Looking for bloggers « Columbus Underground Messageboard

Columbus Underground Messageboard » General Columbus Discussion

Looking for bloggers

[11 posts] [5 contributors]

Topic Rating:

(Total Ratings: )
Rate this topic:

Started 5 years ago by Get Them Blogging
Latest reply from Get Them Blogging

Tags:

No tags yet. Add them below.

Login to Send PM

Hi all --
I'm a Columbus native who has just launched a new database to hook PR/marketing people up with bloggers. If you have a blog, we would love to have you join us. Bloggers in our database will be given the opportunity to review products and services on their blogs. You fill out a detailed survey and then you wait to get pitched. When a pitch comes in, you can decline (by doing nothing) or reply directly to the PR/marketing person for more info.
Please check us out! http://www.getthemblogging.com
Thanks!
Dawn

Posted 5 years ago #
JimL2

Login to Send PM

Hi Dawn, I would love to be sponsored by a restaurant. For example, when I do my review of Number One chinese I can have a picture of me throwing up into a McDonald's bag instead of just a regular bag!
Or maybe when I get a Wii I can write a post that says "The Wii is so bad it makes ME want to wee! GET XOBX INSTEAD!!!" and then there can be a picture of me throwing up into an Xbox 360 box.
Let me know!!
-Jim

Posted 5 years ago #
Login to Send PM

Heck -- you can write whatever you want if a PR/marketing person wants to pitch you! ;)

Posted 5 years ago #
Walker
The KLD / Downtown
Login to Send PM

Get Them Blogging wrote I'm a Columbus native who has just launched a new database to hook PR/marketing people up with bloggers.
Please check us out! http://www.getthemblogging.com
Seriously though, this sounds like a great concept. Are you interested in local affiliates only, or this a national type of thing you are doing?
Sounds interesting...

Posted 5 years ago #
Login to Send PM

I'm in Columbus but I'm taking bloggers and PR folks from all over. :)

Posted 5 years ago #
NYCtransplant
West Albany
Login to Send PM

This is so very cool. I'm a PR person but I blog too. I go both ways. ;)

Posted 5 years ago #
Login to Send PM

A swinger, eh? ;)
If you want to use it as a PR person or a blogger, lemme know. We're handing out three month memberships to PR people who will help us beta test. :)

Posted 5 years ago #
JimL2

Login to Send PM

Get Them Blogging wrote Heck -- you can write whatever you want if a PR/marketing person wants to pitch you! ;)
Right, that's sort of what I'm afraid of. I mean, if you get a reputation for speaking poorly about products they wouldn't be so stupid as to send you more products, right? In a world where even ethical decisions are made based on cost-benefit ratios, this is just common sense. Bloggers are a dime a dozen.
And if a blogger's receiving new toys is dependent on how positive their last review was (or if you prefer, dependent on how well they fit in with the pitch a marketing dept. wants to make), how is this different from any other astroturfing plan? I guess it's different in that you don't actually get any money, just the toys. So it's kind of less useful than any other astroturfing plan.
No offense to you, I'm only talking about the business model. This just seems like pay-for-play tarnishing the one saving grace of blogs. Having this working at a local level doesn't seem any less scummy than what the national corporations are doing.

Posted 5 years ago #
Login to Send PM

Well, I do think it's different from the pay-for-play services because there's less motivation to please the reviewee. If someone offered me a hundred bucks to review a crappy book and I was hurting for the mortgage money that day, I might be tempted. But if all they were going to send me was the crappy book, I'd just say no. Also with the Get Them Blogging database as a go-between, there is less of a "loyalty" issue than there is if the PR person is hounding you directly.
Also on the PR side of things -- there's a big different between PAYING for advertorial (where you want bang for your buck) and sending a sample out and hoping for the best. PR people send out samples all the time (I used to be on the masthead of a now defunct parenting magazine -- I've got a box of samples in my basement) -- they're not buying advertising. They understand the difference.
So I absolutely get not wanting to review stuff on your blog and I also get wanting to review for pay but I'm thinking most bloggers are somewhere in between and are willing to entertain the notion even if they end up saying "no thanks" 90% of the time. (Bloggers in our database aren't obligated to say yes -- EVER.)
:)
Dawn

Posted 5 years ago #
shy_999
gahanna/whitehall
Login to Send PM

What if my blog focus changes?
Let us know and weÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ll move you into the category where you would like to be. We can edit your directory entry any time you need us to.
I'm intrested (if you can tell me) in what kind of categories you have. I think it is intresting and I would probably have time if most average deadlines are two weeks. (I realize this isn't always the case)
Thanks,
~ME

Posted 5 years ago #
Login to Send PM

We've got all the usual categories -- arts & media, current events, technology, parenting, etc. Then there's a space to write "other."
You can always BUT ALWAYS turn down a pitch. The pitches come to you forwarded through our system (the PR/marketing people will never have your contact info unless you choose to share it) and if you don't want to review the product/service, you just delete. And if you DO want to, you reply straight to the PR person and let them know that.
:)
Dawn

Posted 5 years ago #

Subscribe to this discussion

You must log in to post.

Popular Messageboard Topics

Latest Front Page News Articles

Columbus Underground Messageboard » General Columbus Discussion

Looking for bloggers

About Columbus Underground

About The Metropreneur

Popular Messageboard Topics

Latest Front Page News Articles

Subscribe To ColumbusUnderground

Columbus Underground Messageboard » General Columbus Discussion

Looking for bloggers

About Columbus Underground

About The Metropreneur