What’s the next step when you’ve already created an award winning travel blog?

Would you keep going with more of the same or take an enormous risk and create a print+digital magazine to complement their blog?

Many people would stick with the first considerably easier option of  staying with the tried and true.

But for Craig and Linda Martin, who created the Indie Travel Podcast back in 2006 to document their travels and help other independent travels find their way, sticking with the tried and true was never an option.

The Martin’s might have put down their backpacks and settled back into New Zealand life but no way are they settling into an ordinary life.

They been busy making the Indie Travel Podcast even bigger and better by increasing the number of articles onsite, developing video as well as podcasts, creating a line of ITP products, and working on launching a print+digital travel magazine.

Sounds like a lot of hard work but having meet Craig and Linda earlier this year, I can tell you that they have the talent, the energy, and the enthusiasm to pull it off.

The Indie Travel Podcast magazine, due to be launched on September 1st, will feature all the best features of their award winning website. Like the website, the magazine will focus on providing the independent, budget conscious, adventurous traveler articles on interesting, off the beaten track destinations, practice advice on living the independent travel lifestyle, and reviews about books and blogs worth reading.

I just spent the morning reading an advanced digital copy of the first issue of the Indie Travel Podcast magazine and I wasn’t disappointed.

The lead article on the Kachin Independence Army in Burma by Tim Patterson and Ryan Libre and a photo essay of Lagos by Lola Akinmade balance nicely with guides to discovering the best of Tonga and finding tapas in Seville. Regular columnists provide practical advice for woman travelling solo, keeping healthy, and travelling digitally. Plus there’s an interview with round-the-world traveler Gary Arndt, book reviews, blog reviews, a world festival calender, and a number of city and location profiles.

Looks like a winner.

You can see for yourself by signing up for a free digital copy of the first issue of the Indie Travel Podcast magazine.

Be warned though. Once you’ve seen it, you’ll probably end up subscribing. That’s what I’ll be doing this week.

Related posts:

1. NZ Travel Blog Review: Introducing Maori Lifestyles
2. Sept/Oct Edition of Perceptive Travel Magazine.
3. Drop by these indie record stores on your travels
4. Looking for great travel writing? Then check out the latest Perceptive Travel Magazine.

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