Okay, I’ve updated the auction.
It now indicates what’s obvious to far too many bloggers: that I’m the blogger for hire.
Why am I doing this?
To be honest, I’m doing this to raise the profile of blogging, plain and simple. Plus, being a writer as well as a consultant in a past life, I know I can help companies figure out if blogging is the right space for them to be looking at.
What’s in it for companies?
One of my business blogging friends sees it as an opportunity for companies to team with a well known blogger who will, at the very least, help them figure out if / how blogging fits into their culture. In addition they’re getting a regular content stream and, finally free consulting. After the 3 months it’s my goal that they’ll know if it’s for them and, hopefully, they’ll know if they have internal resources to carry on blogging (as, to me, that’s the ideal).
Shouldn’t companies have internal people blogging?
Given the choice, yes. In the same way that, given the choice, companies should have all marketing and branding materials created internally. That’s the ideal. However the reality is very different. Employees may not know the segment, may be constricted by marketing principles which simply won’t work in blogging and may end up doing more harm than good.
This is a dry run with an industry expert. If you were learning to golf you’d hire a pro, and that’s all this is. Someone to teach a company to blog, if it fits them.
Isn’t this all a little stupid?
Maybe. But, like all free market stuff, you never know if there’s a demand for something until you try. If there is a demand for this, there may be a demand for more blogger trials at more companies in which case – who knows – maybe I’ll end up brokering such deals for other bloggers with other companies.
You just don’t know until you try, and I’m quite happy to put myself out there as a guinea pig to see if this works.
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November 23rd, 2004 at 12:53 pm
Haha, very creative.
November 23rd, 2004 at 2:21 pm
Hire a Blogger
I just wrote a post about using your blog to get a job and now Jeremy C. Wright goes to the extreme there in putting up an eBay auction where you can kind of hire his bloging talent. That he
November 23rd, 2004 at 4:56 pm
At least you aren’t trying to sell your virginity
November 23rd, 2004 at 5:15 pm
Blogger For Hire on eBay
I think its a great idea, even if it doesn’t end up working out. Best of luck to you Jeremy, and thanks for once again attempting to expand what is possible for bloggers everywhere!
November 24th, 2004 at 4:56 am
Interesting idea good luck Jeremy.
November 24th, 2004 at 5:35 am
Go Jeremy…cool idea…exactly what i have grown to expect from you
November 24th, 2004 at 5:43 am
Buy a blogger at auction
Jeremy Wright from Ensight.org has come up with a first…you can bid for his blogging skills for a 3 month period at eBay. This may not be as strange as it first sounds. The ability to buy a blogger who will not only blog for your company / product bu…
November 25th, 2004 at 8:32 pm
Blogosphere News for 11/25/2004
In this episode we cover some blogosphere statistics, two new sets of blog awards, a new blog from Apple, an eBay blogger auction, some new blogging related software, and we check in with BlogPulse for the blogosphere’s key people and phrases.
November 26th, 2004 at 1:00 am
Blogger goes to new depths to raise revenue
Just when you thought you’d seen every single angle to raise money by blogging, Jeremy Wright of Ensight has posted his services for 3 months of blogging at 5-10 posts per week on ebay.
We’d naturally be sceptical of such an endeavour but Jeremy …
November 26th, 2004 at 1:24 am
New low, or new high?
So this guy Jeremy C. Wright is looking to “raise the profile of blogging” … now normally you would think advertising campaign, perhaps a convention, maybe even a nice afterschool special, but not Jeremy. Jeremy is auctioning his “blogging service…
November 28th, 2004 at 2:46 pm
Jeremy, this is very creative and you deserve credit for trying something new so publicly. People have to think of it as the power of positive blogging.
November 29th, 2004 at 9:05 am
Great Jeremy! I hope you get a really high bid. You deserve one for creativity alone. Bravo!
BL
November 29th, 2004 at 1:16 pm
Feels great to ride the crest of the future, doesn’t it? Excellent idea. The smart ones will take you seriously. The rest will go the way of the Rather.
November 29th, 2004 at 9:16 pm
For a moment there I thought you were selling out
Nice idea though, very creative.
November 30th, 2004 at 12:57 am
Jeremy and the blogging cause…
Jeremy just keeps the good stuff coming…the mans on a roll… He runs a successful blog which he sells for an tidy sum (for a blog)…he gets an idea to start a blogging magazine…he starts a site which lists jobs for bloggers…he auctions of his b…
December 1st, 2004 at 7:44 am
EBay “Blogger for Hire†Auction
If you haven’t heard about it yet, Jeremy Wright, writer of the excellent blog Ensight.org, is auctioning himself on EBay. You can read the entire post and explanation here. This is a great move, from both the marketing standpoint, and…
December 2nd, 2004 at 4:38 am
Blogger for Hire
¡Atención! ¡Atención! ¡Pasen señores y vean! ¡Jeremy Wright vuelve a la carga!
Después de vender su propio weblog en ebay, ahora se vende a el mismo… o mejor dicho, sus servicios como blogger.
Ofrece postear entre 5 y 10 veces por seman…
December 2nd, 2004 at 5:02 am
Jeremy is auctioning himself on eBay
December 3rd, 2004 at 9:08 am
Blogging is worth $3,350 US dollars for a 3 month period according to eBay…
Well its over…The last 10 days has seen some of us visiting eBay every couple of hours to see what the price of blogging was going to be and its all done…check out Jeremy’s post about the last final minutes as a group of us sat on Messenger counti…
December 3rd, 2004 at 12:10 pm
Nice one
Ensight – Jeremy C. Wright » EBay “Blogger for Hire” Auction
You have to admire the audacity. I hope it works!
December 5th, 2004 at 3:55 am
My virginity is for sale. Heck, I’ll give it away, over, and over, and over…….:)
December 6th, 2004 at 9:27 am
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