Travel BlogCamp

Initial thoughts on Travel BlogCamp 2012

Darren Cronian — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 17:50:51 +0000

Photo: The calm before the storm at Travel BlogCamp 2012. Over the last five years organising Travel BlogCamp I have come to realise that I cannot please everyone, as much as I try. Let me clarify a few points though. The theme of the evening was ‘Getting back to Basics’ and we wanted a theme …

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Travel BlogCamp Competition: Back to Basics

Darren Cronian — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 21:16:19 +0000

If you attended last year you might remember we had a Travel BlogCamp caption competition; well we are going to be giving away another top quality prize (last year it was a cheap bottle of wine!) to one lucky winner. As you will be aware, the theme this year is ‘Back to Basics’ in an …

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Using Facebook promoted post feature to make money

Darren Cronian — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 06:19:30 +0000

Just a quick post. I have yet to find one travel blogger who has used the Facebook promoted post feature to help raise awareness of their content. I have used this a few times to promote content published on My Life in Leeds and the results have been very good. Profit made on all campaigns …

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An Interview with Tamara of Mr & Mrs Smith

Darren Cronian — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:41:30 +0000

Without the sponsors I wouldn’t be able to organise Travel BlogCamp, so their support is really appreciated. Today I had the pleasure of interviewing Tamara, who is the CTO of Mr & Mrs Smith. Please could you introduce yourself and tell readers about Mr & Mrs Smith? I’m Tamara, although I’m often referred to as …

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Bloggers need to tell stories and be more creative

Darren Cronian — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 01:14:08 +0000

Look around at the content published on most travel blogs these days and you’ll find a common trend – blog post titled ’10 Great places to visit in [insert destination here]’ or ‘Five things to do in [insert destination here]’. We are all guilty of it, including myself, because this type of content gets links …

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