Comments on: Prizes as Blog Promotion: Contests & Give-aways

By: Power of Pingbacks or How I got naked with the Fairy Blog Mother | Blogging Classes @ LVS Online

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:23:53 +0000

[...] of the first posts on this blog was about using contests for blog promotion and pinged back to a promotion by Rachelle Chase and Lorelle Van Fossen. Because of that pingback, [...]

By: Blogging Classes @ LVS Online » Blog Archive » TrackBacks & Pingbacks: Building the Blogosphere

Mon, 26 May 2008 21:18:35 +0000

[...] others are saying about them. This is true for even the really famous ones out there. Check out my post on giveaways where I pingbacked Lorelle of WordPress [...]

By: Bean

Bean — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:54:21 +0000

Thanks Lorelle,
I agree, the focus is often on obtaining a concrete financial reward. In reality, the reward of knowledge for one’s self and others and increased awareness and insight in our readers can be a worthwhile benefit. Just because it is more difficult to quantify, does not reduce it’s value.

By: Lorelle

Lorelle — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:28:38 +0000

Great premise and good points. We all win with such projects, but mostly, the readers win because they are involved, they contributed, and those who read this later, will have valuable insights and information to help them with their blogging and what blogging means to them.

I like it best when the end benefit is to the readers, now and in the future. Most people think of the benefit of ROI being in money, but I like the bigger picture.

Thanks!