{"id":2589,"date":"2010-01-15T07:26:38","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T15:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heartifb.com\/?p=2589"},"modified":"2024-02-28T04:15:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T12:15:07","slug":"media-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heartifb.com\/media-kit\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Create Your Media Kit"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nThis is the year you\u2019ve decided to get serious about monetizing your blog. Whether it be for banner ads, video ads, sponsored posts, text links, giveaways, etc, chances are if you\u2019re working with a company, they will want certain information about your blog. What kind of information? Traffic does help, but companies also look at other metrics\u00a0in mind when deciding on developing a partnership with a blogger. So how do you prepare? With a media kit.<\/p>\n
A media kit can be as involved as a slide show presentation with stats on your website, information about your readers, every press mention, and samples of your work, and as simple as a bulleted list of your stats and ad rates. When I first decided to put together a media kit, I prepared a detailed presentation, but found that more often than not it overwhelmed my potential sponsors for things like ads. For the most part I use a simple list of my stats and ad rates along with a few links, and that is sufficient. Either way, it\u2019s important to have these on hand.<\/p>\n
So how do you create your own media kit?<\/p>\n
Look around at other media kits<\/h3>\n
The first thing I did was to look around at other people\u2019s media kits to get a feeling about how they were approaching sponsors. How do you do this? Well I reasearced two types of media kits:<\/p>\n
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The Big Guns<\/strong>\u2013 If you type in “Media Kit” in Google, you\u2019ll get directly to the pages of some of the most popular kits available on the web. But for more fashion specific results I checked sites like Daily Candy and worked off their style, as one day\u2026one day\u2026 I hope to be able to work along those lines!<\/li>\n
Your peers<\/strong>\u2013 Not to say you\u2019re not a big gun! But the sponsors who are looking to work with Daily Candy may not be the same ones who are dying to work with you. I usually look around at other blogs to see which ones have their stats listed on their website, and see what kind of information they have available. Usually if a site is big enough and is serious about monetizing, they\u2019ll have an Advertise<\/strong> link on the home page. Sometimes they\u2019ll have the stats and information available there.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Keep your kit handy<\/h3>\n
From there you\u2019ll get a good idea about what kind of information you need to create a media kit that\u2019s right for you. Even so, here are some tips to help you make your blog more appealing to sponsors:<\/p>\n