Advice for Successful Travel Content Creation
What you need to hear š
If your main motivation for getting into travel content creation is to stay at cool places, you will lose ā
Hereās why š
1ļøā£ You donāt want a business you want a fairy tale lifestyle.
Spoiler alert, it doesnāt exist and youāll find yourself burnt out shooting for brands and hotels that couldnāt care less about you or your financial wellbeing.
2ļøā£ You have no leverage and they know it.
Why would they offer to pay if they know youāll stay there for free anyway. Hereās another spoilerā¦ they wonāt.
3ļøā£ You arenāt offering value.
Your entire ābusinessā is based on āwhat can I getā instead of āwhat do they needā. No one likes a taker.
4ļøā£ You have no idea why someone would hire you to begin with.
Yes they may need cool lifestyle content, but why? How does it impact the business in a direct way not some fluffy answer like get you more reach lol š
Idk about you but Iām in this game for the long haul. Taking free exchanges has never paid my bills. Iād rather make enough that I can pay to stay at the hotel instead of beg for a free stay cause I canāt afford it.
If you want to be in this industry and be able to support yourself, a spouse, a family, and build some sort of savings, you need to level up your standards.
You need to build an offer that brands would renegotiate their budgets for. You need a way to consistently talk with them, and you need a way to get them to pay you more than once.
š So if you want a free step-by-step guide on how to get paid clients comment āBLUEPRINTā and Iāll send it over!
Be blessed and stay stoked šš¤