Blogging Tips of the Week: How I Monetized An Email List of 116 People A few months ago, my husband and I thought it would be a fun project to start a very niche newsletter and website for a neighborhood near where we live. We figured we'd share local updates, community events, and just help neighbors stay connected. Within 6 weeks, I'd monetized our tiny email list and we're already profitable. You might be thinking: "Yeah right.. you need thousands of subscribers to make money from email...
21 days ago • 5 min read
Blogging Tips of the Week: AI Has Changed Blogging Forever(And That's Actually Amazing News) Brought to you by Travelpayouts AI has completely transformed the blogging landscape. We all know that. And if you've been following along in blogging communities lately, you've probably heard people saying this change is terrible. That AI is ruining everything. That it's the death of authentic content. I've also seen bloggers panic because Mediavine has taken a hard stance against AI-generated...
26 days ago • 4 min read
💡 Blogging Tip of the Week 💡 How One Blog Post From 2020Still Earns Me $600+ Every Month Back on December 4th, 2020, I published a blog post called: 23 Amazing Things To Do In Mo'orea (2020 Travel Guide) It wasn’t a viral post. It didn’t have a million backlinks. And my blog wasn’t some household name in the travel space But here we are 4.5 years later, and this blog post still brings in $600+ per month, mostly from affiliate income. Here’s a look at the actual earnings; screenshots pulled...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
💡 Travel Blogging Tip of the Week💡 Your Old Blog Posts Could Be Earning $$$(Here’s How) Brought to you by Travelpayouts Back in 2018, before I really knew how to make money from blogging, I wrote a post about our many trips to Moab, Utah. It was one of those super helpful posts, packed with details. I shared our favorite hikes, the hotel we stayed at, the car we rented, where we ate, and even a few things we wished we’d had time to do. The post did great. It started pulling in big traffic and...
2 months ago • 3 min read
💡 Travel Blogging Success Story 💡 How Tanya Grew Her Blog to $800/Month with Just 4,900 Sessions(After Less Than 1 Year Blogging) One of my favorite things lately has been sharing success stories and behind-the-scenes tips from real bloggers inside Scale Your Travel Blog. And if you’ve been wondering whether it’s still worth starting a blog, or whether you should keep going, use this success story as proof that it absolutely is. Today, I want you to meet Tanya from The T Word on Travel. When...
3 months ago • 5 min read
💡 Blogging Tip of the Week 💡 Full-Time Blogger: How Samantha Turned Her Itinerary Posts Into List Growth You know I love a good blogging success story. Especially one that doesn’t come from someone with 500K Instagram followers or a perfect Pinterest account (though that's cool, too). This week, I want to introduce you to Samantha Hamilton, a Scale Your Travel Blog student and the full-time blogger behind New England Wanderlust. She’s a perfect example of how leaning into what your audience...
3 months ago • 4 min read
After graduating from college in 2013, I landed my first “real job” in an office with no windows. (By the way... what is it with windowless offices being the unofficial initiation into "adult life"? 😂) Anyway, it didn’t take long for me to realize that spending 9 hours a day under fluorescent lights wasn’t the dream. About eight months in, I cashed in all 12 of my vacation days and booked a trip to Europe with a friend. I’d never traveled internationally before. In college, most of my friends...
3 months ago • 6 min read
💡 Travel Blogging Success Story + Tips 💡 How Jordie Earned £2,200+ From Her Travel Blog Last Month(While Raising a 1-Year-Old) Let’s be honest... ...hitting a full-time income from your blog can feel like chasing a unicorn, especially when you’re not getting 100,000+ pageviews a month. But this week, I want to share a real success story from a Scale Your Travel Blog student who’s proving that it’s very possible to hit those income goals, even before qualifying for an ad network like Mediavine...
3 months ago • 5 min read
💡 Blogging Tip of the Week 💡 3 Top Affiliate Marketing Mistakes Travel Bloggers Make (& What to Do Instead) Brought to you by Travelpayouts Affiliate marketing is one of the best ways to monetize a travel blog. But most bloggers struggle with it because they’re making a few critical mistakes. I know this because I made these exact mistakes when I started. If you’re adding affiliate links to your blog but not seeing consistent commissions, there’s a good chance you’re doing one (or more) of...
4 months ago • 7 min read