Love Skiing/Snowboarding ? Here are 10 ways to make money to support your epic lifestyle !

Let's face it, your passion is not cheap ! With lift tickets between $100-$300 a day ( not to mention traveling expenses to and from a ski are ), not everybody can afford skiing/snowboarding 😩😢

But if you're truly passionate about skiing/snowboarding, here are a few ways YOU can make money doing what you love !

1 - Get a job as a ski/snowboard instructor

You don't have to be an Olympic medalist ( or a competitive athlete ) to get a job as a ski/snowboard instructor...

Personally,  I got my job as a ski instructor even though I had started skiing/riding literally a month before that ! I did have education and experience working with kids, and my first job in the industry was teaching kids 4-6 how to ski.

If you're a decent skier/snowboarder,  your experience, and passion for snow sports are all you need to get a job in the industry !
Not only will you get a free season pass, get paid, and have many job perks, but you can get great deals/discounts for skiing/riding at other resorts, and discounted season tickets/season passes for your family members !

And guess what ? There are people who've made this their career ! They travel around the world woking in the ski/snowboard/travel industry year round !

How To Make $1K an Hour As A Personal Trainer

There’s a new fitness studio in New York City where people can box and booze with their sweaty class-goers and trainers — and pay for the privilege in cryptocurrency.

Motivational speaker and entrepreneur Tony Robbins has teamed up with musician Pitbull and founder of adult education company The Learning Annex, Bill Zanker, to launch a new boxing fitness chain.

prAna Is Offering $100K To Help You Pursue Your Dream Job

prAna, a premium lifestyle clothing company, is offering $100K prize to help get your dream off the ground !

They're looking for one courageous person willing to quit their current job to pursue their lifelong passion.

What Does Jillian Michaels Promote On Her Amazon Influencer Page ?

JILLIAN MICHAELS is the foremost fitness expert in the world, a renowned life coach, a successful entrepreneur, and one of many celebrities who recently joined Amazon influencer program.

Should You Join Amazon Influencer Program or Amazon Affiliate Program

Want to turn your passion for fitness & travel into a profitable business ? Or at least learn how to make extra money to support your epic lifestyle ?

Have a large social media following on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, or other channels ?

Love sharing your passion with other like minded people ?

Amazon affiliate program, and Amazon influencer program offer great opportunities to make money promoting famous fitness & outdoor brands !

Learn more about Amazon affiliate and Amazon influencer programs in the video below :

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Cheap TRX Alternatives To Promote and Make Money

If you're a hard-core TRX fan, then joining their affiliate program is a great way to make some extra money while helping others get in shape, and introducing them to suspension training.

But let's face it, not everybody can afford spending $100+ on TRX 😩

If you're a fitness influencer/personal trainer/health & wellness coach, it's your job to look after your clients'/social media followers' best interests.

It's your job to help people make an unbiased informed decision based on your personal knowledge, experience, and expertise.

Earn 8% Commission With TRX Affiliate Program

One way TRX ambassadors make money is by participating in TRX affiliate program. And if you love TRX suspension training, then YOU can do it too !! Earn 8% for every product sold through your website/blog, or social media channels.

TRX world-class suspension training provides users with enduring, professional-grade workouts for all fitness levels. It’s a full bodyweight training system that packs into a portable kit. That’s why TRX workouts can be done anywhere !

Who Is TRX Affiliate Program For ?

TRX suspension trainers are perfect for personal trainers, health coaches, network marketers ( in health & fitness niches ), travellers, outdoor enthusiasts, and those who prefer home based workouts instead of gyms.

It’s also a great way for TRX loyal, and knowledgeable users to make some extra money by introducing TRX suspension training to others !

You DON’T have to be a certified personal trainer to introduce TRX suspension training to others, BUT you MUST have ( at least basic ) fitness knowledge, experience, and expertise !

As a fitness influencer your job first and foremost is to help people make a buying decision based on your knowledge and expertise... EVEN if it might cost !

Let's face it, not everybody can afford TRX 😢 .... Learn how you can help people get in shape, save money while still making money for yourself by suggesting cheaper TRX alternatives to them...

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Join prAna Influencer Program ( And Make Money )

prAna is a premium lifestyle clothing company that offers sustainable clothes for yoga, travel, & outdoor adventure enthusiasts - https://goo.gl/nhARzE

From prAna Instagram page:

Did you know that as a US based certified personal trainer, you are eligible to join prAna Influencer Program, and receive special pricing and deals online and at your local prAna store ?

How To Start A Free Fitness & Travel Blog With Weebly

Nowadays, there are a lot of options to start your first online business for free ! In my previous posts, I wrote about 3 popular blogging and website building platforms : Blogger, WordPress, and Wix.com

Today, I'm introducing to you another great platform called Weebly.com !

