Do You Want To Make Money While Traveling?
There are ways to make money while you travel. I have personally tried many of the tips in this post and am still trying new ones; meanwhile, my favorite jobs were working on a 105′ luxury motor yacht and at the ski resort Aspen, in Colorado.
So, instead of waiting for the perfect job to appear, you can create your own income opportunity. For example, many small businesses might neglect their social media and websites. Research hotels where you plan to stay, check out their internet presence, and if you find that their imagery or social media is not up to par, “knock” on their door and offer to update it.
20 Tips On How To Make Money While You Travel
1. Work on a Private Yacht
Work on a private yacht. I worked on a 105’ luxury motor yacht as a stewardess then a chef. The position included travel, gourmet meals, medical insurance, and good pay. I rarely spent dollars while traveling aboard, so left the job with cash in hand. You might attend to the top 1-3% of the wealthiest people around, so if you have a money mindset that doesn’t align with affluent people it might not be the job for you.
2. Tutor Creative Skills
Offer one-on-one private art tutoring on location. If you are a specialist in any other creative matter, like photography, or guitar, you can help students improve their skills.
3. Work as a Tour Guide
Work as a guide or translator for tour companies that are looking for particular language skills, such as English speaking, and you speak that language, BINGO!
4. Start a YouTube Channel
This route is time-consuming so plan on a minimum of 6-12 months to see results. Create unique content and build an audience. Think about what problems you can solve for your listeners or any skills that you can teach people. Once you have an audience you can make passive income from advertising.
5. Freelance on Fiverr, Upwork or Freelance.com
Freelance as a self-employed. What are your talents? Globetrotting skills can include web design, graphic design, copy-writing, editing, virtual assistance, and social media management. Or help businesses with their Facebook advertising.
6. Take and Sell Stock Photography
Take photos and sell them as stock photography or directly from your website. For example, many times restaurants want simple images of fruits and vegetables, and the not so marketing savvy business owners want photos for their social media.
7. Video Creations
Make promotional videos for tourism companies or resorts. This takes some planning and outreach before you leave for your trip. It’s also a bit more involved to shoot and edit a video but can be learned via a college course or online. You can use your phone as a start, but add an external microphone such as a Lavalier. Later you can upgrade to more elaborate video equipment. If you don’t like to edit the videos you can hire an editor on Fiverr.com.
8. Affiliate Marketing
Consider affiliate marketing where you sell products on your blog or on your social media via links to merchandise that you endorse. Promote only products that you actually love and have tried.
9. Write a Lead Magnet E-book
Create e-books for companies to use as lead magnets. Businesses want to build their e-mail lists and attract customers, so if you are good at writing and designing, e-books can be a lucrative opportunity. You can also self publish e-books and sell them on Amazon. However, in order to make money from your own e-books, you need to publish many books or the income will be minimal.
10. Create a course for Udemy or Skillshare
Teach a course on Udemy or Skillshare on a topic that you are either an expert at or have a lot of knowledge about as this can provide passive income for a long time. Courses are taught by peers in many cases. If you don’t feel like being in front of a camera use Teachable as your platform, where you can present the lessons in a written format.
11.Sponsored Travel
Contact resorts and offer to make a video, vlog, or a blog post for them in exchange for free lodging or money. This requires that you have a fairly large and engaged Social Media following since you will promote the sponsored posts on your accounts. Brands are, however, also interested in influencers with only a few thousand but highly engaged and targeted followers. Of course, only promote what you love or you will lose the trust of your followers.
12. Arrange Your Own Group Tour
Arrange your own tour for a select group of travelers. It can be a trip to Italy to “Learn Old Masters’ Secrets To Egg Tempera Painting in Florence” or any other country and topic that you are passionate about. If you don’t know how to teach a course, be the facilitator and partner with a trainer who can educate your students on the subject matter that you choose. Or, bring a group of people on a tour to a place that you love just for the sake of it.
13. Offer Coaching
What special skills or talents do you have? You can help people solve their problems using your skillset. Coaching works from pretty much any place in the world and can be done via Skype, WhatsApp, Facebook, or your phone. You can promote yourself via social media marketing or if you are teaching a course, for example on Udemy you can market yourself there. I found an American travel writer-coach that way, who is living and coaching from Vietnam.
14. Share An Experience
Do you have a specific experience such as a dramatic weight loss or did you live in a camper van for a while in order to save money? If so, this can be a great journey blog. Or be a paid spokesperson for a company if it is related to your success.
15. Use Your Design Skills
Create designs and sell as “print on demand” on a site like Society6. This self-employed path involves sketching designs, which you can do at your travel location, and uploading them to Adobe Illustrator. You will then create various patterns for phone cases, pillows, t-shirts, and so forth. Once finished and uploaded into Society6, which is a shopping website where you can sell your designs, they can produce a passive income for you.
16. Edit and Proof Read Signs
When traveling, maybe you’ve come across poorly written English signs or miss-spelled menus in restaurants. Approach the business where you find this and ask if you can help them edit their work in exchange for a fee, or trade for dinner and lodging.
17. Seasonal Restaurant Work
Work in a restaurant for a season. Personally, I worked in Aspen, Colorado during the ski season, at a hotel in the French Alps, and at several summer and winter resorts in Sweden. Seasonal positions often include lodging and food for the employees. If you don’t have any hospitality experience, quickly gain it before you leave by working for at an event temp agency. At their paid training, you can learn prep-cook knife skills, bartend, and catering service. If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area expect to work at high tech companies like Google, Apple, and E-Bay.
18. Travel Writing
Check with tourist boards or magazines before you leave if they need you to cover a destination. If you’ve never worked as a travel writer, you can read this article on how to travel like a travel writer even if you are not one, yet.
19. Destination Photography
Partner with a hotel and take property photos for them. It’s surprising how many, even upscale, hotels have outdated images on their website. I checked out a local luxury resort and found that many of their wedding images were off-kilter as if an intoxicated person had snapped them. So, find accommodations where you want to stay and offer to create better pictures for them. Of course, it really helps if you have an awesome Instagram account or portfolio to send to the hotel before your planned departure date. Even better is if you can take aerial drone photography of the resort, but check out local drone regulations first.
20. Photograph for Advertising
If you check, for example, wedding lead generator sites such as The Knot and Wedding Wire where venues, such as hotels, advertise, you’ll find outdated images. For example, I met with an award-winning B&B and discovered that their wedding photos were extremely outdated from an era when women wore shoulder pads. So I saw an opportunity and asked if I could take new pictures for their website and the answer was YES! By the way, I did not take the images myself, instead, I partnered with a photographer and just facilitated the photo-shoot.
So here you have it, the list of 20 potential moneymaking ideas to stretch your traveling dollars. Please let me know if any of them resonate with you and which ones you are willing to try?
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