No. Participation in the Expo’s blogger program is optional.

You do not have to give review copies to our Official Bloggers.

You can use your own bloggers if you like in addition to or instead of our Official Expo Bloggers.  A pingback to the Expo blog would be appreciated and totally awesome!

We will have a special blogger room set up starting November 19.  Merchants who wish to participate simply purchase one of the boxes on the wall (L$0), drop their  boxed review copy in the contents, and add a texture to the front of the box (so bloggers can see what is inside).

Do not take the box or move it from the wall. Please leave it where it is or it will not work.  Do not set it for sale. Do not remove any scripts from the box.

Only your  100% Semi-Exclusive / Exclusive items or your One Of A Kind item are to be placed in the blogger boxes.  

Only the Official Expo Bloggers.  

The box will have a whitelist of bloggers who can get the contents when clicking it.  No one else can get a copy.

We do recommend buying an empty box for each 100% Semi-Exclusive / Exclusive / OOOAK review copy so each may have its own texture on the box for bloggers to see.

It is recommended you put the 2 required 100% Semi-Exclusive / Exclusive items in your review box.

Include a landmark to your store as well and any information notecard you want to pass on to the blogger.

One Of  A Kind items obviously cannot be sent out for blogger review so we suggest putting a descriptive notecard, pictures, and a landmark to the One Of A Kind Auction Area so the blogger can see the item and take pictures.  The landmark will be available Nov 29 and the blogger has early access to the region starting December 2.

You do not have to give the actual review copy to all the Official Expo Bloggers if you feel that is too large a group, although it is usually only 15 – 20 people.

Simply make a box containing your vendor ads for your 100% Semi-Exclusive / Exclusive items and include a notecard letting bloggers know to contact you if they wish to blog your items.  Place that box in the blogger room box as described above. 

OR

You can simply go through the Official Expo Blogger list, handpick and contact them yourself.  This does not guarantee they will say yes and blog about your item.

We will be opening the Expo regions to the following groups on December 2.  Blogger & Vlogger Network, The Blogger Hub and Seraphim.

These bloggers will have early access to wander the Expo shops and event areas.  They will have the opportunity to purchase any of your 100% Donation Items (which the official bloggers already received earlier in the blogger boxes) directly from the ACS Christmas Expo Vendors in your store before the regions open to the public and are encouraged to post a blog on items they find interesting.  

You do not need to place any blogger review boxes out in your store. These bloggers have been asked not to contact you for review items. If anyone does, please let us know and we will take care of the situation for you.  

If you have a specific store/brand blogger, who is not in those groups, and you would like them to have early access, please have them join one of those groups mentioned above.  With 200 merchants we cannot possibly add every individual blogger to an access list.  Thanks for understanding.

We wish we could, but honestly, we cannot. Bloggers have different items they blog about, different preferences for styles, colors… different tastes.  We try to have a variety of bloggers to cover as wide range of areas as we can.

We ask that they blog about 3 items minimum before and during the expo.  However, they are free to choose what items they blog about.

We ask our Official Christmas Expo bloggers to send our blog manager a link to any blogs they post re: the Christmas Expo and the link will be posted on our Blogging The Expo webpage.

The Blog Manager will send you a notecard / IM letting you know your item has been blogged about. We also post the link in the Christmas Expo Discord Channel and in group notices as well.