The Bauhaushold Report: Stepping up my pro-blogging game

<$Tuesday, August 14, 2007$>

Stepping up my pro-blogging game

I'm finally ready to move this blog into the next phase of my plan to generate revenue that I can apply toward reducing my credit card debt by accepting offers to do sponsored posts. I know there are a lot of people out there who feel icky about that sort of thing, and I can respect their reasoning even if I don't agree. I've talked before in this post about my approach to paid blogging, and my official disclosure policy is right here.

This isn't something you're going to see a ton of--my other blog sees maybe three or four paid posts a week, at the most, and that's about what I expect to do here, once I gain momentum. Each one will be clearly identified as a sponsored post, but that won't change the fact that they will contain my honest opinion on the topic at hand, be it positive or negative. NOTE TO ADVERTISERS: If you're not comfortable with those conditions, then please don't bother soliciting posts from me.

FWIW, I already paid off my smallest credit card balance (which also happened to have my highest interest rate, thus keeping me comfortably outside of the whole "lowest balance or highest interest rate first?" debate) almost entirely with paid blogging revenue, and I need all the help I can get paying down my remaining cards, so this isn't something I can afford to get squishy about. So consider this fair warning--if paid blogging morally offends you, then now's your chance to remove me from your reading list.

Labels: disclosure, PPP