Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Put Your Spare Time and Writing Skills To Work

Have you ever wondered about the people you see on the news that make a living blogging? You know, you see them in their pajamas with a cup of coffee, sitting at their computer a couple of hours a day, writing about topics they find interesting.

Have you ever wondered how they find those choice jobs?

Personally, I have struggled with finding extra income doing something I love, and have always thought that adding advertisers to your blog was the only way. I, like many, just thought that these people must be exceptionally gifted and have a HUGE following to have reached that level of blog popularity.

Now, I'm not saying that they aren't. I'm just saying that you don't have to be to earn a nice income blogging on topics you hold near and dear. There are several companies that offer payment for bloggers willing to write about specific topics.

The best way to find these opportunities is to google keywords like: Pay to write blogs, Get paid to write blogs, or something along those lines.

I am currently reviewing a company called PayPerPost. It looks great, the customer service or "customer love" as they refer to themselves is exceptional. I found this company by following the below link:

Your Momma blogs...and we pay her to do it! I though that was funny, and I looked into the opportunity from there.

When I checked out the site, I found several great things about this opportunity.
#1) It's Free. That's right. Guess what that makes it... a legitimate opportunity.
#2) The customer support is very friendly and knowledgeable.

If you are thinking about signing up, one word of caution.

When setting up your account, you will be asked for your blog categories. These categories are very specific and important to the opportunities that you can accept. AND you can only change your categories once every 30 days.

My suggestion is that you read through some of the successful bloggers material to review the types of entries that are working for other bloggers, and also to get an idea of what categories are popular with the opportunities.




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