Have I told you lately how much I love this space of mine?
I love the community that surrounds it.
The uplifting words.
Knowing that when I open my heart, I’m surrounded by prayer.
Last Friday, when I poured out my heart over coffee with you, I was so blessed by all your encouraging words. I even had a sweet friend and spiritual mentor text to say that God woke her up 3 times the night before to pray for me.
God. Is. So. Good.
This whole weekend I felt uplifted, at peace, covered in prayer.
I hope to continue sharing my heart in this little space I call my home away from home.
Today I have kind of a big announcement, well more of an exciting announcement of what God’s been doing in my life the last couple of months.
It began with a phone call from a friend of my husbands.
He works on rewards programs with brands and he approached me with a client, World Market, asking me if I could do him a favor and work with them on a week long promotion. Their goal was to run a rewards campaign that would drive traffic to their Facebook page. Wanting to help out a friend, I reached out to a couple people, who reached out to their friends and contacts and before I knew it we had an amazing response from people hoping to be one of the 10 bloggers in the campaign.
What?!
Then the following week, after the campaign ended, World Market came back to my friend requesting a conference call with me. It was on that call that they asked if they could utilize my blogging community for 4 more campaigns.
Double What?!
I was floored! This was completely unexpected, but after speaking with my husband and our friend, we decided it would be a good fit and I said, YES!
{Insert complete excitement and a total God thing here}
So…. we decided to make things official and the last couple of weeks we’ve come up with a name, a logo and had a website designed!
And since I consider y’all my family, you’re getting the very first look at it all….
Introducing…
Pollinate Media Group is a boutique agency designed to work with companies we can passionately blog about in hopes that we can continue to create that call to action from our readers that makes them, the consumer, want to shop with those brands as well. In the last couple of months we have partnered with Cost Plus World Market and more recently Universal/Fox Studios and Florida Orange Juice to promote the movie Ice Age 4.
I would love it if you would…
check out our Website and share it with your friends. Invite them to apply to join our community as well. You may even be interested in working with brands yourself. yay!
We’d love you to meet our team.
Follow us on Twitter
Like us on Facebook
Add us to your Google+ Circles
Follow our Pinterest boards
Find me on LinkedIn
So needless to say that last few weeks have been a little hectic and crazy around here, and I’ve been dying to share what’s been going on, but wanted to wait till I had something awesome to show you.
I want you to know that things aren’t changing around here at Rags to Stitches.
This blog is my heart
my soul
my ministry
and that’s not going to change!
Pollinate Media Group is an extension of my passion for blogging and working with brands and I hope you’ll visit the website. I’d love to hear what you think.
Thanks for letting me share my heart today friends.
Heart you all big time!
Holly Lefevre says
CONGRATS! This is such an awesome announcement! Can’t wait to see all the goodness you are creating!
mer says
SO very exciting! Can’t wait to learn more…. off to visit the links!
Summer @ Made By Munchie's Mama says
AWESOME!!! I love seeing how passionate you are about this project, so inspiring!
Christi says
wow!! congrats! how exciting!!!
Helen says
Congrats! I’m so excited for you. What an amazing project.
Sandy a la Mode says
wow this is soo exciting!! love when stuff turns out like this~!!! good luck w/ everything! 🙂
Kelsey says
YAY!!! Such GREAT (and big) news!! How exciting!? Congrats Alissa!
Ko says
Wow wow wow! So exciting! Way to go momma!
Kate says
So awesome, lady!!
tricia says
WOO HOO! It’s public! WOO HOO! 🙂 So happy for you, sweetie!
Mallorie Owens says
Alissa this is awesome! Such a cool project, just signed up! 🙂
Andrea Worley says
Wow! That’s awesome, what an exciting new adventure.
I love that your tag line is “creating authentic stories for your brand.”
I was just having this conversation with another blogger friend of mine, and to many times we work with brands and they require so many things and then it doesn’t seem organic or authentic anymore.
I really can’t wait to see what you do with this, it would be awesome to see more bloggers blogging about brands they really love and not just saying nice things because they’re getting paid to do so.
you know what i mean?
congrats girl!
gina says
holy moly lady! i want to sign up! this is fantastic! go you! :)gina
Lolly Jane says
Yay, Alissa! That’s awesome!! SO GLAD we’re among the original bloggers! Love your site, love Pollinate (cute logo, cute catchphrase, cute everything).
You’re the best boss out there (;
xoxox,
Kelli and Kristi
Tonya Staab says
Fantastic news. I’m so SO happy for you.
Also, super big puffy heart World Market.
Stephanie @ Our Marriage Adventure says
How exciting for you and your family!!! I’m going to give this a shot and submit a sign up. 🙂
Crystal says
Congratulations, Alissa! I am so excited for you. You were an awesome campaign leader to us during the TCBY campaign. You’re such an inspiration!
Ilene @ Much Love, illy says
congrats, alissa! i am so EXCITED for you! this is absolutely incredible and wishing you all of the best. 🙂
Nichole @ Yeung Mother Hubbard says
Awesome news! Congratulations!
Delightful Deets says
You are so amazing! This is awesome! I’m going to have to check it out! xo
Cost Plus World Market says
Congratulations Alissa!
You’ve been a great asset and we can’t wait to continue our partnership with you and all of your fellow bloggers.
Thanks!
Julie Marie says
wow! God is so amazing!! =)
Destiny says
EEEEEEE:0) So SO excited for you!! OMGeee what a great blessing and opp to use your gifts!! God is good, he’s amazing, his timing is perfect and well, he just ROCKS our world! Thank you for being faithful and listening to his direction, it so amazing to hear stories of faithfulness and obedience come full circle!! xoxo Destiny
Courtney says
Congratulations on this new venture Alissa! You are a force to be reckoned with lady! 🙂 XO Courtney
Christen DeGonzague says
Congrats! That is super awesome!
Christen :>
http://www.anunordinaryhello.com
shannon says
That is amazing! Congratulations!
http://shannonhearts.blogspot.com
Rachel Reeves says
Congratulations! This is exciting news!!
Kassi @ Truly Lovely says
How exciting!!! And amazing! Well done girl! 🙂 So.. I tried to join and no matter what email I put in the email boxes, the form rejected it so I gave up… Just and FYI.
linda (burlap+blue) says
Oh my goodness how exciting!!! Off to check out the links now!! xoxo
Krystina / lollipops says
Congratulations! this is very big news indeed! way to go girlfriend! <3
Justin Smith says
Very cool Alissa! Can’t wait to learn more about it. Hopefully we can hook up with you guys when we’re in town in late July.