Amy West | Influencer Spotlight 108

Описание: Amy West is the creator of AmyWestTravel.com, an upscale travel and lifestyle brand covering food, fashion, and family travel. Amy has been featured on Fox Business, USA Today’s 10Best.com, The Huffington Post, and TripAdvisor, to name a few. Amy is also the President and co-founder of North Florida Influencers networking organization. Named one of the “Top Luxury Travel Bloggers to Follow”, you never know what adventure she’ll dive into next. Amy resides in Jacksonville Beach along with her husband and two spirited daughters.

Can you tell us a little bit about your background as well as how Amy West Travel came to be?

In 2012, I started my own travel TV show. I joke that I waited around most of my twenties for someone else to come up with a TV show and let me host it because my specialty was hosting. I'd been doing commercial acting and modeling for several years. Strangely enough, no one wanted to give me a travel show.

I couldn't understand why. And my best friend said, you know, you could just do it yourself. And that was kind of like a strange idea. I thought, I don't know anything about making a TV show and producing a show, but I decided, what do I have to lose? We'd all gone through the recession. We'd lost a lot financially. I thought, Hey, the only way to go is up from here.

So, I started my own luxury travel show based on the first coast, and we did have local and some national exposure. And out of that, we eventually transitioned it into an online brand because the face of media was changing. So, YouTube was just getting started.

We put it up on YouTube, but it didn't have the kind of power that it does today. So, I started a blog. Blogging was really big in 2012. Eventually, social media eclipsed blogging. We used to use the social media to promote the blog. Hey, go read the blog. Now, the Instagram post is just as important as the blog posts. So, now today I do everything from spokesperson campaigns to Instagram. Now we're on TikTok, and it's quite the adventure because every day is something different.

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