"There's No Place Like Home"
A travel site doesn't have to be built around an exotic
location. You are, after all, an expert on your city or
region.
Do you live near a tourist Mecca or resort town? Does your city boast
an active night life that attracts throngs of visitors? Perhaps your
region is known for wine tours or old world charm. Terrific!
But excellent opportunities exist for less exotic
locales, too. Business people and other visitors research and visit
Toronto, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh every day, for example. Monetize
your knowledge!
Whatever the appeal is, there's potential to build a business around
it. Differentiate yourself by providing valuable information that
visitors won't find elsewhere. |
No Expensive "Marketing Secrets" Sold Here
What's the "secret"? Your passion and inside knowledge,
combined with all the tools you need to build your Travel Website and
overcome the tech barriers. That's it. Here's the bottom line...
Your site will not be an encyclopedia, nor will it
be yet another general travel guide/service. It won't be as slick as
the "official government tourist site."
But
it will be loved.
Instead of being "encyclopedic," covering only the basics in an
impersonal voice, you reveal little-known, real insider secrets about
the area. You write in your own, very real voice, in your own way.
Visitors to your site experience the destination like you do, like a
local does!
For example...
Puerto Rico is Luisa's niche, the place she grew up and returns to
whenever possible. Luisa's site helps people from all over the world
who want to know more about visiting the Puerto Rican island of
Vieques...
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A year and a half ago, I started a site that was
meant to be a hobby about my passion for my native island of Puerto
Rico. Of course, I hoped to make some money with it.
But I had no prior experience building sites. I was the definition of
an "internet dummy". And Vieques, an offshore Puerto Rico island, is
not very well known.
So my financial expectations were not high financially. But I did have
passion and off I went! SBI! took me by the hand and helped me build
viequestravelguide.com into the top most visited site for all of Puerto
Rico.
And surprise! I began to profit from the site. All I was doing was
taking a few hours per week in my spare time and sharing my passion.
I already make as much money as I used to in my previous full time job
and the possibilities for the future are great. Advertisers and
agencies contact me and I've started a second and third site.
Luisa Cupeles
Travel Advisor and Editor of
http://www.viequestravelguide.com/
Click
here to see several examples of
successful "online travel business" web sites created with * Site Build
It *, including Luisa's.
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Your
Site Does Not Have To Be About A Destination
Do you have specialized knowledge about a certain
type of travel (rather than a destination)?
Through your themed site, interact with other adventurers who, just
like you, plan their vacations around their passions, such as...
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European castles
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scuba diving destinations
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world's best beaches
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cycling and/or hiking routes
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extreme adventure travel
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five star powder skiing
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eco tours, etc.

Share Your
"Inside Knowledge"
More and more, when travelers are looking for
in-depth, pertinent information to plan their trip, they turn to the
Internet. They skim the brochure sites put out by the "official" sites,
the impersonal country or city coverage of wikipedia, and other "bigco"
travel guides.
You, though, become their friend. Their best friend who knows. Of
course, you do have to know. There is no faking it.
But it's totally do-able. How many teenagers do you know who virtually
own the online market
for
a Caribbean island? The site is full of been-there,
done-that... every square inch of the island.
Yes, you can do this, too. Here's a
sampling
of travel sites that are in the Top 1% of all sites in the
world, all created by everyday people with a travel passion using Site
Build It!.
The Web Is All About
Supply and Demand of Information
Be the source! You have the inside knowledge
travelers seek.
Your firsthand experience makes you the expert.
Save people time and expense by providing details to help them plan a
"perfect-fit" trip... so they can create their own memories.
Travel and vacations may only last a week or two, but most people dream
about the possibilities all year long. Fuel their desire...
Captivate your audience...
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They want to see your adventure photos and hear about the treasures you
found if it will enhance their trip.
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They want to know about the best room or floor to request in a
beach-side inn.
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Tell them the best table to request and the chef's best dish at your
favorite restaurants.
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Of course, they need to know the must-snorkel beaches, but tell them
which ones are busts, too.
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Off-season stories? Who ever has those? You do! Great and wonderful
experiences happen when a place is not crowded with tourists. Tell
folks all about it.
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The opportunities are endless... real estate investment and villa
rentals, special events/festivals/night life, shops/markets/galleries
-- special, experienced content makes all the difference.
This
is the kind of information that wins hearts. And once you've done that,
you are one short step away from monetizing. More on that soon!
And what if Pittsburgh is all you know?
Born and raised there? Work there?
Great news!

