For Love Or Money
*Paid Post*
It’s not often that your employer comes up to you and asks, “Do you love me?”. In certain contexts you could probably sue for sexual harassment. But PayPerPost is asking that question of me, and the answer is an unequivocal “Yes”, even if they weren’t paying me to write this. On my Friendster profile, I put my occupation as “Part-time Writer”. That was more than 3 years ago. Then PayPerPost came along and made that a reality.
I’ve been with PayPerPost since January and have made quite a tidy sum since then - in the triple digits, if I’m honest. Agagooga and I were comparing our respective blog earnings, and the final consensus was “to each his own”. His is passive income, whereas I have to put effort into earning mine, although the potential earnings from my paid posts are higher.
I even bought myself a little something with the money I earned writing blog reviews. It felt so good to be able to say that “I paid for that with money I earned blogging”, not just because I love earning money (and that’s why I love PayPerPost) but also because it gives a sense of purpose to my writing. I’ve always believed that paid writing is a chance to flex one’s creative muscles, and bearing in mind the fact that I choose my topics, I don’t think it’s a matter of selling out.
Of course, some will beg to differ. I’ve received feedback that my paid posts are less than welcome, but I’ve never tried to hide the fact that they’re sponsored, and I have that little header tag so you can skip the whole thing if you want to. I figure I can’t please everyone so I might as well please myself (and the advertisers).
So yeah, I don’t see myself quitting this gig anytime soon. The going’s good, people - are you sure you don’t want to join me?
May 24th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
Three digits?!
Okay, I will join you.
Not now, but soon.