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04.28.08
A Few Words About Sponsorship
posted by Absinthe | 2:56 PM
I get emails every so often asking to buy a link or a textbox or whatever. Mostly I ignore them because, what, are you high? I sometimes go two months without posting and I’ve seen my traffic numbers, which though it may not figure in RSS readership, well, those people don’t see the ads anyway. I played with Google ads for a while until I realized that the extra three bucks a month wasn’t doing much for me.
Yes, there are ads on the site. One from Full Tilt, which was purchased way back when I was even more of a nobody than I am now, which amply covers hosting and bandwidth and would probably buy me cheap dinner and a movie once per quarter to boot; the other is just an affiliate link and search box to Amazon, for which I once had fiendish plans that may one day yet come to fruition.
And still, I get requests. Sometimes several from the same person. They’re not grating or anything, they’re just something that I might as well address here and now so I can stop feeling guilty about ignoring them.
Here it is: the Official Absinthetics Advertising Policy.
1. If I don’t use your product, I’m not going to put your ad on the site. As far as poker-related stuff goes, that pretty much limits my potential market to Full Tilt, Stars, and I guess the pokerdb and PokerTracker, though since when I have time to play nowadays I’m usually on a Mac my PT connection is tenuous. I’ve never seen a Cardrunners video (though in the interests of oppo intel I suppose I should).
2. Small and tasteful. A few rotating images is fine. Blinkyflashies make me itch. And if you’re trying to be funny, for fuck’s sake achieve it. For a guy who doesn’t look like much, I have standards.
3. Make it worth my while. Math and economics both say I should be putting away ten grand a year starting now for my son’s college fund. If your offer isn’t at least going to put a substantial dent in that, I’ll pass.
4. What, you’re still here? OK. No Comic Sans, or Kevin will make fun of me. No funny stuff - I don’t know what they told you at the agency but I don’t do that. And no! wire! hangers!
Of course, if I do like/use your product, you could just sit on your hands for a while because eventually I’ll talk it up for free. I’m mouthy.
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