On Friday Night Live this week we dissected and discussed what we are affectionately calling “bloggy burnout.’ After a lengthy 90 minute conversation with bloggers around the web, we came to one conclusion:
Mom Bloggers are simply doing too much.
With the allure of giveaways, reviews, and blog trips, Mom Bloggers have turned from what they love the most, their family, into working directly as public relations for their captive audience. It boils down to knowing your worth and then standing up for it.
While we adore many of our fabulous PR reps and treat them like bloggy friends, our site, and many others, are inundated with hundreds, if not thousands, of product requests each year resulting in massive obligations and deadline stress equivalent to what the General Motors CEO must feel every time he drives into work. We watch our blog friends strive for the next big review or the next big giveaway, but all the while practically losing
MomDot is challenging bloggers to participate for one week in August in a PR BLACKOUT challenge where you do not blog ANY giveaways, ANY reviews, and Zero press releases. In fact, we dont want you to talk to PR at ALL that whole week. We want to see your blog naked, raw, and back to basics. Talk about your kids, your marriage, your college, your hopes, your dreams, your house and whatever you can come up with for one week.
We will host a linky during that week for you to link up every post you do. We will also provide some topic suggestions for each day of the week to get your blog blood flowing again.
We feel this is an important challenge to show mom bloggers that what they are doing, the stress they feel, the deadlines, the time away from their family, it has to be worth it. So grab the picture, link to MomDot for PR BLACKOUT week and COMMIT to blogging for YOU and about you for one week this year.
Let us know if you will be participating along side us. We have scheduled it far enough in advance for you to wrap up all your current obligations and look forward to meeting more of our audience, sharing more of our personal selves, and having the TIME to be much more involved with our own community.
~Trisha
We are IN!
You’ve no idea how IN I am.
And manymany fitness bloggers as well.
I’m gonna spread the word/send people your way.
I have a baby birthday bash scheduled for the 14-23- def want to do this next time though, I can’t wait to see what everyone writes!
Sounds like a great Retreat-good to refresh & rewind -I’m in if I can wrap current affairs up in time
Oh man! I’m already committed to a Back To School event the 1st thru the 15th…..can you do this again sometime?
Sounds like I missed a great FNL. I think this is a fantastic idea and I’m in!
Provided I have three weeks notice I’M IN!!!
I look forward to it!
I have a giveaway event planned the 1st-15th so I can’t join in this time. I could probably commit to the 16th LOL.
Sounds good to me!
I must be ahead of the curve, I’m in a constant PR blackout.
I’m in! Looking forward to it!
Me!
I’m in!!
I’m in!
I haven’t really joined the whole rat race yet but I think it’s a great idea and I’ll support it.
Way to go ladies. Can’t wait to read all the great articles.
I’m in!!
I’m in.
I’m so in for this. Looking forward to it!
Too bad I already have Beautiful Summer Giveaway running through the months of July and August. Oh well, I’m not fully burn out yet….by the end of August I bet I will be!
Count me in!