Heather Delaney Reese - Travel Blogging Fast Track

A travel blog that lets you and your family go the places YOU want… on other companies’ dime.

One that lets you travel the way it suits YOUR life… and gives your kids the priceless experience of new ways of living.

And one that lets you supplement (or even replace) your regular income… with cash, comped travel and freebies!

Yes — it’s possible, even if…

• You don’t have much experience travel blogging (or don’t even have a blog!) and you think nobody would respond to a ‘newbie’
  
  
• Just the thought of ‘pitching’ makes you nervous
  
  
• You don’t have a huge budget — or a lot of time — to do it

Below, I’m going to show you exactly how my husband and I did it… and how you can do it too! :-)

Building A Travel Blog That Pays You To Travel Is Simple… But It’s Not Easy

Let us be the first people to tell you this — travel blogging is not a “get-rich-quick” scheme!

Yes, you CAN start getting comped travel almost right away (we’ll show you how).

And yes, you CAN start creating great content without spending a cent on more travel (we can show you how to do that too).

But we won’t lie: to succeed, it takes a lot of persistence!

So many bloggers online love to tell you that it’s “easy” to start your own successful travel blog. But they’re confusing easy with simple.

Because, sure — I guess in theory, starting a travel blog that pays you to travel is very simple.

Here, it’s so simple that I could tell you how you do it off the top of my head:

Heather & Pete’s ‘Simple’ Roadmap To Setting Up Your Own Profitable Travel Blog:

1. Set up a blog
2. Find a place you want to go
3. Send a great pitch that lands you a comped trip
4. Take the trip (the right way)
5. Create high-quality, professional content about your trip 
6. Leverage your content to earn enough to make it all profitable
7. Rinse and repeat

When you’re starting out…

• “Getting paid to travel would be a dream for me, but I just have no idea how to even start.”
• “I’m an introvert, and I’m very shy, so I get nervous even at the thought of pitching to get free travel. And even if I worked up the courage to pitch, I don’t know how, or who I should pitch to.”
• “My husband and I both love travel, but the corporate grind makes it hard for us to have the freedom we want!”
• “I feel like it’s impossible for a newbie like me to break into the field.”
• “I'm still nervous about how much money I'll have to invest along the way to set up a really nice blog with good graphics, streamlined/convenient maintenance, etc.”
• “How am I supposed to start when I don’t even have any trips I’ve taken?”
• “I do have a blog already, and I love travel, but I don’t know how to pivot it to a travel blog.”
• “How do I make posts that people actually want to read? I’m not even a good writer!”
• “I feel overwhelmed with how long it takes to create just one post with quality photos, video, SEO and pins."
• “It just feels like travel blogging is saturated already.”
• “I’d love to travel for a living, but I need it to be profitable before I commit to it.” 

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Then when you’re a little more advanced, it becomes...

• “How am I supposed to get more followers?”
• “Some of the other groups I'm a part of have bloggers who are getting hundreds of thousands of views, and I'm just not on that level — so I feel intimidated and like I have no chance at ever getting to that same spot.”
• “I already have trips planned, and I really feel like I need to learn how to get at least a little something comped... ugh, travel is so expensive!”
• “I'm doubtful that anyone will respond to any outreach work I do, as my blog is still so small and I don't have a large following.”

You Need A System To Follow!

To succeed at travel blogging, I discovered you need to have a proven, step-by-step systemyou follow — that you can count on every time.

(Because remember, travel blogging is simple. There’s not actually that many things you need to do… you just need to know how to do them, and when!)

Having a proven system takes care of all these problems — because you know you have something that’s worked time and time again in the past. You just follow the system, and you’ll get the result you want.

That’s why, every time Pete and I have learned something over the years, we’ve written it down and filed it away in our own “travel blogging system”, ready for us to refer to in the future.

Here are just a few examples...

• We want to know the contact person for a certain visitors’ bureau? Hey look, we have that written down in a list!
• When we’re booking a new trip, how do we remember what order we’re meant to arrange accommodation, activities, and all those things? Easy — we just refer to our “cheat sheet” on how we normally do it!
• It’s been a while since we negotiated a contract for a sponsored trip, and we need to brush up before we sign a new one? Oh yep — we’ve got our notes on what was important to watch out for.
• We’d like to take a trip to a certain resort in Florida next month? No problem — we can dig into our archives for a proven “pitch script” that’s got the best chances of scoring us an all-expenses-paid trip.

Every successful travel blogger I know has built their own “system” like this — a repository of their own tips, techniques, hacks, strategies, scripts, pitch emails, and the various “ins and outs” they’ve learned over the years.

(Although, most bloggers are very protective of them, and for good reason — it’s their “keys” to the travel blogging kingdom!)

But rather than just sit here telling you about these, I want to show you some real examples of what I mean.

So right now, I’m going to share with you three small but juicy excerpts right out of the exact system we use to run our travel blog…