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Build a list.
Open multiple streams of income.
Create and connect.
Accept sponsored posts.
Peep the above talismans of travel blogging income wisdom.
Most seem bandied about routinely on the travel blogger circuit; for good reason.
Following these basic steps positions you to profit.
I get it.
But if these were the chief factors in making money through your blog, most travel bloggers would be full time travel bloggers. Most bloggers build lists. Goodness knows, most travel bloggers open multiple streams of income and accept sponsored posts. I know legions of travel bloggers who create helpful content and connect with other bloggers.
Why do most travel bloggers struggle to make coin?
The travel blogging masses cling to limiting beliefs regarding money. Most fear various monetizing aspects of their campaign.
If you hold money limiting beliefs in mind you will struggle to make money.
Imagine trying to fight the peak version of Mike Tyson while wearing handcuffs.
Now picture trying to make money through blogging if your thoughts, feelings and actions reflect someone who feels like it’s nearly impossible to make money.
Money is energy.
Making money through your blog is an energy game, not a doing game, not a strategy game and not a robotic game. Bloggers typically act like robots. Step 1 is build your list. Step 2 is create value. Step 3 is receive money.
Nope.
If you blog mainly for fun, take the easy but uncomfortable route, trust in self and trust the process, you vibe harmoniously with money and allow in money. Most travel bloggers blog tensely, mainly to get money (taking fun out of the process), take the resistant route, have zero trust in self and the process, vibe with poverty and repel money.
Blogging abundantly generates success.
Blogging from scarcity generates failure.
All depends on your mindset.
As within, so without.
Let’s dive in to two unconventional tactics that help you make more money through your travel blog.
Stop Fighting Potential Sponsored Post Clients
Either accept sponsored posts at a lesser rate so you receive money and feel good about receiving money or completely release and detach from potential sponsored post clients who barter and bargain.
Do not fight these folks. In essence, you fight money and tell money to stay away the split second you barter, bargain, complain, whine or fight from a fear-filled, resistant energy.
Fighting someone willing to give you money less than your rate proves that you fear losing money. Looking past them without giving a second thought proves that you blog abundantly with strong posture. The latter approach boosts blogging income. The former approach lessens blogging income.
Almost every travel blogger alive made this mistake once. I made the error a few times over the years. But I soon learned that money is energy; either accept money freely and feel good about it or release on folks immediately and feel good about it.
The easiest way to make more money is to receive it with zero resistance or to release on non-resonant opportunities with zero resistance. The annoying potential client shows you why you struggle to make money, mirroring back to you fight, fear, complaints, low self esteem, low trust in the process, arrogance or delusion.
Take a deep breath. Allow fear to run through your being. Do not project. Either accept the lesser rate and feel good or release the opportunity and feel good. Make more money by feeling good about receiving money or by releasing an opportunity from a non-resistant energy.
Money flows from within via your mindset.
Money does not flow from the without via potential sponsored post clients.
Impress this idea onto your mind to develop a prospering relationship with individuals who pitch you sponsored posts.
Let go non-matches with a smile. Accept ideal matches with a smile.
Position yourself to profit.
Create Affiliate Disclosures with Posture
Money energy does not like people who feel ashamed to receive money because shame is fear, the lowest emotion on the energy scale.
You guys know the travel blogger affiliate disclosure walk of shame:
“Note that I do make a SMALL commission on each sale AT NO EXTRA COST TO YOU.”
You are telling money energy: “I feel bad receiving you so please, trickle in tiny increments to me, and please, PLEASE, send cheapies to my site who are terrified of being fleeced, OK, to buy my affiliate stuff only because there is no cost to them”
I love all you travel bloggers so much that I am being honest and genuine with you. If you feel uncomfortable with receiving money you won’t receive much money.
Employee Paycheck Analogy
Most of us worked 9-5 jobs as employees at some time in life.
Did you feel embarrassed to receive a paycheck every week?
Did you feel ashamed to glance at direct deposits from your employer?
I highly doubt that you felt embarrassed or ashamed to receive money from employers in the past.
Why would you feel embarrassed or ashamed to disclose that you receive money as a business owner now?
Establish blogging posture. Think abundantly. Be clear.
Disclose with Clarity
Peep my disclosure: “I may be compensated financially or otherwise for any link or image you click on through this site.”
I potentially make money through everything. There you go.
I cover myself and also feel clear and comfortable with receiving money through the disclosure.
Create an affiliate disclosure with posture, clarity and confidence. Money is a neutral energy. Do not explain or justify receiving a neutral energy. Just receive it.
Do the Inner Work
Guys; if you make these two energetic shifts you will allow more money into your bank account. Stop working hard. Change your energy to make more money through your travel blog.
Travel blogging feels uncomfortable sometimes but most make it harder on themselves by avoiding the inner work and trying to force success through hard, tense, strained work.
Strained work brings failure at worst and muted success at best.
Clearing the inner world allows greater income to flow to you organically without mindless toil, stress and heaviness polluting the blogging process.
Conclusion
Get comfortable with receiving money to boost blogging income.
Travel bloggers have enough obstacles to overcome.
Waging an inner war regarding sponsored post and affiliate marketing revenue only increases blogging income struggles.
Develop blogging posture with potential sponsored post clients.
Disclose affiliate products with confidence and clarity.
Magnetize yourself to money by doing inner, mindset work that most travel bloggers seem to skip.
