Career Blogging
Posted by wahmSep 30
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I was reading a blog post the other day from a fellow Entrecarder who disbelieves that you can make money online. Unfortunately, many people like this blogger has come across numerous “make money online” scams and have drawn the conclusion that affiliate marketing as a whole is a scam. Nothing could be further from the truth. I’ve made my living online for about 10 years now and many others do as well. Here’s a monthly payout for one income stream to show you the kind of money that can be made. How do I do it? I don’t sell scammy little ebooks that tell you how to make thousands in your sleep. I use numerous legitimate income streams and many niche blogs and sites to promote products and get a commission from the sales. In addition, I use other monetizing methods such as Kontera, Chitika, and reviews on my blogs and websites.
There are many ways to make money online and work at home, but it takes a whole lot of hard work, knowledge, patience, and some ‘being in the right place at the right time’ luck. If you’re unwilling to put in the same kind of time and effort in your online career as you would working for someone else, then you probably won’t be successful and definitely should not quit your day job.
Career blogging is one of the ways to make money online. What does it take to turn blogging into a full-time living? Career bloggers are in high demand. Businesses realize the many benefits of a company blog. These companies are willing to pay you to blog, usually on a contract basis. In addition, there are numerous sites that pay you to host links and ads on your own blog or to provide a review of the site on your blog.
Getting Started as a Career Blogger
First you will need to create your own blog. This will serve as your portfolio or blogging resume. Two popular blog sites are blogger.com and wordpress.com.
Next, decide what you wan to blog about. Since you will be blogging for businesses, you could show off your business-sense in your blog. If you are a marketer, you could blog about sales and marketing. Blog about a topic you are very familiar with or an expert in. If there’s a particular niche that you want to blog about for hire, show your expertise on the subject in your own blog. Keep your blog updated with fresh content and build your traffic and readership.
Getting Your First Blogging Jobs
Now that you have your blog, you need to get hired. Use your About or Profile on your blog to advertise your availability as a career blogger. You can also Google blogger job or blogging jobs and browse the search results. You’ll likely find dozens of search results for blogging jobs. Other resources for finding blogging jobs are Monster.com, Careerbuilder.com and HotJobs.com. Just submit your resume and contact info to be contacted by companies looking for professional bloggers. In addition, there are many contract blogging jobs posted on freelance boards. I’ve listed many of the most popular below.
Elance - The largest online freelance site. Probably the best site if you want a large professional job. However if you are looking at a smaller job or you want to cut costs to the bone you may be better off with Rentacoder or Scriptlance. Elance charges the freelance providers to just be listed on the site, whereas Rentacoder and Scriptlance only charge the providers once a project has been selected.
Rentacoder - Probably the second largest coding freelance site. Worth checking out. When you get a project done through Rentacoder you put the entire project fees into an escrow account. You don’t release the fees until the project is complete. This is good because it gives reassurance to the coder that they are going to pay you, but it also can be difficult if you have a large project, because you have to pay the entire amount into an escrow account, although you can put the project into stages and pay based on each stage.
Scriptlance - This site has the lowest costs but it doesn’t have some of the features of Elance and Rentacoder. Not as professional but good if you want really cheap coding.
Getafreelancer.com - Another reasonably good freelancing site
Guru - quite a large outsourcing site
Contracted Work - a reasonably sized contracting site
Sologig - a reasonably sized contracting site
Freelance.com - Freelance IT jobs.
Freelancers.net - Freelancers.net is UK focused and lists many jobs and projects open to UK freelancers, however clients from across the globe use Freelancers.net regularly to source freelancers outside of the UK.
ProjectSpring.com - Freelancing site for computer programmers
Hotgigs
Freelance Jobsearch
AllFreelance.com
iFreelance.com
Project4Hire.com
Freelance Jobs
GetaFreelancer.com
Get Paid To Blog
Blogging job list from a job search site. You can enter the same search term in any job search site for additional career blogging jobs.
There are also blogging/writing opportunities at About.com. They are seeking experienced writers/bloggers to write articles and email newsletters, host discussions, and provide personally-reviewed links on a certain topic or subject. There are numerous topics to apply for. They offer a base salary but some About Guides make in excess of $100,000 annually depending largely on page views of your section.
In addition to contract or full time blogging positions, the following sites pay you to write about their companies on your blog. The best one I’ve used thus far is Sponsored Reviews. It has the highest quality and highest paying advertisers of the ones that I’ve used. .
An opportunity awaiting all bloggers! Give your valuable feedback to advertisers with respect to their web sites, products, services, and companies and get paid for it.
* Earn money with every posting
* Get paid weekly via Paypal
* No advertising required, just your opinions
* Only post the stories that interest you
* Create multiple blogs to earn more
* Does not conflict with ad campaigns on your siteBlog to Profit connects you with advertisers that are interested in sponsoring your blog, you post to your blog and get paid!
