What is a Sponsored Post?

The #sticks where I come from! via beckydavenport

A few days ago I had a local business person ask me to give them a shout out over my blog, while I don’t mind supporting the local there is a point you have to reap what you so!  I answered him with the reply “I would love to give you and your business a shout out, I know your business does a great service to our community, however , we are both business people…therefore would you consider doing a sponsored post?”  His response was “What is a Sponsored Post”….well here we go! 

Where I come from we live in the STICKS…literally!  I drive 2 ½ miles down a gravel road just to get home, I don’t even have DSL internet, in fact my parents just got satellite internet a few months before I moved home….they were still on dial-up!   Eeeek!   With all that said, I do not expect that every person I meet to understand the “blogger lingo” I speak….so I happily define (after all I am the blogger)! 

A sponsored post is a post that is written in return for a money….yes bloggers do that!  We have to disclose in the post that we are being sponsored to voice our opinion, thoughts, photos, or whatever we are talking about. 

My sponsored post run anywhere between $5 and $150 a post depending on the request….granted I work cheap and if I am just giving you a shout out consider your post to be cheap!

Why have a sponsored post, well last month my Adventures Among Us blog (my main blog) had 7500 hits, my KLOUT score is at 65, and my Twitter reach….well we won’t go into that!  The point is I have a following, my blog post are up forever (unless I remove them) unlike print articles that are seen in the paper only, and I will work to ensure your topic, product, or post is published via the social networks. 

 

To sum it up and make it make “business sense” as my daddy would say, if you were to offer me $50 to write a post about the local park (in reasonable distance) and how nice the playground equipment is.  I would drive to the park, shoot photos of the playground equipment and may even include photos of children playing on the equipment, I would voice my opinion about the equipment, I would list other things to do around the area (like best ice cream joint close by), and then I would share the article over Facebook (both personal and business) share the photos of the playground over Instagram, pin the article on Pinterest, and my article would be live on my blog forever (unless I remove it). 

The point is you are getting UNLIMITED advertising for a tiny tiny price…Sponsored post can be about anything, events, products, hotels….the possibilities are unlimited!  Any questions, or if you are interested in sponsoring a post on my Adventures Among Us (if it fits my website) feel free to email me at adventuresamongus@gmail.com. 

~Becky