By Joe Gresh
Sponsored content is a way for publications to earn money. How it works is companies pay cold hard cash for bloggers to write a story about the products they’re selling. Most reputable websites and magazines print a notice letting you know the story is paid advertising. We’ll never have to worry about that because we don’t write sponsored content.
Not writing sponsored content is not the same as not having sponsors, though. Sponsors pay money for advertising on our website but don’t have any say about what we write. Sponsors support the website because they feel the content will attract the sort of people who they want to reach. For ExhaustNotes those people will be motorcyclists, shooters, travelers (especially Baja travelers), and concrete finishers. I know, it’s an odd mix of topics, but both Berk, me, and our other contributors write about what we know.
So here’s the pitch: If you have been reading ExhaustNotes and think the eclectic collection of stories we create might appeal to your customers, by all means become one of our sponsors. If you just like reading the website and want to help support us, become a site sponsor even if you have nothing to sell. Maybe we’ll make a wall of names for people who sponsor the site. We want sponsors to support ExhaustNotes.us because they think that the writing we are doing is worthwhile.
So dig down into those dusty advertising budgets and drop an email to us (info@ExhaustNotes.us). Let us know how we can help you spend your money.
You guys should definitely put up a sponsors page, with links to deals or discounts or discount codes.
We don’t have any deals or links to discount codes.
We just write stuff.
Well, maybe you should?
Salil
Sounds like a good idea…you want a job?
I already have two full time jobs, so probably not.
Interesting .
Maybe you should title the piece “A Call To Alms”. Anyways, I’ve been clicking on the pop ups. I don’t have anything to sell but wouldn’t mind helping out my favorite authors. How can I help?
Marcus, we’ll shoot an email to you.
Marcus,
I thought about calling it “Alms” instead of Arms. I decided against it as it sounded a bit like begging.
Anyway, we’re not looking for something for nothing as running the website and writing the stories is actual work.
I understand and don’t mind helping out. You guys remind me that even old(er) people matter.