Help Us Choose Which Questions to Answer in Our Upcoming Book, 101 Things You Need to Know to Make it as a Travel Writer, and Win Prizes!

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This year I may be taking the new-year-new-writing-project idea a little too far: I’m working on five different books right now.

The working titles for the two books we’re working on this spring are 101 Magazines That Want to Publish Your Travel Articles (our shorthand for this is 101 Magazines, or 101M) and 101 Things You’ve Always Wanted to Know About Being a Travel Writer (and we abbreviate this to 101 Questions, or 101Q).

This week, for weighing in on which questions to include in our 101 Questions book, we're starting our “cumulative” bonus model.

Here's how it works:
- Each week we’ll draw five people at random who have completed the survey.
- For your first prize, you’ll get a free copy of the book and coupon for four webinars ($94 value) of your choosing in our webinar library.
- For your second prize, you’ll receive a half-hour coaching call with me ($?—you can’t even buy this!).
- For your third prize, you’ll receive a free month of access to our Dream Buffet ($99 value), which includes access to our searchable travel writing Q&A library, the Travel Magazine Database, our entire past webinar library, live access to our new webinars, exclusive subscriber webinars, and access to my library of productivity and small business courses and travel industry research.
- For each prize you win after that, you’ll get another free month in the Dream Buffet!

How does that sound? Ready? This week, we've got questions on travel content marketing writing and working with editors.

Please make sure to complete your form by midnight PST on Sunday, May 5th to enter to win.

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Which of these questions of travel content marketing writing would you like to see answered in the book? Please choose any and all that apply! *

What is story selling and how can I use it to pitch clients?

What should I say in a pitch email to a potential content marketing client?

What should I put as a subject line for a content marketing pitch?

How can I tell if a potential content marketing client will be able to afford my rates?

How do I know if a company needs my content marketing services?

What do B2C and B2B mean?

I've found a company that doesn't have a blog, is it a good idea to pitch them my blogging services?

How do I know if a company will be a good potential client for blogging content marketing?

Where can I find potential content marketing clients?

What should I do when a client offers a very low rate?

What should I charge for a blog post?

Does ghostwriting pay well?

What is social media strategy and how can I work with a content marketing client on this?

What is content strategy?

Which travel content marketing opportunities pay well?

Which travel content marketing opportunities don't pay so well?

For a content marketing client, should I pitch a story for their websites or pitch what I can do for them?

Do CVBs and government agencies not choose to hire big PR companies to do their marketing instead of freelancers?

How can I sell a company on my content marketing services?

Does writing content marketing for tourism boards pay well?

What is ghostwriting and is it for me?

Should I work with a content marketing agency?

What's so good about writing for content marketing clients?

What is a sales sheet?

Is content marketing the same as blogging?

What is content marketing?

Should I charge a content marketing client per hour?

I had a great call / interaction with a prospective client and then set them a proposal. They never responded! What happened?

Should I include more (or fewer) than three levels of services when I list my offerings? (on my website or in my proposals)

What do I say when a potential client asks me to quote my rate?

What questions should I ask when I'm on the phone with a potential client?

I'm nervous about speaking on the phone with a potential client, what can I do?

Do I really need to have a phone call with a prospect to make a sale?

What should I do if a prospect asks for pricing on the phone?

How do I close a phone call with a prospect?

What should I do if I offer to send a prospect a proposal after a phone call but they say no or they are unsure?

I just had a call with a prospect and they agreed to see a proposal, how quickly do I need to send it?

What should I include in a proposal for a potential content marketing client?

How do I discuss pricing in a proposal for a content marketing client?

Can I see a template for a proposal for a content marketing prospect?

Who should I address my proposal to when pitching work with a potential content marketing client?

How long should blog posts be to help with SEO?

What is a sideways blog?

How can the blog content I write help with a company’s SEO?

I’ve found a big travel company which doesn’t have a blog, should I pitch it to them?

Can tourism boards really pay good rates for freelance bloggers?

How can I use the customer journey to figure out what blog posts to write for companies and tourism boards?

What is customer journey and how will this help me sell blogging to companies and tourism boards?

What is a compounding blog post?

What should I do if I send a proposal to a potential content marketing client and they don’t respond?

I want to find more content marketing clients, which conferences are best for me?

How do I decide on and formulate a package to offer a content marketing client?

Can I see a template for a content marketing pitch email?

How do I end a content marketing pitch?

Why are companies not responding to my content marketing pitches?

I've never worked on a content marketing project before, what can I tell a potential client about my experience?

How do I pitch my services without a company stealing my ideas?

Where can I find statistics to include in a content marketing pitch?

A company/tourism board I've already worked with has asked for my help with a content marketing project. How do I pitch them if I've already had prior contact?

Can I do content marketing work and editorial article writing work for the same business/DMO/tourism board?

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What other questions do you have about travel content marketing writing that you didn't see listed above and would love to see addressed in the book? *

Which of these questions of working with editors would you like to see answered in the book? Please choose any and all that apply! *

WORKING WITH EDITORS

If a PR rep offers to put me in touch with a notable person for an interview, should I contact the editor before I interview them or after?

Should I email editors to let them know I’m going to a destination and ask if they need stories from there?

What should I do if an editor asks me to submit something on spec?

How can I negotiate pay with an editor?

How can I ask for a higher rate from an editor?

My source has asked to review their quotes and the article before it's published, can I share that?

Should I transcribe interviews?

Do I need to let people know I'm recording when I interview them?

Can I slightly change a quote from source?

Can I ask my editor for my clips or do I need to wait until my articles go live and find these myself?

Do I need to ask an editor's permission to use a clip in my portfolio?

How do I ask an editor for a contract?

How do you follow up with an editor who has accepted your written article but not publishing it because it’s not time sensitive?

What should I do if I'm waiting on something from an editor which I need to write the piece?

I recently sent a very similar, nearly identical, pitch to editors at four different magazines, and three of them replied to me, within days, with a yes! Do I just go with the one offering the most money? Do I pit them against each other and bid up?

What if I don't have another idea and an editor responds?

Should I send a thank you note to an editor once my story is published?

What are the cons, if any, of using photographs provided by a PR agency or travel board?

Should I tell my editor I'm planning on using photos from a PR agency/tourism board instead of my own?

What kind of photos should I shoot for my article?

How much editing do you need to do on a photo before sending it to a magazine?

How can I take an interesting photo of someone for a profile?

I'm a writer and my partner is a photographer – can we get paid together for a project or article/photo combo for a magazine?

How long does it take for my article to be published?

What should I say if a client wants to buy all rights to my work?

What parts of my freelance writing contract can I negotiate?

What do I do when an editor doesn't respond to my emails after I file my assignment?

What do I do if I get an informal assignment from an editor in-person or through other "unofficial" means?

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What other questions do you have about working with editors that you didn't see listed above and would love to see addressed in the book? *

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