Hi Non Famous Bloggers. I am not shedding that title anytime soon, however I was in an article for the NY Times with some big time bloggers. I got a decent mention and I was pretty excited. You can read the full NY Times Article.
I wanted point out or rather explain what the article states about some compensation I have received. You already know that our crew is 1000+ strong and I won some money for having the most crew members. It is important to note that much of that money is being put back into the crew in the form of swag and an opp on socialspark. I just need to finish getting everyone on the street team (a rather time consuming endeavor.)
This is what I wrote on BenSpark.com regarding the article.
“The article states that I get compensation to recruit bloggers and teach them how to improve their blogs. That is not entirely the way it is. I am an IZEA Insider, as such I am compensated $1500 a year to go to blogger conferences and be an ambassador of IZEA. I do try to recruit bloggers to the IZEA properties because I believe very much in what they are doing, they empower small time bloggers like me to make a little extra with their blogs.
As for the teaching bloggers to improve their blogs, that is a little something extra that I try and do for my IZEA Insiders Crew so that they learn how to use SocialSpark more effectively. I am not compensated for that I do it because the better the network of bloggers are the better advertisers we can attract.
I call those posts SocialSpark Saturdays. I also received $1500 for having the largest crew of bloggers in my IZEA Insider crew. I actively recruit bloggers to my crew and welcome each and every one of them. I’ve created a blog specifically for that crew where I try and spotlight different bloggers on the crew. My goal is to interview each and every one of my 1000+ members. I love finding out about other bloggers and what makes them tick.”
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Congrats, and you spelled your benspark.com website wrong in your article, should fix that. It is a good article about bloggers monetizing their blogs, NY times is about a year or two late getting to the article though but as it becomes more mainstream we will see more articles about it.
I swear. I have so much trouble spelling that sometimes. Thanks and yeah this is a few years late but that is okay it happened and I'm so excited to be apart of it.