Saturday, September 6, 2008

Ad Space Direct

My daughter has put together a small consortium of blog sites that will allow advertisers to deal directly with the bloggers to place ads at reasonable prices and cut out the middle men expenses of dealing with a broker.

The blogs are carefully targeted and present the advertiser the opportunity to select the blog or blogs that match their advertising interests. Each of the blogs is maintained with a high level of writing and creative content.

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Ad Space Direct

My daughter has put together a small consortium of blog sites that will allow advertisers to deal directly with the bloggers to place ads at reasonable prices and cut out the middle men expenses of dealing with a broker.

The blogs are carefully targeted and present the advertiser the opportunity to select the blog or blogs that match their advertising interests. Each of the blogs is maintained with a high level of writing and creative content.

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Thursday, November 8, 2007

Shelly’s New Blog

Shelly has begun a new blog that will be focused on quality content. She will talk a lot about literature and culture, especially Asian culture, as she is now living and teaching in Singapore. She teaches English Literature in an University there, so often she will address review books and poetry, and make suggestions for your reading lists. I hope you will take a look at Shelly’s Blog soon. Drop her a line and let her know you visited!
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Wednesday, October 10, 2007

New Blog About College Life @ A&M Galveston

The grandson of a dear friend has begun his college life at Texas A&M University at Galveston. That brings him into the county in which I live. He came to our home tonight for the holiday meal and an evening of relaxation. It was good to see him, and to let him know that he has folks nearby that stand in for his parents and grandparents while he is away from them.


blogI told him that a good way to let his family and friends know what is going on in his life without having to write to each of them is through a blog. So tonight he began a new blog called TAMUG Colege Life. I hope you will give it a look!
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Friday, September 21, 2007

Blogging For Bucks

I had a blog accepted by Pay Per Post about a month ago. You are allowed to accept two offers to write posts with links, for which you are paid. The requirements for the links and the minimum number of words in the post are set by the advertiser. I have had one that only required 10 words to be paid $4.00. I have written a couple of posts of 200 words. The best offer I have taken paid $12 for 50 words. You are required to have at least one non-sponsored post between sponsored posts. And you can use a Blogitive or Blogsvertise post as the filler blog between Pay Per Post articles.

A blog must have been active for at least 90 days and have steady entries. There cannot be a gap of 30 days or more between entries. It takes a bit of work to prepare the blog for acceptance, but I do not spend time reading other blogs or commenting outside Writing Up. This is still my favorite place to read and write because of the community aspect. Blogs here are not acceptable for Pay Per Post, so you will have to establish a blog on another site. Mine are on Blogspot.

After having ten posts approved by the advertisers on Pay Per Post you are allowed to add another blog. I have done that. That means I can accept 2 tasks for each blog, doubling my daily income. I have just submitted a third blog. If I can take six assignments per day it could become some nice extra spending money. If each post paid only $5, that would be $30 each day. If I do that for 20 or 25 days a month, it is a significant drop in the bucket. And when you add the more than $400 earned from Blogitive and Blogsvertise, it is a nice payday.

Some of you may see this as mercenary, and I suppose it is. But if I can add that amount to a retirement income, perhaps my wife will be able to retire early. She is even thinking of beginning a blog or two that would expand the cash flow. It is pretty appealing to us.

And I thought some of you might want to know.

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Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Communati.com–A New Blog Site!

There is a new blog site that has been established that will hopefully recapture the community spirit that was developed on WritingUp.com. The site is called Communati.com. I heard about its establishment from Sharon Hurley Hall. The webmaster is a friend of gracepub. There are only a few bloggers sigend up so far, the two ladies I mentioned, Pinhole and myself, along with the webmaster, marko.

I like the ideas I have read, and the place looks a lot like our old WritingUp home. I hope many of the rest of my old neighbors will find their way to Communati.com. If you decide to sign up, here is my Referral link.

And here is a link to my New Familyfunadfaith blog.

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Thursday, April 26, 2007

Writing Down

 have been blogging on Writingup.com for more than a year. I have enjoyed it immensley, and made some good virtual friends in that blog community. The site has had all sorts of difficulties in the past few weeks, causing a migration away from the site by a number of the writers. One of them, known as Keywoman 1, has begun a new group on Myspace to try to recapture the magic of our community. It is called WritingDown! Here is a link to check it out. WritingDown

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