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Motivational Monday: How Many Hits Do You Need to Make Money from Your Blog?

Everyday you hear about some new blogger cashing in on their website, press trips around the world, free flatscreen tvs or a new pair of shoes sent to their house. How do they do it? How can I do it? [...]

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Motivational Monday: How Much Money Can A Travel Blog Make? My Story

When I first started blogging about my travels 2 years ago or so I had read about a couple of people making money from their travel blogs. “No way, that can be true”, I thought it was another example of [...]

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How much does it cost to travel in China?

This is my 5th time in China and once again I’m loving every second. Hopefully you guys are seeing another side to this massive country, different to the one the western media try to propagate (big factories, communist government, stifled [...]

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Teaching at English Camps in Asia – FAQs

I have spoken about English camps in Asia briefly before but I wanted to go into a big more detail considering the fact that I’ve just finished a 3 week camp in South Korea in January. I just had one of the [...]

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Working Holiday Visa in Australia

Having spent over a year in Australia myself, I really wanted to explain in detail how the working holiday visa in Australia works. It’s a great opportunity for people to explore Australia in depth and if you’ve got no cash, [...]

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6 Tips on How to Find Cheap Accommodation

The largest expense of your travels if where you’re going to lay your head for each night you’re wandering around the globe, check out these 5 ways of finding dirt-cheap napping spots: 1) Couchsurf! Not such a big secret anymore [...]

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What’s It Like To Work in the Middle East? Q&A

Ever though about moving to Dubai? Dreaming of a tax free life and saving some real cash? Lots of people I come across talk about it so I thought I’d give you guys the lo down! So, if you’re interested [...]

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Motivational Monday: Make Money from Your Travel Blog

I’ve wanted to share this concept with the travel blogging community, and my readership, as a way to motivate other would-be travelers and travel bloggers to get out there and do it and to show that it really is possible. [...]

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TEFL: Ultimate Guide to Finding Private Students To Teach

If you’ve had some experience in the TEFL world you must have thought, at least once, about ditching the institutions and going solo. How do those teachers with 10-15 private students do it? The good news is that it isn’t [...]

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Teaching English in Taiwan – Case Study

*Neil Dutfield is a 26 year old marketing graduate from England who is currently teaching English in Taiwan. I asked him to write a little bit about what it’s like to teach English there, what’s the money like, does he [...]

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Sponsored Posts: Making Money From My Travel Blog

This is a humble apology, a plea for some understanding and an explanation behind my rationale. As blogs get more popular, advertisers get interested. Google starts to love you, your traffic constantly increases, RSS subscribers continue to grow and people [...]

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What is Lifestyle Design?

I remember growing up and people saying to me that your school days are the best days of your life so make the most of them. This scared me. Then, at university, even more people told me that your university [...]

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Teaching on English Camps

Moving to a new country to teach English is a daunting process on many accounts – culture shock, new industry to work in, the logistics involved in setting yourself up in a new country – all of these things are [...]

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What is a TEFL course exactly?!

So you want to teach English overseas, you want to travel the world while you work, you want to live in far flung and exotic countries, you want to enhance your CV and learn a language, you want to have [...]

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7 Tips for working at American summer camps

OK, so having worked at 3 summer camps in America over the years and having unforgettable times, meeting unforgettable people and seeing unforgettable things – I want to impart onto you some of the hard earned knowledge I’ve accumulated over [...]

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16 FAQ about Teaching English Overseas

I have been teaching English around Asia for a while now and am currently studying part-time in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to get my Masters in the field so I’ve had a bash at thinking about all the questions I had when [...]

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Teaching English in Thailand Interview: My Experiences

So I ended up getting interviewed about my time teaching English in Thailand, I thought I would whack the questions, answers and link to the website. There are many more FAQ about teaching English on my blog Check out the [...]

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My Time Teaching English In Chiang Mai, Thailand

I was trying to think of the best way to run through my time in Thailand on my blog, I was in and around Chiang Mai for the best part of 18 months and it truly was one of the [...]

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My Travels Truly Begin – CELTA

From my courageous stint in medical research I could finally afford to fly the coup once more. This is how my life as a serial backpacker actually began…. Came out of the hospital, but didn’t want to face the real [...]

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My Time Earning Money from Medical Research

So I returned from America with some heavy debts and no life plan, Vegas hadn’t been kind to my bank balance and I had no idea where I wanted to go or what I wanted to do next. My $4000 [...]

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Camp Top of the Pines AKA Camp Ghetto

Ok so I arrived on public bus and got picked up from the bus station by an older lady,  very American and very Jewish who turned out to be the camp director, Sandra. She was in your face to say [...]

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Summer Camps in America

I was struggling with where to begin my blog and I was very tempted to start on my move to Asia but after listening to my housemates advice then it’s true that it’s better to start at the start! So, [...]

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