Keep in touch
Posted: January 22, 2013 | Contents: Chapter 4 | Tags: boomerang, hootsuite, keep in touch with your audience while traveling, mailchimp, social media travel, travel journalism, travel journalist, travel technology, travel writer, travel writers exchange, travel writing, tweetadder | 1 Comment »Chapter 4 encourages the travel journalist to learn cheap, simple, multimedia tools to help cover stories in a home market or on the road. Travel Writers Exchange’s Martina Vyskocova delivers an additional tool in 5 tips on Keeping in Touch With Your Audience While Traveling. Check out one of her tips:
Automatize, it’s the 21st Century!
So, you’ve picked 2 or 3 social media platforms and now wonder how on earth will you manage to keep in touch will all the followers while traveling? There are several tools to make a writer’s life easier.
- TweetAdder is an automated Twitter management system that thanks people who RT you, auto-responds and brings you more followers. It saves lot of time,…
New media new market
Posted: October 28, 2012 | Contents: Chapter 6 | Tags: google authorship, matthew barker, social media travel, travel journalism, travel technology, travel writers exchange, travel writing | Leave a comment »Chapter 6 explains to writers how to use social media to drive audience engagement. In addition to this advice Matthew Barker an author at travel-writers-exchange advises writers to expand their portfolios to access new markets, particularly online avenues. Barker shares,
For an online publisher, your article is only half of your product. They are also looking for writers with extensive social media reach and name authority that can be used to cross-promote their contributions.
You can provide this by:
▪ Choosing a niche and become an authority: post frequently about your subject on your own blog, and in guest posts on other blogs and sites. Aim to become known as “the expert” in your niche, whatever that may be (Peruvian cuisine, SE Asian beaches, French walking holidays, etc).
▪ Building your blog’s traffic & subscribers….
