This is a guest post by Dave and Deb from the ThePlanetD.
One of the most important aspects of running a travel blog is being able to travel. This can be a difficult task. While many travelers start up a travel blog at the beginning of their first around the world trip, many fail or lose interest part way through their travels.
Running a successful travel blog takes a full time commitment and this can really cut into your quality time seeing the world.
How can a person travel and enjoy their time exploring the earth while running a successful travel blog?
It is much easier to keep up to date with everything when you are at home in the comforts of your living room, but on the road any situation can pop up. You may be in the middle of the jungle for several days or climbing a mountain without Internet access. Many countries have terrible and slow connections and you may find that you cannot upload photos or even get into your site.
You have to be prepared for any situation and you never want to have a blog that hasn’t been updated for long periods of time.
We have developed a system that not only allows us to travel, but to go on multiday adventures without even looking at the Internet while still managing to post content 7 days a week. While things are easier when we are not travelling, we have our greatest increase in traffic and interest when we are out exploring the world. So our goal is to be on the road as much as we can each year.
Here are the ways that we manage to stay on top of social media, post content regularly and manage to contribute to other blogs through guest posts and interviews regularly.
1. Schedule Posts
Before leaving on a trip, we have two weeks of blog posts already scheduled. We stay two weeks ahead on our blog at all times. This gives us a cushion if we find ourselves in a situation where we can’t get to an Internet. Even though we are not in the location that we are writing about at the time, nobody knows it. Only our core group of friends and fellow bloggers know the truth about where we are, but they are not the audience we are writing for. We write for people searching for information on a location or people that are interested in our adventures and don’t know us personally. They still get the story, just two weeks later than when we were there.
2. Schedule Social Bookmarking Sites
It is extremely important not to fall out of the loop of social networks. We receive a lot of our traffic from twitter, facebook and StumbleUpon. We learned early in our travels that if we didn’t tweet and share other people’s content, they would forget about us. We use a combination of Hootesuite and su.pr to schedule tweets. Bloggers that we know who put out good solid content regularly are tweeted automatically from Hootesuite using their RSS/Atom application. In doing so, we can instantly share their content and not even be online.
Su.pr is another great way to spread out our tweets and to post on facebook. We will spend a day scheduling people’s content to be tweeted and shared at different times throughout the week. This allows us to add a human element to our scheduled tweets. Autotweeting doesn’t allow any personality, but when scheduling tweets with your own little comments it allows you to engage with your audience.
We also use su.pr because it gives people an easy option to submit our posts to StumbleUpon. It must work because we receive a lot of traffic from StumbleUpon.
Use Facebook Effectively – Start a fan page and use networked blogs to syndicate your content on facebook. It will automatically pull your feed from your blog and post your content onto facebook as soon as it is published. This lets your fans instantly know when your new post is up. You can also schedule facebook status updates through Hootesuite.
3. Photos
We host our photos on SmugMug and Flickr. This allows us to mass upload photos to be used on the website. SmugMug houses our more professional travel photos while Flickr hosts our snapshots. Both types of photos are just as important to further the story of a post. These sites are useful because it is quick and easy to upload several photos at once rather than inserting one photo at a time to the blog. All we have to do once we write the article is to link the photos to the post where we want them. This saves valuable time online.
4. Write posts ahead of time
There is a lot of down time when traveling. You can spend hours on a bus or sitting in an airport. Use that time to do work. Pre write your post on your laptop and sort and choose your photos for uploading. When you have an Internet connection all you have to do is copy and paste your content into the site. And when it comes to your photos, all you have to do is upload the album that you have already made.
I even pre write my tags and the excerpt for my post so that I don’t waste time having to think about anything at the Internet. The less time I have to spend online, the more time I have to enjoy my travels.
5. Keep a Journal
When you are out on a tour jot down some notes. This will help you write a post faster than trying to remember details or having to look up information. I brainstorm ideas all the time in my journal and keep it close by for quick reference.
