Local Expert

Love your city? Travel, write, tweet, and repeat with NileGuide!

We seek web-savvy, social media-loving travel writers to help us create the most kick-ass travel content on the Web. In this position you will be the grand master of your destination pages: writing awesome content; weeding out the crap; and spreading the word on said awesomeness.

Do you like to tell people what to do? Are your friends and family sick of hearing about your city’s farmer’s markets/art galleries/street food/venues? You’re perfect. We want you to be the authority on your destination. In return, you’ll build your reputation as a travel writer with NileGuide, one of the Web’s leading travel planning sites.

Working for us, you’ll:

• join a community of travel writers around the world
• learn the ropes of social media
• get great experience working with a proprietary content management system
• hack into the online travel sphere mainframe
• attract visitors to your site (you’ll make more money that way)
• tweet to a wide audience using your very own, NileGuide-branded handle

New to NileGuide? Learn more about what drives us here.

As a NileGuide Local Expert, you must:

• have stellar writing skills, and have something to say about your destination
• have the ability to quickly take on the NileGuide voice and run with it
• write according to our stringent stylistic/grammatical guidelines. Because we have standards.
• love your destination and live there (you are the “local” expert, after all)
• be tech savvy (ok, so you can write an email, but we’re looking for a little more)
• be comfortable with social media: Twitter, FaceBook, Digg, etc.
• be an entrepreneurial self-starter needing little direct management
• have a college or university degree
• preferably already be able to create blog posts in WordPress, edit photos using Picnik, and do research online

Compensation:

Local Experts receive a monthly sum of $250 for the first two months while they’re getting their destination up to speed. After two months, performance will be assessed and Local Experts will move to a traffic-based payment structure. Our hope is that Local Experts will be able to earn far more money than at current work-for-hire rates.

How to Apply:

Email your application to editor@nileproject.com and put “Application for Local Expert” in the subject of the email. Please include:

• your resume
• a cover letter explaining why you would make a fantastic local expert for your destination
• applicable writing samples (these can be in the form of links)
• a link to a Guide-to-Go you made on www.nileguide.com, which should be…
  • 1-2 days
  • targeted to a first-time visitor to your destination
  • see the FAQs on our website for guide creation tips

We will respond to qualified candidates only.