Breaking: Delawareliberal to advertise on WDEL
Do you ever get the feeling that we are all just talking to each other?
I know a lot of top politicos read this site (hi Elizabeth, call me!). But when it comes to market penetration among more general consumers of political news we have a long way to go.
We are leaving people who rely on the News Journal for political reporting to fend for themselves in a virtual wasteland of self-congratulatory press releases and scrubbed down status quo cheer-leading. That is why Delawareliberal and some supporters have broken open their piggy banks to advertise over the public airwaves.
Our general goal is to bring more people to Delaware’s political blogs. Our more specific goal is get them to read and comment on Delawareliberal.
This is where you come in.
You can help us out in this marketing endeavour in two ways.
1) You can chip in money and allow us to buy a few more ads. (Ha! Okay I had to ask.)
2) You can help write our radio spots.
We want to leverage your creativity and air some ads that demonstrate our collective wit and marketing wisdom.
Give it some thought. We are shooting for mid May.
let me know if you want to meet offline somewhere, I am fine with chipping in some $$
Great & thanks!
The “breaking open their piggy banks” is closewr to reality than anyone probably thinks.
Ditto on what donviti says. Can you set up a Paypal account (have no idea what the ‘vig’ is these guys charge)?
Woman’s Voice: What are you doing Bill?
Man’s Voice: I’m reading the Newspaper to get my daily political news.
Woman’s Voice: Are you CRAZY?!?
Etcetera.
The vig on pay pal is pretty high if you’ve got a low volume account.
I can chip in too. Just let us know how to get you the money. It might be useful to let us know how much you need for the ad, so donors can scale from there.
Wow.
I nearly left out that appeal for money. I’m sure glad I didn’t since some of you guys see the value of this thing.
I’ll have to give some thought to the mechanics of dealing with the money and post an update.
One more thing — I wonder if ActBlue is an option for this kind of fundraising? No idea what the vig is over there or if it is just open to candidates…
out of curiosity, if you do start to advertise on the radio, can wordpress handle that much traffic?
have you considered moving to a .com domain?
it can’t be that much annually, can it?