‘Tis the season for SMASH FACT OR FICTION, and that means one thing.  Blog traffic!  Lots of it!  Are you interested in advertising on My Own Space?  Last year SMASH FACT OR FICTION was named “highbrow” and “brilliant” by New York Magazine, and featured on vulture.com, so get in now while the advertising getting is good.

I am not owned by an advertising company (like Blogher) because I believe advertising works best when the company (me) knows their audience (my readers) and selects advertisers (you) who will appeal to them.  You need business, my readers like my taste.   My advertising business model is to encourage my readers to pay attention to the ads because they are specific to my audience, unusual and useful.  And bonus, I’ll give you a nice plug in my blog.

Let’s talk numbers.  I’ll go first.  If you are interested in seeing a snap shot of the traffic I had last year, go here.  I wrote 115 posts, and by far my SMASH FACT OR FICTION posts were the most read and shared.  Traffic continues for those posts for the entire week after the episode has aired.  Because I have such a traffic spike, I’m choosing the SMASH season for advertising opportunities.  I’ve also discovered Facebook promotions and after using it once (on my Les Miserables post) I will use it for every SMASH post.  The traffic results were terrific.

So what does this mean to you?

All ads run on every page of my blog and are designed to include a link that takes the reader to your site (you give me the URL) when they click on the ad.  Note: You must provide your graphic in the correct size (see below for sizes)  I do not have a graphics person on staff.

The basic cost is:

~$600 per month for a BANNER AD across the top (728 x 90, just under or above my graphic, depending on your ad and how it looks with my artwork).   $200 for one week.  $2,000 for the entire SMASH season (all of February, March, April, May).

~ $500 per month for the BOX SIDE BAR–TOP POSITION AD (300 x 250, which is “above the fold” in advertising terms and more expensive)  $150 for one week. $1,500 for the entire SMASH season (all of February, March, April, May).

~$300 per month for the BOX SIDE BAR SECONDARY POSITION.  (125 x 125 and can have a few words of text in addition to the graphic because the graphic is smaller.)  $100 for one week. $1,000 for the entire SMASH season (all of February, March, April, May).

All spaces have a minimum of  one week.  

In addition:
~ I give 2 “shout outs” on my Facebook pages (one on my personal page and one on my blog page) and for the long term ad (a month minimum) I’ll write a little blurb about you in my blog; not a whole post, just a paragraph about what I like about your product.  As I said, I am trying to keep it to people I know so I can really give people a good and organic push.

E-mail directly at Sharonswheatley@gmail.com to make arrangements.  Get in quickly, last year I had a waiting list.  **If you book before February 1st I will toss in the rest of January for free.  Free!