Fire Up Your Giveaway!

In honor of the next couple of months and the fabulous blogs we will be featuring, I want to share some of the ways I discovered to promote your giveaway and your blog.

Unless your a blogger who gets thousands of hits a day with tons and tons of people referring to your blog and promoting your events at their own blog, sometimes it can be discouraging to have a giveaway.  You often have to work to get people to even enter!  I remember some of my first few dissapointing giveaways on other blogs.  I would wait and wait, checking my comments wondering why they were so few and far between...

I have since learned that everything evolves around work in the blogging world.  If you leave your future to chance or luck,  its more likely than not you will flop and fail.  The internet is so vast that for someone to stumble upon anything that isn't ranked 1st in a Google Search list is like 1 in 100,000,000,000,000 - (don't quote my possibly exaggerated numbers - its more like an example to make a point :-)  Sometimes you wonder, how many sites can there be out there?  Beyond our comprehensive imagination I believe.  Just in your native language alone, how many cooking sites are there?  Lots.  Lots and lots and lots.

So when your small and want exposure through a giveaway, don't despair.  There are ways to help yourself!

1. Link up to all the giveaway parties you can.

Moms By Heart has a huge list of parties here for everyday of the week to join.  Parties do some of the work advertising your giveaway for you.

Link up Moneysavingmom.com giveaway list, Tipjunkie.com listing and any safe listing you can find.

2. Start telling people.  Leave comments on blogs, send e-mails (when you have permission), and spread the word.  Post on your facebook and twitter about it. 

3. Remind often. Put a reminder right up where your visitors will see it everytime they visit.  It takes a lot of repeated exposure before people will actually develope an interest in what they are seeing.  Leave links and make it as easy for them to enter as possible.

Let's get going!  The amount of entries and exposure you get is directly related to the amount of effort you put in.  I didn't realize this at first, and just hoped that people would find me and enter.  It so doesn't work like that for most people; unless your really lucky or get a big break.  I was not lucky.  And it was dissapointing.  Then I developed a new attitude and outlook.  And I reaped the rewards.  You can too.  Don't wait for dissapointment - go and build success!

Big Advertising Oportunities!

In June, possibly July as well, I have a big event coming up for all my readers.  I am putting together a series of giveaways consisting of ad spots on various blogs.  The winner of each giveaway will get to experience the growth benefits of having an ad spot on another's blog when they otherwise may not have had the opportunity due to monetary funds and such.

I am really happy to be able to put this together, and would like to offer the opportunity to those who may want to donate some ad spots on their own blogs to giveaway.  Donating an ad spot has a lot of benefits, so not just the giveaway winner will "win".

For each giveaway, the giveaway sponsor who donates an ad spot(s) will:

• Be featured in a post solely about them and their giveaway; it will be about what their blog has to offer readers.  What kinds of great activities and posts you have regularly and little about yourself to introduce you to potential new readers.
• Increase traffic to their blog through various entry options for the giveaway.
• Will list the winner of their ad under their sponsor or similar category on their blog.  Having a sponsor or a new sponsor will increase reader and unique visitor interest into hopefully becoming your paying sponsors as well so they can have an ad spot too.  Giving away an ad spot will hopefully get your sponsorship business going to help you maybe make a little money from all your hard blogging work.

I am starting early so we can work on promoting your giveaway to give you the most exposure possible to increase participation.  I am putting this together to help out all my readers, whether they want to enter the giveaways (sponsors can enter all the giveaways too, just not their own of course :-) or sponsor an ad spot, either way everybody wins and grows their blog.

If you would like to be a sponsor and donate an ad spot, send me an e-mail by the end of this week and I will start setting dates and giving you more information on how things will go.  Its going to be really easy and have lots of benefits.  Be sure an e-mail me sooner than later, because I only have so many openings left and they will go quickly.

I'm really excited to be able to offer this to you.  I almost wish it wasn't me so I could enter all the giveaways!  I know having an ad on someone else's site can bring you A Lot of new traffic you may not have had otherwise, since one of the biggest obstacles to having one is whether you can afford it or not.  So get ready, because come June/July, you are going to want to enter everysingle one of these so you can get as much new growth as possible by increasing your chances of winning a spot!!!

Giveaway: Skip Hop Pronto Changing Pad

This Giveaway Now Closed!!!

You know its going to happen.  In the middle of your shopping trip, your baby's eyes get that familiar concentrated look.

And after a minute or two, you can smell their present wafting through the air.

You could use the changing tables in the bathroom,

but by themselves, they are a little too scary for me.  Too much of the unknown could have previously gone on there.  You could cover it with paper towels, but that takes forever, and the baby is already upset, crying.

Which is why I am so excited to be able to give away the Skip Hop Pronto Changing Pad Kit!

You can use this anywhere.  On the changing table at the store, on the grass during a picnic, on the floor when visiting a friend.  It folds into a carrying case and comes with a slim wipes container.  Plus I loved the color.

And even if you don't have a little one, this is perfect to give as a baby shower gift!  Always need some of those handy.

So if you want to win this awsome trouble saving Changing Pad here are plenty of ways to enter!

I know your little one will be thankful to get if you're the lucky winner.  It may not be like one of theses fantastic kids beds, but its still an imporvement over the other options available!  This is all possible thanks to the CSN Team.

Be sure to leave a seperate comment for EACH entry.  If you put them all into one comment, then they will only be counted as one entry reguardless.  The winner will be announced on Saturday, April 10, 2010.  The winner has 48 hours to send me their mailing information, which I will then send to the shipping agent who will ship the prize to you.

This Giveaway is open til Friday, April 9, 2010, at 11:59pm, Mountain Time.  US and Canada Residents are eligible only.  Winners mailing address must be in either the US or Canada.  1 Winner will be selected by a random integer generator.

Good Luck!

Giveaway Ends: Friday, April 9, 2010, at 11:59pm, Mountain Time.

How To Enter:

1. Check out CSN Store's Kids Beds, then tell me which ones you like and why you like them.  Be sure to look around, because I'll probably be using your opinions as a reference when putting together my future giveaways.

2.  Follow my blog.  If you're already following, tell me so :-).

3.  Grab my button to decorate your blog with.

4.  Join my E-mail party.  (Check the sidebar)

5.  Subscribe to Blogger Chix Designs via reader or e-mail.

6.  Tell a friend about the giveaway, they follow my blog as their entry, and you both leave the other one's name in your comment.  OR write a post on your blog about this giveaway.

7.  Tell me what sewing, crafting, stamping or other such project you would really like me to make into a video tutorial.

Giveaways!

Another chance to promote your giveaway.  Link up and join the party!



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Giveaways!

I love to find out what other people are giving away! Link up, join the party and get free exposure for your giveaway. Check back next week for another link up as well!




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