Comments on: Blog Tips for EXTRA Credibility in Sponsored Manila Events

By: jonhar

jonhar — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:59:57 +0000

haha, we share the same sentiments. it sucks when people don’t really read your post but says it cool..etc only to get few backlinks..hehe

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By: Kiven

Kiven — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:21:52 +0000

reminds me of the talk we had before you launched blog and soul when nasa HIP pa ako lolz

By: Jehzeel Laurente

Jehzeel Laurente — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:50:55 +0000

“We’re probably the only country that engages bloggers as a relevant part of the “media” through face to face engagements.” – oo nga no? Sa ibang bansa, wala ata.. hehe

“The truth is, a lot of PR practitioners do not read your blog.” – Agree! And yung iba di na nag boblog, kaya nag sasayang lang ng pera yung nag invite Kaya ok lang din para sa iba na hindi nila basahin.

“In fact they aren’t even supposed to pester you to ask if you’ve written about them.” – I strongly agree

By: anonymark

anonymark — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:39:20 +0000

very well said!

By: dementia

dementia — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:32:29 +0000

Great post! Very helpful

By: BrianB

BrianB — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 05:07:39 +0000

I mean, for those bloggers with business in mind, shouldn’t we rather focus on effective advertising models rather than getting a free meal every chance we get? Think of the potential when advertisers master the landing page. Most of them get the CTRs but their landing pages suck. These pages have very low appeal to the average blog audience, who are just too savvy for generic sales pitches.

By: BrianB

BrianB — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 05:04:15 +0000

I have always been hoping that someone can sell blogs effectively to marketing and PR departments so we’d get better advertising rates. Businesses would rather waste their money on billboards and magazine ads rather than on ad partnerships with websites with direct-selling potentials.

It doesn’t make sense right now. Why spend millions of something like a TV ad? You have no control over consumer response and changing your approach on a TV ad will cost millions and months of time delay. In a website, this can happen in a matter of days with limited expense.

By: noemi

noemi — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 03:32:58 +0000

Everyone has the freedom to attend as many as they want. What I said is my personal stand not a criticism per se and of which I don’t impose on others.

By: Aileen Apolo

Aileen Apolo — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:32:58 +0000

I’ve worked with a number of PR agencies and it’s true that some really don’t read or track blogs, not because they don’t want to. Blogging is a fairly new medium and there aren’t any rules set yet. I always get asked about blogging metrics and it’s pretty hard to come up with a standard especially since the medium keeps evolving. And I understand why it may seem out of this world for PR practitioners who aren’t really online people. They wouldn’t even really know how to choose whom to invite to these events. I think it’s our job also to help them understand how things go.

I also agree with Juned that it’s pretty amazing how traditional marketers are embracing this new medium. I’ve been in the online advertising industry for 8 years now and what’s happening now would’ve been unheard of 8 years ago. It’s pretty much what my mentor said, “Mass marketing will definitely move to direct marketing.”

As for bloggers, to each his own. We have our own objectives for blogging. I’d love to attend as many events as possible since I get to meet a lot of new people, but I just can’t keep up (and my muse dies out on me if I have stuff lined up) and I have other priorities. Your credibility shines through your content.