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This is a blogging opportunity for an EXPERIENCED travel blogger to write for a US-BASED travel deals website.

You will have significant creative freedom to pick and chose your topics (within pre-arranged topic areas), which might include:

* Travel Deal Reviews
* How to
* Top X Lists
* Problem / Solution

This is a perfect opportunity for someone experienced in the travel industry with good writing ability, or for a professional writer with an interest in travel, etc.

The ideal candidate should be competent in writing, blogging, and social promotions (Twitter/Facebook/Digg/ SU/ Reddit). You must be able to write in an SEO-aware manner, and should be very active in several forums within the travel community.

Requirements:

1. You must not send a boilerplate response.
2. Please include links to your three favorite travel blogs (they need not be yours or blogs that you write for, but do explain why they are your favorites).
3. Also include links you three posts you personally wrote that you think show off your skills.
4. Tell me the 3 people that any travel addict must absolutely follow on Twitter.
5. You must be a native English speaker / writer (or be able to convince me by being better than most native English speakers).
6. You will require basic photoshop skills (we have template images that go at the top of each blog post and all you'll need to do is layer a screenshot on the template and edit the caption - so pretty basic photoshop!)

Rates:

Freelance:
"per post" basis with a suggested rate of $20 per 500 word post (finalized based on your experience).

Full Time:
Salary plus benefits commensurate with experience

Byline: Yes

Freelance: 3 posts per week

Full time: 3 posts per day plus manage twitter/facebook account

This position is based in the Albany, NY area.