The recent craze over new paid writing sites has given writers new hope, but it has also raised a lot of questions. Do they pay? Is it too good to be true? Well, for those who enjoy writing about food, there is a way to earn more income from your submissions.
As a passionate foodie, I started my own food blog so that I could share my recipes and food and nutrition tips with anyone who cared to read my blog. I was new to the whole concept of blogging so I did a lot of blog-hopping in order to try to learn how things are done. I could not believe how many food and food related blogs there are out there.
About one month into my blogging experience, I came across Foodbuzz: a site that stood out from the thousands of food blogs that I had visited. It was fairly new at the time, and , like many sites, said that you could make money from their site. Although I had seen this on a million sites before and had been duped more times than I care to admit, I figured what the heck? It didn`t cost anything to join, and at the very least I might get some exposure and draw a few more readers to my blog.
You can imagine my surprise when I actually started making money! Not huge amounts, but enough to supplement my on-line income.
You can become a Featured Publisher by linking your existing food blog to them, and all of your posts will be put onto your Foodbuzz pages for you, so there is almost nothing extra that you have to do to begin making money. How much you make depends on how many page impressions your work gets, but that is not the only money to be made. They also offer sign up bonuses and incentive bonuses. Unlike some sites that have yet to prove that they actually pay, I can can say that this site does pay, as I have received many of these bonuses they are quite substantial. (They also send their publishers incentive gifts periodically, such as tote bags, aprons and personalized business cards.)
So if you have a foodie and want to make extra money : visit Foodbuzz and see what they have to offer.
January 11th, 2009 at 11:22 am
Good information will check it out.
January 11th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
an interesting article, thanks for the information, i’ll try to visit the site one of these days.
January 11th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
It is interesting and a source to check out. Thanks for the info.
January 11th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
hi lanne,nice post,this will help lots of contributors especially those whose focus are on food stuff,i just link some of my food related stuffs in there and i am hopeful that this will give me additional exposure and of course some extra income.thanks for the generosity
January 11th, 2009 at 6:56 pm
Thanks Lanne for sharing the info.
January 12th, 2009 at 5:46 am
Great post! Stumbled!
January 13th, 2009 at 3:27 am
Quite a number of great tips for food bloggers. It’s a good business to be in.
January 13th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
I wish I can cook, and have recipes like you lanne! Excellent info for foodie people!
January 16th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
Great ideas!
January 20th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
Good information, thanks for sharing!