PEARL iZUMi purchased our photo from the Miles of Portraits: Alaska trip to run as a print ad in Outside Magazine's July/August edition in 2019 for their "Go Wild" campaign. Annalisa and I take a moment to reflect on the 8 steps it sell the print rights to be run in one of the largest outdoor magazines in the world. Let's say, neither of us could have expected this.
Support the Miles of Portraits: India kickstarter:
0:44 Step 1: Becoming PEARL iZUMi ambassadors
1:23 Step 2: Get rejected by a scholarship
2:34 Step 3: Pitch your rejections
3:45 Step 4: Pitch brands
4:54 Step 5: Pitch fans
6:20 Step 6: Hitting our stretch goal
7:17 Step 7: A little luck
10:07 Step 8: Sell print rights
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Erik Douds is an adventure filmmaker who has biked 10,000+ miles with teammate Annalisa van den Bergh while overcoming the obstacles of type 1 diabetes. Their work has been featured on the cover of Adventure Cyclist Magazine (100,000+ distribution), used for print ads inside Outside Magazine (2.8M readers), and he is a global ambassador for Beyond Type 1 (1M+ followers).
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