Thank you, Danielle. 🙂

Honestly, this is “earning” it. Building up such a large dedicated audience, so many readers every month, and a good page rank is NOT EASY. This takes a lot of work and is hard to earn. The brand that sponsors this blogger is not just giving away money or products to her, they are also helping themselves by being advertised by a very reputable blogger. Also, as Emily stated, it is very common to be sponsored for conferences because this helps the bloggers engage with others who can teach them a thing or two to improve their blog even more, benefiting that company even more to be advertised by the blogger. Most companies respect and honor the fact that they can have a beneficial relationship with bloggers like Embracing Beauty and are happy to work with them.

Aww, thank you, Jennifer!

Thank you for understanding, Emily!

Thank you, Patti!

It’s common for bloggers to be sponsored at conferences and companies are happy to work with them. She is not coming off as entitled nor materialistic. These material items are necessary to do what she does.

I assume you’re not familiar with the blogging conference world. Many, many bloggers attend conferences through sponsorships. I’ve personally paid for every conference I’ve ever gone to but this time I thought it would be fun to partner with someone and help them out in return. A partnership is not a company feeling sorry for me and giving me money so I’ll quit begging. They see the value in what I have to offer and think it’s a good investment. If you’re familiar with blog advertising, you’ll also know that $900 is a STEAL for all of the things I’ve listed to give them in return. 3 blog posts, 6 months of advertising on 6 different sites? That’s worth much more than $900 right there.

I hope that you’ve read my blog enough to know my heart and know that I’m not in this – blogging, conferences, and speaking gigs – for what I can get out of it. Sure, the money is nice but that’s not why I do what I do. I hope you can see that.

This really gives a bad impression of Christians. Instead of begging, why don’t you wait until you have enough money to attend??