Flightster Editor Srinivas Rao Announces the Search for "The Next Paid Writer" for Flightster

01 August 2010
Flightster Editor Srinivas Rao Announces the Search for "The Next Paid Writer" for Flightster
As the editor in Chief, I’m really excited to announce that we are going to be adding another writer to our writing team here at the Flightster Blog. First off, I want to give a well deserved shout out to all of the current writing staff for their contributions to the site so far. They’ve been instrumental in us getting out of the gate with a strong start.

In order to bring on next travel blogger, we’re going to do something a bit different. We’d really like to connect with the travel blogging community and get to know all of you out there who have travel blogs. We pay our writers between $75.00-$100.00 per post and our end goal is to build a top notch travel blog. Hopefully that will give all of you out there an incentive to participate in our hiring campaign.

* Write a Blog Post About Anything Travel Related on Your Blog: The first thing that we’d like is for you to write a blog post on your own blog about anything travel related. We figure why keep you from doing something you’re already doing
* Link to This Post/Flightster In Your Post: In your blog post, find a way to incorporate any of the current articles on Flightster or even this post as a link. This will enable us to know that you want to be considered for being chosen as the next member of the Flightster writing staff. We’ll be doing a roundup of all the entries as part of the contest and return the link love back to you.
* Tweet Your Post with the hashtag #FLIGHTSTER and follow us on twitter to to keep track of what we’re doing. We’ll also retweet your post to all of our followers
* Subscribe to the Blog: I encourage you to subscribe to the Flightster blog since we’ll be announcing all of our updates on this campaign via the blog.
* Become a Fan on Facebook: We’ll also be running many contests and cool travel giveaways via our Facebook fan page, so check out our fan page.
* Get our Attention: If you’re even more eager to get on our radar put up videos, podcasts, pictures or anything on your blog and share them on twitter with a mention of @flightsterblog. The main thing we’ll be looking at is your blog post, but if you’ve got some really creative ideas that will definitely get our attention.

The Benefits to You

* If you are selected as our next writer, you’ll be among good company with at team of excellent bloggers. Check out our writers page to learn more about them.
* Exposure: Ultimately Flightster will turn into a flight booking engine which receives thousands of visits a day, and your writing will be exposed to that audience.

In order to give as many travel bloggers as possible an opportunity to participate, we’re going to run the contest for two weeks. The deadline to enter will be Friday July 30th. The following travel Tuesday will do a roundup of all the entries and we’ll narrow it down to the 10 finalists. We’ll feature the articles of the finalists and the readers will vote on who should be the next blogger on the Flightster Staff. I’m really excited to see your submissions. If you have questions please feel free to email me at srinivasr@flightster.com

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