{"id":93510,"date":"2016-08-26T13:11:43","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T13:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=91585"},"modified":"2016-11-08T10:09:22","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T10:09:22","slug":"blogger-spotlight-karen-beddow-mini-travellers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/blogger-spotlight-karen-beddow-mini-travellers\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogger Spotlight: Karen Beddow, Mini Travellers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Having three young children doesn\u2019t have to stifle your love of travel. It means you have to be more prepared and requires a whole new checklist of essential items. Founded by Karen Beddow\u00a0in 2014, <a href=\"http:\/\/minitravellers.co.uk\/\">Mini Travellers<\/a>\u00a0supplies parents with ideas for holidays and day trips. Not content with Mini Travellers, Karen has recently launched a new blog \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/fuelledbylatte.com\/\">Fuelled by Latte<\/a>\u2019, an extension of her original blog, focused on family, travel, food, lifestyle and fashion. In this spotlight <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/social-media-index\/family-travel-blogs-uk-top-10\/\">top-ranking family travel<\/a> blogger Karen talks to us about why people should read Mini Travellers, how she likes to work with PRs and what her blogging highlight has been.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Karen-Beddow-Mini-Travellers-Spotlight.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-91589 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Karen-Beddow-Mini-Travellers-Spotlight.jpg\" alt=\"Karen Beddow - Mini Travellers Spotlight\" width=\"382\" height=\"394\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Why should people read your blog? <\/span><\/strong>To find out what it is really like day tripping and holidaying with three little girls. Also to read what other people think of different places.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>How do you measure the success of your website?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>If a particular post is shared a lot and commented on Facebook I know I have been successful that day. It&#8217;s also lovely to be approached to review exciting destinations.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>What advice would you give to someone who wants to start a blog?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>It isn&#8217;t all free things and exciting opportunities, to get those you have to put a lot of time in,\u00a0 so you have to love what you are writing about and love writing.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>How do you work with marketers and PRs?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>Either on sponsored posts or through reviewing products, days out or holidays.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>How do you use social media to promote and share content? What are the challenges?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>I use SocialOomph to schedule most of my social media content. My biggest challenge is Pinterest, I really need to get better at scheduling content for this and using it correctly.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>What can PRs do in working better with you?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>For me that would be to reply promptly and say this opportunity is not progressing. It can be frustrating leaving days free and then being told at the last minute it isn&#8217;t happening.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">What has been your blogging highlight?\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>Either skiing with Mark Warner or my latest villa holiday with Simpson Travel, both amazing family holidays.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>What will be big in your blogosphere in the coming months?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>Over the summer it will be holidays, day trips and festivals well into late September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this spotlight top-ranking family travel blogger Karen talks to us about why people should read Mini Travellers, how she likes to work with PRs and what her blogging highlight has been.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":312,"featured_media":95029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1449],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93510"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/312"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93510"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95027,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93510\/revisions\/95027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}