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Experience from operating in the past three years

I left Hong Kong where I had lived for 17 years in September 2018 to study in the UK on my own. In February 2019, I visited Malaga, Spain for the first time with friends without family. At that time, I had a whim. I wanted to record my experiences, opinions, and feelings, and share every bit of my study abroad with my family. As a result, I started the “Noran Travels” blog without understanding.

For me, “No-ran” is a state of enjoying every little detail of life, and it is also a lifestyle I want to share with all my readers. Over the past few years, I have been solely responsible for content creation, data collection, photography, website design and operation, marketing, and commercial cooperation. I love to collaborate with my own photos to record my current feelings.

The first step was to simply share it with family and friends, and gradually get a small amount of readers' attention. Later, I even received an invitation for cooperation from a Taiwanese TV station. I didn't have the habit of checking Instagram private messages at the time, so I missed the opportunity. What's more, I'm also reconsidering the possibility of an entire blog because of this. I started learning about running a blog, such as Google Analytics, Google Adsense, Affiliate Program, etc., and slowly searched for the “Journey to Noran” position. Other than that, this is also my first time to try website design and development. The version you are currently seeing is already the third website development platform I have used (Webflow). This is also because I tried it too many times and found that the current platform is better for search engine optimization (SEO), making my articles easier to read.

I need to balance my studies and work at the same time, and also have a side job in design (Noran Design) At the same time, I thought about abandoning the blog. Looking at the activities and success of other full-time travel bloggers, fluent writing, and professional photos, I thought I shouldn't have followed the bandwagon and become a part of them. Fortunately, after almost two years of silence, I gradually adjusted my mentality. Keep your original intention, share your experience and life as a goal, and don't let “numbers” influence your direction. One of my mentors once said that if you use the amount of interaction on social media as the standard for content creation, you will lose your way and create content that the public wants to see rather than the content you want to create from the bottom of your heart. Currently, I also receive commercial inquiries on a regular basis. Besides, I've only selected some brands that I think are useful and trustworthy to readers. The entire list of brands isReader Dealsmedium.

At the same time as I wrote this article, I had just graduated and started a new chapter in my life. Once again, I would like to sincerely thank all of our readers for their continued support! I hope my sharing will bring you some happy feelings, some peace of mind, and some motivation to work hard.