What do you think about this? It is not a political blog, although like most areas nowadays politics does come into it.

Also, the reason I am considering this is because I am wanting to learn about building websites and being more of an entrepreneur. I have quite a few other clients that I work for on a per project basis and was hoping this was an opportunity to do something a little different. It wouldn’t be taking the place of other work; it would simply be adding to my workload.

Don’t do it – I’m convinced it is one of those buzzwords that they teach the “get people to work for you for free” set of internet marketers.

I recently applied for a blogging job and asked about compensation, and was told that I would be paid a revenue share of Adsense ads. Having my own blog, and knowing how much time it takes to build up a following, I know that to be a bum deal. I didn’t answer any further e-mails from them, even though I got a few after the fact.

If there isn’t an actual check waiting at the end of the job, or any of the payment terms sound fuzzy, don’t waste your time. There are too many paid jobs out there to take unpaid ones.

I’m a little worried because I am somewhat new at this business and don’t want to be suckered into anything that will waste my time and effort.

By the way, I love this website Jodee and Deb

Thanks

I see the link didn’t go through –
The link to Laura’s blog for leads for the educational markets:

http://educationwriting.blogspot.com/

Hope you find something good!

I agree. I had one place I applied to that said blah blah about pay rates (can’t remember the exact amount right now)and so I applied. Got a letter back from them informing me that all looked good ect. but would I send a sample and that they would not ask for my financial information right away. Okay that was the first flag waving at me. The second was when they had stated I would not be making money for doing any work from them, but investing in their company and they needed to know I was secured money wise. Amazing some of these places that lure us into thinking it is a legit job offering, to only find out we wasted our time applying. I am happy when I see the job offers that are not like that, gives me some faith in it all.

Also, got another reply from one I applied here a couple of days ago that said they were impressed about my resume (which has links to sample writings) and asked if I could write a 500 word example for content/keyword writing and not to copyright (well isn’t that a given?) because they may use it later, but no where in it did they say we will only use it if we hired you. Go figure, well, I didn’t write the sample.

Colleen

I got the same immediate response from George Hogg. This isn’t the first time either, he switches his name around and also submits the same dating site link where he gets money through the Date.com’s affiliate program.

I actually emailed Date.com over this a month or so ago. Their response is that they have no job openings out there and that they cannot control their affiliates from putting in ads of this nature to boost their revenues.