how to build your dream publishing project
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In this presentation for Traverse 14 , drawing on my 11 years of experience of working in publishing, I shared some ideas of how to build and create successful publishing projects.TRANSCRIPT
How to take your publishing to the next level beyond just blogging
Kash Bhattacharya !
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Little about me…
• BudgetTraveller.org
• Featured in the Guardian, NY Times, CNN, Vanity Fair, Cosmopolitan to name a few
• Helped develop award winning campaigns like #BlogVille and #Blogmanay
• Publishing -10 years experience
“No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.” !
Samuel Johnson !
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152,000,000?
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To thrive in the current world of digital publishing you have to see yourself
as an innovator.
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Have a really damn good idea
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Film Traveller!Cote D’Azur
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A travel blog about the film connections that Cote
D’Azur enjoys. !
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German Wanderlust
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48 Hour Guides to Germany’s leading youth
destinations.
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Where do damn good publishing ideas come
from?
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Solving problems? Solving problems that no one else sees
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Little Green Map
!From sustainable
restaurants to recycled jewellery shops-a unique map to help locals find ‘green’ inspiration on
their doorstep.
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Luxury Hostels of
Europe !
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A guidebook to Europe’s coolest design hostels.
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Please.!Allow yourself to be creative
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!!!!!!!!‘In our frenzied connected world we need to make some time to
make some mood for creativity……….
!A tortoise cocoon from which we can check it's safe to come out into a self-created oasis in our
lives.’ !
John Cleese!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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“I don't go into ventures to make a fortune. I do it because I'm not satisfied with the way others are
doing business.” !
Richard Branson!!
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2. How you execute the idea will determine your success.
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Learn to delegate &Work with good people who know their *shit*
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Pitch like a proMost great publishing ideas,
blogs fail because of their inability to find the cash to take their ideas forward.
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Lara Dunston. Grantourismo. An entrepreneurial model for travel writers working in an evolving media. Tnooz
“I’ll be spending as much time pitching ideas as responding to them, developing story ideas as writing them, and initiating almost as many
project concepts as they’re working on. ”
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“You must be able to condense your pitch into one sentence.”
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Travel guides for Film Lovers
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Importance of good design.
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It’s good to have a media kit because it makes you and your blog look credible…
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Does your story matter?
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Tell a story that people can relate to. Hopefully you’ll find brands
that relate to your story too.
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Be prepared to fail. Many times.
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“Success is failure turned inside out, the silver tint of the clouds of doubt”!
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There are a lot of opportunities we can derive from failure, we just need to know how to.”
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Thank you for your time! Questions?