6. Buy an iPhone or Blackberry
We always carry an iPhone to answer emails. Advertisers contact us daily and we would hate to miss out on a business opportunity because we can’t get on the Internet. We buy a SIM card and data plan in each country as soon as we enter. Our iPhone has become one of our most important items because its an excellent way to stay connected. We can send out tweets and facebook updates and moderate comments on our blog all while stuck in transit.
7. Enjoy your travels
We travel hard and then we work hard. We will go for several days at a time unplugged but nobody knows it. By doing all the legwork, we stay connected and have posts coming out regularly while we are off enjoying the adventure of a lifetime. Once we are finished our adventure, we then settle in for a couple of days to catch up on our work and write our next round of posts.
Take advantage of the many times that you will be stuck waiting for boats, trains, planes and buses to get your work done. There is nothing else to do in a waiting area but wait; you might as well do your blogging so that you don’t have to work when you arrive at your destination.
We like to immerse ourselves in our travels. We aren’t a type of traveler that sits in one place for months on end. We take part in adventures; we go on treks and move around a lot. The last thing we want to do is spend too much time on the Internet.
Do you have any time saving ideas that help you to spend more time enjoying your travels and less time sitting at the computer?
Dave and Deb are a Canadian blogging couple who have been married for 13 years. In that time they have managed to hike, bike, paddle and climb their way across 5 continents. They have built a large following at their adventure travel website ThePlanetD. They have taken part in successful media campaigns such as the Rocky Mountain Adventure Drive with General Motors, the Princess Cruises “Follow Me At Sea” Twitter Cruise, and most recently joined Fiji’s Influencer tour as a part of their FijiMe Campaign. Dave and Deb consistently rank highly as the one of the world’s most influential travel bloggers and websites.
If you liked this article please consider signing up for free e-mail updates
About Guest Blogger
Great tips! Balancing travelling with full time travel blogging is clearly a challenge, and it’s great to get this kind of insight from folks who do it so successfully. Thanks for sharing guys
Laurence recently posted..Essential free software for travellers
Hi Laurence and All, just wanted to let you all know that Dave and Deb just jumped into the Jungles of Northern Thailand today and thus are around to comment for a few days. But they are indeed following their own advice.
These are all great tips and I actually follow all of them myself. They help not only save time so that we can travel, but I also use them as I also work, travel, write and do a million other things. Its super important to know exactly how much time is really need online.
Hi Todd and all. Sorry we missed most of the Conversation. We had less Internet than we expected on this trip. Starting to make our way down the comments right now:)
Deb recently posted..Not Feeling the Valentine’s Day Love Get Outta Town
No need to apologize! Thanks for such a great post.
Wow! What great tips. Thanks so much for sharing your expertise Deb and Dave. And thanks Todd for rounding up such great talent.
The Dropout recently posted..Welcome Bacon Fans!
Thanks, I have been very fortunate that so many great travel bloggers are excited to share with us here.
Thanks for having us Todd!
Deb recently posted..Not Feeling the Valentine’s Day Love Get Outta Town
Awesome advice! I am on a short break from travel and plan to get at least a handful of posts “in the can” for use later~ Thanks Dave and Deb!
Vagabondkids recently posted..My First Chinese New Year- Travelling in China
Enjoy your break from travel. It is an excellent time to get organized for the next round. We found that we were busier than ever this past summer when we were home for a couple of months. But we are so glad that we did all that work so we can enjoy ourselves more while on the road.
Deb recently posted..Not Feeling the Valentine’s Day Love Get Outta Town
Great tips – useful even when you’re sitting at home wondering how you’re going to keep up with regular, quality blog posts along with everything else involved in running a travel business!
I completely agree that scheduling posts is essential. I don’t like to autotweet too much but our posts do get tweeted once and published to our facebook page as soon as they are published, so people can keep up to date even when we are offline.
It is hard not to be a slave to the internet. In Bolivia we only had internet for 3 out of 7 weeks and our traffic really went down. Sometimes you just have to travel though and not worry about your stats too much. It always picks back up.
