How to bootstrap your business

Reach bootstrap entrepreneurs with a sponsorhip on our blog

Why become a sponsor of our blog? Sponsors at "How to bootstrap your business" don't simply get a click through ad served up on our site among hundreds or thousands of others with no way to tell what time of day or where it might have been viewed.

With impression based ads there is also the question of unauthorized clicks, perhaps created by a blogger in an effort to drive up earnings. With a sponsorship on our blog you will have a permanent place among our sponsor links for as long as your sponsorship lasts, ensuring that regular readers will remember your business, perhaps even having the opportunity to bookmark your link and so know where to find you in the future.

You can tell how successful your sponsorship has been by simply montitoring the traffic coming from your link. But sponsorships are more than just advertising. They show your support of the bootstrap community and introduce your business to the select and niche audience that makes up our readership.

Consider becoming a sponsor of "How to bootstrap your business" today. For more information visit this link.

Bootstrapping opens reservoir of opportunity

 

Regular readers know that we’ve already opened this blog up for sponsorship.

In a unique move (at least, I think it’s unique) we’ve asked folks to contribute what they think this service and the information they find here are really worth.

It’s an opportunity for us to attempt to:

• Continue providing this and other blogs coming soon on the PostRanger.com network as a service to our readers
• Do so free of pesky pop ops, impression ads and other distractions, making this truly “your blogging community”
• Allow you to continue supporting what you like and withholding support from what you don’t.

But our new move also brings with it new opportunities including:

• The chance for contributors of $100, $200, $300 or more to show their support for this blog and promote their website, business, or service through silver, gold and platinum star sponsorships to the entrepreneur community
• The opportunity for those who refer sponsors contributing $300 or more to this blog or others soon to appear on PostRanger.com to receive a finders fee for sending us in the right direction
• The hope that those who refer sponsors to us on a regular basis or who refer sponsors who decide to stay with us for up to a year will earn even more for their referrals. (You must become a member of LeadVine to refer a sponsor at this time, but there is no cost to get started.)  

We hope the reservoir of opportunity will not dry up anytime soon and that the continued success of How to bootstrap your business will offer additional opportunities for readers and sponsors in the future.

Help support our bootstrap business blog

Like any bootstrapped company, “How to bootstrap your business” needs cash flow to keep afloat. For a small contribution to defray operating costs, we can continue to provide our superior blogging platform and the quality content, information and services our readers have come to expect.

Plans for the future include expanding our current offerings with more contributors, original video, and other multi-media content, plus print and other off line media extras exclusively created for our customers. It is our hope that these new offerings will be informative to readers and useful in their own bootstrapping endeavors.

This may require additional funds but also hopefully provide additional benefit and service to our valued reader community.

In the spirit of startup entrepreneurship, we’d prefer to let you the reader decide what all of this is worth to you, so instead of trying to set a price, we’ve come up with a simple (and we hope successful) way for you to become involved in keeping this blog on line and serving you.

On the right hand side of this blog at the top, you’ll find a simple contribute button. Though we’ve set a suggested contribution of $10 to help us keep bringing you great content, you can give any amount of $2 or more as often as you like and include a comment or suggestion with your contribution.

Though all contributors have our deepest appreciation, for those providing $100 or more we’ve arranged a special way of saying thank you.

We’ll be recognizing our largest sponsors regularly on the website with a special sponsor link to your home website (business or personal page) depending on the level of your contribution:

• Silver Star Sponsor—Contributors of $100 or more will receive a special link listed under our Silver Star Sponsors for a full month following their contribution. Contributors of $100 or more will be given the opportunity to provide an additional contribution so that their link can remain in the Silver Star Sponsors section in succeeding months.
• Gold Star Sponsor—Contributors of $200 or more will receive a special link listed under our Gold Star Sponsors for a full month following their contribution. Contributors of $200 or more will be given the opportunity to provide an additional contribution so that their link can remain in the Gold Star Sponsors section in succeeding months. 
• Platinum Star Sponsor—Contributors of $300 or more will receive a special link listed under our Platinum Star Sponsors for a full month following their contribution. Contributors of $300 or more will be given the opportunity to provide an additional contribution so that their link can remain in the Platinum Star Sponsors section in succeeding months.

Help us keep our bootstrap business blog healthy and full of great content on a regular basis! Make your contribution today!

(Editor’s note:“How to bootstrap your business” reserves the right to refuse to link to sponsor pages that, in our sole discretion, are not in the best interest of our readers including sites containing pornography, excessive violence or promoting racism or intolerance.)