SP, sportpulse.net, was a sports web magazine focused on news and headlines about cricket, tennis, soccer, hockey, F1, and other sports. Its writers were from based across the world, who passionately wrote in-depth content and stories on sports and players — either as assigned or as per match schedules.

I am glad you asked. I got this job offer immediately after I wrote my first-ever article on Cricket on my blog, Planet "M". When I was promoting my article on Twitter, I also sent it to the Cricket Editor of this very site.

He quickly responded, provided his feedback, and within a week I got published on SP. Ting!

I was responsible for covering news and matches as assigned + weekly features in as Mona's Diary (my own column for SP).

I also helped the founders in improving website's readership via social media integration, etc.

• Writing match previews and reports as assigned.

• Weekly column for my dedicated blog on SP, in as Mona's Diary.

• Re-publishing content pieces on my sports blog, Planet "M", for keeping a record of my work and exhibit my skills.

• How does an online portal work to cover LIVE events.

• How does a virtually-distributed company manage its entire operations seamlessly across different teams and time-zones.

• Building authenticity as a writer + blogger via social media by creating an online audience from scratch.

• Social media integration via website to improve website's overall readership.

• Helped colleagues in improving their bios on the website for a more polished look.

• Working with a team that is 100% virtually-distributed and located at different time-zones.

• How to use MS Office for data visualisation for analytical content pieces.

• Suggested the founders to activate and regularly update SP's Google+ channel to find new audience whilst improving SEO.

• Suggested the founders to add SP's Twitter handle in the website code so whenever an article is shared on Twitter, it links back to SP's Twitter account.

I would say, I tremendously improved myself as a writer at SP. The readership of my first article was 1K-plus within few hours. And it was more of a regular thing for my weekly columns.

I started cricinfo-style data analysis content stories and series preview + review features, which worked in my favour given all those articles brought-in a lot of engagement; not just in terms of views but also in comments. (Plus, there were instances where I wrote the article first and cricinfo copied the same story idea at a later time.)

It was fascinating to see how a website covers LIVE events online, with a remote staff. Driving readers to website is indeed a daunting task. Working in punishing schedule was also a challenge, but that's what sports journalism has to offer you.

In all sanity, I wrote 16 articles that received 18,000+ readership; out of which 10 crossed 1,000-read mark within few hours.

You can read all the content pieces on my sports blog, Planet "M".

• • Monika Arora, Reporter at SportPulse.net

And, check my published articles' readership in this document.

• • Monika Arora, Writer at SportPulse.net

Following links may not work now, although they looked like this on the SportPulse.net website.

• • Mona's Diary on SP

  • Monika's writer profile at SP

For communication

• • Facebook Messenger

  • Facebook Group

For data visualisation

• • MS Excel

  • MS PowerPoint

For content writing

• • MS Word (for content ideation to final draft to-be-published on the website)

  • PaperRater (to proofread content for plagiarism, etc.)

  • Google Search (for both topic research and images)

  • WordPress (CMS for website content publishing)

  • Blogger (CMS for website content (re)publishing on my blog)

For content distribution

• • Various social media sites and content directories (It used to take me 1-2 hours to promote my own content)

  • Bitly (to track the link clicks for readership analysis)