So, Brave or Foolish has been going a couple of months now. I’ve got a reasonable amount of readers and I’m 20% towards my sponsorship target too, but obviously I would love to get more – both readers and sponsorship. Plus more readers = more sponsorship in March or so, especially if they’ve been hanging around a while. I am also hoping for the odd “drive-by” who feels inspired (or whatever!!) and would want to sponsor me on the spur of the moment, no matter when they read it and/or they may not even return. Quite a few strangers have contacted me wishing me well – maybe they will also return in March or April. So the more exposure I get, the more I can raise for this wonderful small charity!
As a matter of curiosity, I’m interested to see how most people read this blog so far, so if you could answer the poll, I’d be very grateful!
If this poll is not viewable, as it may not be outside of WordPress, you can vote in it here: How do you read Brave or Foolish?
I have a few ideas for attracting more readers, namely:
However, I’ve also exchanged links with a couple of friends, which has been very helpful. So with that in mind, does anyone else wish to exchange blog links? Definitely the more the merrier! Please leave a comment or send me an email (details on my About Me page at the bottom)
In the new year I will write to a few magazines and see if I can get them interested for more publicity, but it would be nice to have a good base to go from before I do that.
For my ad campaigns, I’m currently going to be targeting people with interests in pregnancy/babies/running but are there any other things I should be thinking of? Does anyone have any other ideas on how I can promote myself? It’s not easy for somebody like me who has never been good at self-promotion and inwardly cringes every time I try something like this 
