{"id":13018,"date":"2014-12-06T10:34:28","date_gmt":"2014-12-06T16:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=13018"},"modified":"2014-12-06T10:34:28","modified_gmt":"2014-12-06T16:34:28","slug":"get-requests-try-products-go-restaurants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=13018","title":{"rendered":"I Get Requests to Try Products or Go to Restaurants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/free.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13020\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/free.jpg\" alt=\"free\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Pretty frequently. \u00a0Some company wants to send me some food, or a new appliance, or a restaurant wants me to come and try their fare, which of course, I am happy to do. \u00a0 But once and awhile, I spot a new product that I think would specifically be of interest to you, and I reach out to the company for a sample, and you&#8217;d be (at least \u00a0I am) surprised how few companies even bother to reply. \u00a0Sometimes I ask for some product to give away, which also meets with little enthusiasm.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d estimate my success rate in getting sample product is less than one in each twenty requests. \u00a0Even getting an answer is probably less than 5%.<\/p>\n<p>Weird, huh?<\/p>\n<p>This site has good number, quality readers, highly targeted. \u00a0An enigma why companies ignore that and pass on getting some very inexpensive (usually) positive publicity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pretty frequently. \u00a0Some company wants to send me some food, or a new appliance, or a restaurant wants me to come and try their fare, which of course, I am happy to do. \u00a0 But once and awhile, I spot a new product that I think would specifically be of interest to you, and I&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=13018\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I Get Requests to Try Products or Go to Restaurants<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13018"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}