If you ask me for a one-word answer that is absolutely “NO”.
You don’t have to be rich to travel the world. You can travel with the current financial position wherever you want.
Yes, you can travel the world.
When I first saw this question, I first made my mind to write about some ways to have money to travel without doing tough jobs.
So as a consequence, I am going to share some simple strategies you can use to monetize your travel with no burden over your financial position.
Presenting you the easiest ways to make money through travel and make it to the world:
#1. Starting a YouTube Channel
Being a passionate traveler, I have been traveling around the world for years. I have met several travelers with an online presence.
When asked about the main source of income, they just name their YouTube Channel. With a YouTube channel, you get paid through Google Ads. All you need is to create excellent content by traveling around. Not by going across the borders, by visiting the famous places in your city or state. Capture some great shots, create videos, edit them like a BOSS and share them on your YouTube channel.
As you start working on your YouTube channel and produce quality content, you’ll love the engagement you receive in the form of views/likes/comments. Keep creating the same quality videos on a regular basis until you complete the YouTube Associate Program criteria.
After your channel reaches the milestone, you’re ready to monetize your videos. Apply for YouTube Ads and put ads on your videos.
YouTube pays on a percentage basis, the revenue they make with creator videos, they take 40% of the share and put 60% in your account. This way, you get paid for creating videos and save enough money to travel.
Wait, not only the Google Ads, we have got several more strategies to make money and travel the world:
- Product Selling: There’s a famous saying that “If you’re good at something, never do it for free!”, and when you apply this to your specialties, you will find a path to create your own way. Product selling stands for creating a product based on your skills and specialties. It can be an ebook, a video course or a DIY product that’s unique and offers value. If you’re good at writing travel stories, create an ebook on how to write travel stories and sell on Kindle or create a course and sell on Udemy. This is it, remember, you’ve got something that will sell like hotcakes. Your YouTube channel is the marketplace to market your products.
- Affiliate Marketing: Affiliate Marketing is a bit easier than creating and selling products, as you are promoting someone’s products by placing links or in the videos. As you’ve got a traveling channel, you can promote booking apps (like Airbnb) as an affiliate and make money. As soon as some loyal visitors from your channel click on your link and makes a purchase, you’ll earn commissions.
This is my first strategy that can let you travel the world with no major income source. If YouTube is not enough for your luxurious travel, it’s time to create a blog and create another stream of money:
#2. Creating a Blog & Monetizing it!
Wanna look at how a travel blog that makes money looks like?
Here’s my travel blog (Chip Journey) and find out how I am making money with it. Affiliate marketing, product promotion, affiliate widgets, sponsored posts, guest posts, and a lot more, this is how this blog makes money.
If you’ve no idea how to start a money-making a travel blog, here’s a mini-guide that will max take your 2 minutes:
- Find a domain & create your Blog: Search for a nice domain, you can start with your first name and travels in the end like (Boyantravels.com) in my case. Find a good hosting and as you checkout, install WordPress and launch your blog with it.
- Write Your Travel Stories and Content that is being shared: Start publishing travel stories, and create content that is being shared. Use tools like Buzzsumo and find out what’s being shared the most and start writing about that. Consistently publish on your social media profiles and start rockin’
- Getting regular traffic? Apply for Travel Affiliate Apps: As your blog gets popular, put affiliate ads. You can use Associate programs of popular traveling and booking apps like Travelpayouts, Airbnb, etc. This is similar to what we discussed in YouTube’s section but it involves live widgets. You’ll find a live widget on my blog, where you can plan your travel by putting the destination details. This is powered by affiliate booking apps and it owes me commissions for each sale I make.
- Create Your Own Product: When you’ve become an authority, your words sell. Write an ebook that shares exclusive thoughts on how to travel like a BOSS and market it effectively with your blog.
About the product, whether it is an ebook or a video course, you can sell anything with your blog and make money to travel with no luxury income stream.
Final Thought
These two ways are what made me travel to several countries with no rich income source. Some of my travel buddies are doing the same thing and making money without the rich lifestyle that most of the individuals think is required to travel.
I am saying it again that you don’t have to be rich to travel, you can travel with less money, too, by following my cheap travel hacks.
However, if you’re not that rich to travel, I would recommend you to start a YouTube channel or a blog that is based on where you are traveling locally. The results will take time but when you start making money, you can travel anywhere around the world.
Imagine a world with no boundaries. I wish you travel the world with the income streams you create. 😉
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Written By Boyan Minchev
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