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I’ve got a secret for mommy bloggers. . .
Want to get paid to talk about the things you love (and some that you don’t like quite as much)? Well, Izea (the company that brought you PayPerPost) will be shortly offering a new service called SocialSpark. This brings in a new era of blogging for advertisers and bloggers alike. SocialSpark is both a social networking site and a place to find things to write about. I had a sneak peak at it, and I am impressed by what I have seen so far. Unfortunately, there isn’t a lot I can tell you since it hasn’t been released yet!
My Story
I often have been asked why I do this. Now, if you are a regular reader of mine, you may want to skip this section since you know all about my family and I. I have two kids. When I started blogging, we only had Madison (who’s 4 now). I was using my blog to keep in touch with my friends and family in Green Bay, WI. While blogging I became pregnant with my son Will (who’s 9 months now!). I am stay at home mom and am always looking at how to make extra money from home. We live in the Chicagoland area which means my husband commutes to work long distances and daycare is outrageous! Trust me, I have tried almost everything out there to make some extra money so I didn’t have to go work fast food or retail (no offense to anybody working in those positions. I have done it in the past and it sucks!). My husband is never home at the same time every night which makes things even more difficult to get a regular job of any kind!
Show Me The Money!
Onto the part that you really want to know about! Is there money really to be made doing this? YES! I don’t tell people what I make blogging, since it really isn’t anybody’s business. However, since you want to know, I can honestly tell you a pulled in around $7,000 last year from blogging. Now, I was able to do this on my own time be it midnight or noon. If I don’t feel like writing about a topic, I don’t. As many of you know, I do freelance work also, and I can easily work this around my freelance work and my kids. I don’t have to wait for my husband to get home from work either! For my family, this has been heaven sent.
What have we spent my earnings on? This year I was able to take the money I earned and enroll Madison in preschool. We used the money towards the vacation Bill and I took to Arizona. It is helping to remodel our basement, and we used it a lot last summer on house repairs. What do you need extra money for?
This sounds good. How do I sign up?
Currently, SocialSpark is still in Alpha testing. However, if you click the link, it’ll take you to a site that you can sign up for an email when SocialSpark goes live. Then you can be one of the first to try out this new platform and make some extra cash doing so!
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A big thanks
I love being a blogger. Want to know why? I have meet so many interesting and genuinely nice people over the last 2 years I have been blogging. Through blogging, I have been given an inside glimpse into their lives and they into mine. I have to give a shout out to two fellow bloggers that have helped me tremendously this week. First, there is Elizabeth from Table for Five. She helped me rewrite an article I have put countless hours into that I couldn’t get right. On her first try, she got exactly what I was looking for! She wouldn’t let me pay her for her help (though I am donating to her BlogHer fund!) The other person I have to thank is Jenn from Everyday Randomness. She helped me with header over at My Road Less Traveled By. Actually, she redesigned the whole thing so my title of the blog shows up. She also didn’t ask for anything for this work. In a world that is so jaded, it is nice to know so many nice and caring people out there. I have always tried when possible to help others too. Even so, I was surprised to see this at my door:
This postie pack was sitting on my front steps. When I first opened the box, I thought maybe, since my birthday is next week, this was just a present of sorts. Instead, it had a hand written note from Ted (CEO of Izea) thanking me for my help and dedication on the Izea forums. I have to admit that I was impressed that Ted took time out of his busy schedule to do that. He could have very easily just printed off a form letter. Madison absolutely loves the pen. She immediately took it out of the box and started playing with it. I had to leave for my chiropractors appointment, so I had to quit playing with everything and go. By the time I got home tonight, we ate supper and the kids went to bed. I will get a picture of Madison tomorrow with her new pen. It is soooo cute. You guys seriously made my night. I can honestly say I have never been given award ever, so this made my day. I actually called my mom and sister on the way to my appointment to tell them, because I was so excited.
Ted, I’d like to thank you too. You made a company that allows moms like me to make money and stay home with their kids. You’ve allowed people to supplement their incomes when needed. There are so many things that wouldn’t have been possible at my house without the added income that blogging has provided my family. It has been a long and bumpy road, but I am so glad I have been along for the ride.
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Welcome!
My sister in law just added a niece to my family yesterday. She was scheduled for a C-section first thing in the morning (she had to be at the hospital at 5 am). However, they ended up having to push it back into the afternoon. Anyway, she had Georgia at 2:48 pm yesterday. She was 8 lbs. 2 oz. and 20 inches long. Bill and I are going to go see the baby tonight. We wanted to give her some time to recoop, and Bill didn’t get home from work till late. Again.
Now, if you have ever met my sister in law, you’d know she is normally tiny (yes, T you are even if you don’t believe it!). An 8 lb. baby isn’t huge. However, since Georgia was her second baby, you tend to get a little bigger the second time around, and T definitely looked pregnant. I don’t know if she got any stretch marks, but I know with my kids I did. When I was pregnant with Madison, I didn’t get them until 2 weeks before I was suppose to have her. Needless to say, I was not happy with it. With Will, well, we won’t even discuss it.
There are many products out there to help with stretch marks. I consider mine badges of honor you get when you have kids (I know, just keeping telling myself that!). When I came across All About Stretch Marks this morning, I was impressed. They have a ton of information that I never even knew about stretch marks. They also review several of the products on the market for stretch marks. The key to not getting stretch marks is prevention. They have a great list of advice that can help with not getting them. However, as mom of two kids, you can follow that list, and you still may end up with them (see above with my pregnancy with Madison). I don’t think there is a product on the market that will completely get rid of them. However, there are several creams out there that can fade them, so they are less notable. All About Stretch Marks is a great place to learn about stretch marks. If you are looking at trying to get rid of yours, I would definitely do some reading on their site.
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