Hi Erin, I hear you about being a slave to the Internet. We were just offline for a week and have a lot of catching up to do. But our scheduling of posts and tweets kept us alive and well out there. We stress that we only autotweet websites that we follow and are good friends with. It hasn’t hurt us yet and we have been doing it for well over a year with certain websites.
Deb recently posted..Not Feeling the Valentine’s Day Love Get Outta Town
Sitting in hostel room in Dahab, trying to manage three websites, you don’t know how helpful this article is.
Shane recently posted..Photo Feature- St Katherine’s Monastery
Wow Shane, that’s a lot of websites. Glad we could help a little bit.
Deb recently posted..Not Feeling the Valentine’s Day Love Get Outta Town
Great tips. This is definitely helpful at home and on the road. You can easily get sucked into everything you need to do to make a successful blog as I’m finding out daily. Post scheduling is my new best friend! I find I can create better content in the moment. A few days or weeks later just doesn’t produce the same results.
AbsoluteADT recently posted..Got Passport
Yep we agree. Post scheduling has been our best friend too.
Deb recently posted..Not Feeling the Valentine’s Day Love Get Outta Town
This advice is extremely helpful! I try to stay a few weeks ahead with my writing even when I’m home, but I’ve always been curious which sites were the best to use to auto post on Facebook and twitter. I’m on Networked Blogs, but I didn’t realize I could have Networked Blogs update my Facebook. I like your advice about using a combination of SU and Hootsuite to tweet. I was using SU all the time and found our Alexa score was going down.
OrdinaryTraveler recently posted..In the Land of the Pharaos – Egypt 13
I didn’t know that using su.pr made your Alexa score go down that is good to know thanks for sharing that.
Deb recently posted..Not Feeling the Valentine’s Day Love Get Outta Town
Great tips! I am just now getting to the point where I am going to schedule posts in advance, since I am focusing on having posts live every day in sort of a standard style setup. I never knew you could schedule tweets though, that is genius! I’m going to have to check out HootSuite now.
Jeremy recently posted..The Fine Art of Haggling – 5 Tricks You Should Use to Score that Awesome Souvenir!
I have mixed feelings about this post.
They are very good tips and I can imagine long time travelers need to find a way to maintain a blog without actually having to logon every day.
But techniques like autotweeting other peoples posts is not very honest to your connections . They read the articles you tweet because they know you have a similar taste in content.
Writing a bit ahead of time is also necessary I guess, it’s always better to have a couple of posts ready just in case. But the other day I was reading someone’s stories in Thailand, but on Twitter she was telling what she was doing in Paris. This was very awkward…
A smartphone is probably the best option to be connected most of the time, but I prefer to reduce my number of posts to about one a week when I’m traveling, and it hasn’t happened yet that I spend a whole week without finding internet.
Nicolas De Corte recently posted..Story behind the Photo- El Salvadorian Iguanas
NIcolas you can be so difficult sometimes
But seriously, what do people think of Autotweeting? Dave and Deb auto tweet my stuff on Todd’s Wanderings and I always appreciate it. I also try to put up quality posts so I’m honored that they trust me. They also tweet in person, so I don’t feel like I’m so cold statistic to them.
But is autotweeting cheating? Is there a time when it’s ok? What if you balance it with normal tweeting?
Sorry for being such a pain in the ass, but that’s because I like to hear what you think about my opinion.
Maybe because my blog isn’t a source of income to me but rather a hobby, I think differently about this than some others.
To me, autotweeting is like sponsored posts without mentioning they’re sponsored.
Is that cheating?
It’s probably just marketing. Like telephone companies are all claiming to be the best and the cheapest.
When you’re transforming from a personal blog to a business, next to writing content that interests your audience, you also have to think about ways to make them come back and buy/do stuff so you earn money.
But it’s sometimes hard to determine if what you read on a blog is genuine or marketing.
Nicolas De Corte recently posted..Story behind the Photo- El Salvadorian Iguanas
No worries Nicholas, I actually enjoy it when you are a pain in the ass. life in my normal job, it’s by being challenged and through dialogue that we can work out what we really believe and challenge our preconceived notions.
