About a week ago I received a phone call from Keski-Uusimaa newspaper journalist. He wanted to do an interview of us to the local newspaper. “Yeah, why not“, I said. Our story was published on Saturday morning, and it reserved more than half a page. This kind of publicity is nothing but good for us, so I must say I am very grateful.
Although we write our blog in English, the interview article is written in Finnish (click the picture in order to read the story). It is titled “Old school dudes write a very popular ski blog in Kerava (my city)”, and the focus is in me and this blog. Pictures of the story are shot by me. I’m glad those two skiing photos from Dream Forest (Chamonix – Argentiere) finally found their way to printed media. The small picture of myself was shot by a friend in Couloir des Cosmiques, one of the classic off-piste runs of Chamonix.
I started writing this blog about 1,5 years ago. After few days it was indexed by Google, and the first visitors found their way in. I started from absolute zero. I was a complete newbie with blogging and media things, but I had a desire to write about the sport I love. Since those days we have not only learned a lot, but also grown a lot. Today we gather +120.000 monthly visitors and our traffic keeps on increasing. Our aim is to become the most popular and highest rated online ski magazine in five years.
Although my background and experience as a skier is much discussed in the article, they also mention my partners Jarkko-Juhani Henttonen and Janne Niini. Unfortunately they forgot to mention our American dude Matthew Keränen, a HomeboySki partner as well. May be I did not make it clear enough.
They write how everything started from Chamonix. This is something I really like, because it is nothing but the truth. Without Chamonix there would be no HomeboySki. We met with Jarkko and Janne in Chamonix back in 1997. Our friendship is a good example of strong friendships skibums have. It was obvious for me to ask fellow skiers to join this endeavor.
Newspaper also points out that our aim is to write this blog for living. There is a well-thought business idea behind this blog, and our goal is really to write to live. I hope we can make it, because what could be better than write this ski blog all day long?
Well, may be skiing backcountry all day long would be better. 
2 Responses
OH MAN!!! I didn’t realize that you Marko are from Kerava!? It’s great to see and read this sort of blog containing so much info and “real stuff” about skiing! i really do admire people like you, who have so much enthusia about the sport, that they’ll end up publishing stuff like this blog! Just keep up the GOOD work!
And good luck in the future as well!
-Antti from Kerava, Kannisto
Oh yes Antti, I’m your neighbor
I found your blog few months ago and have followed your writing every now and then. I read a number of blogs although I rarely leave comments. You do telemarks? I’ve gotta question for you. Could you send me your email address? Check our contact details in http://homeboyski.com/about/ or http://homeboyski.com/contact/
Thanks for your feedback! It’s great to see that people like what we write in our humble ski blog. We have several cool interviews of ski megastars coming soon, so check our front page every now and then.