Your travels are undoubtedly filled with plenty of fun activities and trying new things, but although you want to spend some time to yourself and enjoy your travels, your followers and audience will need updates, too. This is a crucial part of maintaining a following no matter what you do, so it’s vital to know how to stay engaged, even when you’re doing something different from your usual routine. 

You can’t expect people to stay interested; you need to give them a reason, so consider these useful tips to keep your audience engaged while traveling and maybe bring some new followers to your accounts. 

Open Up Your Account

Those who embrace the Private Account can often encounter some problems when trying to build a following. Unless you’re a certified name, people will be unwilling to follow someone whose content is not viewable. 

This is especially true when traveling. While you don’t need to make your account permanently open (especially if you value privacy when you get home), opening your account during your vacation will help people engage with your content. It will make it easier for people to find you and see what other posts you make, which can encourage them to give you a follow and see more. 

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Keep Posting

It’s easy to get swept up in the excitement of travel, especially if you’re someone who loves to do as much as possible every single day. This can cause some problems, though. You may get so busy that you forget to post something. Although one or two days off isn’t bad, anything longer could cause people to disengage. 

Knowing how to upload photos to iCloud from iPhone can ensure you save the most important snaps from each day. From here, you can schedule posts to upload whenever you like. You can do this during your downtime before going to bed, as it means you won’t need to disrupt the next day to make a post.

Research Hashtags and Trends

It doesn’t matter how good your photos are or how witty your captions will be, engagement is all about the hashtags, locations, and trends. Because of this, you’ll need to know how to find relevant hashtags about your destination. 

This will help you connect with other people in the area, as well as anyone interested in visiting. You can provide a front-row seat to everything there is to do, which can help people get excited about their next chance to travel the world. 

Know The Key Places

Similarly, you should also know which are the most popular spots for tourists and travelers, as this will increase your views and engagement. Every country has its own Eiffel Tower or White Temple, so you should find this place to ensure people find your content. 

This will give them a great introduction to your page and help build engagement. If it’s somewhere people recognize, they will be more interested in looking. But, as much as knowing the key places is important, you can’t rely on this forever. 

But Also Do Something Unique

With travel so easily accessible compared to 30 or 40 years ago, it might feel like everything has been discovered. Everywhere that you can reach likely has been reached by someone other than you. 

Despite this, you shouldn’t feel like you don’t have anything new to offer. Once you have touched base with the most popular places, think about other locations that aren’t as well-known. This can provide something different for your content and show people you’re not just someone who follows trends but instead embraces the mysteries of the world. 

Make Sure You Reply!

Depending on the size of your following, you can get anywhere between five and five hundred comments (if not more) on any post. While traveling, it’s tricky to keep up with these comments, but you must make sure you respond to as many as possible. 

But why should you do this? Well, not only is it polite, it is the easiest way to engage with others. Responding to comments will put you directly in touch with your followers, which they will love. You can build better connections and relationships with others in your niche, which could open up doors for collaboration and further exposure. 

Staying Connected

Your social media accounts have allowed you to connect to anyone anywhere. If you want to build a following as an influencer or travel blogger, you must consider the best ways to keep people engaged and ensure your content maintains its quality even when you’re doing something different. 

But what are some ways you stay connected while on vacation? Do you find it hard to keep your audience engaged while traveling? Or do you feel like it is a great idea just to digitally detox with the hopes that your audience will understand? Either way we would love to know what you other travel bloggers, influencers, or other businesses do to keep your audience engaged while traveling. Let us know in the comments below!

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I have been a chasing my Bucket List Project since 2012. But it wasn’t until 2017, that I left my corporate job to pursue my dream to become a blogger and influencer. I remember starting out with dreams of grandeur! Together with Darcee, we were going to create amazing content that not only showed us chasing our bucket list but to help and inspire others to chase their own dreams! I was so excited and full of hope. It seemed like it was going to be the ultimate dream “job” for us!

But for the past 3 years, I have struggled with this dream. Often, I would pour my heart into posts that just fell on deaf ears. It wasn’t that the content was bad. Heck, my mom used to say it was the best stuff she had ever read and no one would ever call my mom a liar! No the problem was that I was struggling to get my content seen and read. I was failing to reach anyone and everyone that I wanted to help and inspire.

So something had to change.

Just Because You Build It Doesn’t Mean They Will Come

We all know that famous line from the movie, The Field of Dreams, “If you build it, they will come!” It is such a memorable phrase but in the real world sadly it just isn’t true! There are tens of thousands of blogs and businesses online that offer truly amazing content and products. But every year, most of them start and fail because they don’t understand this one essential skill: the art and science of getting people to find them.

Russell Brunson really focuses on the fact that waiting for people to come to the Bucket List Project’s blog is not a strategy. This point in Traffic Secrets: The Underground Playbook for Filling Your Websites and Funnels with Your Dream Customers really impacted us and thus is changing our focus to find our dream customers.

Who Is Russell Brunson?

