How To Make Money while you Travel
Making money while backpacking around the world has never been easier and there are so many different ways available depending on how involved you want to get, if your budget backpacking it can be a really useful way to keep travelling for longer and it doesn’t take a lot to get into. Trust me on this – If your travelling with a purpose then your experience will be so much more!
Here are a few suggestions:
Write guest house and hostel reviews.
BeforeYOUBackpack.com pays $5 per review… A simple way to make a bit of extra cash while on the road, sharing your thoughts and feelings – getting paid for it to…
“Before you Backpack pays for guest house reviews…. You heard me right… We pay YOU for budget guest house reviews!
We’re only interested in your review if you’ve actually stayed there… This isn’t a quick fire way to earn cash by popping your head around doors.. We want actual experiences by backpackers – for backpackers!
The whole point of it is that backpackers can write an honest review about a place they’ve stayed, share that information with other backpackers and make a little cash for their trouble… Simple….”
Blogging.
If your a budding travel writer or interested in on-line communities and want to use that to help fund your travels then Blogging is a great idea which gives you as much freedom as you want. To be able to make Blogging pay for you to go off backpacking you will have to take it seriously, but look at it this way – sitting on a beach sipping a beer writing about the culture of a beautiful place hardly seems like work!
Probably the best resource to get started with this is Nomadic Matt – a traveller who has been backpacking around the world since 2005 and pays for his travels with his Blog, he has all the info you’ll need to get started in his two ebooks – How to make a Travel Blog & Make Money with your Blog.
**If you already have a travel blog up and running that’s regularly updated and want to hear from more advertisers then get in touch with me. I work with a very large advertiser base and can always pass your details along… For more info head to the contact page and drop me a line**
Teaching English.
If English is your native language then there are plenty of good opportunities to make a bit of cash, not always heaps but enough to get by and you don’t even need a teaching degree! However, if you are TEFL accredited then the better paid placements will open up, usually they’re more for the long term (6 months) but this can be a great way to get to the heart of a place. If you like it then it could become a great way to see the world. A great resource to get started is this eBook – How to teach English overseas. A digital download put together to give you the best start in finding the right TEFL qualifications and placements.
Getting TEFL accredited is easy, they offer a Free trial of their – Online TEFL course which can be tailored to suit anyone they also have a wealth of experience helping travellers find jobs in faraway places.
Writing Short articles for Travel communities.
If you like the idea of writing and being paid for it but you don’t want to deal with the admin of keeping your own Blog then writing short articles for sites like Matador Or Boots n All Is a good option.
Matador is a massive on-line community of travellers doing just that, travelling – writing -getting paid -travelling some more. The MatadorU Travel Writing Course is for people who are serious about making travel writing their career and want a helping hand to get started. The community support is awesome and for bit of inspiration they offer a Free download guide of 15 Paying Travel Magazines that want YOUR travel writing.
These sites don’t always pay a fortune but if you’re in a place already then why not get paid to write about it!? Plus exploring a place with an angle other than sightseeing means you’ll most definitely enrich your experience and see things you would have normally missed.
Using your Current Skills.
I’ve seen this make backpackers money time and time again, they leave home with a skill set that they never really appreciated but it turns out is extremely useful while on the road. The best money make I’ve seen is Hair Cutting, backpackers set up little signs on their beach huts advertising the fact they can cut hair and charge $5 a pop for a trim… If your staying in busy hostels and budget accommodation this can lead to a line of people all waiting for a trim and a cool $100 or so for your travelling fund! Other skills apply too – Web Designing, Building skills and Photography can all do well too.
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thanks for sharing these ideas Aaron – I didn't know about the Matador network, so I will make sure to check it out later today
Cheers for the comment Nathan,
They are all great ways to earn a crust when your travelling, once you get into writing focused articles for other people the sky is the limit, I have a few email addressed of other online magazines etc which I can send your way if you like…
Yeah every little thing helps you along
I would really appreciate it if you could send those email addresses my way – ************ – thanks in advance and I really enjoy reading your blogs!
Great insight! I am off to backpack Euro/N Africa in March and want to work my way thru my travels. Hopefully this, along with some entreprenurial spirit, can add to the budget!
Cheers!
Absolutely! Thanks for your comment!
Also sending things home can make you cash… There is so much possibility if your moving slowly enough to see it!
Yeah no worries I will get to that, Also a site called Trazzler pays for short articles… If I think of any more I'll post them here
some great tips on making a few bucks while traveling mate. I'd like to think I could make money from my blog one day
My recent post My First Overseas Trip Part 1
I'm sure you can, it takes a bit of work but it's definitely do-able!
Found your site via StumbleUpon. Another way to make money online is through affiliate marketing. Similar to blogging, although there’s more advanced techniques that require PPC and more detailed landing pages. Especially with traveling, there’s products that you come to regularly use and recommend anyways, so why not make money from your recommendations if they have an affiliate program.
Thanks for the article. I love the bit about haircuts – something I wouldn't have thought about, but makes total sense. Probably makes sense to do skills assessment of all things large and small – I think we tend to get complacent with knowledge that we forget others don't have.
For example, I can quote episodes of Doctor Who like no one else. There MUST be a market for that somewhere!
Cheers –
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Cool article! I never thought of the haircutting bit before but that sounds kinda interesting.
– beth
.-= Bethany´s last blog ..Eagle Creek Pack-It Koala Toiletry Kit =-.
A great and fun way to make money while traveling to France is to assist in the harvest of the grapes in the grape season. You basically spend your day picking grapes and in return you get paid, sometimes accommodation and most probably loads of wine and if the weather is good a nice tan
We’re hoping that Shaun’s mechanic skills will come in handy while traveling. Love the hostel reviews idea – definitely going to try that.
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