Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Free Stuff? Sure, Sign Me Up!

So I'm starting to realize that my blog isn't going to take off in a week and I'll suddenly be rich enough to support my family on blogging alone like Dooce. I think you need something along the lines of 1000 hits a day to earn just pennies with AdSense...and (excuse me while I lower my head in embarrassment) if you look at my counter I think I'm still under 100. Sigh.

Much of the reading and research I'm doing about blogging is teaching me that (a) it takes a long time to get up and running and get an established readership and (b) one of the best ways to do that is by reading other people's blogs and commenting in hopes that they will read yours and, if they like it enough, post it on their blog. Then their readers just might notice your catchy title and check out your blog...and become your reader. See how it all works??

In the interest of networking a little, as well as pushing some traffic in the direction of a few other bloggers, I thought I'd post a few links to some free stuff. Money Saving Mom has a post of links (each week? every now and then?) where people post links of free things they're giving away on their blogs. Check it out...

* CVS Giftcard: This blogger is giving away a $25 CVS giftcard. All you have to do is leave a comment or mention her giveaway on your blog (done and done!) http://newlyweds.wordpress.com/2008/08/19/25-cvs-giftcard-giveaway

* Another CVS Giftcard: Here is another blogger doing virtually the same thing!!
http://savinmaven.typepad.com/the_savin_maven/2008/08/enter-to-win-a.html

* Target Giftcard: This girl, Kim, asked for ideas of what to pack for a picnic lunch to the beach...and in return she's doing a giveaway of a Target giftcard of mystery value (somewhere between $1 and 25$)
http://kimzkitchen.wordpress.com/2008/08/19/i-need-ideas-mystery-target-gift-card-giveaway/

* 1 Year Subscription to Sittercity.com: This is my favorite--a year's subscription to an online babysitting network. I sooo hope I win this one:) Our babysitter Katie was found through www.babysitters.com and she was awesome (but unfortunately only around for this summer, boo.) Anyhow, here is the link...
http://momminitup.com/?p=860

2 comments:

Jenna said...

Thanks for posting about my giveaway!! Good luck!

Jenna
http://newlyweds.wordpress.com/

Kimberly said...

Thanks for your post about my giveaway! It's over now, but I did get a lot of ideas that were wonderful! Good luck on building your readership - the biggest thing for me? Every day that I post I get 4-5 times the views that I do on days I don't. So, keep putting stuff up for people to see! :)