I schedule my tweets for my own blog in advance. I space them out so as not to annoy people and my current strategy is every 4 hours the first day, every 5 hours the second and sometimes every 6 hours the 3rd day. i do this because of the nature of twitter, you only see what is in front of you at any given time.
I haven’t done autotweets of other people’s feeds. BUT I am considering it. My main selling point is being upfront, honest and ethical in everything I do with my sites. If I do auto tweet it would only be because I trust that blogger to produce quality content each time. But I am not 100% sure if this is possible yet, so I haven’t started. I’d love to hear what others think
I dont think auto tweeting is cheating, as long as you are only doing it to people you actually know. If you just auto tweeted a bunch of people it might look spammy though. It is also a good idea to auto tweet feeds that you know only post on a marginal frequency relative to your own tweeting habits. That is, don’t auto feed someone who posts 6 times a day when you only tweet 10 times. The more organic it seems, the less spammy again. Just my thought.
Jeremy recently posted..The Fine Art of Haggling – 5 Tricks You Should Use to Score that Awesome Souvenir!
Hi Nicolas, I just wanted to reply to your second comment. This is a forum about making money with your travel blog and having a blog as a hobby is quite different that trying to earn an income. Staying high in statistics and rankings is very important for advertisers and sponsors. Being ahead in content is a fact for successful travel blogs and keeping yourself visible in all social media sites is extremely important. When traveling full time it is impossible to post daily let alone tweet and if you don’t get your content out, your numbers will go down. When we are in a country that has very little internet connection we can’t be certain that the internet will even work. So to have to worry about getting to the Internet each and every day is impossible task.
Deb recently posted..Not Feeling the Valentine’s Day Love Get Outta Town
Hi Nicolas thanks for your comment. I don’t think dishonest at all to autotweet feeds that you respect and admire. We autotweet only websites that we follow regularly. We would tweet their posts regardless. It is not like we are tweeting every Tom Dick and Harry out there:-) we are pulling feeds from sites that we highly respect. If we don’t keep our profile healthy and interactive on twitter while we are traveling, people will quickly forget we are out there. This way we can at least have a few tweets go out each day while we’re trekking in the jungle and motorcycling along the Burmese Border for a week like we just were. Between those and some scheduled Tweets we can still provide our followers with content and keep our blog on their minds.
Deb recently posted..Not Feeling the Valentine’s Day Love Get Outta Town
It’s only too true:people have a very short memory and if you don’t update your blog and tweet or FB you are soon forgotten. I pre-post even when I’m not on the road, to free time for submitting articles and pitches to magazines I aim for.
inka recently posted..Where butterflies get drunk!
That’s a good point Inka. I agree, we schedule posts ahead of time even when we are not traveling. When we returned for a couple of months this past summer, we thought that we would post daily, but found that it was too stressful. Every day I would wake up and worry about what I would have to write today. Once I wrote a bunch of posts one day to get ahead again. I found that I had more free time to enjoy life and came up with more interesting posts and content because I didn’t have the added stress of having to write something for that exact day.
Deb recently posted..Not Feeling the Valentine’s Day Love Get Outta Town
Great Ideas you two.
I’ve found it exceptionally helpful to set up 2 things:
1. A successful (automated) RSS to Email campaign (through Mailchimp or similar)
2. Rock solid email to post capability.
This way. I can write an article / blog post as an email with images attached and as soon as I get even a glimmer of internet connectivity, the post cued in my outbox gets sent, posted to the blog, fed to twitter, broadcast on my facebook fan page and included in the next RSS to Email sendout.
~Sage
Sage recently posted..Wow!… How to Create a Food Community Explosion in 7 Days
Hi Sage, that is excellent advice. We have heard about this email to post capability and think it would be very useful. What you do sounds fantastic. What do you use to post from email to blog? Is there a plugin of some kind?
Deb recently posted..Not Feeling the Valentine’s Day Love Get Outta Town
I had no idea you could “auto-tweet” either! Finding work/travel balance is one of the things we struggle with most, so this was a very helpful article.
