Press Coverage of #1 India Steemit Accelerator in Top Indian News Publications!
My first steemit accelerator program and Steem crypto meetup received some excellent coverage from select media outlets in India. Let me share the coverage details and a little information about 5 news publications that published the press release!
I'm funding these initiatives through the earnings on my blogs on Steemit so I thank you for your support and attention to my work!
I brought my friend @wolkpack-raj on board to assist me with drafting the press release, and contact news publications for it's dissemination. We built a strategy and pushed it within 3 days of the event. We both have some prior experience and contacts in media and his assistance contributed greatly towards bringing some much needed limelight to Steemit in these news publications.
Remember, this is just the start of many exciting things to come. So let's get down to business.
1. The New Indian Express
Started in the 1930s, it is one of the top news paper publications in the country reaching countless households in India through it's newspaper and digital format. The New Indian Express and Indian Express today are two separate entities, but originally belonged to the same group that founded both!
In my small coastal city of Mangalore, the daily edition reaches nearly 10000 households everyday. The coverage was on the Page 3 of the local edition, which frankly is a big deal!
It felt great to have my childhood friend call me and inform that he saw my event in the newspaper that his family reads everyday for the past 3 decades! I left right away to his house and brought home his copy of the newspaper!
Alexa report for this publication!
I hope to get a future event covered in the Indian Express which has the following reach!
Link to Story: http://epaper.newindianexpress.com/c/19812049
2. Bangalore Mirror (The Times Group)
It was incredible to see the story on Bangalore Mirror's online edition. It is part of the Indiatimes.com website and you see it's ranking below. This story was covered in their newspaper + online edition. Since it was run in their Bangalore edition I haven't been able to source a copy. But the online link is here.
The times group is one of the biggest news media house in the country! Check out their wiki page for more info!
Link to story: http://www.bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/news/state/new-age-blogging-trend-takes-over-mangaluru/articleshow/59259593.cms
3. News Karnataka
One of the biggest names in digital news coverage emerging from coastal Karnataka and a highly reputed publication that I've had the pleasure of associating in the past. I've been a consultant for editorial content for their publications (digital + Monthly Magazine) in 2016 and helped them revamp their Magazine publication completely.
It was great to see the story published here.
Link to Story: http://www.newskarnataka.com/mangalore/dawn-of-a-new-age-steemit-blogging-trend-beckons-on-mangalore
They had also published my piece on Steemit.com back in October, 2016.
A lot has changed since then for Steemit and I hope to write about Steemit again in other publications soon enough.
Link to Story: http://www.newskarnataka.com/features/steemitcom-blockchain-based-revolutionary-social-networking-site
4. Daily Hunt
Another popular daily news portal covered the story. I was pretty excited to see them support my initiative!
Alexa rating for Dailyhunt:
5. Coastal Digest
A relatively smaller publication compared to the ones above, but it's target audience is largely people from coastal Karnataka (my state, located in Southern India) and NRI's from this region.
Link to Story: http://coastaldigest.com/index.php/news/100621-dawn-of-a-new-age-steemit-blogging-trend-beckons-on-mangaluru
So these are the exciting results from the very first Steemit Accelerator held in the country to help recruit new users, influencers, educate people on using the platform and increase retention of quality users from India.
I hope you enjoyed seeing the results of my experimental campaign to take Steemit to the next level!
The next event will be at the IT Capital of India at Bangalore city so stay tuned to my updates!
If you like my work, please share my posts and follow my blog to support me. You may also continue reading my recent posts which might interest you:
- How I made $70000 in 11 Months Using a $300 Pre-Owned Laptop, Steemit and 10SP!
- My Most Incredible Steemit Milestone Moment and Why It Means the World to Me!
Wow, You are spreading steemit faster in India than anyone else in the world in their country.
No wonder how there are daily 5-7 new faces in steemit.chat #india.
It is because of your efforts that so many Indians are joining this platform and that too at such a rate even if it is in beta mode.
