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I have a travel blog. How do I submit it to Trazzler for consideration in your blogging program?
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Inappropriate?Hi,
Here is some information about our program for bloggers culled from http://trazzler.com/about/write-for-t...:
The Trazzler Blogger and Publisher Program is a 100% free service for writers and publishers who have already staked out an area of expertise on a blog or website. Here’s how it works: Trazzler publishes an abbreviated version (60-100 words) of your site content in our signature style. At the end of the Trip page, we credit you prominently and provide a link to your website, encouraging trazzlers to keep reading. So you share a bit of your (already existing) content with Trazzler and, in exchange, we’ll drive traffic to your site. In addition to exposure on Trazzler.com, your trips will be getting sent from friend to friend on our Facebook application.
Although we wish we had come up with this idea on our own, several other popular sites, like Google News, are set up in this mutually beneficial way. To see the program in action, check out the Trips created by our pilot blogger, Marcia Gagliardi from tablehopper.com—for example, Tasting the Best Pesto in Your Life in the Mission, San Francisco. Join Trazzler and sign in to get a feel for how your particular Trips will fit into the greater Trazzler scheme, then request access and get started.
Hope this helps. Sign up from here: http://trazzler.com/about/write-for-t...
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I have to say, something that's very troubling about Trazzler and makes me distrust it is the inability of the company to provide a straight answer. In order for me to know about your blogging program in the first place I obviously had to have read the information you provided in your reply. You answer is not an answer. Your Write for Trazzler article provides no specific details besides a vague 'let us know you're interested by pushing this button'. In fact, details are something Trazzler lacks to a troubling degree (especially for those who are interested in one of your so-called manager positions which I and many others believe are wholly fictional).
Trazzler is growing a bad reputation on the internet. Deception and omission don't inspire confidence or trust. Personally, I think this is a bit of a scam. I hope I'm wrong, but I don't care to stick around to find out. -
Inappropriate?Our blogger/publisher program is straightforward. Here are a few additional examples:
1) San Francisco Convention and Tourism Bureau
http://trazzler.com/trips/farmers-mar...
2) North Carolina BBQ Society
zler.com/trips/little-richard-s-bar-b-que-in-winston-salem-nc
3) cairnsunlimited.com
http://trazzler.com/trips/crystal-cas...
The motivation for most bloggers is to drive traffic. Creating a single trip as a test requires minimal effort. Obviously, it's your right try the program at all - that's your call.
Your initial question was "I have a travel blog. How do I submit it to Trazzler for consideration in your blogging program?" I tried my best to answer your question.
Regarding your followup statement: We have hired many writers. More than 80% of the content on the site--thousands trips--was written by paid freelance writers. So far, Trazzler has dedicated 30% of our budget to hiring writers/editors. You'll find that this is at least double the percentage dedicated to "content" in traditional media. A consistent percentage of our budget will always be carved out to pay for meaningful travel writing so we can compensate the best contributors.
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Inappropriate?Fitzkotlr--
I can assure you that Trazzler is not an evil cabal trying to extract people's souls by getting them to write about their favorite places.
We're simply a small group of dreamers creating a travel site that reflects how, where, and why we like to travel. We want people to write about places they have visited from an intimate perspective. (Which sounds simple, but how many travel sites--or even guidebooks--do this well?) This is why we have contracted so many freelancers from all over the world to work on the project (for what it's worth, I was one of them and then Trazzler hired me full-time).
When we say that we will be looking at people's writing and contacting them when we have a job for them, we mean it. We've already started doing this. And we have a running list of people we would like to work with in the future. As we get more funding, we'll be expanding our team of writers proportionately.
Of course, we have to recognize that we're a start-up starting up at a tumultuous time. Because of the (relatively...) unforeseen fall financial semi-apocalypse that we're all living through, Trazzler has had to make some adjustments and allocate our resources somewhat differently than we expected.
To be clear: we only want to work with writers who enjoy using Trazzler and understand how it works and the philosophy behind it. For us, this means becoming a savvy user of the site. Anyone who isn't interested in using the site, isn't going to be a good fit here. Period.
About the blogger program... if you have some specific questions, please send them our way. This is one of the projects that got a bit "back-burnered," so we're 100% open to ideas, questions, critiques, et cetera. The idea is that a blogger who has already written about a place could grab a compelling snippet of text and submit it as a trazzler trip with a link to the blog posting for more information. We know that there is a lot of solid, yet deeply buried travel writing on blogs that would work well on Trazzler. And we've seen that our pilot bloggers have gotten a nice bump in traffic when we featured their sites.
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Inappropriate?Your right! It is a scam!!!
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