Christy @ Technosyncratic recently posted..5 Reasons You Should Learn to Paddleboard
Glad we could help. Having a job in travel is difficult to balance. Because we travel for a living, we always feel the pressure that we are supposed to be having the time of our lives every single day. But then again, it is work so we have to find the time to do the tasks that need to be done. Scheduling takes a bit of the pressure off.
Deb recently posted..Not Feeling the Valentine’s Day Love Get Outta Town
Great tips! Thanks so much for sharing. Will definitely be putting these to use in the future.
Great post guys. As a new blogger, I find these tips very informative. Always struggling to keep the posts on schedule.
I find it really hard to balance writing and promotion, reading other blogs, working, AND traveling at the same time. I’ve also thought about unplugging for a few days, but at this point it seems kind of impossible. I feel anxious enough when my hotel doesn’t have wifi.
I do write some posts in my journal too, because sometimes I’m sick of sitting in front of the computer all day.
It’s a great idea to write in advance. But I was wondering, what advice would you guys give for someone who has already started traveling to write posts in advance?
Hey Jasmine, I’ll offer my own advice as Dave and Deb are in the Jungles and unplugged at the moment. I would write extra posts about the place your current are, and some extra ones from the place you just where. Sprinkle in some advice posts that are applicable anywhere you are. Then schedule these for the next 1-2 weeks. Just like that you are ahead. Keep traveling and writing like normal again but schedule you posts for 2 weeks in advance and you can stay ahead.
I am rarely in the place at the moment I am writing about it. Although my strategy is to write about places in such a way that they are relevant even in 1 year and are less diary type posts. Just my 2 cents
Hi Jasmine. Sorry for taking so long to reply. We were just on a trip that had very little Internet access. I know exactly how you feel. Our first question when booking a room is “Do you have free wifi?” Todd gave excellent advice though. We are always a week or two ahead in posts as well. That way we can really enjoy our travels and be in the moment. If we can’t make it to the internet for a few days, we have a buffer of posts that will be scheduled to come out ahead of time. We even scheduled and spaced out tweets this past week of articles we read before leaving. We thought, hey what’s the difference if we tweet the post today or 3 days from now? We still support our fellow blogger and a personalized tweet will go out from us while we are staying in a remote location.
Deb recently posted..Not Feeling the Valentine’s Day Love Get Outta Town
Good tips guys!
I have always been ahead on my blog. It’s funny..to be more accurate i used to change the date and make the post date be the date i WAS actually in the city i was writing about and NOT the date i actually posted it. That was the first year or so….then somewhere along the line i stopped doing that. But i am always at least a month ahead. I have half-written posts to last me for months. I never want to be behind and always have something still I want to write about even when i’m not traveling.
I do like scheduling tweets on Hootsuite and hate to be a slave to twitter.
I’m been debating joining Smugmug for a year now! How exactly does that tie in to WP? Do they give you a plug in to use to easily insert the pics from you smugmug album?
THanks!!
Lisa
I too have been debating Smug Mug. Would love to hear exactly how it helps you save time. I’m also considering it to help speed up my picture heavy blog.
For us Smug Mug has been great. @Lisa it integrates well with WP and there are plug-ins out there to help you but I find just inserting the URL from my Smug Mug gallery works the best. They also have a great slideshow feature that you can embed into your posts. The main benefits for us is though have been taking the pressure off of our server, speeding up our load times and seamless integration to our site. @todd As far as saving time for us I can mass upload photos from Lightroom to Smug Mug for each post instead of doing each one individually. But the real benefits are in what I listed above. You can also create a custom domain name which helps with seo and integration as well.
Dave recently posted..Not Feeling the Valentine’s Day Love Get Outta Town
Dave is going to answer this one. His comment is awaiting moderation, but just wanted to let you know that we didn’t skip over your question:)
Deb recently posted..Not Feeling the Valentine’s Day Love Get Outta Town
This post came out just when we needed it! Thanks so much for your tips, guys…especially number two. I’m finding keeping up with everyone else’s content to be the most difficult thing now that we’re on the road. After this year most of our content will be expat related, so that will be much easier to handle, but this year we’re really struggling to keep up with our little blog and only post about twice a week. I agree that having a mobile device really helps.