I've built a few websites with Wix.com, and when I was introduced to Weebly, I realized that it was a lot like Wix.com

Since, Weebly and Wix are very similar, I won't go into details about advantages and disadvantages of Weebly, and instead, will share a blog post that compares Weebly vs. Wix, and a few other similar website building platforms - http://www.websitebuilderexpert.com/website-builders-comparison-chart/

Weebly is a very user friendly, robust and reliable website builder. It’s one of the easiest drag and drop, code free website builders available in the market today. t also offers its users to start their first blog or a website for absolutely free !

How To Start Online Travel & Fitness Business With Wix.com

I my previous posts I wrote about how you can use Blogger.com and Wordpress.com to create your wown FREE travel & fitness blog.

In those posts/videos I talked about why those platforms are considered to be for "amateurs", what makes travel & fitness blogs based on Blogger and Wordpress look unprofessional, and how to change it.

In this post/video, I want to recommend you another great, and what is more important, FREE platform called wix.com

Just like Blogger and Wordpress, wix.com is looked down upon by "professonal bloggers" and "online marketers". The main reasons are : it's too easy to use ( ?! ), and websites/blog created with wix.com look unprofessional...

How To Start A Travel & Fitness Blog With Wordpress.com

Wordpress.com is a great way to start your first travel & fitness blog ! It's easy to use,
you can manage your website from any computer/mobile phone, no HTML editing or FTP software required, search engines love WordPress sites, your site can grow as your business grows, but the most important -it's FREE !

The downside of this blogging platform being free is that many people take it for granted, and treat it as a hobby, rather than a potential online business with the opportunity to grow. Most people use both blogger.com and wordpress.com for "personal blogging" - they don't really plan to make money from blogging, and do it just for fun. 

Starting your first blog as a hobby, and as something new to learn, and to have fun with, is a great way to get started ! When you're just getting started with fitness & travel blogging, your first priority should be to see if blogging, and running your own online business in general, is something you'd want to do long term. Unlike popular belief - "build it and they'll come" - blogging requires a lot of time and dedication. Especially in the beginning, when there is many new things to learn.

How To Turn Your Blogger.com Into An Award Winning Travel Blog

As I wrote in my previous post, blogger.com is a great beginner friendly, FREE blogging platform offered by no other than Google itself. Even though this blogging platform has its own limitations, it also has many advantages :

• many free gadgets ( plug-ins ) and themes
• multiple blog accessibility ( you can create and manage as many blogs as possible and access all of them from one dashboard )
• its very SEO friendly ( after all, Google loves its blogs ! )
• Google gives you unlimited bandwidth ( so you won't have to worry about "high traffic" especially when you're just getting started )
• have no worries or fear about the security of your blog; Blogger.com blogs are secured as far as your Google account is secured.
• monetize your blog from the start with Google AdSense, third party ads and banners, affiliate links

One of the biggest "concerns" many "professional bloggers" have is that because your blog is hosted on Google's server, it can be deleted by Google any time. From my personal experience, if you use blogger.com with the compliance of Google's rules, you'll be fine ( and yes, I did have a few blogs deleted by Google for not following the rules ).

Personally,  I believe that Blogger is a great platform for beginners to use ! But as I mentioned in my video, you would need to spend some time and effort to make your blog look professional. 

Till recently,  I thought my blog looked decent, before I came across "Just  Chasing Rabbits" blog.

Create A FREE Professionally Looking Travel & Fitness Blog With Blogger.com

In my previous video about "4 Free Blogging Platforms" to start a fitness & travel blog, I mentioned a very popular , and free blogging platform - blogger.com

Blogger.com is a free publishing tool that offers free templates, widgets, and can integrate every possible tool provided by Google. It's beginner friendly, very easy to use, and to customize, but most important - it's absolutely free ! If you want to start a fitness & travel blog for absolutely free, you won't need a domain name, pay for hosting, or for anything extra.

When you start a free blog on  blogger.com, your blog is hosted by Google at a subdomain of blogspot.com ( something like www.myblog.blogspot.com )

But you can also purchase your own domain name from sites like GoDaddy.com, and have your own domain name (like www.example.com). You can have up to 100 blogs per account !

Blogger allows its users to choose from various free templates and then customize them. Users may also choose to create their own templates using CSS ( coding language ).

Unlike another popular blogging platform WordPress.com ( the free version ) that doesn't allow ANY type of monetization, Google encourages its blogger.com users to start making money right from the start !

Blogger supports Google's AdSense service as a way of generating revenue from running a blog. Blogger also started integration with Amazon Associates in December 2009, as a service to generate revenue. You can also place third party ads directly on your blog. They ways to make money with Blogger are abundant !

4 Absolutely FREE Platforms For Beginners To Start A Fitness & Travel Blog

Nowadays it's easier than ever to start a fitness & travel blog. More than that, it's cheap, or absolutely free ! With so many options out there, the hardest part is to choose which blogging platform to use.

The internet is flooded with tons of different blogging options for you to choose from and I have personally tested at least a dozen of them.

 In the video below, I introduce my favorite 4. I won't go into details talking about pros and cons of each platform ( as I'll do it in my next video ), I'll just briefly show you how I personally used them ( after a few basic changes ).

