Postcards from the Funny Farm

As some of you know, I’ve begun writing sponsored posts in the past year. They are excellent for making a small bit of cash for writing a post. Ideally, every blog post could make one money but most people like to intersperse them and keep most their blogging unsponsored. If you decided to seek payment for your blogging, it is important to know good sources to get these money-making opportunities and I want to tell you about one today.

Mommy bloggers out there who may read my blog, this post is tailored to you! (but anyone who can write to a topic should try it) SocialSpark is the latest wing of IZEA (parent company to PayPerPost) and this new site can really help you earn some cash while blogging. I’m a schoolteacher and when I am at work I don’t always have the chance to sit down and write 50-300 words, which is the average required by most opps. Nonetheless, I try to schedule my home time with my kids, wife, etc. so I can put in at least an opp a day. In doing so, I am able to supplement my monthly online income of about $300. Now for rich folks, that may not sound like much but to people in my income bracket (60-100K) that is a healthy chunk of change that I can use to take my kids out for ice cream, buy toys, or take the wife on a date! Mommy bloggers, could you use 50-300 bucks a month? Some people out there in the “sphere” report making much more than that, but that is my figure: combined with some other sources I mention on my blog, that is a very realistic quote you could be making.

I went through all that to say that: I do not believe mommy bloggers have a lot of time on their hands BUT they do have access to a computer enough to blog. Hey … moms out there, seriously … could you blog a sponsored post a month? a week? a day? I think you could and SocialSpark wants you to know they are right around the corner.