Hi Steemians, I have been already posting for couple of weeks on Steemit. In the beginning of this journey, I just wanted to share some of my travel blog and vlog posts before the "introduce yourself post" to give you an idea about how my account will grow... However, I think now it's time for a more personal introduction :)

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Who am I?

My real name is Duygu. I was born in Ankara the capital of Turkey and now living in İstanbul for almost 4 years. I'm a 28 years old dancer, engineer, enterpreneur and a traveller.

I've joined Steemit community to share beneficial travel blog/vlog posts to give some hints and advices about the places I visited. I hope my content not only will be helpful for travellers who are making their future plans, but also will enjoy people who are interested in hearing stories from all over the world or who just wants to have some fun:) For bonus, I will also be sharing some posts about dance events, competitions etc. ;)

Now, It's time to give you more details about me and Vovidi...
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Me as a "Dancer"

Let's get started with the passion of my life. <3 I started my dancing career with ballet when I was 6 years old. Even before that I was trying to do some moves in the living room imitating the ballerinas on TV:) After taking ballet lessons for 6 years, I started ballroom dance in 2008. Now I'm a licensed dance sport athlete and licensed trainer of World Dance Sport Federation. (WDSF)

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My main branch is Ballroom Latin which includes 5 dances: Samba, Cha Cha, Rumba, Pasodoble and Jive. I'm competing in the Latin branch for 10 years but since I'm a coach I also dance Ballroom Standard.

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I'm addicted with competitive dances but I also enjoy social dances like Salsa/Bachata/Kizomba and Argentina Tango. Sometimes I go Salsa festivals and Milongas in Turkey and also in some other countries. One example is Salsa Beach Splash Festival in Sibenik Croatia about which I created a detailed steemit post with a D-tube video ;)

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I also love taking a role in big dance shows. My favourite one was of course being the leader dancer as Alice in the Alice in Wonderland.

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I enjoyed every moment from the rehearsals to the end of the show.
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Me as an "Engineer"

I've graduated from civil engineering department of Middle East Technical University (METU) which is one of the best in Turkey.

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Then, I moved to İstanbul and started to work as a sales engineer and I even become the sales manager of the company at the end of 3 years. My company's purpose was providing earthquake protection and acoustical isolation products for the new constructions. I've preferred the sales departmant and never done engineering itself because I was aware of that I would be much more succesful if I can use my social skills in my work. Sitting in front of a desk and making calculations all day long is really not my thing and I want to be more energitic and creative. This is why at the end of 3 years, I started to feel like I was stuck in the corporate life and I decided to resign. This is the the time when my enterpreneur life began.

Me as an "Enterpreneur"

Firstly, I've applied to the Istanbul Technical Universty's Start-Up Incubation Center. My idea was a newbrand social platform on Blockchain, created for travellers to share and monetize experiences. (You can contact with me for details.) The name of the project is "Vovidi". I've created this name by using Latin. There is no such a word in Latin but I mixed the words Vovi and Vidi and It made me feel like it means "devoted to travelling". :) With my team, I've managed to become succesfull in all my jury presentations and reached the semi finals of the BigBang Start-up challange.

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However we had changed our mobile developers 2 times and we have lost to much time and couldn't make the finals. Still our project is on hold and maybe it is a good thing because I just pivotted and started developing Vovidi as a rule changing travel blog/ vlog and trying to do my best to become a succesful travel content creator.

Me as an "Traveller"

If the one thing that makes me feel alive is dancing yeahh certainly the other one is travelling! <3 Instead of getting tired, the more I travel, I feel much more energitic. I used to travel a lot before "Vovidi" but after creating my project I started to do my plans in a different way, started recording my travels and creating vlogs, taking notes and giving importance to the details. Especially in the last couple of months I deeply focused on developing my blog www.vovidi.com both English and Turkish.

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Furthermore I started making sponsorship deals with the hotels,car rental companies etc. for the upcoming destinations. I offer a marketing package in return of 1-2 night stays or hiring a car compliemtary. It requires patience to get paid as a travel blogger or vlogger, but you should start from some point right? and creating sponsorships is the best one;) I'll be sharing some tips for that on my steemit, so keep following me :)

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My Social Channels

I created my Steemit account with my brand name "Vovidi" and trying to be known with this name. Here are the other channels that you can follow me & Vovidi:
Blog Page www.vovidi.com
Instagram @ vovidi.travel
Facebook @ vovidi
Youtube @ vovidi

You can also reach me via steemit.chat or discordapp with Hive account@vovidi