 Again, there are tons of free and paid options out there for building blogs, and websites. Your choice will depend on your personal goals, technical skills, and finances. If you're a complete beginner who wants to start a fitness & travel blog on a shoe budget, these 4 options will work for you just fine:

 

How To Turn Your Passion For Adventure Travel Into A Profitable Business

You don't have to be a professional outdoor guide, or a sponsored pro athlete to get paid to do what you love. In my previous post "Teach Yourself A New Skill",  I wrote about Jyoti Raju who was on a the verge of suicide, and was about to throw himself off a cliff. Instead, he taught himself rock climbing, climbed that cliff, and became a famous climbing and acrobatics performer.

When you combine your passion, hard work, and a bit of luck, opportunity will present itself. Just don't count on passion alone. While enthusiasm is a great place to start, it's not enough to sustain your business for the long term.

That's exactly what Becky and Kevin from Surf.Work.Travel would tell you. You have to work hard to build the life around your passion.

Kevin who is a law graduate, and Becky, a biology major, worked in various surf schools around Europe, got hooked on surfing, and wanted to continue to share that epic feeling. In 2011 they founded Hong Kongs’ first professional surf school, bringing international standards of safety and stoke to the local community.

8 Simple Steps To Starting A Successful Travel Blog

Here is another "run of the mill" blog post on the topic of "how to make money travel blogging". If you had a chance to read our previous post about Matthew from Expert Vagabond, you won't find a whole of lot of new information in this post.

And, honestly, this what the whole "blogging business" is all about : there are just a few basics that can be learned, and implemented by ANYBODY.

You don't need any special skills or knowledge to start blogging. It's like writing a diary : you simply put your personal knowledge and skills into writing.

And because many popular blogging platforms are very easy to use, anybody without any computer programming skills can do it !

In her blog post "8 Simple Steps To Starting a Successful Travel Blog", Lauren from Never Ending Footsteps blog covers very basic steps to starting a travel blog.

Just like Matthew, she suggests tips on choosing the name for your blog,  using Wordpress themes, hosting services, getting a logo, adding plug-ins...

Turn Your Fitness Knowledge And Expertise Into An Online Product

Whether you're a professional certified trainer, a fit mom who's tired of making no money with that shitty Beachbody MLM, or just a fitness buff who wants to make extra money on the side to be able to pay for his steroids supplements, there is a great way to productize your knowledge and sell it on the internet.

Recently I received a link to a webinar offered by a great fitness marketer Bedros Keuilian. Unlike many other "online fitness experts" who're willing to reveal the secret  "how to start a six figure fitness business" for just $9.99, Bedros is a real deal. Just like many of us, he started as a personal trainer, and then through hard work, and dedication opened his own fitness studio, and then franchised the idea.

As a matter of fact, that was exactly how I found out about him. When our martial arts gym moved to a new location, a nearby fitness gym ( Fitbody Boot Camp ) turned out to be his brainchild.

Become An Outdoor Fitness Guide

Although many people claim to love being outside and taking part in outdoor activities, a large percentage of people spend the majority of their times indoors. With many adults and children spending up to 8 to 10 hours a day in work or school, there isn't much time left at the end of the day to enjoy fresh air. However, fresh air is one thing that naturally helps improve physical and mental health and creates a feeling of calm and overall well-being. 

A 2011 study found that outdoor exercise was associated with greater decreases in tension, confusion, anger and depression when compared to indoor activity. Science suggest there are benefits to exercising outdoors that can’t be replicated on a treadmill, a recumbent bicycle or a track.

Melanie Webb, wellness travel expert, thought leader and creator of Sol Fitness Adventures, shares the same beliefs. "The future of fitness is nature. " - she says. 

Travel & Fitness Blogging Tips From Pros : Hybrid Athlete

There are tons of fitness and health blogs and websites out there. Many are run by professional personal trainers and coaches as a tool to provide extra value to their existing clients, bring in new ones, establish yourself as an authority in the field, and may be, to generate extra revenue through the sales of fitness related products and information.

But you don't have to be a personal trainer to start your own online business. If you're passionate about fitness and a healthy lifestyle, starting your own blog  is a great way to share your love for fitness with others while making "some money" on the side.

Recently I came across a blog post "Build A Business" by Joe Vennare that offers great advice on how to start your own fitness business.

As a matter of fact, his very first advice is just that - DON'T start a blog, start a BUSINESS !

Think about it ! If you've been "into fitness" for a while ( and hopefully, not planning to stop :)), why not turn it into a long term project ?!

Travel & Fitness Blogging Tips From Pros : Expert Vagabond

I've been following Matthew from Expert Vagabond for a couple of years now, and because he loves adventure travel as much as I do, his blog is one of my favorite ones.

Besides sharing his adventures, and travel tips with his readers, he also wrote a few great blog posts about how he got started as a travel blogger, how he made money from it, and how he'd become a professional.