Blatant Blog Promotion

Sometimes it pays to blatantly promote your blog directly to the source.  I'm not really good at it but have used this technique a few times.  For example, for the past couple of weeks I have been testing reusable canning lids.  They are not paying me to test the lids but rather like many canners I am looking for a reusable solution to cut down my costs as well as reduce waste.  After I used the lids a few times and noticed that they had added my homemaking blog to their blog page, I emailed them telling them what I'm doing.  Testing a product is something that costs me both time and money so sometimes it is nice to let the manufacturer of the product know and if you're lucky they will give a nice link back.  I will email them again with a link to my full review.  On my cooking blog my husband and I are running the 2nd annual He Said/She Said contest and this year we are focusing on a Canadian cookbook authour so I sent an email out to the authour announcing the contest and then will send a second email announcing the results.  We recently discovered a wonderful organic farm nearby so I talked to the owners after our lovely visit then emailed them the link to my gardening blog.   This type of blatant blog promotion does work.  It isn't difficult but you do have to be careful that it doesn't cross the line into spamming. 

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