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Old 12-27-2020, 04:56 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by bizaro86 View Post
I would say for anyone to give you advice we would need to know your goals.

Do you want to make money, get stories in front of as many people as possible, or just have a place to put stuff for your family to read.

If your goal is to earn money, its likely that your best bet would either be to resume writing for traditional media, or create a substack subscription newsletter.

If you just want somewhere to put stuff that is too long-form for Twitter then a WordPress would be fine.
I don’t care about making money. I’m retired from my full-time gig and have two part-time gigs one ending in 10 and I’d like to add another. I did this for years and know it’s a lot of work to market to the print media, where I was a writer and magazine editor, with no guarantee the articles will sell. We travel a lot so my purposes are two-fold: to get my material to as many people as possible and, selfishly, I know how I can land travel perques. For example, I can get a couple nights in a hotel.

You use Wordpress as a noun. I assume you mean a WP website. I have lots of Twitter followers and would tweet links to my content.

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Originally Posted by Maritime Q-Scout View Post
Just do it.

....Pretty much every travel blogger I follow on YouTube says just start, make content that you'd watch, and have fun.

When you do, post the link and I'll be sure to follow!
That was my intention. If I get this going I’ll post here. I may start by posting content to my site so I can use it as a sakes tool as mentioned above.

Please tell me the travel bloggers you follow. Do you follow direct from a website or through another medium like Twitter or Facebook that links to a website?

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Originally Posted by topfiverecords View Post
The answer is right there in his name.
A good assumption but money doesn’t matter as mentioned. My handle is from my career as a financial advisor.

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