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Would you write a post for a dollar?
Posted by bloggernoob • 5/05/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: money
When i started out, i would hit up forums to get some paying gigs for my blog. I started reviewing websites for $1. Then i stepped it up to 5 bucks. Now, i hold out for higher paying gigs. My question is, would you write a post for $1? Or is the sell out price too low. 
btw, i'm doing a sales pitch competition at my blog. www.bloggernoob.com/give-me-your-sales-pitch/06/ 3 winners. but everyone gets paid at least a dollar.
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Just a thought .. if you pay someone $1 USD via paypal, they only get $0.67 after commission. One single post will not make you rich. -
do they take that much commission? i didn't even realize. ouch. i should change the title to "would u post for 67 cents?" cause i'm a cheapo, im not gonna fork for 2 more quarters.
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it's all relative. I believe it's something like %'age plus 30cents per transaction. So, if you pay someone $100 thee 30 cents is buried in the fee, but for $1 it's VERY noticeable And - that's not to mention the fee to take it out of your payable to your bank, if you don't spend it - unless it's over $500 in the transfer. Well, that is for us here in Canada.
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Nope..simple as that. lol -
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no's across the board. i guess i was an idiot when i started out
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if it worked for you..i don't see why not-
that's the spirit!
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Yes (That was it. Send the dollar)-
Ha ha! Don, did you get your dollar yet? -
I dont think so
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I post for free - don't like advertising as a rule and esp don't like advertising on Blogs (I never click on the links and rarely, if ever, go back to ad swamped sites). -
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I'd take a $1, sure. But then again, I don't get paid to blog. -
u should follow the link and enter my contest
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Nope. Because my readers tend to rely on my honest opinion for things, I don't do reviews for money. My personal decision only, but it's working well for me and my audience. -
Not "for" a dollar, no, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't write a post that paid a dollar. Like Jenn, I wouldn't do a paid review, but I'd sell a post to another blog or site for a dollar if I had a plan. Then again, I'm at radical odds to most of the professional writing world on the issue of writing for free. -
How long is the post? I mean if this were the post I would go for a few seconds and then I'd -
post a second one for the second dollar. Then, you guessed it. I'd
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Sure, if it is something I might write about in my blog regardless of money. But if it is not a topic relating to my blog, it is not worth my effort. -
Not intentionally, but based on Adsense revenue it appears all of our post combined are worth about a dollar. LOL-
haha, yeah..adsense sucks for blogs
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A post would take me around 10 minutes. $6 an hour? No way.-
$6 an hour sounds too to me
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I will. -
I would post if given a dollar!-
seems there are a few of you amongst the no's. follow the link and you'll get a dollar via paypal
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Not for a dollar but it can be a great loss leader to get your foot in the door -
When I started out I built a whole program in Excel and sold it for $1, I made a little money out of it (not much as you can imagine) but every dollar counted and helped towards paying for my wedding! -
I don't have the kind of time I've realized it takes to try to make money off of my blogs. I can spend all day contacting and commenting and favoriting and rarely get much back in return. So for me it's not about money. I'm just doing it for me and hoping that at least someone out there is reading. I'd only take that dollar if it was something I really believed in and even then I'd probably do it for free. -
I can't think of anything I would do for a dollar. -
I would write a post for a slurpee.-
A slurpee is more than a dollar -
Okay fine, I would write a post for a bag of sour skittles!
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if i send you a bag of sour skittles...you would write about my blog?
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A bag of sour skittles is more than a dollar.
JUST SAY YES!!! Why do you women have to be so cornfusing? -
she'll say a bag of m&m before she says yes
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For a bag of M&M's she probably would say yes
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That is not true! I just bought a bag for 89 cents! So yeah bloggernoob, I demand payment up front
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I post for free!
Blog is for fun?
(Sorry Kdawg )
But really, I don't charge for blogging or nuthin'. -
If I get one dollar worth of advertising on your blog, yes I would do it for a dollar.
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I may not be the best blogger out there, but if you feel the need to pay me for a post, the lowest I will go is $5. Time is money. -
No that would be too insulting, I would rather give it up for free...let them donate the change to the Ronald McDonald house-
this thread is not meant to be insulting. just wanted to gauge the pay rate for a post. seems like 1 dollar is too low even for noobies
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Well Doc, that gives me an idea, what if we all blogged for a dollar and sent the money to the food effort for Burma? I would blog for a dollar like that. It would make a good Unite project.-
that's actually an excellent idea. we should start a movement
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i'm in if you can organize it.
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Well aren't many of us aiming for the human rights May 15th project?
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haven't heard about it. can you provide a link
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man, $1.....lol, I don't know about that one.....I'd maybe do a few sentences for a dollar.....hmmm........
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Why not but I have to charge taxes on it
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this is off topic, but how'd u get on the top spot for entrecard?
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This is top secret! Nah seriously, I didn't advertise for over 4 months on entrecard, what I did is keep dropping everyday and winning entrecards credits on other blogs. Since I'm writing about advertising, I decided last week to launch a mega campaign by buying all the small entrecard spots and buy some popular spots at the end of the campaign. It was successful enough! I get 20k on entrecard credits back and lot of traffic. Average traffic on each blog I received is around 50 visitors per cards. Not so bad when you know I placed for over 500+ I guess nobody seen so much ads placed at the same time! lol
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haha. nice. yeah, i noticed ur card was everywhere the past few days. good job
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I wrote a post for nothing, just for the chance to win $10, and it was a good long post, and it was even linking to Bloggernoob but I don't think he's noticed - sigh, making money online isn't easy-
i noticed
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You did? Woohoo!
