How to pitch to brands as a blogger?

The one question that has probably caused the biggest uproar in the Blogging Industry is:


'Should bloggers pitch to brands for a supposed collaboration?'


The simple answer to this, in my opinion, is 100% YES I have heard so many people slating bloggers for pitching to brands and I can't say I agree with anything they're saying. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion I get that, but pitching to brands is such an amazing way to get your name out there.

Obviously, if you only have a few hundred followers then it will be very hard to get brands to work with you. I know that's a very blunt way to look at it but it's true! Brands want to work with Bloggers that have a larger following or a relatively high engagement as it'll be the most beneficial to their company.



How to find brands to work with?

In the past, I have contacted brands whose products I actually use on a regular basis and love! That way if you were to send an email for a possible collaboration, you would be able to express how much you actually love their company. If you're looking for different brands to work with then I recommend looking on the #bloggerswanted hashtag on Twitter and seeing if there are any brands wanting to work with bloggers on there. There are also a ton of Facebook groups and websites that connect brands with bloggers.

When you stumble upon a brands website and you're just about to contact them, just remember that you want to contact the people that specialise in social media and PR specifically. So, look out for emails such as:

 pr@insertcompanyhere.com
marketing@companyname.com

How to go about writing an email to a brand?

Be unique! PR companies get sent hundreds of emails every day from Bloggers wanting to work with them. Make your email stand out from everybody else's. I'd recommend getting yourself a media kit (I'll do a whole post about this if you'd like one) and explaining to the brand what type of collaboration you'd like to do with them.

What if I don't get a reply or they decline my offer?

It's not the end of the world if either of these things happen. As I said before, PR companies get hundreds of emails from bloggers and simply don't have the time to respond to everyone. If somebody has pitched a more unique collaboration idea than you then a brand is more likely to go with them. That's just common sense.


I think that's pretty much everything. If you have any more questions or would simply just like some advice then just comment below!

Comments

  1. I get nervous to pitch to brands because I don't have a huge following. I am not sure how to get the unique pitch across..
    I don't have a media kit either and I am not even sure how to go about it. Again, it's not something I've done because I don't have a huge following. I don't think a media kit would make me look appealing right now.
    I enjoyed reading this post. Thanks for talking about how to pitch a bit. ❤

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  2. I’m constantly reaching out to brands and trying to find the right words to say 😅 this helped a lot, and I can’t wait to contact some more brands! Thanks 💗💗
    Georgia x // www.georgialeanne.wordpress.com

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  3. Love this! I’m still really quite new to blogging and don’t really know where to start, once I’ve built up more content and ready to start pitching I’m going to be re- reading this! Thank you :)

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  4. This is such a great post! i’m definitely gonna pitch to more brands!

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  5. Hi Lauren, it great to have a tour to your wonderful blog. This is my first approach to put something here. Yeah I agreed with you. With few flowers or low engagement it's difficult to make a target into the desired fruit. Your email also should be with something attention grabbing so that your audiences get interested to click on. One this very recently observed that many users are not interested to open a mail because of spammer experience. Hence there are many email marketing tools available to go ahead. Anyway, I enjoyed your brilliant presentation. Thanks a lot for hearty discussion and of course for sharing. I also would like to unfold a marketing tools that can contribute much for any internet marketing. Anyone here can take a visit here.

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