Comments on: How To Promote Your Blog with a Giveaway

By: website@digmo.co.uk

website@digmo.co.uk — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:46:44 +0000

I have been running competition on http://www.totalapps.net and they are going really well. I found a great way to run a competition via blog comments that sends a code out via RSS it works brilliantly.

David

By: Shopper Diva

Shopper Diva — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:58:10 +0000

I’m about to announce my first ever giveaway, and I had no idea all this information was out there. Thanks so much!!

If you love cookware, come over to my blog and stay tuned for the exciting giveaway announcement!

By: bloggerspayback Dan

bloggerspayback Dan — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:25:13 +0000

Great post! You provide great tips on giveaways. I will have to bookmark this blog for resources in the future! Thanks for your great ideas!

By: affiliates

affiliates — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:06:04 +0000

wow…really nice post and thanks for the valuable tips.

By: audiokabel

audiokabel — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:50:17 +0000

Hi,
Your post is really helpful to person like me who just started to work on the blog writing.I really thankful to u for your advice.

By: Rick

Rick — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:02:09 +0000

Great advice, this post helped me find a site to promote my netbook giveaway, It’s my first ever, so I’m hoping it goes well!

Rick
Here’s the link:
http://theconservativejournal.wordpress.com/2009/09/13/tcj-deluxe-netbook-giveaway/

By: Rob O.

Rob O. — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:39:02 +0000

I’ve kicked off my first ever (consecutive) series of blog posts today and am holding a giveaway of 2 related books at the end of the weeklong series. I’m doing this in part to increase visitors & readership, but also as a small way to “pay it forward” since I’ve won a couple of trivia contests on other sites recently.

I’ve been working towards this for more than a month and I’m really excited to see how the drawing goes! I’ve made entry as easy as possible for my readers – simply post a comment.

By: Anatoliy Vinogradov

Anatoliy Vinogradov — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:53:43 +0000

Has read your article, about competition on a blog, very interestingly. At us on the Russian-speaking Internet you will not meet competitions on blogs. Very interesting idea, thanks. I hope that the Russian-speaking Internet when that will catch up, English-speaking users on development. Or it is already better to be levelled to China :)

By: jessica c

jessica c — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:43:08 +0000

I found that amazon gift cards are great prize even it it for $20.
There has been a few sites I found because they had a giveaway and now i love them and visit everyday so they do work.

By: Lynn

Lynn — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:23:56 +0000

Thank you for the great advice. I found this post through googling how to promote a give away. I’ve only done small give-aways so far, so I may have to take your $50 advice to heart. Although I often read book review blogs, in which book low value give-aways are common. (Our current give away: http://infantbibliophile.blogspot.com/2009/08/give-away-do-dot-art-set.html). Now to somehow refrain from spending the whole night on online-sweepstakes.com, which I had never seen…

By: Erika

Erika — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:09:44 +0000

Thanks for a great article. I’ve been thinking of doing a give-away on my blog, and I KNOW that the item(s) must be of value. I am wondering if it’s ever appropriate to ask an etsy vendor that I’ve bought from, for example, to donate an item for a give-away? I was wondering how that might work. Any thoughts?

By: Pricilla Lorenzo

Pricilla Lorenzo — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:28:13 +0000

This is a great article!

I am doing this stuff in blog and my traffic is icreasing.

Thanks again!

By: modernemotive

modernemotive — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:57:25 +0000

Great article. Thanks.

I’m hosting a giveaway right now (not quite a $50 value but still a sweet prize), I’d say over 50% of my entrants have opted in to get extra ballots by doing other stuff (RTing, listing fav item from 2 stores etc).

By: Bibokz

Bibokz — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:43:57 +0000

What’s the best give away you can suggest?

By: Reza Winandar

Reza Winandar — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:29:15 +0000

This can be done if you already earn a thousand dollars (at least) for every giveaway you’ve gave. For a beginner blogger (who didn’t earning a cent yet), this is very hard. So, I think you must think about it too. Many of your subscribers are live in poor country, like me, I live in Indonesia where $1 are IDR 10,000. 1 and 10,000, amazing, isn’t it?

By: Crazy blogger

Crazy blogger — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 01:54:48 +0000

This Post helps us to promote the blog and get huge traffic

By: Miranda

Miranda — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 01:12:30 +0000

I LOVE this idea. My blog is about art, and as an artist I can think of all kinds of things I could offer as a give-away. I currently have very few readers/subscribers and this could be a great way to generate more!

By: Anna

Anna — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:10:27 +0000

Question for all you bloggers who constantly run giveaways: where do get all your prizes? Is it something you shell out your own money for? Sometimes I get contacted by designers, asking to promote their products, but it’s few and far. I’d love to do more giveaways if I can find a way to get items cheaply.

By: TheBlogIsMine

TheBlogIsMine — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:01:52 +0000

I like the giveaway idea but what about readers who subscribe to feeds just for giveaway?

They may unsubscribe quickly or just not read content. Won’t that be a waste of resources

By: Tumblemoose

Tumblemoose — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 06:26:35 +0000

Darned submit button.

My apologies, Olivia. :-)

George