If you’re like many blog owners, one of your top priorities is to increase your visitor traffic—because with more traffic comes more advertising dollars. At ChunkyBling.com, one of our top priorities is spreading the word about our company and jewelry products. Let’s help each other reach our goals!

Product giveaways are a great way to build your traffic, add new subscribers, and generate buzz for your website. And they help us by getting our jewelry in front of your audience and generating new customer leads. It’s WIN-WIN!

Based on the number of followers you have on your blog, you’ll qualify for one of four different jewelry prize packages (see here). The more followers you have, the more valuable the prize package you’ll be able to offer in your giveaway.

First, you’ll need to sign up on our website. We ask that you provide some basic information about your blog, traffic statistics, etc. You’ll also need to schedule a date for your giveaway.

Next, we’ll contact you to confirm a qualifying prize package. We’ll also send you a giveaway kit containing:

• Instructions for hosting your giveaway
• Tips and tricks for maximizing traffic and participants
• Picture and text to jazz-up your giveaway post

When the big day arrives, you’ll post the giveaway to your website and try to generate as much buzz as you can. We’ll even help by posting a link to your giveaway from our Facebook fan page!

Giveaways may last anywhere from 1 day to 1 week. You’ll need to determine what the best time frame is based on your site’s traffic patterns. At the end of the giveaway, you’ll randomly choose a winner, contact that person, then send their contact information to us. We’ll send the prize directly to the winner (i.e. no extra work for you!).

OK, there are a few eensy weensy requirements you’ll need to follow in order to qualify for your jewelry prize package:

• Depending on your qualifying prize package, ChunkyBling.com will send you several product pictures and/or links which must be included in your giveaway write up. This is to help ensure consistency and accurate representation of our jewelry. The links are for tracking purposes.
• Prizes are shipped directly to the giveaway winner. The giveaway host may not claim the giveaway prize for themselves. Winner should be chosen in random fashion.
• Giveaways are only eligible for residents of the US and Canada.
• Giveaway host may not delete the giveaway post once the giveaway is over. It must remain on the website or blog—although it can be archived.
• You may specify any number of requirements that participants must complete in order to enter the giveaway (e.g. become a Facebook fan, subscribe to your blog, etc). But the first and minimum requirement must be participation in our Name That Bling contest. In other words, all giveaway participants must visit our site and submit a name in our contest.

If any of these requirements are not met, or if it is determined that traffic statistics have been misrepresented, the giveaway host will be disqualified and the jewelry prize will not be awarded.

There's no catch—really! We're so anxious to spread the word about our jewelry that we're willing to give it away for FREE. By hosting a giveaway on your blog, you're helping us to promote our product and website.

Sure! While you cannot exceed the value threshold defined in your qualifying prize package tier (e.g. $32 for a watch set), you can choose to offer a different mix of jewelry product. For example, instead of offering a watch set ($32 value), you could offer a bracelet and necklace set ($30 value).

There is no set requirement for how long your giveaway should last. You'll want to determine the optimal length based on your site's traffic patterns. For example, if your readers only visit your site 1x/week, you'll want to run your giveaway for at least 7 days to make sure you reach your entire audience. Most giveaways will run for between 7-14 days.

If you are using a blogging platform like Blogspot, detemining the number of followers to your site is simple—it will be displayed in a followers widget on your page. If you are using a different platform like WordPress, Joomla, etc, it may be more difficult to determine. Please indicate during sign-up if this is the case and we will help you determine a suitable way to determine your site's traffic.

In addition to showcasing our jewelry product, we are also anxious to showcase our website. On our site we host a weekly jewelry-naming contest called Name That Bling, which allows participants to win FREE jewelry by helping us name our new jewelry designs. We've found this to be a fun way to introduce potential customers to our product and website. And we find it adds a little more excitement to the giveaway (i.e. more chances to win something!).

As part of your giveaway kit, we will provide you will some pictures and/or links to be included in your giveaway writeup. We do this for several reasons. First, we need to make sure our jewelry product is represented consistently and accurately. You're giving us the chance to shine in front of your audience (thanks BTW!), and we want to make sure we make the most of it. For example, if you were to post product pictures directly from our website, they would appear blurry or pixelated because of the compression format we use. Instead, we are going to provide you with crisp, clear product pictures that will WOW your audience and get them really excited about winning the giveaway. The links we ask you to post are for tracking purposes and help us determine the origin of customer traffic.