I feel bad posting this, because I really do try to keep my rants off my blog and strictly on Twitter and Facebook but I feel the need….
One can clearly read the information here if they want me to host a giveaway or do a product review .
I’ve done a lot of for some awesome, outstanding, excellent, fun, friendly, professional companies and love doing them!
The ones I don’t care for are the ad agencies or press people who contact me and want me to host a giveaway for FREE…
I’m sorry but my time is worth something, the amount of traffic and number of followers and visitors here, on Facebook and Twitter are worth something.
Yet, they feel that it’s okay to expect bloggers (I know it happens to just more than myself because good friends of mine have posted nearly exact sentiment online as well) to write up a blog post, promote it, tweet about it, post it and deal with picking a winner, then contacting them…for FREE?!
Working (and yes blogging and doing reviews and giveaways IS in fact WORK!) for free does not cut it here.
My time is money (or equivalent)…
Meaning, the time that it’d take me to do a free giveaway with nothing in it for me, I could do a genuine review where the company actually provided product.
The companies I do reviews for do NOT pay me cash, I get the product and I give my unbiased honest opinion regarding said product or service.
Now, how can I do that if I don’t try the product?
Why would I host a giveaway or promote a product I haven’t tried myself for free?
Now, if I go somewhere or buy something myself and love it then yes I’ll tweet or post about it.
But, without having touched an item, seen it or knowing anything about it I’m not going to invest my time for the benefit of the company or often cases the PR person since they’ve been paid by a company to promote an item, then they seek out bloggers to do their work for free?! The PR person got paid, so why shouldn’t a blogger be compensated be it money for service fee of promoting or actual product to do genuine review of.
More work goes into reviews and giveaways than some people think I guess.
Pictures have to be taken of product, use product, write the review/giveaway, promote said review/giveaway continually for the duration of giveaway, sift through all the entries for cheaters/ineligible entries, pick a winner, notify winner, get information from winner, give winners information to company and that all takes time!
So, to those who want something for nothing remember time, experience, connections all have a price and one shouldn’t expect a blogger to do work without some form of compensation either by providing a full size product or paying for services to host a giveaway.
Sorry for the rant but today alone I’ve had 7 PR people ask me to do free giveaways for them.
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I feel bad posting this, because I really do try to keep my rants off my blog and strictly on Twitter and Facebook but I feel the need….
One can clearly read the information here if they want me to host a giveaway or do a product review .
I’ve done a lot of for some awesome, outstanding, excellent, fun, friendly, professional companies and love doing them!
The ones I don’t care for are the ad agencies or press people who contact me and want me to host a giveaway for FREE…
I’m sorry but my time is worth something, the amount of traffic and number of followers and visitors here, on Facebook and Twitter are worth something.
Yet, they feel that it’s okay to expect bloggers (I know it happens to just more than myself because good friends of mine have posted nearly exact sentiment online as well) to write up a blog post, promote it, tweet about it, post it and deal with picking a winner, then contacting them…for FREE?!
Working (and yes blogging and doing reviews and giveaways IS in fact WORK!) for free does not cut it here.
My time is money (or equivalent)…
Meaning, the time that it’d take me to do a free giveaway with nothing in it for me, I could do a genuine review where the company actually provided product.
The companies I do reviews for do NOT pay me cash, I get the product and I give my unbiased honest opinion regarding said product or service.
Now, how can I do that if I don’t try the product?
Why would I host a giveaway or promote a product I haven’t tried myself for free?
Now, if I go somewhere or buy something myself and love it then yes I’ll tweet or post about it.
But, without having touched an item, seen it or knowing anything about it I’m not going to invest my time for the benefit of the company or often cases the PR person since they’ve been paid by a company to promote an item, then they seek out bloggers to do their work for free?! The PR person got paid, so why shouldn’t a blogger be compensated be it money for service fee of promoting or actual product to do genuine review of.
More work goes into reviews and giveaways than some people think I guess.
Pictures have to be taken of product, use product, write the review/giveaway, promote said review/giveaway continually for the duration of giveaway, sift through all the entries for cheaters/ineligible entries, pick a winner, notify winner, get information from winner, give winners information to company and that all takes time!
So, to those who want something for nothing remember time, experience, connections all have a price and one shouldn’t expect a blogger to do work without some form of compensation either by providing a full size product or paying for services to host a giveaway.
Sorry for the rant but today alone I’ve had 7 PR people ask me to do free giveaways for them.
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