1000-1000 Challenge Introductions | 1000-1000 Challenge | Forum

Guys,

Make sure that you post your twitter, FB, etc. info in your signatures…..I'm making it my business to go like, fan and follow everyone here.  Let's spread the love and support!! 

Renee

Hi Everyone,

I'm Laurel and I run the blog, Expat in Germany which I started in July.  It started off bemoaning the adventures of being an expat, but I'm moving more into travel advice, places to visit, etc. while still sharing the personal side of living in Germany.  I'm definitely looking to monetize my blog and frequently use SEO techqnuies such as carefully choosing key words and key word density.  I'm running into the problem that many people are in that time is an issue since I'm also taking an Intensive German Course which is the equivalent to a full time job.

I know many of you but am looking forward to "meeting" everyone else as we embark on this adventure together!

Cheers,

Laurel

Blog:  Expat in Germany

Twitter:  @ExpatGermany

Facebook:  ExpatGermany Facebook Page (just created earlier today)

Hello everyone:

Just getting around to my introduction, what with the holidays and a hard drive that failed in my MacBook Pro. But here goes:

My blog, Hole In The Donut, is an intensely personal journal of my life as a perpetual traveler and digital nomad. These days, I specialize in cultural travel with a heavy emphasis on photography, but this didn't happen overnight. After years of working 70-80 hours a week at jobs that paid the bills but brought no joy, a serious illness made me realize that I felt like the proverbial "hole in the donut" – solid on the outside, but empty on the inside. A year later, fully recovered, I abandoned my career and home to travel around the world for six months, blogging about my journey so that friends and family would know what was happening to me on the road. As I searched for joy and meaning in my life, I realized that the only things that had ever made me happy were travel, photography and writing.

Four years later, I am still traveling and writing about my experiences on my blog, which has become one of the top 50 independent travel blogs in the world. About a year ago, realizing that it was foolish to keep an apartment with the amount of time I was traveling, I sold or gave away my remaining furniture and housewares, stored my few personal mementos, and embarked on a life of perpetual travel. These days, I am on the road 10-11 months per year, returning to the States once or twice a year to visit friends and family.

In the process of reinventing myself I was often challenged to "discover my niche" in the blogging world. Was my blog about solo travel, women's travel, traveling on a budget, or baby boomer travel? I was all of those things, but none of them was the focus of my blog. Gradually I realized that the common thread running through my writing was culture. I am fascinated by the customs, food, religion, family values, etc. of other countries, and try to immerse in the local culture at every destination I visit. As a result, I have learned that people everywhere are much the same; we share similar hopes and dreams and have nothing to fear from one another. I try to convey this message through my writing, as I have an enduring belief that the better we know one another, the less likely we will want to kill one another.

At the moment, I am earning at a level above the goal of the 1000-1000 challenge, but my traffic is hovering around 600 per day. I am at a plateau, and am looking forward to learning from this forum in order to reach that magic 30,000 number.

Barbara Weibel

I haven't been on a forum for years! It's like a throw back to the good ol days when I'd spend WAY too much time on the forums. 

Its so awesome to find so many like minded people. So the 1000-1000 is an great idea. People helping people! What's even better is the people all have the same goal in mind. 

Let's see. A little about me eh? Well like many of you I'm in love with travel. I've been a minimalist for a few years now and of course run a blog or two. You can find those below my post in my signature. I started my first real blog awhile back to basically just document my progress as a minimalist on my way to world travel. 

After a few years I'm finally ready to start my journey and bought my first international flight. I'll be heading for Thailand at the end of January. The ticket is for two months but I hope that I don't have to use that return ticket! :)

I know there are a ton of pro bloggers and like minded people hang out all over Thailand I hope to meet and hang out with a lot of them. 

I do my best to market myself as much as possible. Between Twitter, Facebook groups, other blog comments and even just word of mouth I'm really starting to see my traffic grow. I've got a fair amount to go to get to 1000 unique hits a day but I'll get there. I expect with regular posts from the road and really starting to interact with other bloggers that the traffic will start to grow even quicker. 

I could go on and on but I'll keep it short for now. 

If anyone has any questions or anything, I'm usually free to chat or help out in any way I can! Just shoot me a message!

Hey, how's it going?  Love the idea of this site and it's aims – there's plenty of room for us all to suceed so it's great that we can all help each other do so!

Well, I'm Dave, and I've been blogging for the last twelve months at What's Dave Doing? about my travels over the last 13 years, the places I go and people I meet along the way, and provide some advice and introspection about life with a long-term travel addiction.  Over the years I've developed a bias for slow, low-impact budget travel and that's very much my preference these days – although if someone insisted that they send me on an all expenses paid luxury trip, I guess I'd suffer through it…

I've just finished a six month wander around SE Asia and Europe and am currently cheerfully failing to settle back into life in Melbourne, Australia.  The intention is to make enough money to hit the road again sooner rather than later – or to just throw the backpack on again now and wait for the cash to run out entirely, one or the other.

I'm really keen to be a part of the 1000-1000 Challenge – probably averaging around 120 visits a day at the moment so still got a little way to go before joining the TBC Network, but it's great to have a goal!

In the interests of further shamless self-promotion, you can also follow me at:

Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/whatsdavedoing

Twitter:  http://www.twitter.com/driftingkiwi

RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/wh…..sdavedoing

Looking forward to connecting with you all! :)

Dave

Post edited 8:51 pm – December 22, 2010 by budgettravelsac

OK just signed up and going to get started on this.  Some of the people that have commented on posts know me already and it is my pleasure to know them! :)

If I were to introduce myself, I would say I am like most people on here – I like to travel.  However, I have tried to make it more challenging for myself these days by working full time, managing a blog and writing for a website, raising two little boys under the age of 3 while I am married to a wonderful wife, and being the sole bread winner for the home. 

Immediately, three things should jump out – I am broke (Ha!), budget travel is my thing, and family travel is something that is important.  Maybe this makes me unique that I am pursuing this given these circumstances.  However, I have seen 34 states here in the US and traveled to 17 different countries so travel is a passion of mine.

I like to think I am a little different and hope my blog reflects that.  Budget Travel Intentions is about my experiences, stories, and travel tips on getting the most out of travel with a family without spending a lot of money.  In the process of writing, I've shared that I am not a big fan of Christmas, have been in love with an Estonian girl, have interviewed various travel writers and bloggers, host the travel tuesday question of the week on Twitter, and have never known what I wanted to do with my life.  And the blog is just a recent hobby.

For more than a year, I've written over 300 articles on travel, deals, travel tips, and trave news as the Sacramento Budget Travel Examiner.  That's where my focus has been but now I want to make by writing and blogging a little more personal.  I'm overworked, underpaid, love my family more than anything, and have a passion for writing and travel.

So as uniquely me as I can be, here I go!

Twitter: budgettravelsac

Facebook: Examiner Budget Travel

Hello we're up for starting this challenge!

We are Poi and Kirsty and write about our travels at No Place To Be. We're currently living in Chiang Mai for a few months on our way round South East Asia. We travel slow and have been on the road for nearly 4 months. Our website is mainly about our own travels but we also try to provide information for other travellers

We also feature a "random traveller" once a week – if you would like to be interviewed give us a shout!

At the moment we're getting about 100 visits a day, good days they are peaking at near to 200 :-)

Facebook http://www.facebook.com/noplacetobe

Twitter http://www.twitter.com/noplacetobe

Feedburner subscription feeds.feedburner.com/noplacetobe

:-)

Hi!

Spanish blogs can join the iniciative?

Isabel