What are you interested in? Doing more with the time you have? Getting more magazine assignment? Earning more from your writing in general?
Doing more with the time you have? Getting more magazine assignments? Earning more from your writing in general?
Browse our full library of webinars below, or choose a specific category to get right to the solution for whatever is holding you back most right now.
The Secrets of Six-Figure Travel Writers
Learn how to create a successful, sustainable career as a travel writer.
Triple Your Travel Writing Income Writing for Magazines
Learn how to do the same writing you're already doing for much more in print.
How to Get Work Done When You’re On the Road
Learn how to keep up your income and your travel at the same time.
How to Research on the Road and Find Salable Ideas While Traveling
Learn how to make sure you find the most article ideas on the ground during your trips.
How to Break Your Trips into the Maximum Number of Article Pitches
Learn how to break each trip into the most article ideas for the most magazines.
How to Become Part of an Editor’s Stable
Learn how to create on-going relationships with magazine editors.
Secrets to Successful Interviews for Your Travel Articles
Learn how to cut down on your writing and research time with great interviews.
Securing Interview Sources to Make Your Stories Sing
Learn where to find the best sources for your travel articles.
Transforming Interviews into an Article (Live Demo!)
Watch as I take interview notes and create a full feature article from them.
How to Handle Questions and Responses in Interviews (Live Demo!)
Watch me do two live interviews with tourism boards about their destinations.
How to Increase Your Pitch Success Rate by Analyzing Magazines
Learn how to see a magazine like an editor and write the pitches it needs.
How to Generate Sure-Fire Salable Ideas
Learn how to dramatically change your pitch acceptance rate with tighter ideas.
How to Hone Your Travel Article Ideas to Perfectly Fit Each Magazine
Watch as I workshop broad article ideas into specific pitches.
How to Craft the Perfect Travel Article Pitch
Learn a step-by-step process for assembling your travel article pitches.
Don’t Create “Ideas” Out of Nowhere: How to Always Find Them When You Need Them
Learn how to become a travel article idea generating machine.
Answers to Your Most Common Pitch Questions
Learn the most common questions on pitching and in-depth answers.
How to Earn Big with Travel Content Marketing Writing
Learn how to create stable writing income with content marketing.
How to Locate the People Who Need Your Travel Content Marketing Writing
Learn how to build a personalized travel content marketing client list.
How to Craft a Travel Content Marketing Pitch that Gets Attention
Learn how to pitch lucrative, on-going travel content marketing gigs.
How to Close the Deal: Proposals and Phone Calls that Get Results
Learn how to handle that firsts client phone call and craft powerful proposals that get you gigs.
Pricing, Negotiating, and Contracts (for Travel Content Marketing and Magazine Writing)
Learn how to finalize your travel content marketing deals.
How to Build Serious Business Partnerships at Travel Conferences
Learn how to land gigs at conferences.
How to Set Up an Individual Trip from Scratch
Learn how to create a personal press trip around your itinerary.
Getting a Spot on a Group Fam or Press Trip
Learn how to apply for pre-advertised press trips.
Putting Together a Pitch Portfolio to Support a Big Trip
The way to deserve a spot on any press trip you're interested in.
The Magazine Landscape: Where All the Assignments Are Hiding
Learn where to find the publications you've been looking for all your life.
Writing for Travel Trade Magazines 101
Learn what travel trade magazines are and why you want to write for them.
How to Write a Letter of Introduction–The Pitch Equivalent for Trade Magazines
Learn how to write the kinds of pitches travel magazine editors prefer.
Get Your Trips Sponsored Collection
Four webinars covering the what, when, why and how of free travel for travel writers.
Land Travel Content Marketing Gigs Collection
Five webinars that walk through everything from finding clients to contracts.
Power Up Your Pitches Collection
Snag six webinars on everything you need to know about pitching.
Ace Your Interviews Collection
Four webinars that cover everything you need to know about doing and using interviews.
Research Like A Rockstar Collection
Three webinars designed to help you find more stories wherever you are.
At-Home Pitchapalooza Program
5 weeks, 25 lessons, 10 polished pitches, a true change in your entire approach to pitching
What to Expect on Press Trips
What you can realistically expect from your press trips--the good and the bad.
How to Prepare for Your Press Trips
What you get out of a press trip depends largely on what you put in.
How to Get the Most (On the Ground) Out of Your Press Trips
Getting on a free trip is the easiest part. Getting saleable ideas is the real challenge.
What Types of Articles Should You Be Writing?
Once you see each article idea in 10 different formats, you'll never hurt for pitch ideas.
How to Sell Blogging to Travel Companies and Tourism Boards
The largest market for travel writing today is easier to crack than you’d think.
Best Practices When Writing on the Web for Travel Companies
Writing on the web—professionally—is as much of a skill to learn as print journalism.
Ghost(writ)ing on the Web as a Travel Writer
Some of the best blogging pay is literally hiding--find out how to find it in this webinar.
The Art of the Follow Up–The Simple Key to Dramatically More Assignments
Your guide to what might be the most valuable hour of your entire week.
The Difference Between the Photos You’re Shooting Now and What Magazines are Publishing
The photos you're shooting for Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and your blog won't cut it for magazines.
Creating a Shot List to Organize Your Trips Around Saleable Photography
This one technique will keep you from coming home without the photos you need to land photo contracts with your pieces.
Plating, Staging, and Food Photography: Bringing Still Lifes to Life
You could pay $1,200 for a weekend food photography workshop, but here's what you need to know to get started.
Mastering AP Style: The Grammar Style of Choice for Publications
Putting in the time to learn this journalism fundamental will set your pitches apart.
