Comments on: How to Contact Bloggers (and Ask Them to Write About You)

By: Dina Argov

Dina Argov — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 08:14:35 +0000

Tricia!

Thank you so much for this post. You gave me the link on an Etsy forum, and now things look much better. I am off to get ready for some research:)

Dina
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By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:51:17 +0000

I would also point to the fact that finding the best 10 or so bloggers for what you hope to accomplish makes a big difference as well. When I was doing blog outreach for my company Recipebridge.com I was stuck with a list of thousands of food bloggers. When really I just wanted to top 20 to ask feedback of, write articles, or maybe just to get an SEO link. I found the technorati score to me quite terrible for this, has anyone found anything that helps them identify the good blogs from a blog list?

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The Secret to Etsy Sales, Part 2: More Eyes on Your Stuff — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:28:12 +0000

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By: Tricia

Tricia — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:17:09 +0000

Mallory, thanks for the heads up! Holy cow! I would never have guessed that folks would cc a list of bloggers! That’s really lame!

Folks, please, write each blogger *individually*. Spend a few minutes making each email specific and personal to that blogger. Creating realtionships and positive impressions is more important to the long term success of your business than the few minutes you save with a shotgun approach to email.

By: Mallory

Mallory — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:53:29 +0000

I think that Jena’s post on submitting to bloggers might mention this, but I’d just like to point out to be very careful when emailing a bunch of bloggers at once, if you’re using the same email template over and over (which I think is fine, but personalize it to each blog a little), make sure you’ve got the blogger’s name & other info right in each email! I recently got an email from an artist who said “Hi Jena”, so I knew that they were doing a mass email and clearly must have also emailed Jena from Modish and they got sloppy when emailing me and forgot to change the name! Also, if you choose to email a bunch of bloggers at once, use blind carbon copy, not just CC! (Although again, I think emailing bloggers one by one and addressing them by name is a better way to go.) I got an email today from an intern for a shop who CC’d a whole bunch of bloggers… it felt very impersonal. Which I’ll forgive because the person mentioned they were an intern, but it’s something to be aware of!
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By: daisy janie

daisy janie — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:46:58 +0000

Hi Tricia! Thought you might like this post I wrote on Scoutie Girl back in June. In it, I take an email submission and break it down piece-by-piece and describe why it’s a good one. nice blog!! i’ve got it marked.

http://www.scoutiegirl.com/2009/06/f-is-for-frank-and-they-get-an-a.html
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