I learned the hard way that there are people reading this blog with whom I was hoping to foster sponsorship relationships. I've given several people the link to our blog but wrongly assumed that no one was actually reading it. I suppose I sort of assumed it would become a place to store a diary and precious photos of our adventure and nothing more.
I am happy and sad to learn that's not the case. Happy because people are learning about our great expedition and will hopefully be inspired to do something similar with a loved one (especially a child!) and sad because I showed poor judgement and posted a comment out of frustration and disappointment regarding the lack of response from potential sponsors. That comment was in fact read by a company I had approached regarding a sponsorship and my attitude was not at all pleasing to them.
As you may have guessed, I removed the post as soon as I realized the harm it caused. That is much like closing the barn door after your horse runs away. It doesn't bring your horse back but it gives you something to do while you realize what an idiot you really are. Do yourself a favor. Go shut your barn doors right now.
Perhaps you will get some new interest based on this blog. Folks appreciate honesty in acknowledging past mistakes. How else would all our politicians get elected all the time:)
ReplyDeleteYou can get a blog flag counter that will give you a real idea of how many are reading and where thee are from. We have one and I think if you would click on the counter posted on the blog you can go to their site and download it. If not let me know and I can send you the link.