With a title like this, one has to sit up and take notice. :)

Due to me writing less posts these days (though, hopefully keeping the quality levels up… :) ) I have more time to work on promoting this blog. I do want to take this blog onto 2,000, and then more readers, even though I have been slacking.

However, I’ve always recommended PASSIVE promotion rather than active promotion… yes, if you slaved on your site eight hours a day for a year, you’d probably have a mammoth site at the end of it… one you’d be throughly sick of working on though. The paycheck would be nice if you sold it off, I guess. :razz:

I’ve not run a ’standard’ blog contest on here for a long time… and am looking at doing so again. I’m looking for one or two companies to sponsor prize(s), and for it to run a month.

Prizes should be around $200 - $1,000+ in value, and I’d prefer tangible items… however, high quality digital ones will work too. If no one contacts me with anything decent through this post, I will email a few ad and affiliate networks… however, I wanted to give a chance to those that read this blog first.

What will your sponsorship net you? This will be an entirely easy contest, meaning more likely than not a shitload of people will participate. Which is only good for you and your brand.

Your company will get…

Ad space on this blog for the duration of the contest. Both a 468 x 60 ad and 1-2 125 x 125 ads, along with a link in the RSS footer (which goes out to 1,000+ readers every single time a post is written). Ads on this site are in highly visible location, which means your ad will stick in the minds of some of the coolest readers around.

A mention in every single post over the duration of the contest. More exposure for your brand.

People completing a ‘task’ should you ask them to… I’ll make it one of the contest entry tasks, and if it’s easy enough, you’ll get people doing it. Again, more exposure for your brand.

Bloggers linking to you (and me!). More exposure for your brand (you’ll notice a common trend in this post, if you look carefully.. :razz: ).

Basically, the end result is a tonne of exposure. Win for your company, win for me, win for those that read this blog. The advertising on this blog and the long term branding you will get is far more valuable than any contest prize sponsored (unless it’s a $50,000 odd valued prize, in which case that might not be true).

I’d prefer to have only one, maybe two maximum sponsors, as this means the maximum amount exposure for each one… high quality and value prizes too, please. Contests with ad slots and eBooks are nice, but they’re getting kind of boring now… :)

if you’re interested, send me an email. You can send it to admin[at]theuniversitykid[dot]com - don’t delay! ;)

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