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Any quality vape kit today stands as an investment. Even if you’ve done absolutely no modifications to your device, getting a good quality vape kit and regularly replacing the coils, and using the right vape juice is of the utmost importance.

One of the best ways that you can save money on vaping is to work at maintaining your devices correctly.

Paying for an entirely new vape device and all of the newest accessories to go with it could be quite an expensive investment. Wear and tear with any vape kit is going to be something that you need to account for.

In order to make sure that your device continues functioning at a high-level, you need to make sure that all of the components onboard receive regular maintenance. Here are some of the best ways that you can extend the life of your vape products, so you get more bang for your buck!

Looking After Your Vape Batteries

The battery in your vaping stands as one of the main components that you will need to take care of. In order to enjoy the best level of experience, you need to make sure that your battery is going to be functioning at its maximum capacity.

Batteries will wear out over time especially as they are recharged or when they are stored improperly. Here are some of the best ways that you can keep your device battery in the best condition:

1. Don’t Overcharge

Make sure that the battery has a chance to actually work unplugged. Many devices can take a long time to charge and this can leave you quite tempted to leave it plugged in. If you plug in your device and leave it over a few days, this could very quickly start to damage your battery.

Regularly using your kit and making sure that it can wear out and get charged regularly can be important. A battery will quickly start to degrade when it is simply left plugged in. Taking a few puffs off of the device when it is at different stages of charge and making sure to plug it in as long as it is necessary to recharge can keep your battery life at peak.

2. Turn Off Your Vape Device

Pony, the experienced vaper who is working in Vape4Ever, suggests the users keeping the vape device in standby mode or always fully charged. Make it so that the overall storage in the battery can quickly degrade over time.

Make sure that you are regularly using your device and then turning it off after every use. Storing your battery over a long period of time and not using it can eventually lead to its starting to wear out. Making sure that you are diligent with turning your device off can preserve everything from the coils to the screen and the battery as well.

3. Remove The Atomizer

The atomizer will likely continue to use up the battery in your vape. Quickly detaching mods that drain battery power or the atomizer can make sure that you can extend the battery life of your vape kit and the overall battery life that you have out of the main battery that comes with the device.

4. Check Your Mod’s Battery Compartment Regularly 

If you have been messing with refilling your e-liquid or you store your kit in properly, this can often lead to the battery compartment starting to build up with dust or gunk.

When does starts to build up inside the battery compartment, this can clog some of the threading and components that can break circuits in your device.

Preventing this build-up and doing regular cleaning of your vape kit can be a good idea. This could help to prevent short-circuiting and severe damage to your battery as well as ensure that the device will regularly power on.

5. Get A Replacement Battery

Running your mod with a battery that has become worn out can be frustrating and it can also increase the load on other components in your kit. Making sure that your device is functioning well means having a battery that can hold a charge and deliver sufficient power output.

Many vape product companies will offer the chance to replace your battery with a manufacturer’s specified replacement battery. Certain types of vape pens will come with a battery that is attached in a compartment that cannot be opened.

If you have a vape battery that can be removed and replaced, make sure that you are regularly replacing these batteries or even purchasing a few extra batteries for fast swapping.

Replacement Coils

Coils can be one of the most expensive aspects of your vape kit. As the heart of the heating source, you’re going to need to take care of your coils in order to enjoy a better quality vaping experience.

Straining your coils can make sure that they will need ongoing replacement. If you want to keep them in the best possible shape, here are some top strategies that you can use for maintaining your coils with any vape product:

1. Changing Your Vape Juice

Your e juice needs to be changed out regularly. If you aren’t changing out e-juice or you are using your device occasionally, it doesn’t take long for your coils to start building up with vape juice and burning out. If you’re not going to be using your kit for a while, take out the oil and make sure that you are able to resell the coil when you want to activate it again.

Most e juice is also a product that will be transparent. Using an e juice that contains items like heavy flavoring or dyes could be dangerous for your health as well as for the health of your E juice. Make sure that you are only using newer E juice and a product that has a clear color.

