Bloggers Beware !!

Hi everybody,

Today's post is a little different from my usual. 

So today the entire day  I was frustrated , like literally FRUSTATED , the reason of which you will know in a minute. Sitting quietly I asked myself that I need to share what I feel right.

So girls , what is the reason we all started blogging for!!! 

Clothes, accessories or other forms of gifts, No a very BIG NO.

We all starred blogging because we have a voice , we have a opinion and we want to share it with others.

It's been 9 months since I started blogging and I must say I have had an amazing experience, met so many good people, read some amazing articles and evolved a lot as a person. But with this I have also had some not so good experiences.

So today I am going to share my not so good experiences. 

I will start with something that really pushed me to write this.

So my last post was for persunmall where I mentioned that I have been working for 8 months and I really like their quality.

Must say in first 6 months I was having a really nice working experience as well but suddenly last month they became really unprofessional. Now they do not value bloggers and don't appreciate their work .

If you are a fellow blogger then you will know that a company takes a week to evaluate your work or atleast 2-3 days which was the case with Persunmall too.

But coming in of a new marketing person, now things have changes. She has already judged my last post and given in feedback within 12 hours of it being published. When I brought it in her notice she said that they judge for 2-3 days but then what happened in this case !!

Judging the post only in first 12 hours , it's like jumping to the conclusion in the beginning of the work.

On the other hand says that's its a truth that my work was not upto the mark and I must accept it. 

She did something not very professional last month too but that time I thought that may be I am getting her wrong .

If she had given post the required time and then said the same , then I would have happily accepted but not like this . 

Guys , it's not about the clothes I get from them but it hurts when someone judges your work without even going through it properly.

I am no way trying to say that I am the best or my work , pics are write-ups are the best but if someone gets the work out of me and still says its not good then that's not right.

Other things that I have faces:

1) Treat bloggers like they are doing some favour by sending products. 

I want all the online shops to understand that you are not doing any favour on us, you want to promote your products and that's the reason you send them to us. It's give and take relation , we are not getting any free products.

2) Companies ask to a host giveaway  and when it ends they don't reply back to your mails. Yes this has happened with me. 

3) Companies tell that they have mailed the winners when they actually don't.

4) Companies don't want to give winners their prizes and give unreasonable reasons.

By doing all these companies not only spoil their image but also leave us in a very odd situation. The winners mail us for the prize and they are in no way wrong , they have won it and deserve it. But we are just stuck, I feel bad and cheated when this happens . I feel that I have to answer the winters but what do I do when the sponsor us not replying.

5) Companies trying to buy links.  There are so many companies out their who want to buy links from you. I really don't understand how can they do this when its against google's policies.

6) Companies sending faulty products. Yes , one company did this to me. And I read the other day on another blog that they did this to her too., Which means they are doing it deliberately.

Such companies should understand that we Bloggers are not waste bins, they can't send us defective products.

7) Sponsors ask to post wish-list as the first post , which I don't think is right but still if you do they don't reply back for feedback. I mean how can you not reply to someone you asked to write for you.

8) There are companies that don't reply back to mails but after ages they will pop up thinking that you are their fashion blogger and want you to be standing there at your service. 

Having all that said , I am in no way trying to say that all the companies out there are bad or are engaged in wrong promotion practices but yes there are some and we all need to beware to them.

It you have had any such experience , please do share so that others can be can be attentive . 

Sorry for such a long post . :) 

Kisses,

Pooja Mittal

www.beingbeautifulandpretty.com