How does paid blogging work and how can you get paid by Fortune 500 companies and even small businesses to write about their product, service or event?

When the blogosphere exploded in 2006/07, thousands of blogs were being created every single day, with overworked individuals hoping to cash in on the trend and be a “work-at-home blogger”. The hype was high, but the problem was that most bloggers wanted to get paid immediately.

The blogosphere responded to these needs, with companies like PayPerPost.com leading the paid-to-blog industry. Early on, blogging for the purposes of making money received a lot of criticism from big-name bloggers, but eventually people started accepting paid blogging as a viable, honest way to make a living online.

As time went by, more paid blogging companies sprung up, including ReviewMe.com and SponsoredReviews.com - taking the stand of offering “honest” and “unbiased” reviews. At the moment there are no fewer than 20 paid blogging companies you can sign-up with and make money from.

When you sign-up for a company, you’re required to submit your blog details, so make sure you have a blog up and running with at least 30 days worth of acceptable content. After you’ve submitted your details, your blog will be reviewed and approved.

Then, you can search the company’s marketplace for “opportunities”, which are basically listings created by businesses who want you to blog about their product or service. When you find a suitable opportunity, you can use the information provided (take note of the requirements too) and blog about it. When you’re done, report back to the listing and you get paid whatever amount of money the advertiser has promised.

Now of course, the companies that offer these paid blogging services also take their cut, which is anywhere from 30-50%. The rest is paid to you after you reach a certain payout limit.

So how much can you expect to make from paid blogging?

Typically, you can earn a few hundred dollars a month by writing 1-2 blog posts a day. Since these blog posts aren’t too long and all the information is already provided, it’s pretty easy to do that. Once your blog picks up more traffic, it gets re-evaluated and you can start charging more for writing the exact same content.

The leaders in the paid blogging industry make a few thousands dollars a month, enough to make a comfortable full-time income on the Internet. Plus, they are free to work whenever they want, wherever they want. This is why paid blogging is so appealing - with little skill or technical knowledge, any ordinary person can make money from blogs right from the start.

If you’re interested to discover the secrets to paid blogging, I strongly recommend you check out Blog Paycheck by Gobala Krishnan:

Among other things, he gives you a complete step-by-step guide to paid blogging, and a list of useful resources you can use to kickstart your blogging and make more money with less time and effort.

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Good news! Yaro Starak is opening up his famous Blog Mastermind mentoring program again. He has proven time and time again the systematic way of building a blog to make money. His well known book “Blog Profits Blueprint” has been downloaded over 40,000 times and he is one guy I follow with huge interest and continue to learn from. In advance of his re-opening of his Blog Mastermind mentoring program he has released a series of videos which include amazing and worthwhile insights absolutely free. You can see the first one here.

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Did you know that you can make a pretty good living online with blogging? Not only that, did you know that you can do it risk-free?

No capital required (ok maybe just a few dollars) and it doesn’t  take much writing skills either.

And NO, it’s not about Google Adsense or affiliate marketing.

It’s called “Paid Blogging” or “Sponsored Blogging”, and one of the earliest companies to offer this opportunity is PayPerPost.com

Today, there are tons of opportunities to make a living with paid blogging, and you can earn anywhere between $5 to $200 for a single blog post!

That sure beats being a slave to your own online business, blogging away relentlessly day after day just for a few bucks from Adsense.

Anyways, this is what I wanted to share with you…

Gobala Krishnan has all the secrets packed into a 58-page report called “Blog Paycheck”. I’ve just had a look at it and it certainly seems to cover all the bases.

The entire “Paid Blogging” industry is totally new to me, but this report pretty much revealed everything I needed to know.

You can get more information here.

Considering it’s such a HOT topic today, I’m pretty surprised that no one has yet come up with a complete guide to “Paid Blogging”

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There are two major types of business models that entrepreneurs use to make money blogging. The first and most common way to turn a blog into a profit making machine is to sell advertising to different companies and brands who want to reach that blog’s readers. The second kind of money making blog is one that helps a single brand improve its image by creating positive associations between the blog and the product in the mind of consumers. Both kinds of blogs can make a lot of money, especially if the creator has a keen mind for marketing.

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