2. Cleaning Your Coils Regularly

You can often extend the life of your coils by cleaning them out. Running any coil under warm water and rinsing out some of the e juice can help to extend the life of your coils by a few days.

Drying your coils out on a paper towel for 24 hours can help to remove some of the gunk that may have formed on that. It’s a good idea to use rubbing alcohol or Everclear to make sure that you can remove all of the extra gunk that may have formed on it.

3. Always Prime Your Coils Before Using Them

It’s likely that you will need to perform at least a few coil replacements with any vape kit that has a replaceable coil. The first time that you have to replace a coil, make sure that you are priming it properly. Most devices come with a user manual that includes step-by-step instructions that are required to prime your coil.

The basics of coil priming essentially mean that the holes along the side of the coils have had a chance to fill up with vape juice. When this vape juice makes its way in through the ventilation holes and interacts with the cotton in the coil this can lead to absorption through the coil and safer operation.

Priming ensures the cotton wick is properly soaked and ready to fire.

Failure to properly prime your coils could lead to what is called a dry hit. This occurs when the coil is not properly soaked in vape juice. A dry hit will often cause a coil to burn out quickly and cause a need for replacement.

To ensure that your coil is primed well, start the process of soaking the wick and then after a few minutes of soaking, make sure that you can take a few very small drags from your kit. By taking a few small hits from your vaping, you’ll be able to see if the coil is well saturated and if it’s time for you to enjoy the larger hits that you are more accustomed to.

After using the kit with smaller hits for the first few times after a coil replacement, you can enjoy it as you normally would, and without risking a dry hit.

Store Your Vape Products Correctly

Many vape products come with carrying cases or the option to install case mods around sensitive components. Making sure that you are always carrying the vape kit in a safe bag or a proper storage area can really extend its lifespan. Keeping your kit in your pocket or purse with a number of other components could lead to items getting broken.

Having a proper carrying case for the kit will also make sure that you can prevent breakages that occurred due to drops and more.

The temperature that you store your device at is also quite important. When temperatures get too hot or when the e juice gets exposed to sunlight, this can often change the flavor profile of the vapor and lead to components inside the kit wearing down quickly.

Exposure to high heat or cool temperatures can quickly compromise the structure of it. If you want to maintain longevity in your device, make sure that it’s only being used at comfortable temperatures and that it is always stored in a safe place.

And don’t forget to ONLY use the best quality vape juice possible – this is what the VapeBeat team use (and it’s all we use).

And then I found it: it’s called TrailBlazer and it is by far and away one of the best vape juices on the planet right now!

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Every now and then you hit a wall when it comes to vape juice flavors. You overdo the sweet ones, then switch to a fruity number for a break. Then it’s back to the sweet vape juice. And the cycle continues. This is what I did for ages. And then I got thinking: what do I actually want to vape? Is there something I hadn’t tried?

Turns out there was. I regularly spend ungodly amounts of money on premium peanut butter which I eat by the spoonful almost every day without fail.

But despite this, I’d never once vaped a peanut butter-style vape juice. I didn’t even know if they existed. Turns out they do exist – and there’s quite a lot of them. I tried a few but wasn’t impressed. And then I found TrailBlazer – my desert island vape juice!

TrailBlazer Vape Juice – AKA The Best Peanut Butter Vape Juice In Town!

When I was putting together the VapeBeat Juice Store, I knew exactly what I wanted and how I wanted it to work. I also knew that I wanted a high-quality peanut butter vape juice front and center. It didn’t take me long to cut a deal and get my favorite added, along with a bunch of other flavors from the same supplier.

TrailBlazer, at its core, is a tobacco blend vape juice. But don’t let that put you off; the tobacco is just there to add a rich, background flavor that ties everything else together. Alongside tobacco and peanut butter, you have butterscotch. This brings the sweetness that, when combined with the other two elements, creates a hugely satisfying vape.

