Monetizing a Travel Blog (W3) — I Hate That This Worked
Boosting my IG followers by 200% in 24 hours
A step by step, week by week, progression of monetizing a travel blog from scratch. If you’re new please check out Iteration 0 for an explanation on this series.
Overview & Updates
- Experiments leading to over 200% improvement for IG Followers
- What about monetizing?
- Same short term goal
- Content & branding
- Yoga
- More data
1. 200% increase in IG followers
Significant Results:
Current IG Followers: 434
W0: 84
W1:112
W2: Took the week off :) It happens…
W3: 435
Experiment 1: If I follow major travel IG accounts, then I will gain followers through the attention displayed on those accounts, thus leading to an increase in followers.
Results: We went from 171 followers to 435 followers in 24 hours! This is a really shitty way to gain a following, but I’m going to stay true to “Traction” and continue to test different methods until they run their course. Thereafter, we’ll restart the “Bullseye” approach.
Experiment 2: If we use Morgans facebook account, link it to our IG (instead of mine), and added her friends, then we will see an exponential increase in our following.
Results: We saw a jump from 117 followers to 171 followers.
2. What about monetizing the blog
As discussed in the previous week, we are reconsidering our options for monetizing the blog. At this point, we are concentrating on nailing down a segment that we can provide real value to. I appreciate your patience :/
3. Same short term goal
We are looking to double our IG following by next Monday.
Goal: 868 followers
4. Content & branding
We are starting to understand which customer segments enjoy our content. We have been testing multiple different segments but are starting to reel in on a sarcastic vibe to travel. Since we don’t have a firm understanding of who our followers are, we haven’t put together a clear branding message.
Travel, sarcasm, street art, and learning new skills are areas that we are testing right now.
5. Yoga
Over the next 24 days, we are attending a Yoga retreat in Goa, India. Over this period we hope to understand yet another segment and more interestingly a contrast between lifestyles. We will explore the contrasts of a couple traveling who have different interests as they travel.
This should be fun!
6. Extra
Books Used This Week
- I’m sorry to say I didn’t read any books this week :/ Traveling is having it’s a toll on my reading regimen. \
Online — Courses Taken this week
- None :/
Current Data VS Last Week’s Data
Current Medium Followers: 10
Last Week Medium Followers: 8
Unchanged Data
Current FB Followers: 50
Last week FB Followers: 50
Paying Customers: 0
Blog Income Total: $0
Income from affiliate program: $0
Income from ADTB Products/services: $0
Income from advertisements: $0
Other:$0
Cheers!
IG — Another_damn_travel_blog
FB — Adtravelblog
