RV Blogging

[Freelander]

I have quite a few trips planned in the next couple of years, and I considering starting a RV Blog about my adventures.
I know there are already quite a few out there, and they cover a lot of different things, but this would be more of what the kind that shows interesting places to visits, and not products reviews and How-tos.

I'm more into Museums that cover [font=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]Military,[/font] Automotive, Tractor, Machinery, pretty much anything mechanical.
I had a YouTube channel a few years ago and took it down I still have a bit of it left, and still have all my videos I did before.

Just trying to feedback and to wether this would work.

 

[Uncle Todo]

I was figuring I'd do something similar also, as well as giving me something else to do out on the road.

What in your mind is it working?
I think what would work is you visiting places you'd enjoy, v-blogging them, and finding other people that enjoy it also.

About a year ago I came across affiliate marketing and got to researching it quite a bit. One of the interesting things, and something I'll need to revisit, was driving traffic. This could definitely be used to grow your audience.

 

[Freelander]

I have a Sony Video camera now, I would have to buy a few go pros and accessories for it. I have an older MacBookPro to do the editing on it.

I also would have to create an intro to it.

 

[travelaround]

Long time blogger here, with a Booktube channel and a few others on YouTube. I'm wondering, by "working" do you mean would this become a viable money-making enterprise?

I've started a lot of blogs. Most of them are not money makers. Many of them have now been eliminated from the internet. The ones I keep are my dear-to-my-heart blogs and my moneymakers, which are few in number. One in particular makes the most money; the others bring in pennies in comparison. The one that makes the most money is based on information a certain subset of people desperately need. My blog was one of the first on the internet offering this kind of information and therefore got a reputation early on. It is hard to do that these days as you will see. Any information vanlife people desperately need has already been done by a dozen others, with Bob Wells at the lead.

The income from advertising is not reliable for me. Sometimes I get a good part time income and other times I've been freaking out at income drops that made me start an online transcribing job in desperation to pay bills... and that's a difficult, time-consuming job. (Transcribing online.)

YouTube is worse for me. I've not been an overnight sensation at anything. Depending on who you are, your charisma, your slant on the topic, you might make some money at it after you get 1000 subscribers and 4000 hours watch time in a year. Good luck with that. I've never had that many subscribers. My Booktube channel has just over 600 subscribers right now.

Anyhow, it doesn't hurt to try... and really, given what I know about blogging and video making... I think it is a great hobby and I hope you find it enjoyable and worth doing even if you're not making money at it.

 

[Freelander]

I won't do it to make any money. Trying to make money be being a Youtube star is not a real option, most of the bloggers have other income and don't have to rely on their YouTube money. Youtube can change their policies at any time and cut your money off. I know of several that has happened to.

I would just do to plot my travels around the country.

 

[travelaround]

Same here, Freelander. I'm hoping to do more travel blogging this coming year, and want to develop my Travel Around YouTube channel, on which there's only a few videos right now. This is just a hobby for me, not a real attempt at making money.

 

[ckelly78z]

Do it for your own enjoyment, not to make money. If you are chasing subscriber paydays, you will be disappointed most of the time, and not Blog/Vlog about what interests you, it will become about what everyone else wants to see.

The automotive, tractor, mechanical stuff interests me, not the #Vanlife fantasy location drivel.

 

[rvwandering]

I started a blog in 2009 mostly to encourage disabled people to travel and see the country. I have no desire for it to become a moneymaking site so I've never attempted to gain a wide audience but I enjoy the fact that it has attracted a small number of followers and that it provides information that all travelers can use. It also serves as a travel log for me.

The really successful bloggers find a niche that has a strong appeal - for example RVSue who centered her blog around her dogs and still has a popular blog even though she is no longer on the road. 

The forum has a thread with member's blogs. Most seem to quit after a few years. https://vanlivingforum.com/showthread.php?tid=2824

 

[RoamerRV428]

I went the other way.
I am 'all into my life' and don't 'feel any need' to broadcast out in the big world ya know.
I sure thought about it cause I followed Tioga George and a few others but then I thought, do I even wanna be tired down to 'being a youtube' or 'blogger' person, nope, cause that is not me LOL So if ya love it, do it....if it is not you but it is what so many like to do and ya think ya need in, don't bother ya know.

find you and do you as you want. I got drawn that way and then realized, oh hell no to all of it LOL

 

[maki2]

Freelander, you have a video camera, you already have a youtube channel. You are not concerned about making money from your efforts. So what are you waiting for to get started? Are you lookinng for encouragement? Then I say go for it. I wish more people would put up videos about visiting museums. The museums also appreciate it.

You are the only persoon who willl be able to judge if the effort to produce tne videos brings the results that make it worthwile to you.  That criteria is highly personal. The need to be creative is in itself a motiivation. The need to share so that it does not feel as if you are always traveling alone is another.. if you fill those two needs then you have a sucessful project that brings you return for the effort you put into it.

 

[Freelander]

I think the biggest concern is the editing that going into it. I was using an older version of iMovie to produce these, but they changed the program and I have a harder time more with it. I had over 100 videos on YouTube about my garden tractor hobby and the editing can take a lot of time.

I was younger then and was more into the video and editing thing.

Also I had a small stroke in June and it has affected my speech a little and some times I can't find the right the right words to say, it also has affected my writing. You probably notice some of my posts have some misspelling at times.

I don't feel comfortable in front of a camera.


Here are some of videos from before.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJQ6HDYcfv_ijumBCutgVlQ

 

[AnonymousDog]

If you need help with a site then let me know. I can build, host, and maintain simple but nice looking sites in html or Wordpress for a lot less than you might think and it can be negotiated.

 

[Freelander]

I have been trying to create another intro and lead out video but not having luck yet.

 

[Freelander]

Heres the Channel I started just for my RV blog,

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPquETQHJR3rY-OIFOzdwRg

 

[jwhite]

I made some videos way back before youtube is what it is today
 https://www.youtube.com/user/jwhite39828/videos
most of these were a slide show with music.
I am about to travel more with a motorhome I just bought and travel and shoot at sporting clay shoots that I sell awards and leather goods I make.
I wonder if I could find someone that would edit video I shoot and produce the videos for my channel or make a product video or should I just learn to do it myself.

it would be interesting to know if someone is interested in doing that and what the charge would be?

 

[Freelander]

I used an older version of iMovie and I had to working good, then Apple decided to change it and I decided to stop uploading. I had several other things going on and basically stop working on my little tractors.


Iy took me a while to figure out iMovie as it was.