THE WORK AT HOME WIFE

Cash Bonus Blogging Increase Your Profits by Partnering with Unique

Opportunities

Angie Nelson

You can have the best of both worlds. There are several programs and opportunities that will pay you upfront for announcing their latest promotions and products. And you keep the content on your site!

Disclaimer This guide has been produced to help educate you about the process of making money blogging.

Every effort has been made to be as accurate and complete as possible. There may, however, be

mistakes in grammar or content. The purpose is to educate and inform. The author does not warrant

the report to be fully complete and is not responsible for errors. This report should only be used as an

informative guide. The author is not liable or responsible with respect to any loss or damage caused

by use of this information. Please do not use this guide if you do not choose to be bound by the

above. Links given in this publication may be affiliate links to suggested products.

Copyright

Copyright © 2013 – Angela Nelson. All rights reserved. No portion of this guide may be reprinted or

distributed without written consent from the author.

Cash Bonus Blogging

There are several affiliate programs that offer the occasional flat fee cash bonus for posting about their

latest promotions. You are usually going to get somewhere between $5 and $20 for publishing the

information before the deadline, and this is in addition to any commissions you may generate! Since I

started doing this, my blogging revenue has increased substantially. After all, this is a three-pronged

success strategy:

You are creating fresh content for your blog.

You are receiving a guaranteed payment for your post.

You are receiving ongoing commissions for any sales you generate.

You usually only have a day or two notice however, this is one of the times I turn to Fiverr or

HireWriters.com for help.

Affiliate Programs That Offer Cash Bonuses

ShoeDazzle

Craftsy

Blurb

Stella & Dot

FreckleBox

Mabel’s Labels

Waxing Poetic

Tea Collection

Lot 26 Studio

momAgenda

Beau-Coup

Little Passports

You are not going to receive a steady stream of these offers, but they usually pop up every few months.

Watch your email for offers from your affiliate manager.

More Upfront Payment Opportunities

You can also receive one-time payments by partnering with sponsors or companies soliciting product

reviews. The following websites act as a “middle man” connecting advertisers with bloggers:

Business2Blogger

Reliable Bloggers

One2One Network

Clever Girls Collective

Double Duty Divas

BlogFrog Influencer Circle

The SITS Girls

Giveaway Blogs

SocialSpark

Though you can receive sponsored post opportunities

through sites such as SocialSpark and Business2Blogger, I

find the most lucrative offers will come to you directly.

Therefore, you will want to make sure your website lets

advertisers know you are interested. You can either add a

simple note to your Contact Page that you are “PR-

friendly,” or open to review opportunities. Or, you can

create a designated Advertising Page that explains in-depth

the opportunities you are interested in and includes your

media kit. A great fill-in-the blank media kit is available

through Shareaholic. (You need to give them your email,

but you can trust them with it.)

You do not always have to list advertising rates on your website. In fact, you may be cutting yourself

short or turning away potential advertisers by doing so. I have one site that frequently receives offers

for far more than I would ever ask for myself. And on that website, I usually do not ask for a specific

amount (or any dollar amount for that matter) initially. I ask *them* for the budget they had in mind.

They are usually quick to email you back with what they are willing to spend. If it isn’t enough, don’t be

afraid to negotiate. If talking about money is intimidating, don’t let it be! It is only going to take one time

of doing this before you feel empowered and in control of your blog and its advertising.

You may receive both paid and review product-only offers (free product but no monetary

compensation). You are free to apply to or accept only those of interest and applicable to your website.

Never feel obligated to take something that isn’t profitable or will make your readers think you are

changing direction.

These opportunities for upfront payment may not be available in every niche. For example, I may only

have one or two of these come across The Work at Home Wife’s desk in an entire year. This just is not

how it works in this niche. But, the other half dozen sites that I have that deal with more tangible

products, I can usually count on one or two per month.

For the Blogging Bloggers

I don’t want you guys to feel left out. Though the upfront payment opportunities may not be there, you

can easily make a few extra bucks per month by referring new affiliates to the following programs. If

your reader is accepted as an affiliate, you can make a few bucks from that referral.

HireWriters.com

Kona Kase

WP Engine

TomatoInk

Cents of Style

shareasale.com

StudioPress (percentage of sales, rather than pay per lead)

Final Words

Regardless of the income source, you need to disclose your relationship with advertisers. Though we

have gotten by for several years now with a general Disclosure Page for affiliate relationships that is

changing. I have received several notices from affiliate programs lately that they are now requiring in-

post disclosure. Make sure you are ready and comfortable with that. Despite what you may think, it

does not mean that readers will no longer be clicking your links. I have been trying to remember to stick

disclosures in every post that includes a personal link regardless of if the program requires and I’m still

making sales. You will too.

In the case of sponsored post opportunities, you are also going to need to nofollow those links (you do

not need to worry about it with affiliate links as the Google bots can easily identify these and therefore

do not use them to pass PageRank). This is very easy to do. You just need to add rel=“nofollow” to your

HTML that links to your sponsor’s website. It will look like this:

<a href="signin.php" rel="nofollow">sign in</a>

Always choose your opportunities based on the relevancy to your readers. If you have a blog about

beauty products and one day you show up talking about baby strollers, your readers are going to know

something is up and likely head elsewhere to get the information they seek. It is also likely you will turn

advertisers off over time if you are all of the place with topics. They want to invest their money where

they are going to get the biggest return that means a targeted, engaged audience.

Wishing You Most Success Online,

Angie Nelson ~ The Work at Home Wife