You can bid online to sponsor the Seattle Indie Biz Buzz
OK, we’ve had some nibbles on sponsorship of the Seattle Indie Biz Buzz, but no takers so far. So I figured, maybe that’s because members are afraid to ask how much it costs. I mean, we don’t really know what sponsorship is worth to you, so we really don’t know what to ask. So I’ve hit on a solution: I’ve created an online auction that will allow YOU to set the price! That’s right, you can now place a bid to sponsor next Sunday’s edition of the Seattle Indie Biz Buzz, which is emailed to more than a thousand independent business owners in the Seattle area. It’s a great way to get your message out there, and bidding starts at just $25.
Here’s approximately what a sponsorship would look like if you win (you can use your photo here too, if you like, instead of a logo).
Bidding closes at 5pm Friday for the following week’s edition, then opens for the following week on Sunday morning at 12 am.
Happy bidding!
December 26th, 2006 at 2:09 pm
Ok, it seems a little strange to pay for you to write about everyone else for free – but I will bite: I bid $25 for next week!
December 26th, 2006 at 3:58 pm
If I win how will I be able to control the text and logo of the sponsorship? Will you contact the winning bidder to iron that out or are you going to just take their profile and run with it?
December 26th, 2006 at 5:23 pm
Justin,
The winner receives an auto email on Friday afternoon at 5pm, when bidding closes, with instructions on how they can submit their info to us. Basically it’s really simple – just send us the text you’d like to dan@biznik.com, and attach either a logo or a photo you’d like us to use (otherwise we’ll just use the one in your profile). The format for sponsorships is like this (see “sponsor” in link below), but you can submit pretty much whatever text you want, as long as it fits, and we’ll use it.
http://biznik.com/buzz/seattle/2006/12/4/index.html