Great Things Coming to Freelancing Journey
I hope this doesn’t happen to me after I get my job board and freelance leads sections completed. As you can see they are under construction. I have decided to re-dedicate myself to this blog and offer you great leads and helpful advice, links and articles.
Right now I am researching little known leads that you don’t find anywhere else. That is taking time, but good things are worth waiting for.
I look forward to a renewed relationship with my readers and to gain many more. Once you see that the pages are completed if you will blog about it with a link to me and let me know that you did I will blog you back with a link in return.
Clean and fresh is how I feel since I have rid this blog of post about drugs, watches, window tint and insurance, etc. No more. It felt cheesy sometimes, doing those kind of post, but I was getting paid and a girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do when the bill collectors come a’ callin!
However, I solemnly vow NOT to blog about anything that is not related to the content of my blog or is not interesting to my readership, ever again.
I am applying for REAL freelance writing and blogging jobs. I will concentrate my spare time into building Freelancing Journey into a great and helpful place for writers, bloggers and internet marketers.
Oh, yeah…if you have any suggestions or ideas as to how I can make Freelancing Journey better I’m all ears! 
AppRiver and You
I wrote a post a week or so ago, heck I actually wrote two, ranting about how tired I am of spam. Today I found what I believe is my solution. The company is called App River and their goal is to make your email spam, virus and other internet pollution free.
Check out their exchange spam filter. AppRiver has been in business since 2002. That tells me a lot. So does the fact that they have 26,000 customers across the globe.
The customers who outsource their Exchange solution to AppRiver like the easy administration of their Shoreline™ management interface and the embedded security enhancements. There is proof positive of this since AppRiver has maintained a 97% customer retention rate since their very first year in business.
What Will We Call Blogs in the Future?
There is a great conversation going on over at Yvonne Russell’s place, The Writer’s Cafe, an extension of her blog that is very popular. They are talking about how we have to continuously explain to non-bloggers what a blog is and whether they will be called something different in the future.
Here is the link to the discussion. Tell em’ I sent you!
Pepperjam Affiliate Network
Referring to the post I made this morning, discussing how much money you can make by joining an affiliate network like Pepperjam, for instance, I would like to just offer you a few tidbits of news and articles to help you get started in affiliate marketing from their site:
Launching a Simple Affiliate Site
Top Social Network for Mom’s CafeMom.com Launches Affiliate Program on Pepperjam Network
BetterCables.com, BeautyChoice.com, and Display Well Launch Affiliate Programs on Pepperjam Network
“The Future of Affiliate Marketing” Part #1 - Quality over Quantity
Pepperjam Network Announces Multiple New Program Launches MORE
Pepperjam Network “Meet the Affiliates”
I have bookmarked their site and WILL be signing up! What about you?
More Freelancing Writing and Blogging Jobs
Here is another site that has a good list of freelance writing and blogging jobs. I just discovered it today. I haven’t checked it out thoroughly yet so let me know what you think. Here is the link.
Good luck! And why not drop by when you let me know if you like the site and tell me about your weekend?
Affiliate Marketing is SO Profitable!
I spent a lot of time over the weekend checking out different affiliate marketing companies. There is just SO much profit to be had if you are determined to give it your all. I wasn’t actually looking for a full time job as an affiliate, I was just looking for some types of programs that had stuff in my different blog niches. I found several that I will blog about later this week, a very comprehensive post with links.
But I really wanted to share this one lead with you. If you are thinking about becoming an affiliate manager or just want some extra income for your website or blog be sure to check out the great program that offer at PepperJam.
During their eight years in business Pepperjam has built the most talented and professional affiliate program management team in the business. They are also one of the most connected companies in the business. Some of the best known Super Affiliates in the affiliate marketing industry are among their friends.
Pepperjam’s affiliate management service includes affiliate and super affiliate recruitment, newsletter creation and dissemination, banner design, landing page creation, daily communication with affiliates, reporting, and any and all strategic direction needed for the program to meet benchmarks and succeed.
Writing and Blogging Jobs
There are a lot of very promising freelance writing and blogging jobs listed at Freelance Writing Jobs today. Check them out. Here is the link to today’s list.
This is for Your Dad!
Are you stressing about what to get your dad for Father’s Day? Well stress no more. I found these Personalized Flash Drives from Pexagon that are the PERFECT gift!
They are available in fourteen colors, with six capacities. These range from 512MB to 16GB. What makes it such a unique and wonderful gift too is that there is Custom laser Engraving on BOTH sides of the drive which is absolutely FREE with no order minimums. Along with text engraving on one side of the drive you can choose a “Theme” on the other, such as “Happy Father’s Day,” or any other message you want to relay to your dad.
And check this out. You pay ZERO engraving fees or setup charges. Plus, Pexagon TEch will ship it within 3 business days, guaranteed! If you visit the hidden URL for Personalized flash drives in this post and you will also get 20% off your order.
Why not give your father a gift that is personalized to them and something they use every day?
Love the New Wordpress!
I now have the newest version of Wordpress, I am not sure what 2. it is, but I do know that I really like it! It will take me awhile to learn the ins and outs and what all it offers, but I did notice that when there is a comment waiting your approval a little bubble shows up in your dashboard alerting you. That is very cool.
One And All…Sign Up With Social Spark!
Today is the first day I have taken opportunities since I signed up and was approved by Social Spark. If you haven’t heard of Social Spark, it is the brain child of Ted Murphy of Izea, the man behind PayPerPost.
I have been working with PPP for almost two years now. I even won $1000 right before my birthday last year through PPP. So you can imagine how excited I was to learn that Ted and Company had a new product coming out that would offer me another way to make money with my blogs.
That system is called SocialSpark“>Social Spark. Here is a visual preview of the system.
It is a laid back experience, being a part of Social Spark. And check this out, it is open to the public! You don’t have to do opps if you don’t want to. You can sign up and start networking with others, check out the marketplace, etc. You can even get your blog ranked in REAL time, with stats reviewed daily, unlike Page Rank which comes around every three months or so, according to Google’s mood. Real rank gives a REAL picture of how well your blog is doing traffic wise, with stats right there on your profile page. This is a great incentive to build your traffic.
If you DO want to make money with Social Spark, all you do is cruise through the marketplace and check out the opportunities. You can even read the descriptions of the opps at your leisure if you like, which is different from the system in PPP where you must be at the right place at the right time to snag an opp.
In the Social Spark system, when you see an opp that peeks your interest you can either take it if it’s available, reserve a slot for that particular opp and be notified by email when a slot comes open, or if the slots are filled you can get in line for when it reopens.
You can even send the advertiser a personal message and request that they open the opportunity back up for you, explaining your reasoning behind wanting to write about their product or service. Talk about no hidden agendas! You and the advertisers are free to converse.
SocialSpark is fun, beside the fact that you can make money.
Why not go ahead and sign up, at least take it for a test drive?
But let me just add one more thing, something that should hush the naysayers who have complained about disclosure and transparency, the A-Listers who make money too through advertisers but seem to feel that paid posting is below them. Social Spark has a very clear and simple, but adamant, CODE OF ETHICS below:
-100% Audit-able In-Post Disclosure
-100% Transparency
-100% Real Opinions
-100% Search Engine Friendly
I think Izea thought of everything this time!
