Request for sponsorship.

"Astonished, we were."

Recently, I received what I thought to be a rather bizarre email.

As someone who is blogging for fun and making a bit of pocket money from ad placements etc, I never would have thought that I would be asked for a monetary sponsorship. Well, I was recently asked!

Apparently, the event will have:

1000 delegates:

• Age between 28 to 55
• Annual income more than $40,000
• Professionals, Managers, Executives and Businessmen (PMEBs)
• Entrepreneurs
• High Net Worth individuals

"There would be abundant opportunity to gain exposure for your site during the event."

The proposal listed various levels of sponsors. A monetary sponsorship of $500 would qualify for the Bronze Level while $10,000, the highest, would qualify for the Platinum Level.

 

At the Bronze Level, ASSI will get our "corporate logo" into the event and will be eligible to insert a "voucher" into the 3,000 goodie bags.

 

I was truly flabbergasted.

 

ASSI doesn't have any logo, let alone a corporate one and I would have to provide 3,000 vouchers on top of the $500 monetary sponsorship? Wow!

 

A friend told me in jest that I should be happy because it means that my blog has moved to a higher level. What higher level? People actually think that I am making serious money from blogging now? That is the higher level? I almost fell off my chair laughing.

 

Gaining more exposure for my blog would be good. If I am able to reach out to more people, sharing my ideas on financial freedom and my methods, why not?

 

If every reader would share my blog on Facebook, Twitter etc, I think it would be more than enough.

 

After all, I blog for free. Should I pay to promote my blog? I think not.