Foreign Perspectives

When Wendy and me started experimenting with the possibilities of running paid posts in our blogs it was just coming into the Summer and all the time it seemed to be a fight to get even a $5 post on some sites.

However, as we edge out of the Summer, we’re now in the situation where there are getting on for a hundred opportunities that are open to us each time we log in. OK, granted maybe half of those are only $5 but just a few months ago we were looking at something like a dozen available at any one time and most were $5. Tonight the first 30 are over $7.

That extra choice also brings the advantages that many more of the opportunities fall into the category of “interesting” and that the wordcount asked for can be as little as 50 words for payouts of $15.

What we’re also learning to do better is to check the opportunities available at an appropriate time. All of the main sites offering these paid post schemes are currently based in America so our original approach of writing the paid posts in the morning isn’t a good move as all we got was the leftovers from the night before. Simply checking in the evening instead pretty much doubled our takings overnight and combine that with the additional opportunities available over the Winter mean that we’re doing even better than that as we get more on top of the best strategies to use with these schemes.

Also starting to become noticeable is that the increased number of postings on the blogs is starting to attract other interest in the blogs. Nothing major from that as yet but ’tis early days.