This monetization channel works by joining the right best affiliate programs, creating content for your blog, and strategically placing links to relevant, useful products or services (within your content). When a reader clicks through and signs up or completes a sale based on your recommendation, you’ll earn a commission.
For this model to work, your content and the products you’re promoting have to be relevant to your target audience. This could be things like camera gear, hotel stays, flight recommendations, and more. Or you can take some inspiration from my roundup of honest Bluehost reviews, to see that you don’t even need to write your own exhaustive review about a product in your niche—if you can compile a useful list of all the other reviews out there on the market.
2. Content Sponsorships
Another way to earn money from your travel blog is through content sponsorships. With this monetization channel, you’ll get:
Paid to create content. If there’s one thing every brand needs, it’s exposure. If you have a decent following on your travel blog, then brands will be excited about the opportunity to pay you for creating content (photos, videos, or articles) related to their products or services, with the expectation that they’ll see an uptick in engagement, interest or sales. You can often earn a little extra here by selling the brand (especially hotels) on a package deal that includes high-quality content the brand can also use to share on their own social media channels.
Sponsored to promote companies. Many companies in the travel space will also albania phone number database your flights, and accommodations and even give you free gear in exchange for mentioning them in your blog posts and social media channels.
Sponsorship deals are extremely popular in the travel blogging space because they’re beneficial to both parties—even when you’re still relatively early on in your journey of learning how to start a travel blog, you can often land free or discounted trips, so it’s the perfect win-win channel to start with.
3. Creating and Selling Your Own Digital Products
Creating and selling your own digital products is another great way of generating revenue from your travel blog. While it’ll take a little more upfront work than other monetization methods, it can provide some of the best returns on investment over the long haul (if you create a useful digital product).
Examples of digital products you can create to monetize your travel blog include things like:
Courses. Create a self-paced online course or even an in-person masterclass that you offer at a fee—catering to your audience’s needs of course. A great example of this is Jacob Riglin’s photography masterclass where you get to spend several days learning in-person, on location with the popular photographer.
eBooks. Another digital product that can help you generate relatively passive income from your blog is a digital book (or eBook). Since my own audience here is made up of bloggers, I wrote an eBook aimed at helping newbie bloggers build successful habits around growing their audience, and it’s sold thousands of copies since I released it.
Apps. While growing the downloads for your own iPhone app is a subject worthy of its own deep dive guide (like this guide here), offering a free or low-cost app can dramatically grow your audience and income if it takes off within your niche. Take the example of my friend Carrie, who blogs about her life traveling while being gluten-free. She recently launched an app that highlights thousands of gluten-free restaurants around the world, and it’s been downloaded several thousand times already—her monetization options could include things like allowing restaurants to promote their businesses, promoting her own products, or showing display advertisements.
This monetization channel works by joining the
-
- Posts: 7
- Joined: Sat Dec 28, 2024 3:44 am