In fact, TrailBlazer is the #1 most popular vape juice in the store – it’s got over 100 FIVE STAR reviews from our lovely customers which tells you two important things: 1) I’m not the only person in the world that loves a good peanut butter vape juice; and 2) not all tobacco-blend vape juices have to taste like ass – some can actually be rather exquisite!

Check out what Jeff Fisher, one of our customers had to say:

As a former smoker, I tend to lean toward tobacco-oriented e-liquids. I wasn’t sure what to expect with additions such as butterscotch and peanut butter flavors. The blend is perfect. In fact, the flavor is satisfying with no one ingredient being overbearing. There are about 12 different flavors in my inventory and this one moves to the top. Whether it be with morning coffee, after dinner or any time of the day, TrailBlazer is always enjoyable. The cloud is fantastic, even in a pod mod.”

Moral of the story? Be like Jeff; try new things like TrailBlazer ($18.99 for 120ML). You never know, you might just find your next favorite vape juice of all time!

Thinking of starting a vape blog? It’s not as easy as you’d think – here’s a bunch of hard-lessons I’ve learned over the years running VapeBeat

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Back when I started VapeBeat in 2014, things were very different. The market was in its infancy, there were no real vape blogs around, and the selection of vape products available in the UK (where I live) was pretty limited. You had ego-style vape pens and very rudimentary box mods that were almost too large to use – it wasn’t the good ol’ days basically.

So why did I start a vape blog? Two reasons: 1) I already worked in publishing, so I wanted to start my own site and, hopefully, turn a little side-hustle into a fully-fledged business; and 2) because I could never find any good/useful information about vaping online when I searched for it. I’d been looking for something to do for a while and these two things combined gave birth to the site you’re looking at right now, VapeBeat.

40 Miles of Bad Road…

Starting a new blog is hard. Starting a new blog about vaping is next to impossible, however, because all the things you usually have at your disposal (Google Ads, Facebook Ads, Facebook Promotion, Content Syndication) to generate traffic while you wait for Google to index your site are not allowed. Vaping is basically banned everywhere, so you can forget about PPC for bringing traffic to your blog…

I did not know this either when I started, and it properly fudged my plans. By this point, however, I’d already committed to the site, had the development work done, and was on course to launch. I couldn’t pull out basically, so I resigned myself to the fact that this site would have to generate traffic solely from content – and that meant getting shit-hot at SEO, as well as hiring someone who actually was (and good SEOs are not cheap).

On top of this, you will not get any traffic for at least the first few months. Why? It takes about that long for Google to index a new site. Again, this isn’t ideal, but you can get around it by using social media posts to push an initial trickle of traffic over to your content. But even then, it’s going to be just that, a trickle. Getting to the big numbers (100,000 – 500,000 users a month) takes time, a lot of investment, and water-tight SEO. And even if you do all that the entire industry could be wiped out overnight by a single new piece of legislation.

What You’ll Need To Start A Vape Blog (The Tools I Use)

If you read all of the above and you still want to give it a go, I doff my cap to you, sir! It’s a tough road, but it’s one that can be commanded if you use the right tools and have the right work ethic. I started VapeBeat alongside my full-time job as a technology journalist. I’d come home at 6 pm, then blog for several hours before going to bed because I couldn’t afford to pay anyone else to do it. And it did this for 12 months straight – remember: this takes work. A lot of work. And there’s not much reward at the beginning.

So what do you need to start your vape blog? Essentially, you need the following things – and these are truly essential, so do not skip them:

