6 Best Ways To Get You Paid To Travel As A Travel Blogger

How To Get Paid To Travel As A Blogger

There is something to be said about being able to make money and maybe even earn a living through living your dreams. As a travel blogger, you’ve probably wondered how to get paid travelling and how to make an income. It really can be easy even though it is not a get-rich-quick kind of career and a lot goes into building a business and a brand that allows you to get paid to travel.

If you have dreamt of the opportunity to be a digital nomad, travelling the world, seeing places, experiencing different cultures, meeting different people, trying out different cuisines, seeing various historical landmarks, and experiencing a world that is very different from yours, then these avenues will help you get on your way to doing all of this and even more. 

Let’s talk about some means that can allow you to get paid to travel the world; 

Affiliate Marketing 

Travel is a profitable and popular niche through which you can generate and make money through different means of monetization. Once you have a loyal and dedicated audience, you’re able to generate income through search traffic. 

Affiliate marketing according to Wikipedia is a “marketing arrangement in which affiliates receive a commission for each visit, sign up and or sale generate for a merchant. This arrangement allows businesses to outsource part of the sales process. All you have to do is put the necessary links in the content that fits and once people click, sign up or buy something you get a certain percentage. You can make as much as $15,000 in $20,000 more or less depending on the time of the year through affiliate marketing and this can fund your travel lifestyle and you’re getting paid to travel.

Display Advertising

Advertising a product or service through visuals like images and videos on your blog is display advertising

One of the things that you can do to earn money, get paid and travel through your blog is to sign your blog up for Google Adsense. Google Adsense is a great place to start with display advertising but there are other ad networks that bloggers can work with. Once your readership is high enough, you can apply to have ads displayed on your site and you can get paid for this, through display advertising you can make between $2,000 to $15,000 per month. The money you get through this advertising can provide means and funds to allow you to live your travel lifestyle dream.

Destination Campaigns

Destination campaign marketing is a type of marketing that advertises a particular country region or town to inspire people to visit that area. The destination campaign is actually created to encourage people to travel to a particular location after they are exposed to related advertisements. 

How this works for travel blogs is a destination will invite you to visit their region and cover all the expenses. They also pay a fee for you to help them promote the destination through creating videos, social media, creating photography content, and social media. If your blog is pretty new you may be able to get part of your trip subsidized or maybe even all paid for but to be able to charge for the services, you need to have built an audience and offer tangible value to the destination.

Destination campaigns can for one-off social projects at smaller destinations range from $500 to $5000 and for bigger destinations range from $10,000 to $20,000 per campaign.

Brand Partnerships 

Brand partnerships are usually annual long contracts where you talk with the client about their needs and what type of coverage you will be giving them. This coverage can include blog posts, TV appearances, social media coverage, participating in ad campaigns, and speaking at conferences. Brands usually want to partner with you if they like your niche and what you stand for and also feel that you share the same goals and also that your mission reflects and mirrors theirs. 

Partnership with a brand can range from anywhere between $5,000 to $50,000 per campaign and all of this is dependent on deliverables and length.

Digital Products

This is another way to make money off of your blog and get paid to travel. All you have to do is create digital products like downloadable travel guides and so on. This can actually be regarded as passive income as once you’ve done it, it becomes an evergreen and will always be useful to people and be a means of income for you. 

YouTube and Travel Videos

YouTube will not pay immediately but once you have built a solid base and a subscribers list you can monetize your channel and get paid from your channel, also companies can find your YouTube and offer to purchase video licencing and also sponsorship for the content on your channel.

In a month you can make from as little as $700 to $1,000 and even more for a start and it also helps you to build your email and subscriber list.

With all of these avenues, you are on your way to becoming the travelling nomad of your dreams as a blogger. Which of these avenues would you be trying out or which do you already use on your blog? Let us know in the comments would love to hear from you.