To all you fans of Mobflix. This website is based on a passion of mine. Actually a passion of my Brother. I initially bought this domain name as an homage to my brother in 2002 when I worked for a domain hosting company and bought the name at cost.
My brother loves organized crime movies and constantly quotes Goodfellas, Casino, and The Godfather. So I bought the name as almost a joke for him. Soon after I bought the name, I started getting proposals to sell the name. The first proposal was for $250. The second proposal was $500. The third proposal was $5,000. Upon that third offer, I decided to sell the name. Negotiations broke down, and I decided to develop the site myself.
I contracted a web developer to develop the site for me, but I was not happy with how it turned out. I then discovered blogging templates and WordPress and decided to do it myself through WordPress.
In my day job, I am a technical writer and have worked many contract IT jobs. My most recent contract was supposed to go until Mid-April 2009, but ended abruptly.
Given the economy, and now that I have more time on my hands, I have decided to try to earn some income from my passion. I signed up for Google AdSense and will be installing it. In addition, I am going to place Mobflix logo’d items on cafe press. I already have an Amazon affiliate account, but the site is not yet profitable.
I made the decision yesterday that I am now on a quest to go to Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah from Jan 15- Jan 25. As I am not making an income, I am looking for ways for the trip to pay for itself.
There are several ways I can do this:
Sponsorship – Given how inexpensive gas is, I plan on driving to Sundance. With a Sponsorship, the Sponsor would get their logo emblazoned on my SUV as well as a logo’d link to their website from Moblflix.com and sponsored updates from me. I would be looking for 3-4 Sponsors starting at $500 each. This would pay for me to get into events and room & board. I would probably just break even.
I’m looking for alcohol and tobacco companies as well as maybe a couple local movie theaters. This would give my sponsors exposure out there when I drive my SUV around. They would get a lot of notice.
Employment – Sundance is actually hiring people to work the event. I would go to Sundance and work the event from behind the scenes, whether it is shoveling snow, or helping with Inventory Control. Then in my off hours, I would blog from behind the scenes and the people and interviews I can get while I’m out there. Hopefully I will be selected as a worker.
Let me know what you think about this approach?
