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Book One in my How to Write and Self-Publish a Travel Guide series has been reduced from $5.99 to .99c…

Setting your travel guide’s objective.
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Case Study: Establishing your Travel Guide Objective

The more specifically you define your book’s objective, the easier it will be to reach your target audience. Here’s a travel guide case study for my book.

Competitive Analysis Prompts to research your book idea
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Competitive Analysis Prompts to research your book idea

Here’s a list of prompts you can use to assess each element of your competitive research. This will help you evaluate the viability of your book idea.

How to research your ebook competition on Amazon
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Research your eBook Competition on Amazon

Step-by-step instructions for using Amazon to manually research and assess the competition for your guide book. This is a budget conscious way to complete a competitive analysis.

Types of Travel Guide Advice 8
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Types of Travel Guide #8: Advice Travel Guide

So you want to write an Advice Travel Guide? Here’s some books in this niche, and tips for writing your travel guide.

So you want to write and self-publish a travel guide?
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So you want to write and self-publish a travel guide?

If you’re a travel blogger looking to make more money – isn’t it time you wrote a travel guide? Here’s a series of four books to help you plan, write, self-publish, and promote your travel guide.

Types of Travel Guide Event Specific 5
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Types of Travel Guide #5: Event Specific Travel Guide

In this article we’re going to look at the definition of an Event Specific travel guide, and look at examples of published guides available.

Types of Travel Guide 7 Culinary Travel Guide
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Types of Travel Guide #7: Culinary Travel Guide

In this article we’re going to look at the definition of a Culinary travel guide, and look at examples of published guides.

Types of Travel Guide 4 Special Interest
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Types of Travel Guide #4: Special Interest Travel Guide

Find out if a specialty travel guide is something you want to write, and how it differs from a destination travel guide.

What type of travel guide do you use?
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American Road Trip Planner Resources

I’ve been doing qualitative research to find out what type of travel guides different people use. This latest input is from Chelsea Nielsen, an American Road Trip Planner.

Could you write a travel guide? I did and you can too. How to write and self-publish a travel guide by Jay Artale
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Could you Write a Travel Guide? I did and you can too!

Can You Write a Travel Guide? I did and you can too! Find out how I started my travel guide writing journey and how you can start yours.

How To Use Themes And Angles To Narrow Your Content Niche How to Write and Self-Publish Your Travel Guide Jay Artale
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How To Use Themes And Angles To Narrow Your Content Niche

So you’re writing a travel guide, but how do you compete in the marketplace alongside established brands like Lonely Planet, Rough Guides, and Moon Travel Guides?

types of Travel Guide No1 Destination How to Write and Self-Publish a Travel Guide Jay Artale
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Types of Travel Guide #1: The Destination Travel Guide

Destination Travel guides are the most popular guides written and read, and many of the other niche travel guides are a sub category of destination guides. Find out what a destination guide is and how you can use this definition to define your scope.

Target Audience Who are you writing for? How to write and self-publish a travel guide by Jay Artale
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Travel Bloggers: If you haven’t defined your audience, do it NOW!

Knowing who you’re writing for not only helps your audience but it also helps you. Being a travel blogger who is in it for the long-haul is hard work. You need to create a continual stream of content for your blog, so finding ways to streamline your content creation process is an essential step, and defining your audience will help you do that.

Have you thought about writing a slow travel guide?
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Have you thought about writing a Slow Travel guide?

Considering writing a Slow Travel themed travel guide, here’s some background and additional resources to explore this travel niche a little deeper.

How to write and self-publish a Travel guide Plan It Book 1
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How to Write and Self-Publish your Travel Guide: Plan It (Book 1)

In the first book in my “How to Write and Self-Publish a Travel Guide” series I focus entirely on the Planning Process. The effort your put into this stage will help streamline your writing process.

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Introducing my How to Write and Self-Publish a Travel Guide Series

I’m currently working on BOOK ONE is a series of four books to help streamline your Travel Guide writing process. Whether you are a part-time or full-time author, your time is precious, so my writing series is targeted at travel writers and travel bloggers who want to write and publish their own travel guides, and these books will help speed up the process by demystifying the steps involved.

Inspiration and resources for writing a local travel guide
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Think Local, Share Global: Local Travel Guides Pt.2

There’s a whole slew of collaborative local travel guide sites positioned to share tips from locals. You can use these sites to get inspired about the topics and content niches you can recreate for your own local neighbourhood.

Hav you thought about writing a local travel guide?
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Think Local, Share Global: Writing a Local Travel Guide Pt.1

You don’t have to venture very far from your front door to discover a location that is ideal fodder for a local travel guide, and an inspiration for a tourist visiting your neighbourhood.

go digital or go home is it time to self-publish an ebook?
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Go Digital or Go Home: Is it time to self-publish an ebook?

Why travel bloggers should go digital and publish an e-book. You have lots of content on your travel blog, so maybe its time to collate it into an e-book travel guide.

Type of Travel Guide Journey
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Types of Travel Guide #3: Journey Travel Guide

Discover what a Journey Travel guide is and how to go about writing one of your own, based on your personal travel experiences.

Types of Travel Guide No 2 Side Trip Travel Guide How to Write and Self-publish a travel guide by Jay Artale
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Types of Travel Guide #2: Side Trip Travel Guide

Find out if a side trip travel guide is something you want to write, and how it differs from a destination travel guide.

Should you write a Travel Guide or a Travel Narrative? How to Write and Self-Publish a Travel Guide Jay Artale
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Should you write a Travel Guide or a Travel Narrative?

Travel books come in two main categories: the travel guide book and the travel narrative. Let’s look at a definition of each to help you determine which you want to write.

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Why you should Write Your Passion

Do you want your travel guide to be fun to write, or another arduous task in your busy life that becomes a chore? To have staying power, you need to write your passion.

How to brainstorm you passion to write a travel guide
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How to Brainstorm your Passion to write a Travel Guide

Brainstorm your Passion In the previous article I talked about the importance and benefits of Writing your Passion. At this point,…

Are travel guides dead?
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Infographic: Are Travel Guides Dead?

I created this infographic to address the question, “Are Travel Guides Dead?”. I didn’t think they were, because I still…

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What to LEAVE OUT of your Travel Guide

Leave it Out! Did you know that what you leave out of your Travel Guide is just as important as…

Case Study Lesson son a Travel guide author
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Case Study: Lessons of a Travel Guide Author

Save time writing your travel guide by learning from the lessons I’ve accumulated during my travel guide writing process. Get your guide written quicker.