I was over at Problogger the other day, reading a post from Josh at Worlds Strongest Librarian – both good blogs to read through if you’ve got some time – and he was talking about how he got sponsors for WSL.
He ran a competition, asked people to submit an application to him and at the end of a month, he had sponsors.
The deal:
I ask for an application – you provide it, along with a 125×125 px image to use as your ad.
You get a month’s free advertising on Sleepless Nights, in the left sidebar over there, just above the No Clean Feed graphic.
At the end of a month, you can either choose to pay for another month’s advertising, or walk away from this whole deal with nothing lost, hopefully still sticking around to read me.
If everybody walks at the end of a month, I will run the same competition again, with new applicants and new ads, for another month long free advertising stint.
The Application:
Here is what I want from you.
I want you to email me with:
A 125×125 px graphic that will be used to link your blog.
Answers to these questions:
Who are you?
What makes you happy?
Why do you want to advertise on Sleepless Nights? (correct answers include – because I like Sleepless Nights – incorrect answers include – because it’s free stupid.)
Why is your blog/business special?
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I will be accepting applications up until the 1st of March and I will announce the winners on the 14th of March.
When I say ‘month long’ I meant from the 10th to the 10th or the 20th to the 20th, regardless of how many days in the month. February is out of the running, so you’re not getting short changed.
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Fine Print, that isn’t actually fine at all, because it’s the same size as everything else.
There will be 6 ad spots available.
I will be judging the applications myself, with some help from Frogpondsrock – who will also be running the same competition on her blog. I will be as impartial as I can. Our decisions will be based on your application – it will not be based on the size of your blog or business.
You don’t have to be selling something; you can advertise your blog.
I will not advertise for drugs, illegal activities or propaganda. I reserve the right to make that decision.
Everyone will be charged the same amount at the end of the month, no special deals, or more expensive ads for big businesses. I reserve the right to not tell you how much I’m charging in this blog post, but I will disclose it within emails.
My email address is veronica@somedaywewillsleep.com and please include the words ‘Advertising Competition’ in the subject line.
I’ve been thinking about how best to monetise Sleepless Nights for a while. It’s no secret that we’d all like to make some money from our blogs and I’m no exception. Personally I’d be happy if the blog would cover the cost of some chocolate now and again and that’s what I’m working towards.
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To everyone clicking through your feed reader to my latest post and getting a 404 error, I’m sorry, I’m having some small technical issues with a post that wasn’t meant to go live for a while.
I got a WP error in the middle of scheduling it to post later and then everything went wrong.
Argh!
So uh, don’t mind me. Just pretend you didn’t see it, okay? I’ve just rescheduled it and resync’d feedburner, so it might not even be an issue yet.
xx
love me
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Just a quick post to show off my new theme.
Does anything look broken to you?
How is the header showing up in your browser?
The header will probably get changed randomly as I take more photos that I think will suit here.
Anyway – that’s me. The baby just woke up (BLEH) and is whining, Amy and Nathan are out together and my alone time is done. Sniff.
(Nathan did offer to take Isaac too, but Isaac really needed a nap and I figured he would sleep better in the cot, rather than the car.)
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The 2010 Bloggie finalists were announced yesterday.
I had been pressing refresh on the page all day, waiting for the results to appear. Eventually they did and as soon as I saw the results of the Best Australian category, I was on the phone to Mum, squeeing in delight.
You see, her blog, Frog Ponds Rock is a finalist. I am over the freaking moon for her.
Quickly we scrolled through the rest of the categories, looking for my other blog, but alas, I’m not a finalist this year (I was last year though, and still, squee!).
You know what though? I’m not diappointed in the slightest. I am so thrilled to see Mum a finalist that I don’t care I’m not there. Not at all.
In fact, I am positively delighted that she doesn’t have to share the spotlight.
So please, if you’re so inclined, I would love if you would vote for her. As we figure it, the voting contains such huge numbers that she has as much chance as the other four nominations.
My other Bloggie picks for votes will be Violence Unsilenced for Best Community Weblog and The Bloggess for Best Writing and Best Humour. You can vote for them as well if you like.
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