Contrary to what may be popular belief, even though I haven’t made a post at all this week, I have not been slacking off. I’ve actually had quite a busy week, and I’ll explain all of my activities as an excuse for my lack of blogging.
First, I’ve been marketing the blog rather extensively. Getting on other travel sites, making comments, including links back to my blog, listing myself on women’s travel blogger websites, etc. As I don’t have advertising on my website and therefore don’t make money from my posts, the marketing that I do is for no reason other than for the self-satisfaction that there are people other than friends and family that read what I write. If someone that I didn’t know sent me an email that said ‘hey, you seem to know a lot about [fill in the blank], can you help me out?’, I’d be so thrilled that people would probably think I hit the lottery.
Second, because I’ve been getting my name out there, I’ve had a few offers from people to write blog posts (paying gigs!) for them. So I spent the better part of the week finishing up an article, and right now I’m communicating back and forth with them to see if they’re interested. Any blog posts that I do outside of this one I’ll be sure to post a link so that it can be read.
Third, I’ve been reading. I just finished up a great book by Alice Steinbach called “Without Reservations”. It’s about the author taking a leave of absence from her job and moving to Europe (spending time in Paris, London, and Italy) to take a break from everything.
And right now, I’m debating as to whether I should start Hemingway’s “A Moveable Feast” or Che Guevara’s “The Motorcycle Diaries”…
So you see, I’ve been busy even though I haven’t written anything as of late. Within the next day or two I will post a review of “Without Reservations”, and will most likely be comparing it to a popular book that has the same underlying themes: “Eat, Pray, Love”. So stay tuned for that, as you’ll find I have quite strong opinions about both. It should be quite entertaining.
Cheers!
~Natalie
Wow, you have been busy. I’m quite a ways behind you, although I’ve been busy myself. My big projects this week mostly revolved around figuring out the mechanics of doing a blog.
I’ve managed to name my blog, get the URL, set up the TypePad account, get my first post up and get the domain mapped so my URL will go to my blog.
Your post is giving me some good ideas of where to go as I get a few more posts up and develop my own blog. Good luck with further publicizing your blog and thanks for sharing the experience with us all!
By: Dominique on August 4, 2008
at 12:13 am
i vote that you read “motorcycle diaries” if you haven’t already made a choice. it’s a good insight into how che guevarra went from being a med student to being a revolutionary.
By: susanne on September 20, 2008
at 2:33 am