Hope you keep going at the same rate and keep doing events in some big cities so that millions of online addicted Indian youths join steemit and make this platform biggest and best in this world.
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@looftee thank you so much bro for your support. I figured someone needs to do this to help spread the word. :) Hopefully I can get more people to join the platform as we go!
Sure, you are doing great.
BTW a few people in this and your recent post replied to my comment thinking I have made that post. Getting some benefits of commenting on your posts now.
India have big population they can bring this steem too far
It's really awesome to see how Steemit is blown up in India, your work is very much appreciated!
Thank you very much. Glad to be part of this taking it to the next level. :)
All the balloons flying in the air, and India loosing day by day, i hope they will catch latter
Hello @firepower am also from INDIA from jammu and kashmir and yes @steemit is the new trend here .in kashmir we have a large steemit community who had been using it for months although am a few weeks old here and am really really enjoying it here..
The funny part is my day used to start with whatsapp and facebook no it turned turtle and the ist thing i check every morning now is steemit.. has anyone followed me? Do i have any upvotes during the night time? And all that...
I find it intresting and its growing fast and guys are going crazy for steemit..
P.s if u want to follow me its here @naseerbhat
Thank you
And am already following you @firepower
Thank you
Hi naseer! Me too ;)
then let us follow each other and upvote the posts @kskarthik
Done ! Followed you!
@firepower, this is the best thing to have happened to streemit in India. Awesome coverage. Thanks to your efforts streemit is set to explode in India.
All credits to you. And my gratitude to you.
Expecting the new deluge of talented Indians into streemit. Well done sir. This is going to be much more interesting here on.. 😊👌
Thank you so much @topdog!
Great post. I am a beauty YouTuber making videos catering to an Indian audience (I make videos in English, Punjabi and Hindi) so it's great to see that Steemit is making in roads there. I plan on promoting Steemit on my YouTube channel as well, which is growing quite nicely thus far (500-600 subs a month). Following you now so I can keep abreast of what's happening in India.
This is fantastic! Looking forward to seeing some of your work in the future. We have a thriving community on #India on Steemit.Chat. Log on sometime and you can network with more people from around here! :)
OK sure. I just joined so still getting my feet wet on how this all works. In terms of getting up to speed, other than reading the FAQs on the sidebar, are there any other posts/people you'd recommend I look into, in terms of best practices (like should I just be up voting everything I like, or is that bad, etc?)
Basically I'm a noob so any direction would be appreciated. Also I take it there a lots of bots on here too? I got some replies but I don't know who/what to trust. Any help appreciated, thanks!
I generally follow @liberosist @donkeypong @timcliff, @kevinwong @ats-david @acidyo @kyriacos @heiditravels @surfermarly and many others as their content appeals to me.
It's fine to upvote content you like, especially those of new users like yourself. As your Steempower grows you can vote using slightly lower percentages to maintain a healthy VP of over 80%
You can check steemd.com/@parveen or Steemdb.com/@parveen to check the same as well as other data related to your a/c.
I'd be happy to answer any other queries if you have! It's great to have you on the platform @parveen! :)
This is great, thank you I really appreciate it ❤️
Excellent "News" @firepower. :)
Thank you
Great going and this is indeed awesome news.
We can all take inspiration from this. The fact that Steemit could open so many avenues for people in our country if only they have a little faith needs to be spread. People need to join this one of a kind community.
Thank you so much. Looking forward to some more great action in the coming days.
Great stuff there man, looks really good on paper too hahah well done
edit: woops, for some reason i thought they're on paper. I guess news websites have replaced newspapers they even look like it :P
Thanks dude! Actually the first two are paper + digital. Rest 3 are digital only. I'll update the post to make it clearer.
Those are some nice figures.
We will surely see a large influx of Indian users here soon!
Thank you @firepower for your efforts to popularise steemit in India.
Respect!
Thank you so much. Happy to help. Looking forward to some more great action out here.
Congratulations, that's incredible coverage for your first event!
Thank you so much! Many more to come! :)