Here's how it works.
You'll see the THIS MONTH'S SPONSORS box in the top right-hand corner. You can sponsor Solti's cat food for one week for £7.50, one month for £25 or another length of time as negotiated with JD. In return you get a personal thank-you from Solti's chief-of-staff, your name and links prominently displayed for the agreed period, and hopefully plenty of hits on your site from our readers. Additionally, you have the satisfaction of knowing you are helping to support the assistant-in-chief of your favourite blogger and hence keep JDCMB up and running.
As there's no limit to that cat's appetite, there is no limit to the number of sponsors who can join us at any one time.
Click here to send me a message and become a sponsor!
Easily manageable either by PayPal or a good old-fashioned cheque.
I'd like to extend a hearty welcome to Solti's inaugural sponsors: ViolinSchool, which offers online and offline tuition for violinists of any age and level. http://www.violinschool.org/
5 comments:
Ingenious in a very feline way: but, forgive me for raising this, should blogs pay? If they remain a perfect and free zone of self-expression, then perhaps they shouldn't be tied to anything (least of all expectations from certain quarters). This is probably me being head-in-the-clouds idealistic, and I've always baulked at the thought of ugly Googleads cluttering up the page, but the minute money gets involved, it changes, doesn't it?
Anyway, your blog, your choices.
I'm usually deluged with requests for coverage on this blog (on the principle of "spend your free time giving me free publicity"), and I can't do it all, so I see nothing wrong with offering people a link or two for a few ££s. That's what magazines have been doing for centuries. I've no intention whatsoever of tying JDCMB to anything or anyone who has "expectations".
Is this some sort of joke? You are very well known as a writer and journalist and one hopes that, at least in your latter function, you are paid well enough to afford several daily tins of "Sheba" for Solti.
Fair enough. I guess a blog can be whatever you (ie one) choose(s) it to be. And I didn't intend a lecture; I just thought the comment might open up a debate, which is what we all hope for in the comments but rarely get. Thanks for replying, anyway. See you soon.
Frank, it started off as a joke, but people seem to like it! Do you know how freelance writing works? In case not, here are some home truths. We never know what we're going to earn from week to week and the rates of pay have on the whole not increased in the last 10 years. Some have decreased; others have vanished altogether. Meanwhile, in the UK costs of food, clothing and transport have risen by roughly a third, on average. I leave it to you to do the sums. And incidentally I never lecture other people about their earnings.
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