Travel Smart with Skyscanner Contest

Managed to finish it & submit it on time.   

Submitted 

hey folks,So I wrote for th contest one of my very first :))Please emme know your reviews...so that some day I might just have a chance to win something :DHere are the links :  <snip> hope I did OK :(:seeya 

Best of luck in your endeavors but you are not supposed to post blog links and promote your blogs in the forums. So I have removed the link.

Good luck, Geetanjali! Keep participating and never loose hope, you can always win. 

Best of luck. Fingers crossed 

Best wishes for your maiden IB contest :)

It's nice to see the enthusiasm around travel.  I gave it a miss .. but here's wishing all the best to everyone who has participated. 

What? A travel contest without Arti? Am I dreaming or something? Would have loved for you to add Singapore or Thailand to your list of destinations. Thailand has so many beautiful temples. Just your kind of place.

people may not blog much on travel...but everyone does travel someplace or the other in their real lives :-)

Thank you :)

I was looking for your entry. Then, got the SkyDeck treat! Thanks!

@TF: Haha, that's a wonderful compliment to receive, and that too from YOU, TF, thank you. 

@Nandini: True that, Nandini!

@Gaurab: All the best again. :)

@Anita: You are most welcome, always. Thank you so much for checking it out.  

Hurray!! I also participated in this contest.. submitted last night..

Went through most of the entries, seems like I am the only one who didn't use Skyscanner to either book my flight ticket(as my journey is just by train and bus) or plan my trip. My enty is just "travel smart" but not "travel smart with Skyscanner", hope it will be considered..

Meghana, The only criteria as far as I can see is that it needs to be creative and includes a link to Skyscanner. So it might still have a chance :) Good luck !

Hope so Sid, might b I will have to go with contest title as well frm next contest. 

There are many different kinds of entries. I saw few who have just written an ad campaign for skyscanner and have forgot to write about their travel. I think it will for sure be considered. 

Meghana, Don't worry! A couple of entries (incl mine!) that haven't booked flight tickets at all, are there to give company

Meghana, mine is the stupidest entry which focuses on traveling on a shoe-string budget. Beat that And I didn't even highlight the destination

Meghana, Fairy Princess, Anita and the rest- I think as long you have a link to skyscanner and it mentions travel, it's in with a chance. Smart travel can be interpreted in so many different ways. If there's anything that I've learnt from writing for contests is that the more creative you can get, the more chances you have. As for the skyscanner advert, I suppose mine is one of those. But hey, I'm happy with what I wrote, and you guys should be with yours too. At the end of the day, we're writers and to write well should be the first thing on our agenda. Winning, not winning etc are sometimes out of our control. Good luck all. Now, don't shoot me, I'm just giving my opinion :D

Sid, how can I shoot you when I don't have a gun?

PS: No worries! I will seriously find a way to travel to Leh in 2014 or 2015. Keep your fingers crossed for me

Anita n FP, chkd ur entries just after commenting here n good to find u thr for my company.

Gaurab, with the results of recent past contests, campaign posts are up on the winners list, thts the reason I took off frm most of the contests here.. Participated in this bcoz my post is just a regular blog post on my travel blog, with a link to Skyscanner

Sid, enjoying ur writting is wht matters at the end of the day, so enjoy..

Even I have not mentioned SkyScanner anywhere on my post except for the mandatory link. I never bother with advertising products. But then I never win either. But I still enjoy writing in my own style for these contests.

TF, wishes for the contest..

@Meghana, @FP, @TF Good Company

@Sid Totally agree. We all enjoy sharing our creative ideas, writing & participating! Results are not in our hands!

@The Fool - *RESPECT*

@Meghana - Winning is a different thing. That's totally based on their choice. 

@ALL - We all write that's true but we write for different reasons.  

@Sid,

Gaurab, its either way round, u just can't campaign a product for the sake of winning, going out of your blog's niche and creadibility. Everyone participate hoping to win, n if ur post without a campaign has very limited chance of winning, its btr stay out of the contest..

Same here Meghana. I laid out my plans but I am not flying actually I have written why flying didnot make sense. Even thoguh you are writing for a contest it shoud be of value to your readers.

Meghana - There is a third option of participating without desire to win. Many of these contests provide a basic core to weave our ideas around. So even if I feel I won't enjoy writing what sponsors want but can write something within the contests rules and have fun, I do it. That is why in some of the past contests, I have even gone as far as to have fun at the expense of the product. (which is a sure shot way of ensuring that you don't win)

 Meghna.. dont worry.. we don't have to do an adv. of skyscanner in our blog.. as long as ur entry contains a link to their website, it is considered. Very true, many people have written an advertorial to skyscanner and forgot about their dream destination...

True Sneh, wishes for the contest..

NSV, You didn't post any last-minute entry? It would have been +1 then!

yea..was expecting 250+ or so

The number of prizes were too less to make me fancy my chances

They would have received more entries if the prizes were travel pacakges instead of just flight tickets. 

Agree with Ranjith. And another reason could be too many sponsors offering similar prize (travel ticket/tour) at the same time- Skyscanner, British Airways, and now Kissan. Non-travellers won't be interested in these.

i actually love these kinda travel/tour prizes....they are far more interesting than gadgets/ speakers etc

but i'm yet to win any travel contest

ND You can sell gadgets and buy travel packages but you can't sell travel pacakges and buy gadgets 

you won ITC contest and you travelled for it  

And I win only clothing items - Lakme T-shirts and Biker Jackets

I submitted my post 2 days back and had some hard time finding my own post on indivine.

wish you all much luck with your entries! 

Best of luck to all the participants :-)..I gave it a miss  ( actually couldn't get into anything even after ransacking my mind )  some of the entries are really awesome !

I DID NOT SEE MY SUBMITTED POST IN THE RANDOM SELECTED BLOGSBLOGS 

Click the latest tab on the top and find your entry. 

When will be the results announced?

Results Please 

Skyscanner is still scanning the entries 

There was a contest for writing about the skyscanner meet, has the winners for that announced ? 

Suddenly Indiblogger has become still and quite. NO new contests, no results...little dull. Hoping for good news soon. Cheer up team Indiblogger!

Why don't you cheer them up, dear- by having Royal Challengers or Huwaei sponsor the next contest?

Ha ha Karthik! Sure. If something comes up and Inditeam wants to take it up, will make the bridge :)

Results !! Results !!

Winners announced for this contest as well!

Thanks Renie for being the bearer of this wonderful news :) Looks like Lady Luck hasn't forgotten me after all.

It was a rocking entry. Many congrats, Sid.