Well the beginning of another week.
Must say I learnt the odd thing from doing the giveaway. Here are some thoughts about it.
I noticed t'other day that I've got nearly 200 followers so sort of guessed I'd maybe get around 120 participants. Now that amount of followers might sound darn good but I wonder what it really, really means!!! I know I'm an old cynic but I always question things in life.
I follow lots of blogs and always keep my dashboard open in one of my tabs (which I refresh regularly) so that I can see who's updated their blogs almost as soon as it's happened. I wonder if others do the same? As I have all these people who have at some time put me down as somebody they (bravely!) decided to follow I was somewhat surprised that 'only' 74 folks signed up for the giveaway. Perhaps it was bad timing. I only announced it on the blog. Interesting, eh?
Ah, I didn't advertise the giveaway on any of the tatting lists. Why? Because I rarely go to them nowadays!!! I belong to lots on yahoo which I 'dip into' when I have new patterns to announce or if I see a question that I can help with. In that case I usually write to people privately. The intatters forum is another that I belong to but find it too 'challenging' for my small brain!!! I DO wish it had a 'daily digest' email option as my life would be complete if it did!!!!
Another 'thing' I didn't do was stipulate more options to the signing up procedure. I find that (personally) I can never be bothered to join in these games if I have to 'jump through hoops'. It's the thought of having to put 'buttons' on my blog, mention it and almost grovel to sign up that made me 'not' put any rules to joining in!!!! I'm not a 'rule' sort of person!!!
Another point - nobody knew what 'it' was so that couldn't have put them off. Perhaps a blind giveaway wasn't a good idea!!!!
Whatever else - it amused me and I was SO happy to give something away that was really worth having.