Trials and tribulations of a wannabe blogger. From start-up to networking, monetization and the business of blogging.
I have been somewhat of an anti-blogger in the past, a troll of sorts, where I have set out to contest the cliques, cultures and grey areas within the blogging world (or sometimes just for the sake of trolling). And admittedly I did enjoy a similar trolling before by the White Moose Cafe, when they …
The past few months have been set in somewhat of a limbo, as we planned to be in the U.K. in April, and then again in July, but now in September we are still twiddling our thumbs in Thailand. And this is to do with an ongoing long-term Visa saga, which we ironically applied for …
My travel blog has been a mess for a while now, where I more or less neglected it to the point where it was vulnerable, and I was not far from losing it entirely. So last week I forced myself into an unlikely overhaul after a number of worrying revelations on just how grim the situation …
A couple of months ago I was asked, for the second time, to take an interview for a Hostel Booking Website in Europe, which I originally ignored as I hardly fit the hostel niche and backpacker brand. But their persistence seemed genuine, and their invite was less generic than most, so I thought I would …
It has been a long time since I have written about blogging, and this is because I have really not been doing much over the past year. In fact I almost gave up last year, when Taiwan at the time, as my website was hacked and my traffic dropped by roughly a quarter. It wasn’t a …
In the past I’ve never had much time for social media and given I spend most my life avoiding people, the last thing I want is people following me. But, as with most travel bloggers, I did create a Facebook Page to augment my blog, and I used it to do little more than publish direct from WordPress …
For the first weeks of this month I was organizing a community treasure hunt in my hometown of Bangor Northern Ireland, while travelling almost 10,000 km away in all parts of Japan. What else would I have been doing? I am now in the sticks of Thailand, not far from the Cambodian borders and roughly …
It has become routine here on Live Less Ordinary to review progress, learning and frustrations of my past six months of travel blogging, so to continue with tradition this will be our two year moanings and musings. This review focuses more on the opportunities I’ve been offered and the potential routes to make a living from …
In the past I may have got under people’s skin on occasion and it’s not so much because I like to annoy people (although that maybe part of it) but because I like to learn about the profession I am practicing. People would question why I’d highlight flaws in the profession I am part of …
The past month on Live Less Ordinary has no doubt been one of the slowest months with blog posts coming twice a week if lucky. The reason for this is internet marketing and after sharing my statistics page at the start of June I have begrudging descended into the ugly world of selling myself. With 1,000 …