Why did you start your travel blog?

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Permalink Reply by Amber Johnson on January 18, 2009 at 12:31pm

I really admire those who can start a travel blog and make it work. I am a contributor at some of my favorites and write about my many trips on my personal blog as well. This week: I'm off to Keystone. Two weeks after that? Park City!

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Permalink Reply by The Trip Chicks/Ann Lombardi on January 18, 2009 at 11:53pm

Started blogging only at the end of Dec. 08. Think I need to shorten each entry to save some time. Finding that each day somehow seems to be growing shorter as this new year progresses...Hoping to gain a following, share helpful travel and airline info, and help us have a small yet positive presence on the web, esp. since our main travel agency website is down.

Ann of "The Trip Chicks"

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Permalink Reply by Gary Arndt on January 19, 2009 at 12:59am

I started my blog to get chicks.......I'll let you know when it starts working.

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Permalink Reply by Darren Cronian on January 19, 2009 at 4:31pm

Let me know what you did to attract women from blogging. I put my picture up once, and RSS feed readers went down 65% so I created this animated guy and things have never been better. :)

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Permalink Reply by Guido J. van den Elshout (aka Happy Hotelier) on January 27, 2009 at 3:40pm

I offered you a very nice pic:-)

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Permalink Reply by Darren Cronian on January 19, 2009 at 4:29pm

Err because I wanted to rant. If you had asked me would I be blogging into my 4th year, I would have laughed at you.

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Permalink Reply by René Seindal on January 20, 2009 at 4:12am

Bloated ego, probably. I write stuff because I assume somebody would want to read it :-)

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Permalink Reply by Darren Cronian on January 25, 2009 at 9:55am

I agree on the ego aspect.

Where else would you be able to get mentioned in the press, on the radio other than writing a blog.

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Permalink Reply by Greg Wesson on October 11, 2009 at 3:40am

Yeah, me too. I've crushed when I go to Google Analytics and see that visits to my blog are down 3.2% this month.

Oh, why does my public not love me?

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Permalink Reply by Lifecruiser on January 20, 2009 at 6:05am

When I started my blog in 2005 I was not really in any niche, just a personal blog, writing whatever I felt for, which was much humor in the beginning. I've always loved to write stuff.

You tend to talk (and write) about what's in your heart, what you really burn a passion for and that turned out to be travel and photography after a while and it just transformed to a travel blog :-)

Travel blogging is also an excellent way to remember your trips afterward, to not forget the details. Both with the words and photos.

It takes a while to find your own travel blogger style :-)

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Permalink Reply by Lola Akinmade on January 20, 2009 at 4:57pm

Currently see my blog as an online resume to point editors and potential clients to for travel photography and writing experience.

Who knows if its direction may change in the future.

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Permalink Reply by Voluntourism Gal on January 20, 2009 at 10:20pm

I started my blog because I felt there was a need in the voluntourism industry for all companies to share thoughts, best practices, lessons learned, etc in an uncensored way. It's been great to see people post problems they are having with their business or lessons they have learned throughout the years.

I'm a newbie blogger though so constantly learning how to do it! =)

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