Welcome. Join the party, where people from around the world join together to share their thoughts, ideas, rants, daily journals, reviews, and lives with each other each and every day. Write about what you want, when you want, meet people, and have fun. Plus, make some money doing it, too.
If you’ve got a great idea for a blog or you have a blog you’d like to bring into the b5 family, let us know by filling out the application form below. Before filling out the form, here are a few guidelines:
1. We’re looking for people who have a passion for blogging and a particular topic. b5 bloggers write at least six to eight posts a week, and spend a lot of time checking out other blogs, reading news stories, and responding to comments.
2. Do your homework before proposing an idea. Check out our blogroll at b5media.com to see if your idea is not already part of our network.
3. While we’re excited about growing the network, not every idea can be accepted. Sometimes, it takes time for a writing or blog opportunity to materialize so don’t get discouraged.
4. For new writers, opportunities can arise on our existing blogs. b5 usually offers these positions internally but we do advertise from time to time. You can find the most recent b5 vacancies open to everyone at the Problogger Jobs Board.Fill out a blogger application at: http://www.b5media.com/jobs. Please be sure to include any URLs of your writing samples.
BuzzByBlog pays you to place ads on your website or blog. Just register as a blogger, receive offers, write, and get paid. They allow you to decide the minimum amount you will accept per entry, make counter-offers, and easy blog acceptance.
Pays you to post an ad on your blog. Blogging Ads provides the ads and the money … you just place the ad on your blog. You must have a paypal account.
Get paid to write a review for advertisers in your blogs. Reviews in blogs create a buzz about a site or product and you’ll be getting paid to create this buzz in your blog.
Get paid for blogging on your favorite subject writing reviews for other website. Get paid per post. The more you post, the more you get paid. Register blogs for free.
Get paid to blog with Creative Weblogging! They are one of the largest blog networks, with over 90 blogs in five languages.They will help grow your online reputation, establish you as a thought leader — and pay you, too.
Pro Blogger Compensation Package:
* Monthly compensation: $225 (US) — paid via PayPal or Moneybookers
* 7 to 10 posts per week are required.
* Traffic bonuses for aggressively growing traffic are available, up to $50 per month additional.
* Access to their vibrant community discussion group with 80+ bloggers, where you can share tips and network.
* They take care of all the technology, with an advanced blogging platform.
* They also provide marketing support.
* Virtual shares program: blog with them for a year and you can earn virtual shares in the company.Place a widget on your blog and an ad and get paid via Paypal within 24 hours.
You bid on the advertisers and sell contextual links from your blog. Blogs must be at least Pagerank 3 to qualify.
With InBlogAds you can buy simple, direct HTML links on blogs. Increase both your traffic and natural search engine rankings. Get Bloggers to review your products or website. Generate buzz and get some links all in the same time.
- Sell ads and monetize your site with relatively little maintenance
- Earn up to 70% of ad revenue recurring monthly in most situations
- Get paid to blog and write reviews for products & servicesEarn more with your blog. Get paid to independently review LoudLaunch Campaign Releases. You’ve earned your audience, now be compensated for your opinion.
Get paid for blogging. Write about web sites, products, services, and companies and earn cash for providing your opinion and valuable feedback to advertisers.
Make money blogging. Earn quick money by completing easy assignments in your blog. They pay you to mention products, services and companies, on your blog.
This new company was launched on Nov.9! They pay between $20.00-$200.00 for a review! Submit your blog. Once you are accpeted and receive an offer, you must write a post with a minimum of 200 words. You can receive payment by check or paypal. They pay on the first of every month. This is the highest paying company!
SponsoredReview.com connects advertisers with bloggers willing to write reviews about their services or products. SponsoredReview takes 35% transaction fee. With SponsoredReviews, you set your own price. Depending on the size of your readership and the quality of your blog posts, you can earn anywhere from $10 to $1000 per review. If you are `a major site, you might be able to get even more.
Get paid for blogging. Write your opinion about peoples products, services and websites on your blog. Get paid weekly. No advertising, just write your opinions
* Earn top $ with every opinion post
* Select the subjects that interest you
* Post in multiple blogs to earn more
* Build interesting, unique content in your Blog
* Get paid weekly by PayPalBlog publishers in the Contextual Links @ V7N Network make cash and get paid by PayPal for simply adding text links to their blog posts. Currently publishers make $10 per link.
Apply to blog for one of their 90 blogs or suggest a blog topic and maybe they’ll start a new blog! WIN bloggers are paid to blog as little or as much as they like, are unfiltered, and can shift from blog to blog within the network. Their only requirements are that you be totally honest with your audience and passionate about the subjects you cover. Talk to their editorial team if you’re interested!
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