Andrea recently posted..Foodie Finds in Queenstown- New Zealand
Hi Andrea. I agree with you, once you are traveling full time it is a whole different ball game. It is keeping up with everyone else’s content that we struggle with too. We always feel that we are one step behind. We always say to ourselves that “if we posted less, we could do more to keep up with commenting etc.” But we like posting daily and can’t break the habit. So we are left to play catch up all the time:-)
Deb recently posted..Not Feeling the Valentine’s Day Love Get Outta Town
Great info. Thanks to Todd and to ThePlanetD!
Wondering if there is a way to have the RSS feed directly into Su.pr (and then to a Facebook fan page). If so, is this better than Networked Blogs? Have been using NB for some time now, but am starting to get more into Stumbling. Heh, would be great to have the Su.pr + NB cake and eat it, too.
Katrina recently posted..Elephants- elephants- elephants!
I don’t like Networked blogs as it does not run on your actual domain name. For facebook I recommend RSS Graffiti. http://www.facebook.com/RSS.Graffiti
I don’t know of a way to use RSS with su.pr. To be honest Su.pr drives me crazy because it only runs on Pacific Standard time…so frustrating.
I have seen on my stat measuring device (statcounter) every incoming link from networked blog on facebook.
Jeremy recently posted..The Fine Art of Haggling – 5 Tricks You Should Use to Score that Awesome Souvenir!
Yeah, I get the stats counted from su.pr but there are other negatives like not counting for alexa ranking. A small down side, but when it counts towards getting onto lists and getting your name out there then I think it makes a big impact.
Hi Katrina, We don’t know of a way to pull a feed into su.pr sorry we are not any help in this department.
I agree Todd, the PST on su.pr drives me crazy. I have messed up a few tweets that way.
Deb recently posted..Not Feeling the Valentine’s Day Love Get Outta Town
Do you pay for HootSuite’s premium version? If so, do you think it is worth it?
Jeremy recently posted..The Fine Art of Haggling – 5 Tricks You Should Use to Score that Awesome Souvenir!
I don’t. I looked at it today and I thought it was a bit expensive for the ability to schedule in bulk….then again I’m cheap
Yes we do pay for HootSuite and do find it to be worth it. But we had been using it a lot already when it was free so they had us hooked. At $5 a month we don’t mind though. You can schedule posts to facebook as well from it.
Deb recently posted..Not Feeling the Valentine’s Day Love Get Outta Town
Great tips! Most of these I knew about and try and do. However, I am a bit behind on posting right now but have some ideas. I know Caz and Craig Makepeace also travel a lot and do a good job of posting.
For me, I probably won’t do #5 because I just don’t have an interest in being connected that much. When I am out or traveling, a computer or internet cafe is enough.
For the rest, I appreciate smugmug (there are others as well). So many of my photos take up space on my blog and I want to get that down. I tried doing that the other day with a link in my post but wordpress wouldn’t post the photo because it had a problem with the url. I do like this idea and it saves so much time in doing your posts (as well as bandwidth on the blog).
These are great tips and I need to be more diligent about scheduling and tweeting (although I do both of these a LOT). So much to do!
Jeremy B recently posted..Travel Tuesday question of the week – what’s your most embarrassing travel moment
Agree Jeremy. There is always so much to do, but it sounds like you are doing great! That is strange that you had that problem. One piece of advice (maybe you did this or maybe you didn’t, but we thought we would share) make sure to copy the “image url” not the “link url” from smugmug that could have been your problem.
Deb recently posted..Not Feeling the Valentine’s Day Love Get Outta Town
Really useful post. I also didn’t realize you could schedule tweets. While we were on the road our blog was also scheduled about 2 weeks in advance, leaving us time to escape from the Internet! Of course this lead for interesting conversations when calling home… I thought you were in X, what you do mean you’re in Y?
