£30 For A Blog Post?
October 9, 2007
I was contacted yesterday by a London based digital marketing company yesterday offering me £30 to blog about their (major brand name) clients new viral marketing promotion. You might have been contacted yourself?
It wasn’t mentioned if the post could no-follow the link out but that would be my preference if I wanted to publish the post and take the cash (you know of course that paid for links and google don’t go together!). Aside from that link juice issue it’s not what I want to do with this blog. Whilst I’m interested in branding and marketing issues and I have blogged about related topics in the past (on my old blogger blog) I think it shows when someone is publishing a paid for post. That’s not what I’m after on this blog.
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Aside from the ethical concerns, I think the £30 is an insult. By the time you communicate back and forth with them, write the blog post, write an invoice, send the invoice to them blah blah blah, it won’t mean you’ll make much for your time.
These London based digital marketing company’s spend £30 on their sandwiches
Well they did offer to provide the text too if I wanted it but yeah, by the time you’ve had the dialogue, raised the VAT invoice, etc it ain’t worth it.
£30 on sandwiches …chuckle!