Russell Brunson is a Best-Selling Author & CEO of $100M software company ClickFunnels. He has built a following of over a million entrepreneurs, sold hundreds of thousands of copies of his books and popularized the concept of sales funnels. In 2014, Russell and partner Todd Dickerson launched ClickFunnels, which became the fastest-growing non-venture backed software company in the world.

Of course, that is what Russell the businessman & writer of Traffic Secrets is all about. But, what I like is that Russell is a real person too. If you follow any of his social media channels, especially his Russell Brunson Instagram Channel, you will see that he is a goofy, fun loving dad, who loves to include his family and friends in all of his wild adventures.

What Does Russell Brunson teach in Traffic Secrets?

Russell offers tons of information in Traffic Secrets that he easily breaks down into key strategies in order to increase your site traffic. But what I particularly like is that he lays out the proven strategies he personally uses to drive traffic to his own online businesses or sales funnels. Plus, the best part is that he breaks down his Traffic Secrets strategies into simple key points:

• How to find your dream customer
• Where is your dream customer hiding?
• Perfecting your hook, story, and offer
• How to Fill a funnel organically
• How to use paid ads effectively
• Insider Traffic Secrets for Instagram, Facebook, Google, and YouTube

One of the benefits of his Traffic Secrets book is that it is broken down into digestible sections. You can then easily cover it all during a 30 day program or you can do it at your own pace. For me, was nice to take a section and then read, learn, process, and practice it at an easy pace.

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A Few Ideas I’ve Learned from Russell Brunson’s Traffic Secrets

For us, Traffic Secrets really opened our eyes on learning more about our current and potential readers. Forever, we were creating content for the Bucket List Project that meant a lot to us. But, after reading Traffic Secrets, I realized that we may not actually be creating content that our readers may have needed to solve their problems in pursuing their own bucket list dreams.

Learning what our readers really want:

Russell shares that essentially people are looking to move away from pain toward pleasure in order to satisfy one of 3 core desires: Wealth, Health, or Relationships. Now these three desires are broad categories and can encompass many subcategories. But in Russell’s eyes, a visitor or even a customer will always fall into one of these core desires.

Now in my initial take, I immediately thought that readers of the Bucket List Project would fall into the core desire of Health. I figured that most people who were reading our content on the blog or on our social media channels were looking to improve their mental health and were seeking ways to feel better about themselves by ticking items off their own bucket list. But I was wrong.

In the 30 day challenge for Traffic Secrets, Russell asked us to find out and write down what our potential readers are saying or thinking. So, I went online and sent out emails and asked our current readers and friends what pain points they were struggling with in pursuing their bucket list. In the responses we got back, over 75% of them all said lack of money was preventing them from the pleasure of ticking off the many items on their bucket list. It was an eye opener to say the least!

Learning how to improve my hook, story, and offer:

If you ever talk to Darcee, she will tell you that I often talk too much in getting my point across. Perhaps, this is because I get very excited and immediately explode with a story. Now this may be great if I was just sitting by the fireplace telling great tall tales. But when it comes to business in this modern age, it can often push away potential readers and even possible customers.

So, in Traffic Secrets, Russell hammers home over and over and over that if your content or campaigns aren’t working to attract viewers, it is ALWAYS the hook, the story, or the offer. Essentially, Brunson shares that if you want to help others or attract more viewers and customers, you need to create better hooks, tell better stories, and make better offers.

Learning where my Dream 100 where hiding:

One of the key components to Traffic Secrets by Russell Brunson is learning who your Dream 100 is and where they are hiding. Essentially, the dream 100 are who my dream readers or customers are and where on the internet they are already hanging out or other resources they are already using online.

Now, I had already decided last year, when I wrote the Purpose of The Bucket List Project, that I wanted to really help other members of Gen X and Gen Y find ways to tackle their bucket lists. But to be honest, I had never thought about where they were already online or what similar services they were already subscribing to inspire them. Perhaps, this was of course, because I was too busy focusing on us rather than them or maybe it was because I just didn’t understand the value in researching this.

But that all changed when I did Russell’s challenge of  developing my Dream 100. First, I learned more about my current readers and their pain points and core desires. Second I learned how the Dream 100 will help us develop better traffic from anything from paid ads to free traffic to possible joint ventures.

How Can You Get a Copy of Traffic Secrets?

As you can see, Traffic Secrets by Russell Brunson has had a pretty big impact on how we are viewing you, the reader. It is rare that I have read a business strategy book that has actually made me stop, take stock in what I am doing, and then actually take action. Therefore, I can’t recommend this book enough. Whether you are a blogger, a content creator, or business owner of any kind, I truly believe Traffic Secrets can benefit you.

So, if it is on your Personal Growth Bucket List to improve your business in any capacity, I invite you to join us on this mission to grow. Get your own copy of Traffic Secrets: The Underground Playbook for Filling Your Websites and Funnels with Your Dream Customers by Russell Brunson and get started today!

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Disclosure: This is a sponsored post for “Traffic Secrets: The Underground Playbook” by Russell Brunson. However, All opinions expressed below are our own. Eric & Darcee will never recommend a product that we don’t genuinely believe in, actually use ourselves, have researched, and trust. Please see the disclosure policy for more information.

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