Message From the Soap Box: Blog Tours

Topic: Blog Tours

Most of us do them, Author and fan a like. Most of us host for a million different groups in this field. It’s good for author sales as well as for the host’s blog traffic.

However, it happens way more often than not that the organizers do not pay attention to the posts they check and make assumptions that after awhile get annoying and aggravating. Emailing a blogger and accusing them of 1) not posting their post (you’d be surprised how often THAT happens) or 2) assuming all of the person’s post isn’t there.

As an organizer your job is to THOROUGHLY check a host’s blog post not skim through it. Especially when it comes to MY posts. My posts are NEVER late unless I never received  the kit. My posts are never missing anything, especially not a review, unless I contact a week prior and say I can’t do it.

I’m sure I’m not the only one that’s had to deal with laziness. And not all organizers are lazy either. I’m on many that do their jobs perfectly. (Even if some of them forgot to switch my blog’s url lol)

Coming at your hosts in a rude manor even if it’s sugar coated is NOT going to go well for you. You can’t expect your hosts to be all sunshine and flowers when you make false accusations against them. That in fact is the perfect way to LOSE your hosts.

So please Organizers… Do what you’re paid by the authors to do. CHECK the posts before throwing accusations at your hosts.

You organizers need to remember that while YOU get paid to organize these tours, we bloggers do NOT so making accusations because you don’t feel like checking over a blog post thoroughly isn’t going to fly with anyone that has been blogging for awhile.