Hey Cincy/Dayton friends - Cincinnati Women Bloggers has partnered with Cincinnati Social Media for an event this Thurs, Oct. 29th at Empower MediaMarketing: Building Community with BlogHer’s Jory Des Jardins. There are only a limited number of tickets available so if you are interested you better hop on over and register. You can read more about the event and register, here: http://bit.ly/44pWuT.
Jory doesn’t get to Cincinnati often so you won’t want to let this one pass you by!
Hey Cincy friends –
Just a quick reminder that Cincinnati Women Bloggers meets this Saturday, 10am at the Cincinnati Ballet. You can get more info and RVSP, here.
We’ll be talking about BlogHer, as well as what you’re interested in learning about over the course of the upcoming months.
Hey Cincy friends -
Cincinnati Women Bloggers has launched a new “Friday Favorites” link up that allows you to share one of your favorite blog posts. It doesn’t have to be from this week – it can be from last month, last year, even two years ago. It just has to be one that you love.
I think this is a great way to not only share your writing talents, but to expose your blog to new readers as well as find new blogs you might not have known existed.
If you get a minute I recommend checking it out.
During the recent Cincinnati Women Bloggers meeting, one of the programs that Andrea (Mommy Snacks) mentioned during her presentation on affiliate marketing and blog monetization that intrigued me was Swag Bucks. Not sure what it was, I decided to check it out, and it’s actually pretty cool. It essentially pays you to search the internet – something I do all the time!
If you are not familiar, Swag Bucks is an online site where you earn ‘Bucks’ for using their search engine to perform your searches. The Bucks you earn are then redeemable for various prizes. It’s that simple.
Swag Bucks is open to the general public, and registration took me less than 3 minutes.
How you earn Swag Bucks:
1. SEARCH: Log in to Swag Bucks when you need to search the internet. They also have a Swag Bucks tool bar that you can install that makes it SUPER easy to do your searching with them.
2. SHOP: Next time you head online to do some shopping, check out the Swag Bucks SHOP. It’s tied to lots of great stores like Liz Claiborne & Macys (they even have coupons!) For every $5 you spend you’ll earn 1 Swag Buck.
3. TRADE IN: Have an old cell phone or MP3 player lying around? Any video games your children no longer play? You can trade them in and win beaucoup Swag Bucks. The site shows the Swag value of a Motorola SLVR L7 as 44 Swag Bucks!
4. INVITE: Think you’re friends would be interested? Invite your friends to join and you can earn up to 100 Swag Bucks.
Prizes…..Are they worth it?
Prizes run the gamit from things for your kids to electronics and gift cards and they don’t require you to have ten bajillion points either. Some of the cool items I saw included:
I am still in the early stages of checking it out, but so far it looks like a pretty cool program. You can sign up for Swag Bucks, here.
PS. Swag Bucks is also on Twitter. If you sign up, you should def. follow them as they Tweet special opportunities to earn Swag Bucks!
