Everyone has been talking about Blogapalooza and I was lucky enough, together with my partner in life, Monch, to be a part of this momentous event when it comes to my blogging life. Last Saturday (September 17, 2011), the first ever Blogapalooza here in the country was organized by When in Manila, spearheaded by Vince Golangco, together with the rest of his team. It was held at the Top Shelf of Fully Booked, Bonifacio High Street and was supported by about 50 sponsors (business partners) and by the active more or less 150 Proud Pinoy bloggers with different niches such as food blogs, techie and fashion blogs, among others.
The main purpose of Blogapalooza is to allow various businesses to introduce their products to the blogging world (a business to bloggers marketing concept), as bloggers are now considered as social media influencers that “our” influence to the community cannot be denied. According to the organizers, Blogapalooza is a community that links big and small businesses “who have something cool to share and the online community of people who love to share”.
During the event, the sponsors were given the chance to present (or to market) their products to bloggers without using a PowerPoint presentation as much as possible, and for that, I would like to commend them for doing a great job in innovating ways to effectively and creatively market their brands to us in just a short span of time.
They also gave samples, gifts and freebies to the participating bloggers and in return, we, as bloggers, will blog about the event, as well as, our opinions towards their products, a win-win situation, I must say, for everyone’s a winner; not to mention the free lunch and snacks provided by Italianni’s, Healthy First, and Size Matters.
After the presentation, my hubby (Monch), together with some of my friend bloggers sort of roam around to get to know fellow bloggers, it was in fact like a Fellowship of Bloggers”, too! We get to meet and greet other bloggers from other niches. Actually, I haven’t roam around the place fully and have not visited all the stalls of the business partners invited by WheninManila.com and take lots of pictures (which I usually do during blogging events), because the place was too crowded or let’s say, “Fully Booked”, which really signifies that Blogapalooza was indeed successful!
Anyway, I got lots of freebies during this first ever Blogapalooza in the Philippines. Some of them were Gift Certificates (GCs) from Lazer Extreme and Jap-ok. Because we’re “not that excited”, we immediately tried Lazer Extreme on Monday, September 19 (just 2 days after the Blogapalooza event) at the Market! Market!, then we went straight to Jap-ok Restaurant after the “adrenalin-driven” game with Lazer Extreme.
Jap-ok Restaurant is known not only for its great-tasting Japanese food but also for its affordable cost. They are even voted as the BEST TASTING JAPANESE QUICK SERVICE RESTAURANT CHAIN.
Below are some of the business partners that bragged about their products during the Blogapalooza event:
I just wish that there will be another Blogapalooza event soon, maybe it would be better if this event will be held every year, what do you think? I just hope that wheninmanila.com, will be convinced enough to organized this event again.
50 Partners, Sponsors and Presenters
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