Trials and tribulations of a wannabe blogger. From start-up to networking, monetization and the business of blogging.
Chasing a missed flight with a gut full of curry mee, queueing at an airport service desk drenched in sweat and panic; a life of travel is far from glamorous. My past week has been tiring both physically and emotionally. Travelling alone, overnight train journeys and budget accommodation. I covered thousands of miles, witnessed awesome …
My travel blog has been a mess for a while now, where I more or less neglected it to the point where it was vulnerable, and I was not far from losing it entirely. So last week I forced myself into an unlikely overhaul after a number of worrying revelations on just how grim the situation …
This post is geared more towards questions than answers. Input and comments are encouraged. It is a review of my own travel blog and the future of it. I have been blogging for 7 months now and am now considering monetization. Making money from my travel blog. Watching, considering, and flagging potentials for profits and …
A couple of months ago I was asked, for the second time, to take an interview for a Hostel Booking Website in Europe, which I originally ignored as I hardly fit the hostel niche and backpacker brand. But their persistence seemed genuine, and their invite was less generic than most, so I thought I would …
Family Name: Wilson, Given Name(s): Allan, Occupation: …….? I struggle at this point. When first travelling I had no occupation. I was a university dropout with nothing to say for myself. Every time I travelled the hotel check-in would force me to fill the blank. Does it really matter? Whatever I write it was going to …
For the first weeks of this month, I was organizing a community treasure hunt in my hometown of Bangor Northern Ireland, while travelling almost 10,000 km away in all parts of Japan. What else would I have been doing? I am now in the sticks of Thailand, not far from the Cambodian borders and roughly …
It has been a long time since I have written about blogging, and this is because I have really not been doing much over the past year. In fact I almost gave up last year, when Taiwan at the time, as my website was hacked and my traffic dropped by roughly a quarter. It wasn’t a …
In the past I’ve never had much time for social media and given I spend most my life avoiding people, the last thing I want is people following me. But, as with most travel bloggers, I did create a Facebook Page to augment my blog, and I used it to do little more than publish direct from WordPress …
It has become routine here on Live Less Ordinary to review progress, learning and frustrations of my past six months of travel blogging, so to continue with tradition this will be our two year moanings and musings. This review focuses more on the opportunities I’ve been offered and the potential routes to make a living from …
I should point out that I am the least likely person to write a blog about iPads. I am a complete technophobe, am baffled by brand obsessions and I don’t even have a mobile phone. This scenario comes more from a marriage of convenience. Fanfan owns an Ipad, she travels with her Ipad. I travel …
