I sit here in Turkey, happy at all that has happened to me and my life. It is still spring here, and the colors are everywhere! Everything is beautiful and wonderful. There are, however, as with most countries, SO many stray dogs and cats. Barking in the night. Fighting. Mating. Everything is mating right now. Even the spiders and flies. Now is the time to expand the content of my travel blog and come up with a new strategy.
what takes up my time and brain
I am an online English tutor and it is very satisfying and helpful to others. It IS ENOUGH. But enough has never been enough for me. I feel it is enough to “live” abroad, but not enough for more…to really THRIVE. It is also mentally draining.
After four days of non-stop talking to my students, thinking in Big Picture mode, helping and giving my best to each student, I AM DRAINED and spent. There is not much left for anything else but parking it on my butt and doing little else. Teaching in China kept my brain from little else (reason for very little posts!) or other pursuits. So changes must come again.
ideas and tutorials
It is time to switch gears when I am not teaching. I am educating myself and trying anything else to produce other income streams. Now, I am looking at other ways to create “passive income” online. I’ve even started into the world of affiliate marketing. I never wanted to venture into marketing, but many people are successful at it so I am going to give it a try too. FB is a tool, but I will keep my personal account out of it.
I also worked yesterday with other creative ideas for ebooks and other ways to expand my blog and build an audience. I don’t post regularly enough for this because it takes a lot, mentally, to write a ‘personal’ post to share with everyone. This began as a journal of the adventures of my travels and growth. I’ve decided to also expand here and post stories about other people’s stories, experiences, adventures, and new things. They will, however, always be about travel! Other people’s stories about their bravery, to live life on their own terms by taking off on an adventure and doing something different, in a different place and time.
I will even reach out to people on social media that I follow who are traveling adventurers and try to interview them. Sticking to my own stories makes the posts far and few between and I need to be more active on my site.
To build a more expansive audience, I need to be more active on the blog. In order to do this, I need to expand the content I post on my travel blog.
where to go? what to do? how to get there?
The other things to think about when blogging are to think about what you can write about that solves a problem people in your audiences may have. So, this main ‘niche’ of my blog is travel. So I will also be posting guides, tips, hints and ideas for different countries and locations and traveling.
Don’t worry, I will still post my stories and updates. But I want to share other’s amazing experiences in the world to you too. And I build an audience. And create more content.
This is also a hard thing for me to do. But, this is part of what I have always wanted to do – to make money off my blog. In order to do this, I have to ‘treat it like a business’ so I need to think about how I can produce more content on a regular basis. I cannot do that with my stories alone.
I will also be creating a channel on YouTube, once I get over myself being on camera.
SO – stay tuned!
xohedy