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If you come to visit Montpellier do not forget to joing this page in time !!!Travel North Korea: Backpacker Becki Posted on 28 January 2013. What better way to start off the week then a real hot-potato of an interview for you! The lovely Becki – of the super travel blog Backpacker Becki, is gracing our humble site once more.  Last time she gave us a fab Preparing for Around the World Travel interview and this time she’s  talking about the enigma that is North Korea.  I’ve (Kiri) been very excited about this interview, as it’s a country that is still largely uncovered by the travel world.  After reading Becki’s words, I want to go even more. The saying ‘never judge a book by it’s cover’ seems rather apt for North Korea… Over to you Becki… Posted in North Korea, Travel Asia and The Middle East Preparing for Around the World Travel: Becki of Backpacker Becki Posted on 13 July 2012. Today we talk to the beauty that is Backpacker Becki.

She’s a RTW veteran and has all sorts of advice for preparing for around the world travel.  It’s no easy feat as we TraveLinkSites editors know well… So where to begin? Let’s have a chat with Becki… Posted in Around the World Travel, Preparing for Around the World TravelWinter in Lapland: Lights, Speed, Adventurerogue laptop backpack timbuk2 Think winter puts a limit on adventure? mw backpack pathfinderTravel blogger Becki Enright begs to differ with these adrenalin-inducing activities in Northern Europe.ezibuy backpack ‘It’s Dangerous’ and other misconceptions about travel to Irangoarmy backpack

Travel blogger Becki Enright dispels some common myths and misconceptions about travel to the modern day Islamic republic. Top 5 Spots for the First-Time Visit to Iran Travel blogger Becki Enright shines a light on her favourite spots from a trip to the remarkable nation of Iran. Georgia & Armenia: Open for Explorationwsop backpack Travel blogger Becki Enright explores Georgia and Armenia—two countries shedding their collective Soviet-era past and jockeying for position on the bucket lists of today's travellers.domo backpack hot topic Five Ways to Dig Deeper into Borneo Becki Enright offers up five ways to dig deeper into Malaysian Borneo—a landmass dominated by jungles and home to some of the most rare and incredible species on the planet If you crave more of an off-the-beaten-track adventure, it’s well worth considering concentrating on the area surrounding Beijing – the Shanxi province

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The Muddle and Mystery of India – A Contradiction of Travel Emotions India's busy streets can be a bit of a sensory overload at first, but the rich culture and beauty this country holds far surpasses the daily hustle and bustle. China – A Difficult Place to Travel? China may be a very different place than most people are used to, but it's definitely not impossible to travel to, especially with a group. Vietnam: A great first step on the Southeast Asia trail Tag along with travel blogger Becki Enright as she takes her first steps on this famous route. The Two Faces of Cambodia – How Will it Affect You? Cambodia is a beautiful place with a heavily storied past, the effects of which still linger to this day.Becki Enright is an award-winning travel writer with a successful travel blog to match. Recently, her website Backpacker Becki became Borders of Adventure, to reflect her journalistic writing style as well as her style of travel — that being one with a focus on uncovering deeper culture and meaning in the places she visits.

Becki was able to maintain the audience she’d worked for over two years on building, while making big changes to the style and tone of her blog. As October’s Travel Blog Success Member of the Month, Becki shares with us the motivation and the process behind the rebranding of her travel blog. How long have you been blogging and what was the original motivation behind starting Backpacker Becki (the original site that became Borders of Adventure)? February 2013 will mark three years of blogging. I started Backpacker Becki for two reasons: I loved the creative writing aspect of my consumer Public Relations job and wanted an outlet to do more of that, and I was soon to leave eight years of agency life behind to travel long-term. Having a blog meant combining my passions, writing and travel, as well as being able to utilize my marketing skills on the road. I knew I wanted it to be a business from the beginning and had it all mapped out. Backpacker Becki had a good ring to it and it was easily remembered;

I just didn’t know I would eventually fall into the niche I’ve now carved out where the two wouldn’t exactly align. What made you realize that it was time to rebrand? I returned home after 15 months on the road, realized I was in a good place with growing my business, felt confident in my abilities and won the British Travel Press Award. But something was missing – my writing was being recognized but my name wasn’t screaming out my writing style. While survey feedback highlighted that ‘backpacker’ didn’t hold a negative connotation, and while only one PR asked me if it was holding me back, it just started to eat away at me. I was finding it harder to describe my social conscience and perception changing style of writing with backpacker in the title. Backpacker wasn’t cutting through. Plus I wanted to lose my name… for long-term business reasons. What was your biggest concern with re-branding your site? I HAD to get this right the first time, because there is no way you can change it a third time (no one in their right mind would put themselves through this more than once).

