Hello Friends we are featuring bloggers and incluencers here, Today we are sharing the success journey of Instagram Food blogger and influencer Ahteshaam in his own wording.
So let’s begin with the Journey of Ahteshaam in his voice:
I am a 26 year old food blogger and influencer. My name is Ahteshaam Hublikar.
I was a normal guy from Somaiya College, who along with his friends loved to explore different dishes everyday from 7 different canteens of the college. Exploring dishes and food has always been my passion and my friends have been my companions. We never repeated any dish from any canteen ever. Then we started exploring food in local restaurants, from local restaurants we moved to slightly better ones… Exploring food became fun. We explored all sorts of cuisine such has Mughlai, Chinese, Mexican, Italian, etc. Suddenly here an idea popped into our heads. The idea was to open a page on social media and share our food experiences. But then the question was what do we name the page, then we thought since we wander around in restaurants for food we should call it wheres_the_fo0d(WTF).
Slowly n steadily posts and followers on the page increased. People started liking our page and from here we started getting offers to review small outlets and restaurants. Prior to this we never had an idea about all this, we dint even know what does it mean to review. Then gradually the number of reviews of restaurants and small outlets also increased. Now, we also started getting offers from mid level cafe’s, restaurant, parlours. I very well remember when I started reviewing mid level brands, I started with Oasis in Matunga. Their PR representative called me to review their dishes and she also recommended me to other restaurants and marketing agencies. Then I started getting offers and contracts from mid as well as higher level restaurants and cafe’s such as Lord of Rings, Tamasha, Jalwa, DamaDam Mast Kalandar, Potpuri, etc. Like this I reviewed around 200 restaurants in just a year and a half. Then I realised I also started getting offers from brands to promote their products on my Instagram page . So I started working for brands like Lay’s, Kellogg’s, facial creams, electronic products, etc. I thought that now since I also work for brands, my account name wheres_the_food is invalid. So I changed it into a general account as an influencer profile. I decided that I would just not focus on food but promote every other brand. So I started endorsing and promoting all types of brands such as beauty, travel, fashion, lifestyle, campaigns, etc.
From a part time food blogger I became a full time influencer now and as an influencer I promoted and worked for more than 100 brands over these years. Then I also started promoting movies such as Street Dancer 3D, Panipat, and Suryavanshi etc and in political campaigns for Rajasthan and Jaipur government. I have also worked for web series with Zee 5, Alt Balaji and Amazon Prime. So basically I have engrossed myself totally into a full time influencer by promoting different products, brands, food, movie, music, web series, political campaigns, etc.
Honestly, my journey by far has not been easy. I have struggled alot to get to where I am today. I tried seeking help from bloggers initially when I dint understand things but nobody was willing to help. I used to feel pathetic but now if anyone is willing to know something or learn something about blogging and influencing then I am more than happy to help them because I know the pain of feeling helpless.
I would conclude by saying ” You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing”. It’s all upto you!
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