I’ve been looking for new ways to grow the readership of this blog. So I’ve decided to have a contest. Rather than make people pay for sponsorship, I’d like to do something that will get people more engaged in being a sponsor, without having to pay for it right away.

I’m going to open up a few spots for anyone who would like to have a sponsorship on this blog in order to promote your own blog/web site, dive store, dive charter, or diving business. The benefit, get some free traffic to your business.

Two spots will be open up for a banner ad on the top of each page. Three additional spots will be open up for a 125 x 125 square ad on the left sidebar.

The Details

I don’t care if your blog or business is very small or gigantic. This is meant to be fun and you’ll get a highly visible link on this site. Sponsors must be diving related. It doesn’t matter where you are located in the world.

If you are interested, please email me, with Sponsorship Experiment as the subject, the following details:

- Write a paragraph about your best diving experience. It doesn’t matter if it is from a class, dive vacation, or from your local dive site. Anything goes. The more reasons it was fun, the better.

- The URL to your website you want linked to. Do not send spam or porn sites please. Those entries will get disqualified, after I view them for a few days.

- A brief description of your blog and/or business.

- Why you are interested.

- Your sales pitch. Why should you be here? What makes you cool?

By the end of March, I will select the winners. The winners will get free advertising for the months of April and May. Just in time for the dive season to start.

You will need to provide me with a graphic to put on this site. I would create one for you, but my kids can draw better than I can.

You’ve got a great chance for some free advertising as long as you are not an obvious spammer, provider of tips on how to cheat on your spouse, or trying to suggest that readers of Precision Diving need to be on erectile disfunction medication (even if they do need it).

Selection Criteria

I will select sponsors based on the best diving experience and sales pitch you provide. The most fun experiences and creative sales pitches will get the sponsorship.

I will notify people who are in the running two weeks prior to the final selection so they can get me their graphics in case they win.

Let’s have some fun with this!!!

Dive Safe,
Duane
Precision Diving