Will Work For Hay
It’s time to buy hay again. Here in California it’s $10.95 for a 75-100 lb bale of Alfalfa. We only have two horses but it’s still expensive. So I had to find work to help with my expensive hobby and to help with the household bills as well.
So this is where paid blogging comes into the picture. I found out about paid blogging about 6 months ago and have made about $3000 since then. Paid blogging is basically advertisers paying bloggers to right reviews, opinions or discusion about a product, service or websites. Most of the paid blogging companies give you the freedom to talk about what ever you want as long as it’s related to the required link topic.
LoudLaunch is the newest company I know of and so far so good. They have some great offers that start at $6 a post. I love paid blogging because I can write about what interests me and get compensated for helping advertisers distribute news about their press releases or news.
If you are interested in becoming a LoudLaunch advertisers you can start for as little as $50.
If you are a blogger needing to support your hobby you should visit LoudLaunch.
- January 5th
Wow, $10.95 seems outrageous. Are you able to get hay cheaper during hay cutting season? But you need a place to store it, too. Do you know of any other “non-rich” horse owners in your area? I’ve often thought there must be others besides us. Perhaps we could start our own “co-op” where we could buy in bulk at lower prices.
Many blogs seems to be going the “paid blogging” route, so I don’t think it’ll be a shock to anyone. Besides, the paid blogging posts are pretty obvious and you pick which to write about so there shouldn’t be an issue of credibility.
Best of luck with it. I’d love to know if it works well. Maybe we’ll try it, too.
Bill
Hi Bill,
I know $10.95 is outrageous and it doesn’t change much in hay cutting season. I think its because I live in Ca. Everything is expensive in CA. One of my neighbors does buy a truck load every year but he’s not poor so he keeps most of it for his 7 horses. I do get to buy some from him somethings at about $7 a bale.
I have actually worked with a few blogging companies and have made over $3000 so I would say it’s a good thing. I have been getting paid to blog for about 6 months but the last three months is where I made most of my money. My Time To Budget blog deals more with my paid blogging. There are a few more companies starting so I think paid blogging may be here to stay.
http://thalasar.com/archives/press_release/advertisers_sho.html
I recently used loudlaunch.com as a supplementary marketing effort for my recent Playstation 3 console giveaway. It seemed a great way to potentially announce your campaign to the blogosphere. There are serious problems in the way Loudlaunch.com operates and any advertiser thinking about using the service should be aware. First off you cannot specify what blogs or category of blog that will post on your subject. As a result while the individual posts are solid, the blogs target audience might not be a match for what you are looking for. As you cannot control who may or may not post on your subject. Worse yet your money may go to support terrorism! This has happened to me and my promotion for Earlymiser. A blog call Israel Watch (I REFUSE to link to them) which openly advocates the destruction of Israel and the Jews chose to blog about my PS3 promotion. I find it astounding that my advertising dollars are being spent supporting anti-semitic rantings. More importantly who knows what group is behind the site Israel Watch? I find the views on the site deeply disturbing and I didn’t authorize the post. So the brand of my comparison shopping site is at risk. Can you imagine how I felt about the situation? Worst yet Loudlaunch.com doesn’t have a customer service number and their whois is protected by Domains By Proxy. I have fired off several emails but haven’t gotten a response. Why does Loudlaunch support terrorists?
If you use Loudlaunch, there’s a good chance your brand or site will be featured on a hate site. Don’t do it.
Update:I have spoken with Phil at Loudlaunch who informed me
“This blog is being removed from our approved bloggers list and will not be able to post ever again. The person that approved it was viewing statistics and did not pick up on the political undertones which are not appropriate for our advertisers. Apologies.”
to which I said, “Not a lot of fracking confidence in your “reviewers”. Missed the whole destruction of Israel thing huh? Yeah well it was the whole point of the blog.”
Loudlaunch is issuing me a credit for the campaign. Thanx. Spend $100 testing something and do thousands of dollars of damage to your brand. This after I was told the following by Chris over there before I started my campaign.
“Thanks for signing up as an advertiser. We appreciate your business. I spoke with Phil today about your online conversation. Let me quickly give you a bit more information about the way we rank our bloggers and how they are paid for blogging on your campaign.
Our model is simple: we pay bloggers based on the expected exposure/ traffic that they can bring our advertisers. To do this, we rank our bloggers based on Technorati stats, Alexa stats, and a personal review of the blog. Therefore, there is no exact model to publish.However, based on your feedback and suggestions, we will add some additional instructions or tips on our site that help better explain how this works.
One final note. You can check any bloggers stats, who has posted on your campaign, by entering their information in technorati.com or alexa.com. We could have an all day conversation about how to interpret those stats, but in general, they are used as guidelines along with a physical review of the site to determine their rank or payment per post.”
Now thanx to Loudlaunch all the Israeli hating/Hamas supporting terrorists know about my Playstation 3 promotion. How much personal attention could they have paid to the blog? I went to it and it took me all of 30 seconds to determine it was an anti-semitic hate site. Un ‘frackin’ believable. Clearly no “physical review” took place. Avoid Loudlaunch.
That is very interesting information. I was a little confused about their reviewing policy. I am not sure this information is enough to quit using LoudLaunch as a publisher but I will be cautious of how much faith I put into the company.
I also choose to give the company the benefit of the doubt since it is a brand new company and they are probably working though some startup pains. It seems that from your updated info they did not intend to allow this type of blog as a publisher. It does concern me that they didn’t catch it as a hate blog but from my experience with reviewers of startup paid posting companies it doesn completely surprise me either.
Thanks for the information. I will probably post your comment on my Time To Budget blog.
Hi, Mona! I am a fellow Postie (ninimeck) and saw your avitar on the boards there. So here I am. I cannot believe the price of hay in CA! I just paid $3.25 a bale for alfalfa. Same size, small squares. You have some interesting posts here and I look forward to reading through them. I have a 15 yo Appaloosa gelding.
Hi Angie,
Glad you found this site. The hay prices are ridiculous and it makes me so mad when I hear about other states prices. Oh well.