I don't know, do I really have to blog? It seems to me that I am obligated to blog everyday. Supposedly blogging is for the self-fulfilling prophecy and self-fulfilling fun to do what is necessary to entertain one's self. It really doesn't mean as a blog-writer I have the obligation to make some people happy. That's not the purpose and aim of blogging.
To each of her own blog and format and aim in life.
Can you blame me?
So why some blog-writers are so nice and keep giving giveaways? Is that the correct word? Let say prizes or rewards for reading their blogs. Just like those television hosts who are very generous of gift-giving. Oh well, we know that the endorsers of those free gifts are the advertisers it's just that the hosts are there to give the prizes and gifts through them. Promo.
In the Philippines it's the same way, television hosts do the same thing of giving gifts and door prizes. Giving promo samples as ways to endorse products. You wont know the effectiveness of such product without somebody trying them first and you are chosen to use those product samples. Cheaper that way. Economically cheaper! Word of mouth promotion is cheaper than having to promote the products through Superbowl or any other venues. Promote your product through the Superbowl? Maybe just a glimpse of 5-10 seconds is costly, that a one minute advertisement is worth $5 MILLION DOLLARS or more and it will be seen through the whole world the ad could be worth for the company to pay $10-$50 MILLION DOLLARS! Shocking!? Superbowl makes lots of money from endorsements of product advertisements alone. I could be wrong but celebrity endorsers made millions of dollars from endorsing some products you see on TV.
When it comes to medicine, so many clinical trials are made. Well, of course they tried those medicines (drugs) to patients who are sick, not people without the ailment. Then scientific breakthroughs happened instantly when the product that was used was proven effective and safe. That's the best, successful honest to goodness way of endorsement.
In my own opinion, the endorser of products should and must use the product to make it believable. If its a phony advertisement? I don't think you can fool the people. We are in a generation of "prove it."
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