I don’t think autotweeting is “cheating,” sometimes with dodgy connections the best you can do is get a text only post up. When that takes 30 minutes the last thing I want to do is try and load a “live” site like twitter. Our twitter following basically sank to nothing while we were on the road, because we weren’t active. Had we known how to autotweet or retweet other people’s stuff maybe that would have been different. I do agree that its better to be online yourself, but autotweet in my opinion is better than nothing. Now that we’re back online regularly it’s nice to be able to personally respond to people and develop twitter friendships!
Jillian recently posted..Photo of the Day- Children on the River
Jillian you are so right. We prefer to interact personally with people, but when traveling many times there isn’t a choice and we have seen our twitter stats go down and didn’t want it to happen again. We get a lot of traffic from Twitter and social marketing is becoming more and more important so you have to keep yourself alive and well online while you are out taking on adventures. We do use our travel blog as a business so it is important to keep rankings and statistics high so advertisers will remain interested.
Deb recently posted..Not Feeling the Valentine’s Day Love Get Outta Town
Thanks for these great tips Todd, We will be implementing some of these tip straight away. Cheers
thanks for this one deb and dave… i never knew about su.pr until now…
flip recently posted..Cheap Travel Gears at Cash & Carry
Glad we could introduce you to su.pr We like it:)
Deb recently posted..Not Feeling the Valentine’s Day Love Get Outta Town
Great tips! I’m going on a 4 week honeymoon this year and want to be in touch with my readers without being in touch, so these tips will come in really handy!
Laurel recently posted..Snowshoeing in Schruns Austria
Have a great honeymoon and congratulations! I hope that some of these tips help you to enjoy the trip and not worry about the blog too much. We have found that it really does take the pressure off. We just had a total of two weeks not really being able to commit to any time online, but we didn’t worry too much because we had a lot of our work scheduled and ready to go.
Deb recently posted..Not Feeling the Valentine’s Day Love Get Outta Town
awesome tips! ron and i are planning to go on a trip this coming week. can’t wait to try some of the things you’ve mentioned here. thanks!
That is excellent. Let us know how it all works out for you.
Deb recently posted..Not Feeling the Valentine’s Day Love Get Outta Town
Thank you so much for this post. I hadn’t heard of the twitter strategies before. I just started using hootsuite, am still getting used to it. I am excited about the idea of automation, but sounds like it requires a lot of pre-planning, an idea I need to wrap my head around. However, the idea of getting posts out with a 2 week delay makes it all make sense. Your first 7 tips are inspiring, and we’ve already gotten pretty good at #8. Thank you again for the wonderful post!
ilainie recently posted..8 Empowering Ways A Traveling Single Female Can Celebrate Valentines Day
Some great tips as usual. The item that jumps out at me the most is keeping a journal or notebook with you at all times (put it in your camera bag!). Prior to doing this, I can’t tell you how many photos we snapped and forgot the name of the monument or cathedral.
It also helps to write posts quicker. If I can describe the thoughts and feelings, and write down words that help paint the picture, when it comes time to write the post often writes itself.
Cam recently posted..Luxury on the Lake at Whistler Creekside
Great advice on both accounts. Ideas and emotions flash into your mind while you are in the moment, but later I find I struggle to find the words to describe an experience. When I write a few things in my notebook (names of monuments etc) it helps to move things along quicker. Thanks for the tips guys!
Deb recently posted..Rock Climbing in Railay- The Thailand Adventure Continues
As an alternative to an iPhone or Blackberry: I’ve used a tablet (Samsung Tab) around Central America last month. Although I didn’t use it to write a post, it’s great for tweets and comments and it’s much more portable than a laptop.
Robin recently posted..10 Top Attractions in the USA
Robin, I would love to get a tablet. That is the next thing on our list. I think it would be much easier than the iPhone because of the size, I think that we could be far more organized on twitter and facebook if we had one. Great Suggestion.
Deb recently posted..Ao Nang Paradise Resort a Good Option in Krabi