So the main concern was choosing a name that was perfect in its reflection of the niche, and also be something I absolutely loved. What was the greatest challenge in implementing the rebrand? Time – the blood sweat, tears and tantrums alongside the hours of admin on top of running the blog and other work as normal. It doubles your workload and you become impatient for it to be implemented. The briefings and brainstorms, the back and forth liaison with logo and web designers, the stress of changing all social media platforms and informing each and every single person possible of the change and explaining why. However, it was very well received and I’ve since noticed a spike in attention from brands. It made months of pain diminish very quickly. Can you walk us through your process of developing the new brand? Did you start with the name? How did you prioritize the many tasks involved with developing this new site? It took nearly a year from starting initial discussions to the new site going live.

I started with the name, which took me over six months to develop. I pulled in a crack team of the most creative bloggers I know for brainstorms, as well as non-travel bloggers, readers and friends familiar with the way I work and write. I kept hitting a wall and my readers told me not to drop Becki in the name. Many people kept saying to me “It will just come to you” but it wasn’t happening. After six months of thinking of ‘b’ words that could fit with Becki, I came up with Borders of Adventure. People were right, it does just come to you… even if it takes half a year! Once I had the name I began the logo concept – he understood me 200%. From there my designer was able to piece together a layout and concept that would match this, alongside my own very specific user-experience visions. Then I turned to tech expert Chris from RTW Labs to make sure the redirects and all the wizzy techy stuff was in place before making it all go live without a hitch.

What’s one piece of advice you’d offer to other bloggers considering a rebrand? Firstly, think hard about if you REALLY need to do it. The process of a rebrand is not fun or easy. And it is costly. If you are considering, be prepared to find more hours in the day to work on this on the side, pack a lot of patience and make sure you find designers and a tech team who 100% understand what you are trying to achieve. A rebrand doesn’t work without a great team of people supporting you. And remember, once its live, it’s not over. Then begins the process of informing everyone and PROVING why you did this and why it is better than before.  You are, in some ways, starting all over again. As an award winning travel writer, how do you prioritize the writing that goes on your blog and what you pitch/publish elsewhere? As my style is more journalistic and in-depth, rather than a ‘Top 10 Things’ list-style writer, I keep all my big, emotional, social and politics report style posts on my site and pitch/publish the more list style posts elsewhere.

That might not be the greatest thing for my own SEO (where I do some list style pieces in a different way), but I come from a media and journalist background and always want to stay true to that… and be known for that. Now the new branding is in place, I can pitch informative style posts to larger publications. What are you next goals for Borders of Adventure? Eventually I would like to take on more writers, but I know I am very picky. I have had people try and pitch me articles based on the mix of destination and social commentary but they have been terrible – scaremongering, without reflection or fact searching. It’s hard when you have a specific way of looking at things and then have to try and learn to let go of your baby a little, and let other people in. I have a journalist friend who worked for the UK Army magazine who will soon be contributing some interesting articles from his time in places many can’t get to easily or which will provide a totally different perspective on places we already know such as Borneo and Ethiopia.

This came about after hours of us chatting and being aligned in our writing styles, and I hope I find more people like him.  I’m really excited about that. Others goals are to use the brand as an umbrella name for tours and other collaborations currently in discussion. What does success in travel blogging mean to you? Staying true to yourself and creating a unique style that will make you stand out. Do something that will get you remembered. Some do this to make quick bucks and others do this to build credit as professional writers and photographers, while making money as part of that. Dirty tricks are dying or being found out, and those with true passion and skills are the ones still thriving. And being taken seriously. Also, success comes from learning to juggle the multiple roles of our job as an editor, photographer, marketer, PR, SEO genius, sales guru and all the rest. My media background as been invaluable and sharing that with others, and getting advice in return on things I am not too skilled on, has been key to the success wheel turning.