When I started blogging in 2015, I had no idea what a Media Kit is, and how crucial it is to have one for my travel blog, particularly if I wanted to travel the world scoring sponsorships. I remember for the initial 4 months of blogging, I contacted about a hundred travel companies, and wrote them emails without my media kit — resulting in no positive response, and often, no response at all. Though initially, I thought it was because of the fact that I was new at blogging and my readership wasn’t impressive enough, I think now that I  look back at it, I can assure myself that it was because my email spoke highly of my inexperienced blogger-self. A 500-word long email with no media kit attached was, in fact, the reason (consider sending a 500-word email to an employer with no attached resume). So, having a media kit is important — particularly if you’re looking at blogging as a long-term plan and want to gain travel sponsorships and make money from blogging. …