The audience for my first blog post is directed toward female mothers who are planning on traveling on airplanes for long distances with toddlers. Even though I have directed this post to airplanes, I believe that mothers who are traveling by cars, trains, or boat could also read my blog in order to obtain some travel information for when they are traveling as well. A lot of the tips that I give can relate to both air travel and other types of travel. I believe that my audience will benefit so much from my post. They will be able to become proactive when planning long trips with their toddlers. From booking a seat for your child on the airplane to booking a shuttle at the airport, my blog will save them a lot of unnecessary stress and bad energy. I explain in the introduction of my blog that traveling can either be a positive or negative experience. I decided to do this because I personally encountered a lot of both positive and negative experiences. However, I want my audience to encounter only positive experiences as female travelers with toddlers from here on out! Mothers or female travelers in general who are traveling with young children will have incentives to subscribe to my blog. I have gone through this experience first hand, and will provide information to my viewers that they may not have thought of doing before they began planning for their trip. The images I used were also first-hand images of myself and my mother as we traveled the world together. They are from a scrap book at home, and I had permission from my mom to use them as well. Overall, I am hoping that my audience of female travelers will benefit from my tips and tricks to traveling with a toddler. I feel as though anyone who is planning on partaking in the trip of a lifetime will love it!
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Part 1 : The blog topic that I have chosen for my niche blog is “Female Traveling.” In short, it is basically the concept of traveling while young and as a female; as I once did with my mother when I was 5 years old! Now, you may be thinking that traveling is a cliche topic; that it is very generic or similar to other topics, and that it is one that many people choose often. However, the story that I have based upon my background with traveling, is one that not many people can relate to. It is not a generic version of traveling around the world, jumping from country to country in the blink of an eye, spending thousands of dollars on flights, budgeting, studying abroad, or any of those kinds of topics that can relate to travel. I am looking at a very niche audience, one who may or may not have experienced what I have experienced in the past, or are planning on undergoing an experience similar to the one that I have experienced in my early childhood life. A little background about myself; I have decided to choose female traveling as my niche blog topic because it is something that I experienced when I was five years old. My father works for Boeing air force Company in Pennsylvania. When I was five years old, he received a high-paying international promotion in which he would have to move to Japan for four years and sell product to Japanese customers. This was something that myself, my mom, and my dad had to make a life-changing decision about. It was basically up to my mother, being that she was the one who would be traveling and living in a foreign country with a toddler. After a lot of thinking about traveling with a toddler on fifteen-hour flights while traveling alone at times, my mom finally decided that this was a once in a lifetime opportunity and that we were going to move to Japan for the next four years of our lives! During my time in Japan, my father worked most days. My mother and I would be living in Japan all alone, traveling the country and attempting to live a normal life by ourselves for the most part. There were also times in which we had to fly home for special occasions by ourselves, times in which my father was not able to join us because of work. This happened many times while I was living in Japan. Whether it was driving from city to city in Japan with my mother, or traveling from Japan to the United States, we traveled all the time. Living and traveling in Japan truly impacted my life and morphed me into the person that I have become today. The majority of conflict between my parents was the fact that my mother and I, a female and a toddler, always had to travel on our own. It was something that was a tough situation for so many reasons that I would like to share with my readers. Therefore, this is the reason why I chose female traveling as my niche blog topic. The specific audience that I will be targeting will be mothers who travel often with young children, specifically alone, or without a spouse or partner. I will also be targeting females in general with a family that they may need to leave at home because of a specific job or opportunity that they may need to take on. There are so many hardships as a mother while traveling alone. There is the fear of disaster happening on a fifteen-hour flight with a toddler and a family at home, there is fear of being taken advantage of or manipulated into something based upon the country that you are in, there is dealing with a small child on long flights in which they may not enjoy, and all of the above stressers that come along with traveling in general; plus being a female and a mother. All of these aspects of the life that I lived are tips that I can give my audience based on my past experience and research with traveling as a female mother with a child. The age range would be any age that a mother has a child, and the gender would obviously be female. The interests that we would encounter would obviously be ways in which traveling far distances with a child can become easier, how to safely live and travel within a foreign country as a female, and how to become independent and open-minded travelers throughout the future as females traveling alone. Part 2: I have researched and looked into ten different, yet similar travel blogs that relate to my niche blog topic of female traveling. While researching, I decided that I would look for blogs that have a specific purpose relating to the concept of travel. Even though my blog topic is female travel, specifically female travel with young children, I have researched many blogs in which multiple aspects of my niche can come into play. The first blog that I have researched is called “The Blonde Abroad.” This