Yesterday, I wrote a blog where I discussed some of the items to watch out for if you decide to blog for Families (the monthly quota, the fact you can’t be a plagiarist, etc.) Today, I wanted to cover some of the best reasons to becoming a Families.com blogger: Flexibility and freedom!
Flexibility. Let’s say you’re on a writing streak, and you have a million ideas piled up inside. You write and write, churning out 20 blogs in one afternoon. You can take those blogs, go to the blog posting site, upload them all, and post date them so they show up over the coming month. Do you want three blogs posted per day? You have almost a week covered. Two a day? You have ten days taken care of. One a day? You have just covered 20 days, and in essence the entire month, since you are only required to write 20 blogs per month. It’s fun to think that you can do an entire month’s worth of work in one afternoon, but it’s actually true with Families.com.
If you have a job that requires a lot of your time part of the year, but gives you time off the rest of the year, blogging for Families may be the perfect fit for you. If you were a teacher, for example, you could spend your summer writing blogs and postdating them all, and never have to write during the school year. You get paid when your blogs post, so you will receive a paycheck every month for the blogs posting that month, even if you haven’t written or posted a blog in months. Every stay-at-home mom or dad out there who desperately needs flexibility in their work schedule (I hear people say all the time, “I can only work when my baby is sleeping!”) will absolutely love the flexibility that comes with blogging for Families. Not only do they allow you to post blogs in advance, they highly encourage you to do just that, so that in the case of a family emergency, your blog is still covered and fresh info is still being posted every day. Lisa loves for people to postdate their blogs!
Freedom. Okay, so you have the fantastic job of posting job ideas on the Job blog, and things are going along great, except you have a fresh and interesting idea for scrapbooking and would just love to write a post or two about that instead. Not a problem. Once you have posted your 20 blogs for the month in your topic, you can write up to 55 guest blogs in whatever other topic strikes your fancy. You do have to clear your ideas with the main bloggers for that topic before posting the blogs, but usually it isn’t a problem at all. So if you write your 20 blogs for the month in your topic, you have free reign to write about anything else that you want.
Tomorrow, I will cover the most important question of all: How much would you get paid for all this, anyhow?