Low Carb Confidential

While I think it’s flattering that they find my blog a place worthy of their product or service, I have to politely decline for the following reasons:

1. As this site is hosted on WordPress.com, I can’t personally accept advertising as part of the terms and conditions.
2. If I accepted physical items, it might be a conflict of interest – giving me an item for free might subconsciously motivate me to write nice things about it when I otherwise might not have.
3. This blog isn’t about money or self-promotion…I mean, look at it. Erratic posting. Half-baked ideas. Sloppy research. It’s not the blog you’d bring home to Mom.

When I write about a product – I paid for it. Some cynics out there have thought otherwise, but any products mentioned here were paid for out of my own pocket.

I do have 1 exception to the rule – electronically delivered items like eBooks or MP3s.

It doesn’t cost them anything to send to me – and if it’s on a topic about weight loss and I find it interesting, I’ll give it a listen or a read.With this kind of item, due to the fact it costs nothing  to send me an electronic product, I don’t think that I am depriving the person of anything.

Nor do I feel beholden to them.

Honestly, people who do this – the few times I’ve agreed to it, have gotten very little out of it. As I said, I’m not trying to promote this blog, I post when I want, and don’t feel the need to post to cater to an audience.

I one time I wrote about a hypnosis mp3 I just thought was OK –  it got a brief mention, and I mentioned that it was given to me in the post.

I typically warn folks offering me stuff of this – the probability of me writing about their product is low.

I love hearing from folks, and have nothing against hearing from people promoting products. If you have a cool website or product having something to do with the subject of this website, or something else, please let me know – but I don’t do link exchanges, don’t accept money, and don’t accept free products unless they are a pdf or mp3 or something else electronically delivered.

And even in those cases, I can’t promise I’ll write about them or even look at them.

And if I did write about them – I would mention I got it for free.

Fair?