You can’t go wrong with the giveaways or the pictures!  I love that your reviews have so many pictures, it really gives a nice visual break to the blocks of text plus the multiple angles are useful in whatever you’re reviewing.  Maybe add an intro fountain pen to the giveaways?  There’s the Pilot Varsity of course, but Zebra now has one for cheap and I’ve been seeing the basic Sheaffers all around Office Max and even Barnes and Noble now.  Spread the obsession and all.  You also said you’d compare the Levenger Circa to the Staples Arc knockoff more, and I never saw that second post.  Maybe I missed it?

I don’t know about the stats on this site, but often giveaways are used by Bloggers to eat-up posts. Once-a-day posting takes work, more than most realize. Posting a giveaway uses up one day’s post, announcing the winner eats up yet another day’s post – so a six post per week Blog now turns into four days of actual content. Please don’t go there.

Please choose unique products. There are a lot of weird and interesting things out there, not just from your local office supply mega-store, but from online vendors too. Most of us don’t have the time and/or money to play with these things. Do it for us. Repeated reviews of almost identical stick pens gets old – fast.

Thanks and Regards, David

Thanks for the feedback, that is a good point on the fountain pens for the giveaways.

Here is a link to all of the Levenger/Arc related reviews:
http://officesupplygeek.com/category/notebook-review/disc-binding/

Hi David, great feedback, thank you.  I always try to schedule the winning announcement for giveaways on my non standard post days.  I usually only post on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, so giveaway winners are announced on one of the other days there.  I’ve found that although giveaway posts are easier in the very short term (meaning day of post) they actually take up an equivalent amount of time when it comes to monitoring the entries to make sure people are following the rules, writing up the winning post, and then getting it off in the mail.  Essentially it is more of a time shifting exercise than a time saving exercise.  I’ve used giveaways in the past to do just that, like if an emergency came up and I didnt have other content ready to go, but then it does force me to play catch up later in the week on a day I’d usually not have a post to work on.  Just a little insight on how it works for me, I’m sure that other blogger do things differently though.

I hear you on the pens, so I will try to keep an eye on that.