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TBEX 2011 Review (Part One): In Need of Some Professionalism and Basic Organization

TBEX 2011 Review (Part One): In Need of Some Professionalism and Basic Organization

Tweet Yesterday, I was getting a post-TBEX bite to eat with some of my favorite travel bloggers, Ayngelina of Bacon is Magic, Jenny of Where is Jenny, Gareth of Tourist2Townie and Dylan of The Travelling Editor. We walked up to the street food cart and the guy working there asked, “are you guys travel bloggers [...]

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My Favorite Spam Comments (Part II)

My Favorite Spam Comments (Part II)

Tweet Part One of my attempt to troll through my spam box for some funny and ill-timed comments seemed to be met with some modicum of approval and there was a recent discussion on the Travel Bloggers Group on Facebook where some folks asked for more, so here goes Part Two in that effort. You [...]

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Basic, beginner travel blogging tips and advice

Basic, beginner travel blogging tips and advice

Tweet This post is not geared to my many friends that have been out there blogging for years — frankly, most of ya’ll know a vast amount more about the blogging, internet, SEO and tech world than I do.  But recently, I have been asked by a good number of very new travel bloggers some [...]

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Travel Photography: Overcoming my Inner Coward

Travel Photography: Overcoming my Inner Coward

Tweet I am a coward. Well, perhaps it is cowardice or perhaps a acute fear of rejection or perhaps just being lazy (my personal choice for most likely) or perhaps just simply contentedly solitary, but regardless, I undoubtedly chickened out in the last few days.  And it was far from the first time during my [...]

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Using StumbleUpon to Drive Website Traffic

Using StumbleUpon to Drive Website Traffic

Tweet One of the tools that I have become a lot more familiar with in the past few months for driving traffic to your blog is StumbleUpon.  Here are some Stumbleupon tips to effectively to get more traffic to your website. Basically, StumbleUpon is a social media tool whereby you can rate web pages (via [...]

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Italy via Photography: A Small Photo Journey

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I have said for quite a long time that if I ever make any real money, I will live in [...]

Interview with Andy Hayes, a.k.a. @andrewghayes: Lucky 13 Questions

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Andy Hayes is someone that I have be following for a while, but until I sat down and listened to [...]

Bette, Freddy, Madonna, Louie, Joe… a Show of a Lifetime

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An celebrity impersonation show combines nostalgia, campiness and hilarity. They are a fun sing-along and also a gentle laugh-at, all [...]

Jerusalem, the Most Historical City in the World?

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Jerusalem simultaneously confounds and amazes. In the list of “Cities Unlike Any Place Else,” it has to be right up [...]

Asking for a Little Help from You, My Loyal Readers

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I could use a little help — and will hopefully not only make it easy for you to do so, [...]

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