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I would to help out the one in need of review but not as my real focus. My initial paid review fee on my first job was $10 and now ranging between $9-$30 per review for just few words.-
u use ppp?
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Well, if I were blogging for fun only then I'd do it for $1.00. But if I were seriously trying to make money or a combination of both (which is me) then I think 1 buck is too little, especially considering the chump change that's left over once PayPal or Amazon dips into it. -
No way.
If it takes only 15 minutes to write - I'd rather read/learn something-
what if it only took 5 mins?
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As first intention I would say no, but then it depends for who I write this post also.
If it was for a great forum or a well established site, I would certainly not accept one dollar...if a great site thinks my blog is a good place and exposure for them I think that what they'll get out of it is worth more than a dollar. In this case price for me would start at $5 and increase depending the lenght of that article.
Now if it is about reviewing a newbie blog or site, or a charity one, or even a small site, yes I could accept one dollar, even do it for free... -
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I write for fun - not money. It is a method to unwind, process some new learning - or just blow off steam. -
Well, since I make nothing now to post an article, I'd take $1.00. Why not? LOL!-
follow my link above and make a dollar!
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No sirree!
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Sorry to be so slow with this link... about May 15th
www.blogcatalog.com/discuss/entry/bloggers-unite-may-15th-for-human-rights
It just seemed like a good time to team up and help out in Burma.-
thanks for the link. seems like a good cause
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I've been trying to find folks to pay $5 a post to when I am stressed for time. Sadly I seem to be misundertood when I say "1 post a day for 4 days" and they seemed too pressed for time to meet the commitment once they agree. -
so you pay them 5 dollars a post. once a day for four days?
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When I need the help...yes, as long as it is a well written post...it's worth that.
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for $1, I would write, provided there was a way to do it rapidly. If it takes 10 minutes to write a reasonable post, I'd need more like $5. For less, I might try it out. I would not want to spend too much time on this activity, because I try putting my writing into my own sites.
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No, for min 5$-
i think $5/post is a good price for small blogs. But at the same time, there are so many small blogs around. It's hard to sell it. But at 1 dollar, i'm sure it's easy to find takers. I did that when i first started my blog. It wasn't much, but it started me on my journey to make money with my blog. a buck isn't much, but it's still a buck.
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it's better than nothing for a newbie like me.-
u should follow the link and take me up on my offer
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I was offered 30 USD for a paid review for an advertising system and I declined. I don'twrite paid reviews. And if I did, 30-40 USD would be the lowest. -
It depends on how badly I needed the money! It wouldn't be a great post though...just a little teeny-weeny one.
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Seeing as how I write for free - a buck would be a considerable improvement.-
follow my link above and take me up on my offer/contest
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Ever hear the theory, "that and $1.00 will get you a cup of coffee" .. that's about it
There are so many opinions, I see no need to be paid to give them -
It depends!But mostly i will take it!Why leave an opportunity?-
that's the spirit! follow my link above and take me up on my offer
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Maybe!
@PetLvr: Great advice for PayPal members and future post writers:-)
Good job! -
Actually, I am doing reviews for a one-way link. Is that worth a dollar? I wouldn't think of charging until I had a rep of good review writing. Does it pay well? Mr. Bloggernoob - you did it right. Best success to you. Hold out for $10, then go up to $15 because of the price of gas.-
yup, damn these gas prices
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What do you guys from Blogger community think about GDI opportunity? spidernets.blogspot.com/2008/05/income-for-life.html
Sorry for jumping into topic like that. -
huh?
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At one point I would do $5, now it's $10 on my not-so-popular blogs and for my review site it's several hundred dollars for a full review.-
several hundred dollars? how several, and how often?
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yes, at a proper price! -
What are you guys talking about. What kind of reviews? :)))
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Yeah, of course. That would be a great opportunity.
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I'd do an innumerable amount of things for a dollar - but not blog for one.
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Oh, and if this offer is retroactive, sure -- I'll accept a dollar for each post I've already written.
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If I'd get paid a dollar for a post I'd rather post it on my own blog. It's a hobby. -
No, not for $1
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how much then? you must have a sell out point. everybody does.
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not everyone. Some people are genuinely comfortable in life and have no need for any further income and blogging becomes a hobby they do for passion, just like building model aeroplanes or cardmaking
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very true, but, if you have a model plane blog, and someone offers 50 bucks to write a review of a model plane company, then it's an obvious take right? ain't nothing wrong with making a litte cash on the side with your hobby.
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I like to do that for once and I'll stop blogging for some months and go on a holiday trip to Antartica. A million dollar any offer? Where is bloggernoob ?-
antartica? really? amazing, going there is on my bucketlist. how many times have you gone there?
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first time, and it will be a kind of special so I need a million dollar. I'll try to save it from melting
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you joking? or you serious? Not sure. obviously you're not going to save the polar caps from melting (we're all gonna die soon), but about going to the south pole. u really planning to go, or no?
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Yep...;-)..-
Good luck
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