Företaget som kontaktade mig den här gången var en holländsk boxtjänst som jag inte kommer att namnge. Deras tjänst är säkert bra men tyvärr var de inte lika bra på den svenska marknadsföringslagen.
”Hi Kashaya,
We’ve got something special for you!!
Would you like to receive the (…) box? Filled with 5 full-size beauty products & never tested on animals?
We are a Dutch beautybox company and we are launching our beautybox in Europe next month!
We are looking for someone who wants to unbox our box/share pictures on social media and work together with us.
This means we would like to send you our november beautybox – the first (…) box in Sweden ever – to share with your followers.
How sounds that?
Please let me know if you would like to collaborate and what you would propose in case you do 🙂
I think it’s important for the both of us to feel good about it and when this turns out to be, we can think about working together for a longer time periode.
I’m looking forward to your reply! ”
Jag hade förstås en del funderingar kring upplägget de föreslog då det lät väldigt mycket som smygreklam så jag skickade detta svar till dem där jag bad dem att förtydliga sitt förslag.
”Hi, I have some questions about your proposal. You propose a collaboration. What does that mean to you?
Are you talking about PR and sending a box no strings attached and hope that your box is good enough to make it on to the blog or Instagram?
Or are you talking about advertising? That is making a deal about posting. In that case you should advice the bloggers you contact on how they can mark their post so that their followers clearly and immediately understands that it’s an ad. You should also inform the bloggers that their is taxes to pay on the fee. Even if you only ”pay” in products. ”
Jag hade tänkt påpeka att jag anser ”betalning” enbart i produkter som förolämpande mot bloggaren som då ändå ska skatta för värdet av produkten. Det är inte direkt en bra deal för bloggaren. Jag gjorde dock inte det men med facit i hand kanske jag skulle ha gjort det? Jag hade ärligt talat inte förväntat mig något svar från dem på mitt mail men det fick jag. Svaret visade sig vara nedslående angående hur de jobbar i Holland och Belgien. Att det är en väldigt dålig deal att enbart få betalt i produkter som man sen ska skatta för hade inte heller gått fram så jag skulle kanske påpekat det. Däremot det svar de fått från svenska bloggare = Yay!
”Hi Åsa, Thank you for your quick reply.
What we normally do in The Netherlands and Belgium is that we send a box in return for a post on a blog or posts on Instagram.
Most of the women we work with don’t state that it’s a sponsored box, they just share the products.
I was talking to more Swedish people who told me the same as you do, about the PR/advertising.
But how does that work for you? Do we send our box and you post about it, but state that it’s advertising, or do we also have to pay for it?
And what are the differences in likes/reactions between a normal post you place or an advertising post? ”
De sista mailet från dem har jag inte svarat på än men visst är det härligt att se att svenska bloggare vet vad som gäller – även när företagen inte gör det?
Jag är medveten om att det här inte är ett svenskt företag och det är såklart svårare att ha kunskap om lagstiftningen i ett annat land men ska man ge sig in på den svenska marknaden och marknadsföra sin produkt här tycker jag ändå att man borde göra lite research först. När ett företag inte tagit reda på vad som gäller först känner åtminstone inte jag något förtroende för företaget i fråga.
Läs gärna också Kickis senaste inlägg om smygreklam här, här och här. Annahita har även skrivit om ämnet nyligen och hennes inlägg hittar ni här.
The company that contacted me was a Dutch beauty box company that I’m not going to name. I’m sure their box are great but unfortunately their knowledges about the Swedish marketing practices act wasn’t that great.
”Hi Kashaya,
We’ve got something special for you!!
Would you like to receive the (…) box? Filled with 5 full-size beauty products & never tested on animals?
We are a Dutch beautybox company and we are launching our beautybox in Europe next month!
We are looking for someone who wants to unbox our box/share pictures on social media and work together with us.
This means we would like to send you our november beautybox – the first (…) box in Sweden ever – to share with your followers.
How sounds that?
Please let me know if you would like to collaborate and what you would propose in case you do 🙂
I think it’s important for the both of us to feel good about it and when this turns out to be, we can think about working together for a longer time periode.
I’m looking forward to your reply! ”
I of course had some questions about their suggestion that sounded very much as masked advertising to me. I e-mailed them and asked them to explain their suggestion more.
”Hi, I have some questions about your proposal. You propose a collaboration. What does that mean to you?
Are you talking about PR and sending a box no strings attached and hope that your box is good enough to make it on to the blog or Instagram?
Or are you talking about advertising? That is making a deal about posting. In that case you should advice the bloggers you contact on how they can mark their post so that their followers clearly and immediately understands that it’s an ad. You should also inform the bloggers that their is taxes to pay on the fee. Even if you only ”pay” in products. ”
I was thinking about telling them that I found ”paying” in products rather insulting to the blogger/influenser. Since you still have to pay taxes for the product value (at least in Sweden) getting payed that way is a really lousy deal. However I didn’t tell them that but I probably should have. I actually didn’t except a respons. I did get one though. The answer was a bit dissapointing when it comes to how the company works with bloggers in The Neatherlands and Belgium. They hadn’t understand that it’s a bad deal for a blogger to be getting payed in products when you have to pay tax for the product value. The answer they had gotten from Swedish bloggers however was very nice to read. Yay!
”Hi Åsa, Thank you for your quick reply.
What we normally do in The Netherlands and Belgium is that we send a box in return for a post on a blog or posts on Instagram.
Most of the women we work with don’t state that it’s a sponsored box, they just share the products.
I was talking to more Swedish people who told me the same as you do, about the PR/advertising.
But how does that work for you? Do we send our box and you post about it, but state that it’s advertising, or do we also have to pay for it?
And what are the differences in likes/reactions between a normal post you place or an advertising post? ”
The last e-mail I haven’t answered yet but it so nice to see that even if the companies doesn’t know (or care) how to follow the marketing practices act Swedish bloggers isn’t interested in shady deals.
I do understand that this time it’s a company working from another country and that it’s harder to have a understanding for the legal system in another country. I do however think that if you plan on operating in another country you should look up the legislation there. Cause when a company doesn’t do their homework the at least I have a hard time trusting that company.
Jättebra svarat av dig tycker jag! Tack vare bloggare med koll på lagar som alla bloggare BORDE ha koll på, och orken att svara företag som också borde ha koll, gör förhoppningsvis att det blir mindre smygreklam. Alla tummar upp!
Tack! Ja alla bloggare borde ha koll. Kändes positivt att det verkade som företaget hade fått bra svar från bloggare. Sen får man hoppas att företag lär sig också snart för det är lite tröttsamt med sådana här ”erbjudanden”.
Eloge till dig som orkar svara, själv orkar jag inte just nu och trycker oftast delete. Jag ska skärpa till mig så det förmodligen blir färre och färre som försöker sig.
Ärligt talat så är det sällan som jag orkar svara heller.