On The Journalist Book, we sometimes write about products, tools or services that we love, as well as create sponsored work with brands. Often, we will write about products that we love just because we want to share them with you, or rave about how much we love them. Sometimes we have been sent a product or been provided with a service to review that a brand would like to have featured on here.
With all of our reviews, we are completely honest about what we think and our experiences of them. Whether we have been sent a product or paid for it ourselves, that will not make a difference to how we write about them. Being honest and trustworthy to our readers is really important to us, and we have been known to write a bad review. If we have found something to be rubbish then we will share that with you!
We don’t get paid to write good things about products – everything you read is our own, unbiased opinion. We wouldn’t ever take money to write a positive post about a product.
If we are paid to write a post (a ‘sponsored’ post) then it will be clearly disclosed as a collaborative or sponsored post. We do choose our sponsored work carefully and make sure that it fits with our personal brand. We work hard on sponsored posts and reviews to make them relevant and interesting. This blog is not only something that we enjoy, but it is also our job, and creating sponsored content and working with brands is necessary for us to be able to do that. Plus we really enjoy the challenge a sponsored post gives us – they encourage us to be more creative and develop our writing, rather than in more personal posts where we just write whatever we feel like.
Running a website as a job is very labour-intensive – researching and creating content and editing photos for posts, sharing and promoting on social media, liaising and negotiating with brands via email, looking for more work opportunities, etc etc, takes up a lot of time and energy. We absolutely love it, but it is a lot of work. Therefore, some sponsored posts are necessary and we hope that they do not detract from your enjoyment of reading our blog.
Affiliate Links
We do use affiliate links in some of our posts. This means that if you click through one of the links within a post and make a purchase, then we will receive a very small percentage of revenue from that purchase. This doesn’t affect the way in which we write about products.
Posts published prior to 24th January 2019: had a disclosure for gifts and press samples or, for a ‘sponsored post’, a disclosure at the bottom of the post.
Posts published after 24th January 2019: have a disclosure at the start of the content. If the post contains gifted items or is a paid-for post then it is indicated clearly beneath the title before the content begins.
We hope you enjoy your time here at The Journalist Book. If you have any suggestions for content that you would like to see then do let us know!