There is
only one way to describe the massive responses we get on this blog these days.
As Alex Nwani put it, “Thanks a million.”
In 2007,
most people would have thought that the blog was something you’d find in a
Rubbish Unlimited webpage – Junk! Few
football fans in Nigeria may have heard about the blog then and wondered if it
had anything better as Goal.com or even kick off Nigeria. There is thousands of
people blogging Nigerian football out there on the Internet, so why would
anyone bother to read cheer on Nigeria posts?
Ironically,
what gets the attention of visitors first is the name. According to Jide Ofor,
a regular reader of the blog, “From the outset, the name , Cheer on Nigeria,’
gives you the idea of what to expect – the design of cheering Nigerian fans and
the in-depth information promoting our country’s football achievements makes
you feel good as a Nigerian.”
Well, that’s
just a tip of the iceberg. Perhaps, you may get the coax after you might have read
some of these success stories.
In November
2013, we published a sponsored post: ‘How Nigerian Football Fans are making
money through 1960bet.’ Over 50, 000 visitors have viewed the article and
42,326 of them clicked on the link to 1960bet website. We have received 33, 221
inquiries and got 21, 626 thank you messages from fans who either became
1969bet agents or won money from the online sports betting website.
A young
footballer, Hadi Aliu from Okenne Kwara State, wrote us an appreciation email:
“Thank you sir. I feel I owe you something after the information I got from
your blog, 10 World Class Football Academies in Nigeria, inspired me to make a
move. I am proud to tell you that I have been given admission into Kwara State
Football Academy. Thank you sir and may God Bless you for the good work you are
doing.
Gabriel Bonfanti, a post graduate student studying Sport Marketing management in
Colorado University Chicago USA, used the blog articles as resource materials
for his research project on West African Football Development. He wrote us
several mails asking us to help him expound some of the data we gave in some of
our posts. So we had to send him some of our eBook to support his work. You can
imagine how thankful he was when he completed the project. He personally wrote
me something more like a ‘love letter.’
Cheer on
Nigeria blog is becomes a standard marketing tool for sport organizations and
brands in Nigeria. Marketing executives targeting to reach Nigerian football
fans across the world are more convinced that all of them visit this blog
regularly to get review, in-depth information and uncommon football solutions.
It’s now
easier for sport organizations to publish a sponsored post on the blog and get
all the responses they require. Top brands like Adidas, Bet365, Soccerex,
National Sports Festival, Jumia Online Retailers, and Perfect Sports Wears have
all posted successful advertorials on the blog. And they’d send us kudos .
