Writer Unboxed 3-Day Auction Begins Today
By Writer Unboxed | January 28, 2012 | Comments Off on Writer Unboxed 3-Day Auction Begins Today
Update: The auction has ended! Thank you for all who participated–and who tried to participate–despite the problems the site had over the weekend. We appreciate all of you.
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As promised, our first ever Writer Unboxed auction begins today.
We are excited to offer you opportunities to gain valuable attention in exchange for funds that will help to keep this site running (and us from going crazy). Money earned during this auction will provide for WU’s needs, including a virtual assistant, web hosting, server space to accommodate our growing traffic, our upcoming newsletter, and more. We hope you agree that this auction can be a win-win for all of us.
Why do we think you can gain attention on our site?
Our Traffic. And our audience.
Writer Unboxed currently receives several thousand hits daily–usually between 2k and 3k unique hits, and between 10k and 13k total hits daily–and has 4,410 4,429 subscribers on Feedburner. This means thousands of potential eyes on your ad—the eyes of serious writers who are also avid readers, many of whom have their own websites and blogs, with the ability to spread the word when they happen upon a good book.
Have we mentioned lately that we love the WU community? We do, we really do.
The Auctions. We want to keep this simple. Three auctions, described below. Links in the descriptions will take you to those particular auctions. If you’d like to bid, please do so in comments for that particular auction. Please don’t bid unless you are serious. Payments over PayPal are required within 48 hours of the close of the auction, and all auctions will close at 8 p.m. EST on Monday, January 30th. If payment isn’t made within the 48-hour window, we’ll offer to the next highest bidder.
- Auction #1: Guest blog post on Writer Unboxed.
We only put a blog post up for bid once before, with the Writers for the Red Cross auction, and it went for a healthy $400. The winner of that auction was author Keith Cronin, and you all know how that turned out. Happily, for all of us. And while we’re not implying that winning this auction could lead to a permanent position with WU, you never know what opportunities might arise down the road if you knock our socks off. We asked Keith if he’d say a few words about his WU bidding experience.
Bidding on a WU auction is definitely a win-win-WIN scenario. You’re supporting a worthy cause, you’re encouraging others to do the same within the friendly competition of the auction bidding process, and you’re getting a chance to make your own written contribution to one of the most helpful writing sites on the Internet. Go for it – I am SO glad that I did! -Keith Cronin
Blog post will go live in March. Please note that Writer Unboxed reserves the right to edit content as needed and will advise the winner re: the content of their post. (Tip: We generally ask our guests to search for a fresh angle to write about, and to provide content that can help other writers.)
CLICK HERE TO BE TAKEN TO THE POST FOR AUCTION #1
- Auction #2: One of three rotating ads in a rotating ad space on our sidebar.
Look at the top-left sidebar of our homepage. See the rotating ads there—with Therese Walsh’s The Last Will of Moira Leahy, Donald Maass’s The Breakout Novelist, and Keith Cronin’s Me Again? The top three bidders will each claim one of those spaces. Don’t know how to build an ad? We don’t expect you to. Instead, you provide us with some art (a book cover or logo for your business), some promo text (like a selling quote for your book, or a client’s recommendation), and a hyperlink to the web portal of your choice, and our ad guru will turn it into a shared ad space for you and two others.
Your ad will run for two weeks, anytime within the next year. You tell us when.
CLICK HERE TO BE TAKEN TO THE POST FOR AUCTION #2
- Auction #3: A premier “skyscraper” ad to be featured at the top of our sidebar.
Look again at the top-left sidebar of our homepage. See the ad there under the header “Skyscraper Ad”? That space is what you’re bidding on in this auction.
This ad is the cheese. It stands alone. No rotating with any other cover, no sharing. As described above, you provide us with a book cover or logo for your business, a selling quote (or other copy that’ll help sell your book or services) and a hyperlink, and we’ll do the rest. OR you can provide us with an already created web ad sized to our specs if you prefer.
Your ad will run for two weeks, anytime within the next year. You tell us when.
CLICK HERE TO BE TAKEN TO THE POST FOR AUCTION #3
If you’d like to bid on one of the three items named above, please follow the link to that item’s post, and bid there. Comments on this post will be closed to avoid confusion. Questions? Send a note to writerunboxed@writerunboxed.com.
Thanks for your bids, and good luck to all! Write on.
Photo courtesy Flickr’s cogdogblog
Writer Unboxed began as a collaboration between Kathleen Bolton and Therese Walsh in 2006. Since then, the site has grown to include ~50 regular contributors and a variety of guests on rotation throughout a given year.
In 2016, the Writer Unboxed team published a book with Writer’s Digest / Random House. AUTHOR IN PROGRESS: A No-Holds-Barred Guide to What It Really Takes to Get Published is a comprehensive guide focused on helping writers over/around/through hurdles faced at every stage of the novel-writing process. It’s received some ***** reviews; we hope you’ll check it out.
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Write on!
