Thursday, December 7, 2006

To Be or Not To Be


(I love this cartoon)

A few months back I started montonizing this blog to help bring in a few bucks to suplement my $19K annual salary. There was some debate about it at the time, I even asked for all of your opinions. Since then I have used Blogsvertise and PayPerPost ver since. Well except the month of November, when I didn't post any. Well someone was surprised when I typed up two yesterday from Blogsvertise. This person sent a note saying:
You should write the 33 blog posts. I'd rather see them than all the sponsored posts you've been writing lately.

Well s/he is refering to another post I amde, and currently have been working on. Howevr, they take research and I have several in my drafts waiting for completion as I have the time.
Since, I only make 19k, I need the additional resources to come from someplace. Though, I don't make enough from the montonization of this blog, to make much difference, but it does help.

Certainly, I would prefer to get rid of blogsvertise and payperpost, because they take some time away from my regular posts, searching out the assignments that would fit in with the theme of this blog. However, I need to get 3 hits on Google Adsense every single day on a regular basis, just to get the minimum income that it takes all 3 to currently bring in. That is something that just isn't going to happen with on 50 unigue visitors everyday. I diffenitly cannot get the 21 clicks on the adsense ads that would bring in the resources that I actually need, to supplement my income.

I did on November 30th (I believe) create disclosure policy stating from that day forth I would mark all posts that are sponsered as being as such. My question, to all my readers, should mark them as sponsered the way I have (in the 3 that were affected) or should I put the word sponser in the title? Such as
"SPONSER: Such As This"
So what do you think? If you would prefer that I get rid of the paid posts all together, what ways do you propose that I make the needed resources to pay off my debts, so that I can replace the shoes on my feet that have holes in them? Or to actually buy food? Have you seen the price of eggs this week? $1.29 for a dozen large eggs. I am someone that normally eat 2-3 eggs a day. When I seen the price of eggs today, I left, without purchasing them. I will eat a can of beans for breakfast rather then pay that kind of price for now.

2 comments:

  1. Kevin,
    I have been reading your blog for a few months now..I don't wqant to say I enjoy it, seeing as the content is about your struggle with debt...I can. however, identify with it. Now, to those who ask you not to blog for $$$ I say, are they going to pay you NOT to? It's YOUR blog, you can say/do whatever you wish, if they don't like it, they don't have to read. If you can make extra money blogging about a product, do it man! Sell everything, make the kids think they are next!! Good Luck! Cheryl

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  2. Dude,

    I'm the creator of the cartoon you liked. It would be great if you would in the future attribute the comic to its author:

    www.thewriteratwork.com

    Cheers,
    Richard Krzemien
    The Writer at Work

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