Local sponsors: keep the lights on without blurring the line
Bloomers is small, opinionated, and expensive in time. Sponsorships help pay for photography, research, and the occasional Saturday when a writer should be weeding their own hellstrip but is instead chasing down a county vector-control FAQ.
We sell labeled placements—plain boxes on the home page—for services readers already need: lawn care, tree work, dog walkers, yard-smart pest control, and similar neighbors. Each trade has its own partner directory with standard line listings and, when sold, a featured partner highlighted at the top of that category page. We do not run “native advertising” dressed like articles. Paid space reads as paid space.
Typical packages
Think of pricing as a menu you can tune. Common patterns: a monthly flat for a home-page placement, a quarterly rate for a category highlight, or a modest community rate for a solo dog-walker who keeps readers’ pets safe during heat advisories.
- Home page category strip — links into per-trade directories; good for readers scanning “who does lawns here?”
- Featured partner on a category page — one highlighted business at the top when that relationship is active; always labeled, never framed as editorial endorsement.
- Standard directory lines — additional businesses listed under the featured partner on the same category page.
- Newsletter mention — a single line with disclosure in the monthly letter beats a paragraph of fake enthusiasm.
What we will not take
Miracle cures, fear-mongering about “toxic” neighbors, multi-level anything, or sponsors who want to edit articles like a shadow author. If your contract asks for editorial control, the answer is no.
How to buy
Email through Contact with the placement you want, your service area (Midtown-only? Mobile County-wide?), and proof you are insured where applicable. We will reply like humans, not ticketing software.