Something to ponder Election Reform Community

[kster]

How Much Should You Get Paid to Blog?


If a blogger is doing a good job, she can charge more and expect to get it. Doing a good job doesn’t mean the writing is “good.” It means the post gets comments, gets traffic, gets backlinks, gets social media attention. In other words, the blogger has to be able to deliver traffic.

A blogger who can deliver the goods can charge more, and the blogger has to be able to show she can get results, which means that this information needs to appear on the “services” or “hire me” page of a blog.

Bloggers new to paid blogging can expect to spend a little time “in the trenches” at first.

Once a pro blogger has proven she’s no longer a commodity, then there is no standard. You charge whatever you can get away with, whatever your clients will pay. The better gigs are the more permanent ones for bigger blogs. If you’re going to get into pro blogging, be prepared to treat it as a business and modify your blog accordingly so you’re easy to hire. –Quote from Michael Martine, blog consultant


http://www.mlvwrites.com/2009/01/overestimating-charges-writing.html

I'm for Hand Counted Paper Ballots Counted at the Polling Place. But, I don't gey paid by the word.



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[WillYourVoteBCounted]

1. Bloggers do what Dead Tree publications do not

1. Do you have a blog?

2. If you do blog, how many hours a day and how many days a week to you put into it?

3. I urge those who are e-voting activists to put up a blog, the blog space itself costs nothing.

4. Do you believe that only the people who are independently wealthy or else completely impoverished
deserve to report on the truth?

5. A blogger can be an unpaid blogger and still could have an agenda, honest or dishonest.

Bloggers, at least some of them - publish/report on what the dead tree monopoly will not do.
Without bloggers, the mainstream media would have a monopoly on communications.

If a blogger is paid, perhaps the issue is whether the blogger is putting out propaganda or truth.
And if that propaganda is being promoted by the donor.

Anyone who blogs at least 5 days a week knows that it is work and that it takes alot of time
and dedication. It is like being a dairy farmer, the job has to be done every day and
it never ends.


Here's my Voting Issues Blog List, which can be found at my blog
http://votingnews.blogspot.com/
I spend several hours each day working on this blog, plus I do have other blogs which I
post to a bit less frequently.

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