Blog Post Sponsorship
“Jules” has been very, very busy. He (she?) works at a company that specializes in SEO. He just stopped by my blog and posted this note:
Hi,
I’m Jules and I work at [company name].com, a company interested in blog
advertizing. I found your blog engaging and I’m contacting you to ask if
you are interested in blog post sponsorship.If you are interested, kindly mail back for confirmation [email].Please include your blog’s URL.
Looking forward to doing business with you.Sincerely,
Jules Viernes
I Googled the phrase “blog post sponsorship” and discovered that it means opportunities for advertisers to pay for ads at the bottom of my posts.
Somehow I don’t think Jules is sincere. Here is a Google search with 9 other blogs that Jules has found engaging. In addition, looks like Elmer is also interested in “blog advertizing.”
Hi,
I’m Elmer and I work at [DIFFERENT company name].com, a company interested in blog advertizing. I found your blog onceuponadiet.blogspot.com engaging and I’m contacting you to ask if you are interested in blog post sponsorship.
If you are interested, kindly mail back [Elmer's email] and I’ll send you pricing details, guidelines and processes. Looking forward to doing business with you.
Sincerely,
Elmer
Skylar is also interested in blog post sponsorship.
Hello,
My name is Skylar. I just spent some time digging through your great blog and I found it very engaging. I’m contacting you to ask if you are interested in blog post sponsorship.
If you are, please e-mail me back and I will send you pricing details, guidelines and processes. Looking forward to hearing from you.
Kind regards,
Skylar Sinclaire
While I don’t think Jules really finds my site engaging, some days it sure would be helpful if my time on this blog paid off. What are your thoughts on advertising?
Read sponsorship is a good thing from Mashable.
Read a blog sponsorship justification from Mouse Clone.
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Mouseclone on 24 Jul 2008 at 10:44 pm #
Advertisements have their place I feel. I don’t think that I will ever pay to have someone write about my site. If someone feels the need they will write about it or post a trackback as you did, and I’m very thankful for that.
That post was ages old and you managed to find it. More than likely via google, but it was still found. This lets me know that the post was worth writing and it helped in a small way.
I do payperpost, and socialspark. I really get tired of them both. But it does help pay for the domain. That is what I really use it for.
steph on 25 Jul 2008 at 4:43 am #
Hey Beth: Jules Viernes? Ahahaha! Around the world in 80 days, perhaps? LOL!
I don’t have a problem with advertising on a professional blog. I wouldn’t do it on my for-fun blog, though. This I’d see as your professional blog, and I wouldn’t mind if I saw advertising or affiliate links here. I respect that as a way of making money. Everyone has to make it in some way.
When I decided to go with InMotion hosting, I clicked on the link at menwithpens.ca to get there. They have a little grid of advertising, if you want to have a look, that’s nice and unobtrusive. I got great hosting, they got a little bonus from my signing up. We’re both happy. They only advertise stuff they’d use.
I have read, though, that you should have so many posts and so many readers before you monetize. I think for sure you have enough material. I haven’t got a clue how many readers you have but you can always do some research on monetizing, or send a contact form off to James via menwithpens.ca, since they know quite a lot about marketing and advertising. They are setting me up. He will answer in very short time.
To sum up, I know you’ve had some moments when you feel it’s cheap or unsightly or something like that, but in my opinion, go for it. If it offers me something I might need or could use (you advocate quite a lot of things that really work for you, for example, and you could become an affiliate of those services and thus have their ads on your site), then I’d see it as you offering me resources, not just trying to get money out of my clicking.
Ellynn on 25 Jul 2008 at 10:42 am #
I have no problem with advertising on sites that I read, as long as it’s unobtrusive and low-key. You have the right to make money any way you choose. Of course, you obviously shouldn’t allow people to advertise products you don’t agree with, especially if you have written something to that effect. How great would it be to have a cupcake advertisement at the bottom, though? Serious awesome.
steph on 25 Jul 2008 at 6:50 pm #
Ooooh, a cupcake ad!!
(Seriously, the mention here of cupcakes as well as a pic of several delectable-looking ones on one post has had me going out to buy packages of two-bite ones! Which I managed to finish in two days!! I don’t know of any place around here that sells lovely fresh ones.)
doboloh on 14 Sep 2008 at 4:55 pm #
i think this a new way of phishing for email addresses, i also received a comment like this at my blog (http://dreamerlexics.blogspot.com/2008/09/learned-helplessness.html)
i search google the same way you did, before replying and noticed it is like a Bot posting comments everywhere