SPRING GIVEAWAY LINK-UP!
This is a fun opportunity to not only network with other bloggers who likely have blogs that may be of interest to you. But this is a fun way to help grow your own blog.
We all have our own followers, and if my followers come to enter your giveaway and your followers come to enter my giveaway. So on and so on with however many bloggers we have participating. Well as you can see that is a lot of new eyeballs on your blog. The potential to gain new blog followers is definitely there!
How it works is, each blogger who participates. At the end of their giveaway post will have a LINKY that will show the list of all the other bloggers participating in the hop, who are hosting their own giveaways. A viewer can enter one giveaway and then work their way down the list, by hopping from blog to blog. Entering for lot's of chances to win prizes from many different blogs.
Sign up for the Spring into Fitness Hop will begin on February 16th and will be open until March 13th. No late entries will be allowed.
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If you agree to the rules, we would absolutely love to have you join us! Please enter your name below, and wait for your instruction email on March 9th.
NEW 2015 RULES TO JOIN
* Your blog must be considered family friendly. In other words safe for any age audience to view. No steamy images, or erotica, and this could even include images in skimpy bikini or workout apparal. As well as keep the language from being obscene. If you question your blogs content email me or the co-host and we will tell you if it is appropriate or not. If we receive any complaints during the hop, we reserve the right to remove your link from the hop.
* The Linky list of all the participating blogs MUST be included at the end of your giveaway post.
* You MUST include the Giveaway image in your giveaway post. This not only helps me know your giveaway was created with this hop in mind. But it also helps all the entrants know they are in the right place.
* Your giveaway cannot have more than 10 entries total. We do this for a reason, studies show giveaways with more than 10 entries turn away people from wanting to enter. If you cannot abide by this rule, then this hop isn't for you. I was a little less strict on this rule last year, but this year it will be enforced.
However, I do allow *tweet once a day, or pin once a day entries.
* NO CAPITCHA or WORD VERIFICATION allowed during the giveaway. If you use these, you must turn them off for the duration of the hop. The reason being, they turn people away and make impossible for some people to enter. You can turn it back on after, but it is not allowed during the hop.
* You must have your post up live no later than 10am EST on the day the giveaway hop starts. If you can't schedule your post to go live, then you are free to have it go live earlier or the evening before.
You're giveaway must run for the entire length of the hop, and end midnight on the last day. (If you are using rafflecopter and the hop ends on the 6th of the month. You would schedule rafflecopter to end 12:01 on the 7th.
* You need to be willing to promote your giveaway. Or have a quick link to your giveaway on your blogs homepage for the duration of the hop. If you blog often it will get buried, if everyone does this and everyone promotes their own. It will just bring more success for everyone participating in the hop!
* You must be willing to add my email as an email contact, so your instructions and information will not go to your junk folder. Runawaybridalplanner(at)hotmail(dot)com
* Your giveaway item must be related to the type of hop. Books, giftcards are always okay. But you cannot give an item away that requires someone to purchase something first or is a coupon to get a percentage off or anything along those lines.
* When you sign up, please decide if your giveaway will be International or US only and indicate it next to your name with INT or US. If you don't include anything yours will automatically be edited to be US only.
* You are responsible to acquire your own giveaway/sweepstakes prize. You are also required to ship the prize to the winner. If you are working with a company, you are responsible to work with them to ship this to the winner.
* Giveaway item should have a value of at least $10. You are allowed to do multiple giveaways with your post.
* You are required to create a giveaway post that is clear to your readers on what you are giving away and how they should enter.
HINT: Keeping it simple and easy to enter will likely bring you more entries.
* If you change your mind and cannot run your giveaway. Please let me know 24 hours before the morning the hop. I will remove you with no questions asked, and I will appreciate the advanced notice!
Quite a bit last year, bloggers would link up to join and then never create a post. This year if you join and forget or don't post more than once, I may not allow you to join the next few hops. The reason, it takes a lot of time to go through the blogs and set this up. I enjoy doing it for those who can follow the rules and remember they signed up for it. Others who forget or ignore my emails, are in short wasting my time and time is not something I have lots of:)
HOW IT WORKS
* You join on the linky above.
* You then add the giveaway dates to your calendar.
* Then make sure you add my email to your contact list so it won't go to junk.
*5-7 days before the giveaway hop starts you will receive an instruction email. This email will include the hop image. The HTML code and a short list of instructions. This way for those who like to create posts in advance, you will have all the details to do so. (If you need it earlier, that is fine just email me.)
* 10am the morning of the hop myself and the co-host will go through the blogs to make sure everyone is playing by the rules. As well as have their posts up. Anyone without a giveaway post or anyone missing the image or blog list will be removed from the hop. You will have 24 hours to notify us if you get your post fixed or up. After 24 hours, you will not be able to be added back into the hop.
We will also make sure we change the linky link to go directly to your giveaway post.
* It will be your job to check you're blog name Linky later that day and make sure it is clicking through correctly. Notify us of any problems and we will get this fixed as soon as possible. If you don't see your name on the list, email me and find out why. Once you have things fixed email me and I will put you backup.