• Hosting – Hosting is the #1 most important thing you can invest in from day one. Make your site fast and it’ll rank quicker. This is just a fact. You can use cheap hosting but your site’s traffic, as a result, will suffer. I use Kinsta, it’s the fastest WordPress host on the planet and it will ensure your site loads in under three seconds on any device (a crucial metric that is part of Google’s ranking algorithm). A cheaper option, if you really don’t have the cash to spare right away, would be Bluehost – it’s much cheaper but it isn’t as fast.
• WordPress – You need something to build your blog on. And for that you’ll need to use WordPress; it’s the #1 best CMS on the planet and is used by everyone from The New York Times to us. And if it’s good enough for The New York Times, then it’s good enough for your vaping blog. Avoid Wix like the plague. WordPress is built for the web and is the only thing you should be using. And if you want to build your own pages, Elementor is brilliant for this – you can drag and drop stuff with zero need for code.
• Email Marketing – Remember what I said about Google ads and Facebook? This is why you need to build your email list from DAY ONE. Building your email list lets you build your own audience that Google cannot touch. It’s yours for keeps. And the best email marketing tool on the planet right now is ConvertKit. I’ve used a bunch – MailChimp, MailerLite, Aweber – and nothing comes close to what you can do with ConvertKit. It is the only email marketing software you’ll ever need.
• Optin Form Software – OK, so you have an email marketing suite in the form of ConvertKit, but how do you actually get people onto your email list? Simple: you use pop-ups and banners and inline opt-in forms on your site. And for this, you’ll need OptinMonster – AKA the best lead generation software on the planet. You can use exit-intent pop-ups, inline opt-in forms, and even hello bars, and pretty much everything else in between. OptinMonster will even collect your email leads for you too if you want to start collecting before you have ConvertKit downloaded.

How Do Vape Blogs Make Money?

I don’t know how all vape blogs make money, but I’m guessing it’s a combination of three things: affiliate commissions, ads (either programmatic or direct), and paid-for content. The problem with all three, however, is that you need traffic in large volumes to make them work.

If your blog is doing less than 1000 visits a day, you’re going to struggle to make any money from ads, affiliates, or paid-for content. In order to succeed and grow your brand, you need traffic, and to get the traffic you need great content that ranks well in Google.

Here at VapeBeat, we make the majority of our revenue via affiliate commissions, whereby we make a small fee every time somebody buys something after reading about it in one of our posts. We also run ads, direct and programmatic, and we launched our very own vape juice store in 2019. We DO NOT do paid-for posts or reviews, however, as I don’t agree with them. If we recommend a product it is because we like it, not because someone paid us too.

Again, to make a living running a vape blog, you’ll need to be generating north of 10-20K visitors a month. And even then, that’s the absolute bare minimum. Ideally, to turn a blog into an actual business, you’ll need to be clearing the 100K mark. Get it to over 500,000 visitors a month and you’re looking at some pretty solid revenue per month (easily $10-$20K). But getting to this point isn’t easy – it takes work and A LOT of investment in software, hosting and people to become a dominant brand online.

In fact, the biggest costs I have running this site are people (marketing and SEO) and hosting (around $800 a month). Chuck in all the other additional costs from the tools and services you need to run a successful blog and you’re looking at costs in excess of $2K a month. And that’s if you write your own content. If you can’t do that, add another $1K onto that figure. Bottom line? It is expensive to grow a website. And just doing content is not enough; you need to be thinking about collecting emails, CRO (conversion rate optimization), updating content, producing content, staying on budget, managing people, and keeping track of all your bills and invoices…

Biggest Single Cost of Running A Blog?

Hard to say, as it’ll depend on your skillset. But for me, it’s SEO and development, as I’m not “pro-grade” at either of these things. My SEO is passable, I could get by with it at the start, but to get to the next stage (over 200,000 visitors a month), I had to start investing heavily in technical SEO and that stuff ain’t cheap – you’re looking at $175 an hour for a good, technical SEO.

And SEO isn’t something you can cheap out on. I learned this the hard way. I used an agency for 12 months at a cost of $800 a month and they did exactly ZIP for my site. Eventually, I fired them and found my current SEO provider. Within a month of employing this dude, I had a 40% increase in traffic and visibility in my Google rankings. They also fixed my site’s speed issues and sorted out its structural issues (cos that’s a thing).

