Mentioned in Deccan Herald Newspaper

A couple of weeks ago, me and 5 travel bloggers spoke at the Social Media Week International Conference in Bangalore on how travel blogging is evolving as a profession. The audience was so curious about the monetizing part that I ended up writing an article on how to make money from your travel blog. It looks like even the media was curious about it. Yesterday, Deccan Herald mentioned me, the other travel bloggers and the SMW conference in their print and online newspaper. The article titled ‘Capturing memories through words’, written by ‘Preethi Ravi’ talks about the different facets of travel blogging, how to make money from it, how to treat it as your intellectual property and the various styles of traveling.



As I am currently traveling through Australia, I have been unable to check out the print version of the newspaper article. Have any of you seen or read this article in yesterday’s edition of the Deccan Herald?

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Mentioned in Deccan Chronicle

Now, I get mentioned in newspapers too! The newspaper Deccan Chronicle (DC) mentions me in their lifestyle article along with other travel bloggers. Anusha Vincent of DC talks about ‘Blogspotting for a travelogue’ in her article on wanderlust in the lifestyle section of her newspaper. In this article, she talks about the current breed of travel bloggers from Bangalore, what makes them blog and what all do they talk about on their blog.

Here is an excerpt of the mention: “while for Sankara Subramanian (www.beontheroad.com), back-packing is a means to meet new people, explore wildlife, and take off on his beloved motorcycle”.
This article  was published on Aug 15, 2012, but I came to know about it only today when I looked at the data of sites linking back into me.

Even though this news is delayed, it definitely makes me very happy. Thank you DC, Anusha Vincent, fellow travel bloggers, my fans and all my blog readers for making this happen. Cheers!!

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