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Tickets for Concerts, Sports, Arts, Theater, Family, Events, more. Official Ticketmaster site. Roller Coaster DataBase. Theme Park Brochures. Should I Travel The World? My Top Reasons To Travel Abroad. “Travelling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.” - Lisa St. Aubin De Teran Been Around The World This existence is such an incredible mystery, one of the things that baffles me the most, is that some how many of us fail to acknowledge what a miracle this cosmic play really is. You would think that every moment were alive, would be enough to keep us in a state of constant amazement. One of the reasons that we end up taking life for granted, is that we become insensitive to life. The moment you become open to life, you begin to see what a wonderful planet we live on. My Top Reasons To Travel “The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson Below, are just a few of the reasons why I love to travel: 1.

Here are a few posts I wrote on how traveling can help you grow: 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 5 Blogs you Should Read if You Want to Make Money from Your Travel Blog » Pommie Travels. So you love to travel the world? You’d like to make money from it so you don’t have to sit in a stuffy office somewhere? Then I suggest you get reading. Read as much as you can and when you’re too tired to read, read some more. Research is vital if you want to set up any business, so why shouldn’t that apply to setting up a travel blog? If you want to make a business from your travel blog, then thankfully these days there are a few sites to help you do that. When I started there was much less information in the public domain about monetization, travel blogging and what people were charging. Blogs in other subject areas have been making money for years, and now travel blogging is finally starting to catch up.

Travel Blog Challenge- Travel Blog Challenge has some useful articles, but it also has a forum where bloggers discuss the ins and outs of travel blogging, from gaining more Facebook followers to what to charge advertisers. Like this post? How to Sell Your Travel Photos as Stock Images - StartToRun. For those with a good eye and a half-decent camera, it is possible to make some cash by selling your best travel snaps as stock images. Selling to magazines and newspapers is next to impossible without being a professional and having connections. Stock photo sites act as middle-men to broker deals between travel photographers and media giants. Creating a profile is fairly simple and you get a commission for every photo sold. The most professional agencies are of Getty, Corbis and JupiterMedia. Payment on Shutterstock works on an incremental scale. iSTOCKPHOTO iStockphoto offers larger commissions if you tick the ‘exclusive’ box when uploading your pictures.

Big Stock Photo offers the high commission rate of 50% meaning you’ll earn between $0.50 and $3 for every photo sold. Stockxpert used to be a prominent micro-stock agency until it was bought out by stock giant Jupiter. About the Author Will.

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