Locations
that don't grab the headlines receive millions of visitors per year,
too!
They may not be as "sexy," but they can earn you
significant income.
No matter what you cover in your site, visitors
want the "little things," insider tips offered from the perspective of
personal experience. For example, let's head back to "the islands"...
When you tell your visitors that Island Car Rental will leave the keys
under the windshield visor on the Sunday of your arrival and you can
come in anytime to fill in the paper work, they love it. Fodor's
doesn't tell them that.
Nor does it tell them about the dangerous cliff hike to the tip of the
island and how to do it.
Share your knowledge with a genuine love of your destination or theme,
which translates through your stories (as Luisa's Vieques site does).
That's what makes a personal travel Web site so effective...
It's real. It's heartfelt. And it inspires.
Compare that to the tone of a corporate tourism or government site on
that same area. Is there passion? Does it inspire? No...
There is an abundance of facts on the high glitz government sites
created by high-priced, New York agencies. Very professional, but no
soul.
And travelers are looking for "soul."
How
to Go From Sharing info to Earning
income
Writing about your favorite spot, sharing, is nice.
It's a hobby.
Earning growing income, month after month, by
providing high-value content, is business.
Your business.
But how do you earn an income by simply writing about your favorite
place?
The key
is to build a web site that gets traffic. Like any
business, you need visitors in order to make money. You don't own your
business online if you don't generate and own your own, free traffic
from Search Engines.
Here's how it works...

You
will build YOUR web site using:
Site
Build It!
Site
Build It! sites get found. Great Content builds targeted
Traffic that is PREsold. That traffic Monetizes
through money-making tools such as Google AdSense, finders/referrers
fees, advertising, affiliate programs, etc.
It all starts with the content -- write about your
direct experience. People searching for information on your topic will
be thrilled to find your site! And they'll think of you first when they
need to book their travel arrangements.
The
C
T
P
M
process works, and .......
............... Site Build It
...... delivers results! Take
the reins on your future like this SBI
user did...
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B. Bradtke
www.outback-australia-travel-secrets.com
My biggest passion is travel.
Freedom, adventure, and new experiences. My biggest fear used to be
that life would pass me by while I'm busy paying the bills.
I used to frequently day dream about becoming a travel writer. In
reality, I was stuck with a less than inspiring day job, a sizable
mortgage, and the fact that English is my second language.
When I started reading about *Site Build It* (SBI), suddenly something,
which for years
had seemed like such a lofty dream, was right in front of me. Here was
a chance to write about travel and earn money with it, and I didn't
have to be a Hemingway to do it.
I didn't know anything about websites, but I knew a life-changing
opportunity when I saw one, so I jumped at it.
Now I have two
Site Build It (SBI) sites. Both are growing and making money. The most
important aspect for me is not the money though. It's the
freedom SBI gives me.
It's always been my goal to be able to spend at
least 6 months of the year traveling. With * Site Build It *,
I can do that. I can
pack the laptop and go for 12 months! And should I want to move again,
I can do that too, without worrying about finding employment.
Thank you for making it possible! You saved me from my biggest fear.
Life is not passing me by.
A grateful nomad,
B. Bradtke
www.outback-australia-travel-secrets.com (Click
here for the story of how B. got what she wanted...)
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Equalizer"
The world is full of people with the kind of dreams
that "B" - as she is known in the
SBI!
forums - expresses above.
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The
Internet Doesn't Work ...
Like That
The
SiteSell
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and their home page) discusses this commonly employed tactic of large
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But if
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hobby.
The Internet can be "The Great Equalizer." It can be a great
opportunity to change your lifestyle. But it's neither of those things
unless you use it right.
Build
a valuable travel business like
all of these people have.
Each
site featured was built by a regular person with passion and knowledge
about their niche. Now their sites are ranked within the
top 1% of Web sites on the Net. They get found by hundreds, even
thousands of people, every day!
These
sites are not the exception.
62%
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How
do they do it? Consider this...
Would
You Go On A Trip Without Any Luggage?
Imagine landing at your favorite place without any of the
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Sure,
you'd be there, but without those basic items, your trip would likely
fall short of your expectations. It'd be stressful. You'd be unprepared
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for all the things you need.
Building
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Web business without the basic necessities required to achieve success
online.
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Site-Build-It!
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