Free advertising on wordpost.org in 2010

December 11th, 2009 by Andrew Swenson in Biz

In the spirit of giving this grueling year and decade from hell a nice kiss off, I’ve decided to give away ad space on wordpost.org for the entire year in 2010.

So what’s the catch?

I’ve been thinking a lot about the purpose and direction of this blog in recent weeks. In surveying a number of blogs and their ads, most fall into one of five categories:

So many it’s distracting (e.g. Daily SEO Blog)
A few discrete ads and affiliate links (e.g. chrisbrogan.com)
Progressive ad partnerships (e.g. All Business Answers)
No ads, but the author is selling a service (e.g. The Lost Jacket)
No ads, but the author is some poor schmuck with a day job (e.g. this blog!)

So why would anyone want to advertise here anyway?

I’m guessing I don’t generate the same kind of traffic as the rest of the blogs on the list. But this blog has been growing around the last three months…something crazy like 304% since August (according to Google Analytics).

I normally write for those who are interested in marketing, social media, or general frustrations with business. These are my people. Although they are far fewer than the armies of Chris Brogan or Dan Schawbel, most still have wallets.

I would venture to say that most of my readers are also entrepreneurial minded, have some experience with small business, and/or are members of generation y.

And you have to figure with free, there’s relatively low risk.

So really what’s the catch?!

If anyone is interested in taking me up on the offer, here are the guidelines:

Only one ad goes up at a time.
I reserve the right to determine if an organization will or will not be granted free space on this blog.
Since I’m not terribly concerned with IAB standards, we can discuss size.
If I have more requests than I can handle, preference will be given to any non-profits or charity organizations. I know this isn’t fair, but I’m making the rules.
A representative from your organization must submit to a 10-minute interview with me.
- This interview will either be captured using a video service like wetoku or, if you’re stuck in 1999 and don’t have a webcam, via email.
- This also should give you some time to pitch your product and your site beyond the few pixels on the front page (although if you shamelessly pitch your company throughout the interview, I’ll take your ad down).

And that’s it. A banner and 10 minutes of your time is all it takes.

What’s in it for me

The interview part is what I get out of this. I hope to meet interesting people and let them share their stories with me and my readers.

Contact me

If your company or any other forward-thinking organization you know might interested in advertising FOR FREE here, drop me a line at the following address:

ads@wordpost.org

Don’t wait. Do it right now.

Image Credit: Jennifer Donley (ceanandjen on Flickr); original here