Did you know…? + giveaway winner!

Hey sweet friends!  I have very important matters to discuss with you today, so please take a couple minutes to read this over! :)

Many of you often leave me sweet comments, but because you don’t have certain settings in place, I’m not able to respond to you.   I occasionally reply to comments and ALWAYS try to answer questions posed in a comment, but a good number of you don’t have your email address added to your Blogger profile (if you’re a newer blogger, this probably means YOU, but some of you more seasoned bloggers have overlooked this setting as well!). 

Personally, I don’t like to respond to comments in-line (i.e. right in the comment window for everyone to see) because A) I have no idea if you’re going to come back and check to see if I responded (I know I, personally, never go back to a post to see if the blogger responded to me) and B) it just gets way too confusing replying that way!

So please consider making the changes I’m about to explain! If you don’t have your email address added to your Blogger profile, I guarantee you you’re missing out on opportunities to communicate directly with some of your favorite bloggers!  For example, I have it set to where a notification of each new comment comes directly to my email account.  For those of you with your email address added to your profile, I just hit “reply” directly from the email and type a note back to you that is sent right to YOUR email.  But if you haven’t added that setting, your comment is lumped into a group of people whom I can’t reply to without going directly to their blog (if they have one) and leaving a comment there. And unfortunately, I just don’t have time to do that anymore. I could go into all the details of why not, but I’ll spare you for now.

So, do yourself and all your bloggy friends a favor: go RIGHT NOW to your Blogger profile and check and see if you have this little link to your email beneath your profile picture.

If you don’t see that link that says “Email,” you are NOT up and running yet!  Go to your Blogger dashboard and click “edit profile” beside your little picture (if you’re using the old Blogger interface, that is—if you’re using the new interface, go to your dashboard and then click the dropdown arrow in the top right corner or your screen.  Then click edit profile).  Now check the box next to “show my email address.”

You can use any email address you’d like for this one (it doesn’t have to be the address you sign into Blogger with).

Capiche?  Please, please, pleeeease do this!  It just makes sense, and it makes replying to comments, answering questions, and maintaining relationships much more streamlined. :) And if you’re a seasoned blogger and this frustrates you as well, please spread the word and send your readers to this post so we’ll all be on the same page!

Thanks everyone!

 

PS - I accidentally deleted the random.org photo of the winner number, but it pulled comment number 60, so the winner of the Scentsy giveaway is…

Chistine!! Email me ASAP so Erin can send you your prize! :)