Hello, people of YouTube. I'm Kristin and welcome to Be My Travel Muse. Today, I'm going to talk to you about how to start not just a travel blog that helps you travel for free or get little freebies here and there but a travel blog that is a real business, that makes money, that can change your life. I've been a travel blogger for five years now. Since then, I have made just about every mistake possible, but I've also learned a lot.
So, I'm here to share with you my top 10 tips for what helped me to become successful. Now, if you don't know me, allow me to qualify myself first. My blog, bemytravelmuse.com, focuses on solo female and adventures travel. I am in the top 50 travel blogs by traffic. I have been featured by "The Washington Post," by BuzzFeed. I have over 100,000 followers on Instagram. My blog received 1.5 million viewers in the past 12 months and, it is well known as one of the top female travel blogs in the world. So, now that I've sort of shamelessly promoted myself, let's have a seat, shall we? And talk about the top 10 things that you can do to have a successful travel blog. Most important thing number one about building a successful travel blog is, be original. The most important thing that you can do is develop your unique niche. Figuring out how you can stand out might seem super daunting. Yes, there are thousands of travel blogs but if you think about it, there are also thousands of restaurants all over planet earth. Does that mean you shouldn't start and open a restaurant? Or that a new restaurant can't be successful? No. Travel blogging is a super young industry. It's only been about a decade now that people could actually make solid money with a travel blog. So, when you think about it that way, if you can innovate and come up with a really clever niche then you've got a really good chance of succeeding. Really think about what is the one thing that you love so much that you're obsessed with it. You're thinking about it all the time. You kind of eat, sleep and breathe it. That is the thing that can help you become successful because there are other people who also are obsessed with that one thing. The deeper that you can go into a niche, the more that you can find your tribe of people who are also super into that thing. Don't even know who originally said this anymore, "The riches are in the niches." Basically, the deeper you can go into a niche, the better you can do at differentiating yourself and finding that one thing that hasn't been covered yet that you can provide your unique voice on. Now, you might be saying to yourself, "I have no idea what sets me apart." That's okay. It may come to you as you start, when you're on the road. If you don't know yet, just go. Just get started, that's okay. For me, it took a while to figure out what my niche really was.
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