Tuesday, May 12, 2015

55 ideas for your blog. Sponsorship - local, national & international...





55 ideas for your next blog!
If you’ve put off starting a blog because you worry you can’t sustain it i.e. worry that you won’t be able to think of things to write about on an ongoing basis – this is for you!  I put off writing a blog for that reason for years!  I then decided I’d focus on marketing and PR campaigns and ideas that I thought would appeal to SMEs either as something they could consider for their own business or just because they’d find it inspiring or helpful.  And I haven’t looked back!  This infographic from PR Daily lists 55 suggestions which are grouped under the following headings: Be useful; Be human; Be generous; Be promotional; Be controversial; Be entertaining; Be timely and Be engaging – choose the ones that feel best reflect your voice and get writing!

Sponsorship - nice local example
This is a really lovely and innovative local sponsorship from coach company, Matthews – every six months they’re promoting a local arts person from Louth, Monagahan or East Meath.  That person is featured on a large ad on the back of some of their coaches. The first recipient is a singer songwriter called Sinead McNally and Matthews also co-produced a CD with her.  Everyone wins!

Sponsorship – national/international
I heard an interview on Newstalk’s Moncrieff show with Mel Evans, author of “Artwash – Big Oil and the Arts” and it whetted my interest in reading this book.  According to Amazon, the book “describes how corporate sponsorship of the arts erases unsightly environmental destruction and obscures the strategies of oil company PR executives who rely on cultural philanthropy.”  Rather a large claim – I’m sure this sponsorship strategy certainly distracts attention away from environmental impact – but ‘erases’, I don’t think so.  But I haven’t read the book yet so I’ll reserve judgement and see how the argument is made. I looked on newstalk.com for the podcast of the interview but couldn’t find it – so here’s how Amazon describe the book:





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