blog features a woman named Kirsten. She is a young California native who quit her job in finance to become a world traveler! This is very inspiring to myself and my story about female travel. Her blog is similar to my topic in the sense that she is a female and is traveling alone; just as my mom and I once did when my dad was not around. The difference between her blog and mine is that she is a young adult, in her twenty’s, traveling from place to place. She is not living in a specific country for a long period of time. Instead she is spending some time throughout many different countries and continents around the world. In total so far, she has visited 6 continents and 66 countries. I find this very interesting and look forward to learning more about her adventures. She is simply referring others to her blog site in order to inform them about the importance of travel while giving important travel tips as a female, activities to explore while traveling, and interests in order to attract her readers. Her vibe and tone is very relaxed and outgoing. She is simply doing her best to show her readers the bright side in the world of travel! She also offers a shop web page which I really was drawn to. Her shop page is commercial, and she sells travel gear, carry-on essentials, and travel electronic and photography gear. This gives me an idea for one of my niche blog posts! I would love to possibly incorporate a shop page where I could inform other females of what essential carry-on items you may need to enjoy a long flight alone, or with a young one! The blonde abroad also speaks about the dangers of traveling as a woman in different countries like Morocco and South Africa. These are dangers that my mother and I faced while traveling as women throughout Japan, China, and Korea. We were always looked at differently because of the way that we looked, and the color of our skin. In Japan, people hated us because of the world war and the atomic bomb. I can clearly remember my neighbor yelling at us almost every day, while blaming us for dropping the A-bomb on Japan. These dangers were very real while living in Japan and spending our weekdays without protection from my father. I will be further researching into the aspect of the dangers of traveling throughout other countries, and comparing it to my own dangers in which I faced when I was younger. Pictured from "The Blonde Abroad" - What it's like traveling as a woman in Morocco! Overall, each and every one of the blogs in which I have researched have a large readership. They range from readers of all ages! Readers that are in their 20’s ready to travel, readers that are 40-50 who would like to travel with their families, and so much more. Each blog focuses on a specific aspect of travel, but when woven together, they all fit into my niche blog of female traveling. Some of the designs of the sites I will admit, they are not as detailed and elaborate as others. For example, The Blonde Abroad and Traveling Mother both offer vlogging throughout their blog sites. That is more than many of the other blog sites offer. Many of the other sites involve blogs that offer advice and tips about traveling, not hands on vlogging about their personal struggles and experiences with traveling as a whole. I can learn so much about my own niche blogs as I continue to further research and understand these blogs as well. I have learned how to form my blogs in ways that can establish a certain grouping and layout. I will most likely group my blog posts into similarities that they share, almost like a timeline of my own life and what I went through as a female traveler. I will explain some tips that I can share with my 20-30-year-old female readers about how to travel safety, how to travel with a child, and what to do and not to do when you are in foreign countries. All of these things will relate to one another, but I have learned from the other blog sites that it is important to group your blogs in order, and based upon most recent. Therefore, I know that I will be grouping my posts based upon my own life and the timeline in which I traveled and lived in Japan. I have decided that the domain/title of my blog post is going to be “The Young Female Travel Diaries.” I have decided to incorporate the aspect of young in the sense that I would like my audience to know that I was living in a foreign country at the age of three, and traveled to multiple other countries throughout the rest of my time as my father was accepting more and more international job opportunities. I would like to explain to my readers the dangers of traveling as a female, as well as having a child (like myself) during solo traveling. The design of my blog will be very realistic. I will include an about page, and pictures of myself and my mother when we were traveling throughout the world by ourselves. I will also invclude personal stories throughout my niche blog almost as a retelling in order to inform my reader’s about my own experience, and to make it a little bit more personal. This will establish credibility and show my audience the experiences that I endured, and plan on helping them out with if they were to encounter something as I have. The stories that I will tell throughout my blogs are stories about myself. Stories about my struggles while traveling as a young girl with my mother. I will tell stories of my fear of airplanes and show others how they can get over that fear while traveling long distances, I will tell stories of the dangers of traveling throughout Japan, China, and Korea alone with my mother, the separation anxiety I encountered from my father, travel tips for mothers with infants, and so much more. I will incorporate pictures of my time in Japan so that I can show my audience that my niche blog is in fact different from the rest of the generic travel blogs. I have personal experience, and I will continue to portray that throughout my writing. All of my blogs will be directed toward the female aspect of travel. I will adopt a voice of sincerity and understanding to those who may also have experienced different cultures and travel at such a young age. I will offer advice of how to continue to travel as a young adult even if you may not have the same means of travel as you once did. I am here to offer a voice of advice and understanding. I will continue to always tell my story, while informing others of tips and advice while traveling throughout the world as a female.
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