At the beginning of this year, I started to offer sponsorship spots on the blog here. I have loved working with everyone that has sponsored me thus far but I really haven’t felt like I’ve been providing you all with anything of real substance – my sponsors or my readers. Also, I originally wanted to start taking sponsors so that I could get to know new bloggers and I really don’t really think the format I’m using now allows me to do that.
After thinking about this blog of mine and all of you for a while, I decided that I am no longer going to be taking “sponsors” here at Carolina Fireflies.
Instead, I’ve decided that each month I am going to feature 3 “Blogs of the Month!” Their ad will be on the sidebar and I will do a post about them and their blog. If they want to offer you all a little group giveaway, they can do that too! As I get to know them and their blog, I may share some of their posts with you all too.
So how is this really any different from sponsors? Well, there will be no charge to be a Blog of the Month. and the blogs will be selected randomly each month. Around the middle of the month, I’ll write a post inviting you all to enter. At the end of that post, there will be a Rafflecopter for you to use to enter. Then I will choose 3 entries to feature each month. The Blogs of the Month will get a cute little button to display on their blog.
And I will begin working on really getting to know the blogs and the people behind them! If I am going to introduce you to a new blog, I want to be able to tell you meaningful things about the blogger. I want to write a post that actually makes you want to go get to know that blogger too! If I am going to promote someone else’s post, I want it to be because I really liked the post and not because I’m just sharing a post to fulfill some “duty” that I had because of the purchase of an ad space. *Not that I think any other blogs who take sponsors do this, that is just how I was beginning to feel about it.*
I think that only having 3 blogs to focus on each month will allow me to really write a meaningful post about each blog that you as readers will want to read and won’t just scroll past. I think that I will be sharing more of myself in this way too – more of what I look for in a blog, in a post, and in a friend.
I’ll still be doing everything through Passionfruit and will still be doing product reviews. I will also still be offering free ad swaps as well. *Look for another fun announcement about this coming soon!!*
So what do you think? Will you enter to be a “Blog of the Month?”
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Veronica Lee Burns says
That's a great idea! I love it!
Laura Ryder says
That's a great idea!!
Laura@MiceInTheKitchen
Kaeley Mull says
This sounds like a wonderful idea!
Chels says
Love this idea!
Emily Raphael says
I just found your blog. I've been searching for other bloggers in the triangle area. Yay! I would love to be a blog of the month- if you'll have me.
-Emily
eleven shakes of a persimmon tree
Wifessionals says
I just decided to end Sponsors too. For almost all the reasons you listed AND because I'll be so much more busy with the baby (:
Great idea lady!