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The Fine Line Between Blog and Bluff
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The Fine Line
Between Blog and Bluff Ben Reed adventureswithben.com facebook.com/adventureswithben @adventureswben slides available at adventureswithben.com ©2012 adventures with ben LLC
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The best travel
blogs have regularly written content that is useful, engaging and consistently on-topic. ©2012 adventures with ben LLC
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The Problem?
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It’s really tough
to write regular content that is useful, engaging and consistently on- topic. ©2012 adventures with ben LLC
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The best travel
blogs have regularly written content that is useful, engaging and consistently on-topic. ©2012 adventures with ben LLC
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Agenda Filling Your
Creating a Content Pipeline Posting Schedule Refining Your Niche Content Engagement Ideas ©2012 adventures with ben LLC
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Filling Your Content
Pipeline ©2012 adventures with ben LLC
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The best travel
blogs have regularly written content that is useful, engaging and consistently on-topic. ©2012 adventures with ben LLC
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The best travel
blogs have regularly written content that is useful, engaging and consistently on-topic. ©2012 adventures with ben LLC
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Successful blogs must
solve a problem. ©2012 adventures with ben LLC
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Filling Your Pipeline
Take Lots of Travel Extensively Photos Capture Every Immerse Yourself Idea Read Extensively Plan Your Content ©2012 adventures with ben LLC
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Travel Extensively
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Your expertise, credibility
and trust by your readers (and the travel community), can only be developed through significant, first-hand experience. Travel Bloggers must immerse themselves in their topic all the time. ©2012 adventures with ben LLC
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Take Lots of
Photos ©2012 adventures with ben LLC
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Immerse Yourself
~ Depth vs. Breadth ©2012 adventures with ben LLC
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Sydney Harbor Bridge
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Sydney Harbor Bridge
- Climb ©2012 adventures with ben LLC
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Sydney Harbor Bridge
- Pylon Lookout ©2012 adventures with ben LLC
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Sydney Harbor Bridge
- Founded ©2012 adventures with ben LLC
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Sydney Harbor Bridge
- Best Photo Spot ©2012 adventures with ben LLC
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Sydney Harbor Bridge
- Walking Across ©2012 adventures with ben LLC
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Capture Every Idea
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Read Extensively
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Don’t write about
what’s already been written. Tell a story that no one has heard before. And then tell another one, and another one. ©2012 adventures with ben LLC
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Read Extensively RSS Feeds Travel
Books WikiTravel.org Visitor’s Bureau’s Local, Twitter Hashtags ©2012 adventures with ben LLC
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Google Reader Bundle http://www.google.com/reader/ bundle/user %2F14633477289540472476%2 Fbundle%2FTravel%20Blogs
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Benefits of Reading
Extensively You become a well-informed traveler You know what’s been written before (great for linking back) Discover the gaps ©2012 adventures with ben LLC
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Plan Your Content
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Victoria Falls
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18 Posts 3 Day/2
Night Trip ©2012 adventures with ben LLC
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Application Part 1 1.
Identify the problem you’re solving 2. Evaluate your travel schedule & adjust 3. Start taking lots of photos 4. Download: • Evernote • SimpleMind+ 5. Subscribe to RSS Feeds ©2012 adventures with ben LLC
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Refining Your Niche
©2012 adventures with ben LLC
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The best travel
blogs have regularly written content that is useful, engaging and consistently on-topic. ©2012 adventures with ben LLC
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The best travel
blogs have regularly written content that is useful, engaging and consistently on-topic. ©2012 adventures with ben LLC
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Successful blogs serve
a purpose. They fulfill a need the reader has, and position the blogger as an “authority” on their chosen niche. ©2012 adventures with ben LLC
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A “niche” is
more than what you write about, but also includes how you tell that story and with what intention? ©2012 adventures with ben LLC
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Bloggers must be
able to articulate, with precision, what their niche is. This is the first step in writing consistently on-topic. ©2012 adventures with ben LLC
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Your Niche Aspiration
Product Audience Voice ©2012 adventures with ben LLC
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Components of Your
Niche Aspiration - What are you trying to achieve? Product - How do you do that? Audience - Who do you write for? Voice - How do you tell your story? ©2012 adventures with ben LLC
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My Niche Components Aspiration:
Do Extraordinary Things Product: Tell engaging, vivid, inspiring and practical stories Audience: Travelers and wanna-be travelers from all over Voice: A light-hearted, approach; Fun ©2012 adventures with ben LLC
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Application Part 2 1.
What’s your aspiration? 2. How are you going to reach that goal? What’s your product? 3. Who do you write for? Who is your audience? 4. What’s your voice? ©2012 adventures with ben LLC
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Creating a Posting
Schedule ©2012 adventures with ben LLC
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The best travel
blogs have regularly written content that is useful, engaging and consistently on-topic. ©2012 adventures with ben LLC
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The best travel
blogs have regularly written content that is useful, engaging and consistently on-topic. ©2012 adventures with ben LLC
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All blogs, no
matter the niche, must write on a regular schedule. Regularity will vary by niche, but unpredictability in publishing will result in reader disengagement. ©2012 adventures with ben LLC
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Rules for Writing 1.
Find a Routine 2. Eliminate Distractions 3. Know What You’re Writing in Advance 4. Manage Your Time: 1 Post = 90 Min. 5. Frustrated? Stop 6. Use Your Filter ©2012 adventures with ben LLC
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Have Posts in
Your “Back Pocket” ©2012 adventures with ben LLC
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Take a Break
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Application Part 3 1.Download:
• WP Editorial Calendar 2. Write Your “Back-Pocket” Posts 3. Relax ©2012 adventures with ben LLC
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Content Ideas
©2012 adventures with ben LLC
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The best travel
blogs have regularly written content that is useful, engaging and consistently on-topic. ©2012 adventures with ben LLC
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The best travel
blogs have regularly written content that is useful, engaging and consistently on-topic. ©2012 adventures with ben LLC
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Blog readers (and
writers), will, at some point, reach fatigue and disinterest. New ways to tell your story will continue to keep everyone engaged with your blog. ©2012 adventures with ben LLC
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Find a Local
Angle ©2012 adventures with ben LLC
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Write a Series
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Write an Opinion
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Photo Essay
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Poll Your Readers
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Photo Caption
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List Posts
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Travel Gear Review
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Photography Tips
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Seasonal Stories
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Application Part 4 1.
Write one new post style each month ©2012 adventures with ben LLC
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The best travel
blogs have regularly written content that is useful, engaging and consistently on-topic. ©2012 adventures with ben LLC
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Questions?
©2012 adventures with ben LLC
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The Fine Line
Between Blog and Bluff Ben Reed adventureswithben.com facebook.com/adventureswithben @adventureswben slides available at adventureswithben.com ©2012 adventures with ben LLC
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