Because I am working from home, and I am trying to make ends meet, I need to be able to make money from even my fun blogs like this one! So, I have decided to do some blogging through some of the “paid-to-post” companies like Blogsvertise. I have heard a lot of great things about making money this way, so I’m quite excited to get started. The great news is, I’ll be able to report back on here about the different companies, and tell you my readers which ones are worth it, and which ones to skip. I hope this’ll be a good helpful process for those of you who are looking to make money this way.
One of the best sites I’ve found that’s out there for this kind of stuff is here – you could spend all night looking through that website! Well worth reading.
Have a wonderful night,
Hava
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Dear Hava,
I’m not familiar with internet tricks and am very careful not to be deceived by offers on the internet but I am interested in finding an on line job which could make me some extra money.Up till now I haven’t been successful with this because all the offers on the internet are against a subscription fee which I don not want to pay.
My question is are there any reliable offers that are free?
Regards,
Sally
Hi Sally! Somehow I missed your comment, which I sincerely apologize for! Maybe my computer ate the e-mail notifying me of your comment, I don’t know, but anyway, I’m not sure if you still want more info or not, but I would be glad to help you anyway that I can.
I’m glad to hear that you haven’t paid for any online work. Online work is just like offline, bricks-and-mortar work: You never have to pay to get it. The only exceptions are applicable in both cases also: Job banks that list the job openings can cost money to subscribe to, but that is not an actual job offer, that is you simply looking for a job. You don’t have to pay for a subscription in order to get a job, and in fact I highly recommend that you look for a job in a free job bank first, and then look in a paid job bank if you don’t find anything. No sense paying money if you don’t have to.
The only other exception to paying money for a job is paying for a background check to be done. There are some jobs that require a background check in order to be hired on, and that is a legit fee that you should pay.
Other than those two exceptions, you should never, NEVER pay for a job. If you do, then you are being scammed, period.
General advice aside, what kind of jobs are you looking at doing? What interests you? The work-at-home field is as varied as the bricks-and-mortar field, so if you have an idea of what you like to do (do you like to write, like to work with people, etc) then I’ll be able to give you better suggestions than just general job categories.
Anyway, I hope all of that helped. If you have a moment, I would love to help you out more – just leave a comment on here, and I promise I won’t lose it this time!
Havs
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Hi, I love your blog, be careful when doing paid posts because wordpress does not allow it. They are the only free blogging service which is known to delete blogs with no prior notice, Just letting ya know:)
Good Luck
This is not the only one. THere are plenty more around! Have fun blogging
Hi, I followed your link from the WAHM forums!
Anyway, most of these companies don’t allow WordPress.com blogs because WP.com doesn’t allow any kind of advertising. If you have another blog, I suggest submitting that one instead. If you don’t have one, may I suggest that it’s better to have a site on your own domain? I pay about $8 per month for my server space and have four sites hosted (though only two are mine- I host for a couple of my friends). I have a great coupon code for DreamHost if you’re interested (which is what I use) and I hear that BlueHost is also topnotch.
That said, I work with PU2B and find them incredibly easy, forthright and honest. I’ve been working with them since February and am making pretty decent money. If you have more than one blog then you’ll likely receive a lot more assignments. I’ve tried Blogvertise, but their opportunities are few and far between once you lose PageRank (which is what will happen if you advertise that you’re doing paid blogging, unfortunately). I was rejected by Smorty (a while ago) and PayPerPost changed into Izea, which I haven’t been using since Google zapped my PageRank.
Good luck! Let me know how it pans out for you.