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By: Maria Volk

Maria Volk — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 22:24:29 +0000

I know I am WAY late, but I just saw this on your twitter! I just wanted to leave my 2 cents and make a few points. I think first off that affiliate marketing on blogs isn’t necessarily on it’s way out, you just have to be much more creative and knowledgeable about it to make anything these days. You can’t just leave a link or banner on your sidebar, you have to actively advertise the product (which most people probably feel uncomfortable doing). That’s why I always say pick something you believe in. Secondly, a major way to monetize your blog is by selling actual ad space. This wont happen until you have a substantial amount of readers (I’ve heard 1000 is a good goal). As for writing posts for other people, I think your yes and no list is good. Being a new blogger I have little problem writing a guest post if I feel like I’ll get even a handful of readers from it, but perhaps at the place you are at, you can use interns to write them for you
.-= Maria Volk´s last blog ..Ad:Tech 2010 and Bloggin’ for money =-.

By: sirdorian (stylishkidsinriot.com)

sirdorian (stylishkidsinriot.com) — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:01:27 +0000

i´m writing about an experience which I got a few months ago with a british retail company. they didn´t asked me to blog there, but they hired a girl to ask blogs for a job as an editor. so one day, she wrote me an e-mail and i really with a few examples of her writing style and i really liked it.

her first post at S.K.i.R was about the new collection of this retail company. it was ok, but it looked a bit like an advertorial. few days later, the second post came in. and it was about this company, again. after the third post, i started to get skeptic and asked her if she can write about other stuff.

no answer. a week later, she wrote about a designer collaboration for t-shirts and the retail company, so i didnt publish the posting and asked her about her relation to the company. she meant that there is no relation, and that she only like the stuff.

i started to research her name and found out that she work for a PR company, and the client was this company.

it was really dissappointing for me that they used S.K.i.R for their PR and didn´t pay a lousy cent. but it was even harder for me that he hired a PR who didn´t tell me that she is one, to post all the stories.

it´s the other side of the medal in the online world and i also think that its getting harder to monetize the blog these days. but i hope that this company stopped doing things like this.

By: ChicAlert

ChicAlert — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:50:05 +0000

I’ll be brief….I too have experienced this oh so many times. In fact I get daily pitches from PR firms who are obviously being paid for their time and effort to market their clients so I also expect to be paid for doing the same! While I do enjoy my work, I, like most, have costs associated with running my site and most of the income that it generates goes towards paying those costs.

Sally