I haven’t blogged about my Free iTunes Downloads blog for a long time, and you might think it’s dead or forgotten, but it’s not – it’s chugging along generating steady AdSense revenue. It hasn’t been on my radar much because there hasn’t been anything new or special about it. It’s like a sporadic job that I’ve been working at for almost 5 years now!

I did get a ping recently about it, from a marketing firm who was looking for the iTunes demographic. They were offering a $10 iTunes GC for me to give away. At first, I ignored their request because I wasn’t getting anything out of it – not that I want or need additional monetary compensation from the site. But it seemed like a rip-off to me since they would be leveraging my blog’s reputation to get free marketing for only $10.

In the end, I changed my mind and decided to hold the contest. Lucky for me, they weren’t too demanding and I was able to operate the contest on my terms; with the goal of growing the number of Twitter followers. I still don’t think it’s worthwhile to run a contest like this because I don’t value the reward (more Twitter followers, Facebook fans, etc) as much as the promotional opportunity I’m giving out. Hopefully there is something that changes my mind.

Posted by Kevin in Blogs Tags: fid, marketing, twitter