Could you do all this by yourself? I guess you could if you’re already an SEO professional. But learning it all from scratch would take years. I’ve been working online as a writer for over 10 years, so I have passable SEO, but the stuff that goes into technical SEO is so far beyond my reach that I still don’t understand half it. There are some really good SEO courses online (this one is awesome for beginners), and they’re well worth it in the beginning. Get yourself a grounding in SEO, take your blog as far as you can with it, then hire someone that REALLY knows what they’re doing to take it to the next level.

My Advice? Recapping All of The Above…

If you want to start a vape blog, there are a few things you can do to give yourself a leg-up, so to speak.

• The first is to make sure you’re good at writing – not just OK, but damn impressive. And for that, you’ll need to practice, read, and maybe take a course or two (this one is very good).
• Next, get good hosting – I use Kinsta, it’s the #1 best WordPress host on the planet. It’s pricey, but beginner packages start from as little as $30 a month. If you want to keep your costs low, use Blue Host – it’s cheaper and you can always swap once your blog starts growing.
• Third, do as much of the work as you can yourself. This will save you money in the short term which you’ll want to do. Trust me, it starts getting expensive the bigger you get, so the more you can save at the beginning the better. Fourth, be prepared to work really f***ing hard – like harder than you ever have before. It takes a solid year or two to grow a blog from zero to slightly more than zero, so be prepared for this.
• Finally, write good content. Stuff that helps people. There are too many affiliate sites on the web as it is – people are now savvy about the type of content that is legit and the sort that is purely designed for affiliate commissions. You need to love and care about what you do. If you do, this will come across in your content and people will respond to that accordingly – whether through sales or signing up to your mailing list.

There really is no magic formula for starting a vape blog; it’s just a lot of hard work, money, investment (both time and money), and trial and error. But, hey, all blogs started at zero, right? Even huge ones like The Huffington Post and Engadget, so just keep the faith, do good content, and try to be different enough to stand out from the crowd!

Looking to cut down on the amount you vape? I was too, so I tried a few experiments out and ended up cutting down my vaping by about 50%

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If you, or someone you know, think you vape too much, perhaps it is time to make a change? Working from home means that I can vape pretty much whenever and wherever I want. But this can create issues. And the #1 issue is vaping too much, so I had to change something in my routine…

I tried a few things out, but the following things helped the most. I implemented them at different times, but collectively they helped to reduce my vaping by about 50% on a daily basis. So if you’re interested in reducing the amount you vape, read on for my #1 top tips…

My #1 Tips For Cutting Down on Vaping

#1) I Only Vape In One Place At Home

I kind of covered this is the opening paragraph. But I’ll expand on it now. When you work from home, you’re never on the clock. You can take breaks whenever you like and come and go as you please. It’s great. But my vaping had gotten out of hand because of this freedom. I was vaping way too much – in the bathroom, the kitchen, my office, the garage, wherever basically!

Something needed to change, so I made myself a rule: from now on, you can ONLY vape in one room of the house. And the room I choose? My office; it’s where I spend most of my time. I also like to vape when I’m working. This one simple tweak massively reduced my vaping, so if you’re looking to cut down just limit your vaping to one room in your home. It’s simple and, best of all, it works and is easy to stick too.

Side bonus: if your designated place of vaping is your office, it means you’ll spend more time there and get more work done!

#2) I Only Use 35MG Nic Salts

This one’s a little controversial, but it works for me. I basically only use 35MG Nic Salts vape juice these days (this is my #1 juice right now if you’re interested). It’s stronger, it does the job, and, for me, it means I vape far less than I did when I was using weaker, higher VG vape juice. You will need a pod vape for this (I use this one) or an MTL tank and vape mod (this is the MTL tank I use).

You CANNOT use this kind of vape juice inside a sub-ohm tank or an RDA or RTA. The entire point of Nic Salts vape juice is to more closely simulate the sensation of smoking – that means less vapor and bigger nicotine hits. This is why you HAVE to use MTL tanks or pod mods that are MTL. Anything else will be too much and result in nausea and headaches. And you don’t want that.

