misosouper, a shopping blog

Unadorned, but not unadored:  simple, swooping hoops that will become part of your mama’s daily wardrobe.  Their price is right, too.

Create some buzz around your mama’s neck by giving her a fly that cradles a tiny clock.

My mom collects blue and white antique plates.  She also collects scarves.

My Mother’s Day shopping is now done.

(I also got her this, but alas, the print is all sold out.)

This week only, use code “luckybreaks12” (hat tip to Grechen for the reminder) to get 25% off this punchy umbrella (and pretty much everything else) at Luna Boston.

Bring it on, spring showers.

As I mentioned before, I just finished up a series of three guest posts on the biz side of things, over at Indie Fixx.  A couple of readers have since e-mailed me since with some follow-up questions, and I thought that to give them proper due, I’d turn them into a (somewhat irregular) Friday feature.  On to today’s question!

Lovely Liz writes:  “How do you promote a giveaway?”

I feel relatively equipped to answer this, considering that misosouper’s been doing one giveaway a week for 6 months now.  I like to promote my giveaways through several channels.  After the initial giveaway post goes up, I try to plug it on my site throughout the week, on days when traffic peaks (on misosouper, it’s Wednesdays and Fridays).  Like this:  lookie here!  Sign up for this week’s giveaway!

I always e-mail a link to the person who is offering the goods to giveaway, so she can circulate it through her own channels, post it on her blog, tweet it up, etc.

Speaking of Twitter:  tweet about it!  But not too much, because that’s just annoying.

Finally, I submit the giveaway post to a few giveaway promo sites, like Prizey, free!grechen, Blog Giveaways,  Luck Happens, and Prizeatron.  It takes a bit of time, but this always results in directed traffic that often sticks around and becomes a regular audience on the site.

Voila!  That’s what I do…how do you promote your giveaways?

*For more suggestions on how to start/promote/blog your indie biz, check out these other great resources at Design*Sponge, Modish Biz Tips, and Indie Biz Chicks

photo credit to iheartlinen, who made (and gave away) all this gorgeous stuff