Episode 23: How to Go Full-Time with Your Points Blog with Ricky Zhang

Episode 23: How to Go Full-Time with Your Points Blog with Ricky Zhang
"I put a very strong focus on community"

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Wondering how people go from points and miles as a hobby to making it a career? In this episode, listen to Ricky Zhang’s story about how he has become one of Canada’s leading sources on points and miles travel on Apple, Spotify, RadioPublic, Google Podcasts, and more! And check out all the episodes of your new favorite travel hacking podcast!

Show Notes

Ricky Zhang’s blog, princeoftravel.com, is one of the leading Canadian sources for points and award travel content. His website gets more than 300K monthly page views, and he has more than 33k subscribers across his Instagram, youtube, and Facebook channels.

In today’s episode, we talk about Ricky’s journey from getting into the hobby to building up his blog and going full-time as a content creator, blogger, and YouTube star.

Many content creators such as Ricky and I love producing blog posts, podcast episodes, and other free content to help spread the joys of award travel.

Two of the best ways you can support your favorite people who create free and valuable content like this are

1. tell ALL your friends about how awesome the content is so that we can get more eyes and ears on our work and

2. please use our referral links for new cards. Whenever you apply for a new credit card, please use a referral link from a friend or content creator whose content you find useful, so that they get a referral bonus. Please please please do not ever simply Google a card and apply from there, without comparing offers to what you can get through referral links.

You can find Ricky at:

Website: https://www.princeoftravel.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/princeoftravel

You can find Julia at

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/geobreezetravel

Website: https://www.geobreezetravel.com

Credit card links: https://www.geobreezetravel.com/cards

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Julia Menez is a travel hacking coach, speaker, and founder of Geobreeze. Through her content and coaching services, she aims to spread travel hacking to underrepresented communities by featuring the points and miles stories you won't normally find on the first page of Google or in the bigger blogs. Julia has been a speaker for FinconX and has led a travel hacking workshop for thousands of registered attendees at the SHEFACTOR 2020 Launch Your Life Summit, an event that featured speakers such as Bethany Hamilton, Kaitlyn Bristowe, and Missy Franklin. She has also been featured in numerous business and travel podcasts.

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Julia Menez is a travel hacking coach, speaker, and founder of Geobreeze. Through her content and coaching services, she aims to spread travel hacking to underrepresented communities by featuring the points and miles stories you won't normally find on the first page of Google or in the bigger blogs. Julia has been a speaker for FinconX and has led a travel hacking workshop for thousands of registered attendees at the SHEFACTOR 2020 Launch Your Life Summit, an event that featured speakers such as Bethany Hamilton, Kaitlyn Bristowe, and Missy Franklin. She has also been featured in numerous business and travel podcasts.