#3) I Stopped Taking My Vape Everywhere

Since about 2013, my vape has literally gone everywhere with me. And I really do mean everywhere. I never left it in my car, even if I was just popping out for a second. It was always in my pocket, ready for action. And this was the same at home; it was always stashed in my pocket, so I could have a toot whenever I felt like it (which was all the time).

To fix this, I simply stopped taking my vape everywhere with me. I now no longer take it with me when I drive to places to run errands. I don’t carry it around at home. And if I’m driving somewhere, I’ll wait until I get there (as long as it’s under an hour away). This method alone is great for reducing your net vaping very quickly, as it takes away a ton of scenarios where you’d normally be able to vape.

#4) Switch To A Tobacco Vape Juice Blend

Again, this one’s a bit out there. But it works for me, so I’m sticking to it. Basically, as the title suggests, I now only really vape tobacco blend vape juices, unless I’m testing some new stuff out for the site. But just because its tobacco vape juice doesn’t mean it has to taste like ass. My go-to vape juice – Top Brass, a peanut butterscotch tobacco blend – is one of the nicest tasting vape juices on the market right now.

But because it is tobacco, it helps me to limit my use. It reminds me of smoking and when I think of smoking I think of bad things like cancer and tar and diseased lungs. This means I’m less inclined to vape as I would be if I were using something fruity and super-tasty. As noted above: I only ever vape 35MG Nic Salts too, so limiting my usage is kind of essential – you literally can’t vape that much at that level. A couple of toots an I’m done for 90 minutes or so…

#5) In The Evenings, I Vape Outside

I’m not always in my office, so when it comes time to relax and chill, I take my vaping outside. The #1 reason for this is that I now have a son, Archer, who at the time of writing is just about five months old. I don’t want him breathing in my second-hand vapor, so I take my ass outside. And the upshot of this is that if it’s raining, I really don’t want to go out, so I don’t vape at all then. Ditto when it’s too cold.

#6) I Use MTL Tanks More or Less Exclusively Now

I love a rebuildable tank as much as the next guy, ditto sub-ohm tanks. But I do hate the way they fog up my office (and my car), so for this reason, about 18 months ago, I decided to switch over to MTL tank full time. I still use other tanks, obviously, I have to for reviews. But my day-to-day now is always MTL (and this is the tank I use). OK, but why did I switch? A few reasons:

• MTL tanks produce less vapor, so they’re more socially acceptable and don’t fog up rooms or your car after a couple of pulls.
• I prefer to use Nic Salts Vape Juice – and this style of juice works perfectly in MTL tanks (this is the nic salt juice I use day-to-day).
• I run my nicotine nice and high (35MG), so I don’t chain vape. At this strength, I maybe have four or five pulls an hour tops.
• MTL tanks, because they run at lower wattages, use less battery power and don’t eat through vape juice as fast as high-power sub-ohm tanks. This is a huge benefit if you’re looking to save money.

Why I Cut Down My Vaping?

I decided to cut down my vaping for two reasons: 1) my son was born in August 2019 and I didn’t want him being exposed to second-hand vapor in my home or my car. You can argue that second-hand vapor is harmless, which it basically is, but I still don’t want my son breathing it in, and reason #2) I was basically vaping too much. I wanted to cut down, simple as that.

I know a lot of the steps listed above require some will power, but they’re all really easy to follow. Even if you just implemented step #1 or step #3, you’d still probably dramatically reduce the amount you vape and this, in turn, would save you money by making your vape juice and vape tanks go farther before requiring a change.

Before I implemented this new regime, I was getting through about 2X 30ML bottles of Top Brass a week. Now? I barely get through 15ML a week. And if you’re doing the maths, that’s a significant saving of over $24 or thereabouts (Top Brass costs $19.99 per 30ML bottle) which you can put to good use inside a savings account or towards something else like stocking up on vape juice before these bans get out of hand!

As I said in the steps, not all the steps outlined in this post will work for you but most people should be able to get some success just using a couple of them. They do require that you make some changes, but this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Not when you’re saving money by vaping less. And on a side note, I now actually get way more enjoyment from my vape simply because I am now using it a lot less.