What Promotion Can A Merchant Get for Just £20?

On Friday I received a nice little message from the affiliate manager of personalised gifts merchant Gone Digging. As I’d just signed up for their program Jim kindly offered me a freebie. Now freebies are good (write this down merchants) and some that we’re offered do find there way to a new home in Duckland. However, we wanted to try a little experiment and Jim kindly agreed to this…

… unsurprisingly it’s a competition but this time it was to run via our Loquax Blog instead of our usual prize draw type pages. On the blog the user is asked a question about Gone Digging and they have to respond via the comments.

Now remember the prize is worth £20!

For that there’s promotional content (which will remain on site), traffic, brand and site awareness and come Thursday the competition will also feature in our newsletter. Plus they get a plug on OLD! Not bad for a prize worth just £20, eh!

We’d love to see more entries (and expect them) - although it does seem the blog mechanic has an impact on entry levels compared to a standard “join our mailing list” prize draw promo. However, just as a comparison we’ve seen a £200 of Star Wars toys competition with just 49 blog comment entries, and a High School Musical 3 Mobile Phone prize with just 35 entries!

Most certainly we’d love to see the traffic generate sales for Gone Digging (and any other prospective sponsors) not just now but in the future and we’d also love to run more of these competitions via our Loquax Blog! So we are keen to hear from merchants who would like to sponsor a giveaway or two - it doesn’t have to cost you a lot either (although the better the prize, the more interest it will generate).

If you’re interested then just contact OLD. Please note UK only! Thanks!