, I can't believe I get to
2:20.3	stay here and enjoy this entire suite to myself. It actually costs probably over $7,000 a night
2:28.8	to stay there if I were to pay for it, which I probably wouldn't do ever.
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