3 Simple Ways for Bloggers to Make Money

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Making money on the inter­net is as elu­sive as North Carolina’s big­foot. There are peo­ple around you who seem to be doing it, but you haven’t tapped into the how. You have the peo­ple who claim to make these obscene amounts of money on a daily basis.

“I made $700 for ten min­utes of work and for only $699 and I’ll let you in on the secret of how I did it”

That “secret” ends up being link after link and spammy email after spammy email of absolutely noth­ing. You make zero dol­lars while they laugh all the way to the bank.

This is where I come in. There are sim­ple ways to make money on the inter­net doing what you nor­mally do. You tweet? You search? You blog? Then, you can make money. I have to men­tion that if you are try­ing to make money to pur­chase a yacht I can’t help you. I’m not promis­ing that you will get rich by any means, but you will make real money. Here goes:

1. Sponsored Tweets

You tweet. I know because I see you tweet­ing. Some of you tweet a lot. Sponsored Tweets is a pro­gram that pays you for doing just that. Advertisers pay us hum­ble Tweeters to draw atten­tion to their prod­ucts. It’s really that sim­ple. You’re tweet­ing any­way so why not?

Your rate of pay is varies. So you may start out very small, but every time you com­plete a spon­sored tweet your pay rate increases. The big dogs get paid $200 or more per tweet. Us lit­tle dogs will get only a frac­tion of that, but it’s nice to know that the poten­tial is there.

2. Sponsored Reviews

If you blog you can do a spon­sored review. Similar to Sponsored Tweets adver­tis­ers need you to pro­mote their busi­ness or ser­vice through a blog post. You bid on an oppor­tu­nity and if the adver­tiser approves you, then you write the review. You set the price. So you can be paid between $10 to $1000 for your reviews. Of course $1000 is def­i­nitely the high end so set the price rea­son­able to your abil­i­ties and blog sta­tis­tics.

3. Social Spark

Social Spark is sim­i­lar to the other two sites in that adver­tis­ers are joined with blog­gers. I really like this site because there are some great well estab­lished adver­tis­ers that use it. As well as there is a vari­ety of the types of spon­sored activ­i­ties that you can do. Some of the pay rates on Social Spark are sub­stan­tially higher that other pro­grams espe­cially for a fairly new but estab­lished blog­ger.

Making money as a blog­ger doesn’t have to be quite so elu­sive if you know where to go. Keep in mind that peo­ple prey on the desire to make money on the inter­net. Don’t fall for scams. These are three sim­ple ways blog­gers can make money on the inter­net that I trust and they don’t involve you pay­ing any­thing.

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