For a while now, I’ve been doing a few reviews here and there, on this site, and my others.  I have one website, Books4Moms, that I only do book reviews on.  I love it, mostly because I get lots of great free books, but also because I get lots of great free books!  Of course there are some not so great free books, but the point is the GREAT free books.  I’ve done other reviews on Best Homeschool Place for homeschool services, programs, curriculum, books, games, and even some movies.  I’ve also done some reviews for TV shows on my personal website, Wyndsong Writes.  Reviews are fun!  One, because you get something free, usually it’s something good and fun, and then you have something to blog about!  Something more than just, “Hi, My name is Christine, and I’m a mommy blogger”.  That’s all the GOOD stuff about reviewing products and stuff…. so what’s the bad stuff?

The bad stuff is trying to find the things to review.  There are plenty of places out there that have pay for posts and paid reviews, but most of them (that you can find at places like SponsoredReviews or Pay Per Post), don’t really care if you have any experience about the product and just want the linkts coming into their site for search engine rankings.  I HATE really dislike those kinds of posts.  They come off as insincere and are generally not appropriate for whatever website is doing the review.  I’m always so surprised at who wants me to do a review for their site and which one of my blogs they want me to put it on (Like lighting websites on my homeschool blog).  So finding quality items, services, and websites to review (even a negative review on a quality product is better than great review on an irrelavant one), is extremely difficult.

That is where services like Business2Blogger comes in!  This is a free service that matches up Bloggers with Businesses.  And most importantly they do it for free!  Free to the Blogger and free to the business.  Which is great, because in this economy free is always good!

So how does a service like Business2Blogger work?

A business will come to Business2Blogger and tell them about what they want reviewed.  It could be a book, website, service, or other product.  They tell them what it is, and what they need from the bloggers and then also what the bloggers will get for doing the review.  Most of the time you’ll get the product for free, sometimes you’ll get paid.  (I personally like the free stuff best.  Not that I don’t like getting paid, but because most of the time I get some really cool things that I never heard of before.  I love being the first kid on the block with the newest and greatest!)

Once all the basics are given to Business2Blogger, they send out an email to all the bloggers on their list.  The bloggers on the list fill out an application to do whatever review needs to be done, then the business hires some of the bloggers, and everyone lives happily ever after!

I haven’t personally gotten on the list of Business2Blogger.  I’ve signed up for the list, and am anxiously awaiting my first email from them.  So this is only the FIRST review I”ll be doing on BBusiness2Blogger.  However I have been with other companies that do the same thing and have had some great results with them.  Some better than others, of course.  You can see some of the ones that I would recommend on my sidebar (you won’t see the ones I wouldn’t recommend there, and they’ll remain nameless in this blog post).  I”m rather excited about Business2Blogger because of some of the people I know who are already using their services to get reviews for their blogs.  They are other bloggers that I enjoy reading and trust their opinions on things.  So that gives me confidence to join this organization.  However, if I see that I don’t like them after joining, I’ll be sure to tell you!  But I have a feeling, my next post about Business2Blogger is going to be raving about them!!  And in a good way!

My suggestion though is always to check them out for yourself.  Give them a test drive, see what you find, and if you end up not liking them, then you can unsubscribe.  But if you like them, and you get some great product or heck even some money!  Well, lets all shout about it on the proverbial cyber mountain top!

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