Get Paid to Write About Travel

If you love to travel and you want to have your own freelance business then you could have a career as a travel writer.

You may not know it but freelance writers are people who pursue a writing career without a long-term commitment to any one employer. They typically work from a home office or on the road and undertake paid writing assignments for various organizations and publications.

There are several ways that you can be paid to write about travel. Let's look at some of the more popular methods.

Write Articles About Travel For Magazines

There are many magazines that pay freelance writers for feature articles on travel, including magazines such as "Enroute", "Holidays For Couples", and "Backpacker". At their web sites these magazines often provide guidelines for writers to follow when proposing an article or sending in any material.

If you want to be successful writing for magazines you must study each publication carefully to see what type of article the editor is buying. Be sure to brainstorm all the possible topics you could write about, for example vacations, adventure trips, sightseeing, accommodation or airfares.

In addition to writing about travel for magazines, freelance writers can write similar articles for newspapers and web sites. A good online resource to help you get started with freelance article writing is Worldwide Freelance Writer.

Write A Travel Ebook

Electronic books or "ebooks" have revolutionized the publishing world. You can write a travel ebook and get it published far easier and in much less time than for a traditional print book. And ebooks tend to be quite profitable since it is very inexpensive to make copies and deliver them through the Internet.

An example of a travel ebook selling online is "Save On Airfare Secrets" which is selling at ClickBank for around $25.

Many traditional book authors only earn a dollar or two for each paperback book that sells, but with a travel ebook you will normally pocket 60% to 90% of the cover price for every copy sold.

A good online resource to help you get started writing and selling ebooks is Publish Your Own Ebooks.

Write Articles to Promote Travel-Related Products

This type of writing is referred to by many people as "article marketing". It involves writing articles on a particular topic and offering the articles to webmasters and editors to publish for free in return for printing an author's "resource box" beneath the article.

You can include a link or two in your resource box to drive traffic to your web pages where you sell travel-related products. If you don't have your own products to sell you can set up web pages that promote travel-related affiliate products so that you receive a commission every time someone you refer makes a purchase.

In closing, let me ask you one question. Would you like to have a freelance business and a great lifestyle writing about travel? There are people doing it successfully right now and if you would like to join them, you can take the first steps today.

David Goldsmith is the author of "25 Ways to Write for Money". He is also a regular contributor to several writing sites including Worldwide Freelance Writer and Publish Your Own Ebooks at http://www.PublishYourOwnEbooks.com