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Blogging - how to get free stuff

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  • 18-04-2014 7:42am
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    amdublin
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 20,650 CMod ✭✭✭✭


    I have a blog for about 2 years.

    Blog 2 or 3 times a week. About anything and everything.
    What I have been up to
    What I have seen during the week
    Where I have been
    Movie reviews
    Restuaurant reviews
    Things I have bought
    My thoughts on anything and everything

    Get a lot of hits, have a good bunch of followers.

    Anyhoo! I want free stuff :pac: I'd love to get free stuff from companies and do reviews on them

    Any advice??? Anyone get free stuff themselves??


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    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,857 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    I'm no expert, but I'd say you'd have to specialise in one area (films, restaurants, electronics, whatever) and build a reputation for yourself in that field to attract that kind of interest from companies.


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    echo beach
    Registered Users Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭echo beach


    amdublin wrote: »
    Anyhoo! I want free stuff :pac: I'd love to get free stuff from companies and do reviews on them

    Frankly I'm not interested in your opinion on something you got for free. How can you be objective about say a restaurant if your main aim is to get invited back for another free meal, or to get invited to another restaurant? If you wrote an honest, but critical review of one place do you think anywhere else would invite you along to do a hatchet job on them?
    Giving people free stuff in return for reviews is part of the advertising/marketing budget of a company, not the research budget.


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    jimmii
    Registered Users Posts: 14,810 ✭✭✭✭jimmii


    If you can offer the company something (exposure to your readers) that they value more highly than the product you might get a little interest. We sometimes send products to bloggers to review but we've never been approached by them to do so its normally when we have had someone blog about something they have bought from us and then we have sent them something else after that. We have had people approach looking to run a competition with us which is a good way to get in without looking like you are just after a freebie.

    If you can show your blog is getting a serious number of people looking at it or have lots of followers/likes on social media then you might be able to get some stuff but I wouldn't hold my breath there are a lot of people out there doing the same thing.


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