No sale!
If I were Liz Taylor in Butterfield 8 I'd write that in lipstick on the corridor reflect.
The blogosphere was abuzz yesterday with a New York Times article that cast a shadow of doubt across all of bloggerdom by insinuating that we're all paid shills. Pah! To wit:
Colleen Padilla, a 33-year-vintage mother of who lives in suburban Philadelphia, has reviewed almost 1,500 merchandise, along with baby garments, microwave dinners and the Nintendo Wii, on her famous Web web page Classymommy.Com. Her web page attracts 60,000 particular site visitors every month, and Ms. Padilla draws something else: loose gadgets from businesses keen to promote their products to her readers.
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Ms. Padilla generally acknowledges in each evaluation which products have been despatched to her through groups and which items she sold herself. Other items on her website online include her personal films for brands like Healthy Choice, which she labels as backed posts. But unlike postings in maximum journalism shops or unbiased assessment websites, most corporations can be confident that there will no longer be a negative overview: if she does no longer like a product, she surely does now not put up whatever approximately it.
OK, simply to get this out within the open, no person has ever paid me a dime to write down a post. Now, I do sell advertisements however the only way someone can get onto my right column is to promote some thing I'd mainly purchase and recommend. I turn down greater inquiries than I take delivery of. Further, I might not get involved in backed hyperlinks that work their way into my editorial content.
Do I get press releases and write an occasional publish primarily based on a press launch? You bet. If it is a legitimate product that suits my niche and is some thing I'd propose to a consumer or use myself, I'd write about it in a heartbeat. Do I get something for that? No.
I get the occasional sample (like the one I'm getting subsequent week from Fabric on Demand) or ebook to check, but I do not do any of that for cash. The identical holds authentic of the provide aways I've run. The fortunate winner gets the prize, no longer me. At maximum, I'm after the publicity and a inbound link. That and the atypical unfastened-lance gig.
My goal here is write thrilling and informative posts and to offer human beings interested by renovating their houses valid recommendation. I do this every day and I constantly name them like I see them.
So Classy Mommy (ugh) might get a Wii and a yr's supply of microwave dinners (that need to be where she got the "classy" part) and greater strength to her. But it ain't me babe. No, no, no it ain't me babe.