Mastering Style at a Sentence by Sentence Level
Your pitches will be the only clip you need when the quality of your writing shines through.
Story Structure to Take Your Travel Feature Articles to the Next Level
Narrative writing can be terrifying. Once you learn the underlying structure though, it's smooth-sailing.
The Art of the Essay and How to Find Them Everywhere
Whether you've been writing on a personal blog for years or just emails home from trips, you're on your way to publishing essays.
Annual Review Part 1: What is Standing Between You and Your Travel Writing Goals
The most likely roadblocks between you and your travel writing goals--and how to tackle them.
At-Home IdeaFest Program
A four-week at-home program designed to turn you into an idea machine.
Annual Review Part 2: How to Clearly Catalog the Work and Opportunities You Have Now to See Where You Need to Go
To know where your travel writing business needs to go, you need to be honest about where it is now...in numbers.
Annual Review Part 3: Taking Stock of the Past Year – How to SWOT Yourself Into Shape
Align your freelance business with the marketplace and the best place in it for you.
Annual Review Part 4: Getting Clear on What You’ll Accomplish Next Year
Rather than goals--an all-or-nothing approach to what you'll do next year--focus your year with this method.
Annual Review Part 5: Mapping Out Your Step-by-Step Plan for 2018 Success
Follow along with your year-long work plan as we workshop three attendees' live.
Article Nuts and Bolts: Putting Together a News Brief
Learn the core of how all front-of-book magazine pieces are constructed.
Article Nuts and Bolts: Putting Together a Front-of-Book Round-Up
Hone in on the easy-to-write (and pitch!) staple: the front-of-book round-up.
Article Nuts and Bolts: Putting Together a Trend Piece
An in-depth look at the staple of magazines front-of-book and feature sections everywhere: the trend piece.
Article Nuts and Bolts: Putting Together a Business Profile
An in-depth look the type of article that should be the bread and butter of your freelance travel writing toolkit.
Taking Control of Your Freelance Travel Writing Finances
When your travel and meals aren't free, they should be written off on your taxes. Along with magazines, books, conferences, and more.
Taking Control of Your Freelance Travel Writing Time
If you want to earn well as a freelance travel writer, managing your time professionally is the very first place to start.
Taking Control of How You Track and Reach Your Freelance Travel Writing Goals
Without a plan for your business, you're not likely to enjoy where it ends up as much as you could with these steps.
Taking Control of Your Ideas, Pitches and Follow-ups
Even if you're a pitch wizz and an idea magnet, you'll struggle to get pitches out if you're missing this.
Article Nuts and Bolts: How to Put Together a “Postcard”
This short piece may be the most fun you can have for the most money in the fewest words.
Article Nuts and Bolts: How to Put Together a Basket of Kittens Feature
Editors will love you when you learn to love this type of feature. Learn how.
Article Nuts and Bolts: How to Put Together a Guide Feature
Though it seems simplistic, nailing the all-important guide feature takes skill.
Article Nuts and Bolts: How to Put Together a Quest Piece
These pieces are constant award winners and easy pitches. Learn how to write them on autopilot.
Article Nuts and Bolts: How to Put Together a Diary Piece
While they look like easy pickings in newspapers and magazines need them, diary pieces need you to retrain your habits.
The Guidebook Guide Series: The Players and The Game
Learn why writing a guidebook pays (more than you think) in more ways than one.
The Guidebook Guide Series – The Life of a Guidebook Writer on the Road
What is it really like to be a full-time guidebook writer?
The Guidebook Guide Series – The Writing Side of Guidebook Work
What is it actually like to write a book-length work in a month or two--particularly working in a tried and true formula you have little control over?
Article Nuts and Bolts: Putting Together a Profile Piece
Profiles of individuals and businesses are the most common types of articles today. Learn how to ace them every time.
Article Nuts and Bolts: Putting Together an Interview Piece
Dive into interview pieces which can be some of the easiest to write (and the most bang for your time) because of their rigid formatting.
Article Nuts and Bolts: Putting Together a Celebrity Favorites Piece
These often overlooked pieces are a huge hit with editors--they never get enough pitches for these sections!
Article Nuts and Bolts: Putting Together an As-Told-To Feature
As-told-to features offer a surprising way to resell anecdotes from fascinating sources.
Journalistic Detail and Why You Need It
Editors often say they want “researched” and “tight” “copy”, but what does that mean and how do you do it?
Weaving Journalistic Detail into Short Articles
In short, front-of-book pieces and in subsections of round-up features, the devil in the detail is choosing what to include from all of your research.
Weaving Journalistic Detail into Descriptions of People
Fiction writers are known for their descriptions of characters, but so many writers skip these details in their travel pieces—to their detriment.
Weaving Journalistic Detail into Descriptions of Places
Setting the scene in your pieces can be the single hardest block of text. We'll discuss how to be "creative" or write that "flowery" stuff.
Creating Ambiance with Journalistic Detail
How do the details you choose create a larger takeaway for the reader without explicitly telling them what you want them to feel?
What Is and What Is Not a Saleable Non-Fiction Book Today: Finding Your Place in the Marketplace
We explore what's selling today, self-publishing, and look at a powerful tool that can help you find your book focus and how to get an agent!
Know Your Non-Fiction Book’s Market to Make Its Business Case
In this webinar, I introduce the non-fiction book proposal and its main sections and then zero in on the target market.
You Are Your Non-Fiction Book’s Best Marketer: How to Make it Work
Learn how to make a killer marketing plan that is believable and perfectly positions your book in the market.
The Parts of Your Book Proposal About You and Your Book
Nail the "about me," book summary, and sample chapters of your book proposal.