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I was recently contacted about accepting a site sponsor, and I agreed… Our first official sponsor is… Bizrate.com! On the left sidebar, there are links to barbecue and grilling specific links on the Bizrate.com site.
Please help me in welcoming Bizrate.com as a sponsor by clicking on their links! It’s a great place to find ratings and great prices on grilling and barbecue equipment!
April 9th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
My first visit to your blog (via Eggbeater), and both this post and your earlier post about peri-peri sauce raise interesting issues that I have been considering as well. I’ve been offered many products to sample, because I write a product-focused blog, and I’m cautious about accepting and, occasionally, blogging about those products. I think full disclosure, as you have done, is the key. I’m also considering more commercial sponsorship, but haven’t quite resolved how I might do that. Please let us know how you find your experience with BizRate. Thanks.
April 9th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
Lydia,
I’ve thought through some of those issues myself. My “links” are different from my “sponsored links”. With Nando’s Peri-Peri, there wasn’t even a request for a review; I honestly just like it so much, I wanted to write a review on it. I don’t think it’s dishonest to accept an item to review, as long as the sender knows that the review will be unbiased; if it’s a bad review, be ready to accept that. I wrote a review of a local barbecue restaurant, and I didn’t give them perfect scores on several things, but they were happy to have the review, and I think they appreciated the honesty.
I will say that anything I write on here will be pretty much unbiased. I won’t accept a sponsor that I can’t say favorable things about… That starts getting into integrity issues.
Thanks for talking the time to comment!
Curt