Foreign Perspectives

Although the big names are always present, there seems to be an almost constant launching of new sites offering sponsored post opportunities these days.

This is brilliant in the sense that nearly all of them give you one post to do about themselves for an above average sum. Typically you’ll get $10 to write a post of a few hundred words about the sponsored listings site but I’ve had as high as $55.

In several cases, that has been the only post that I’ve written for a site. That’s not because I’m totally mercenary and take only the payment to write about them and then ignore them, but because several of the sites have never had another opportunity available for me to write about. OK, eventually perhaps some of them might do, but realistically I’m not going to continue to look at a site that never has anything for me when I can spend that time looking at other sites which do provide a stream of opportunities.

The e-mail sites are very hard to judge on this score. They tend not to ask you to write about them but offer you a trial post to do. In one case, I picked up $75 from such a site and I’ve never heard from them again. I can live with that in that I have $75 in my bank account which wouldn’t otherwise have been there but I wonder what happened to them.

Are there getting to be just too many such sites around for the amount of advertising that they can collectively deliver?