Last week paid review service Izea launched a "social media" campaign for K-Mart which offered several high profile bloggers a $500 gift card to go on a free shopping spree as long as they wrote a review of their experience. The campaign also included a nice nugget of traffic for the bl...

by Jennifer Laycock I scan hundreds of feeds and read dozens of articles each day so you don't have to. From building a slow and natural link profile to the ethics of sponsored blog posts, find out which articles I dubbed as must-read for the small business crowd today. I love John Jantsch's post fr...

This is a sponsored post by Sears but the thoughts within are mine and mine alone. As a blogger, you have the potential to reach a tremendous audience. As an individual, perhaps a company or an entrepreneur who is looking to spread the word about a new product launch, you have the potential to keep ...

Its hard to know if Paid Posting (or sponsored posting) has matured, but its a sure sign when someone like Chris Brogan starts doing it, even if its on a secondary blog.  I was going to write a big thing about this, but its been covered by a great many blogging luminaries already, so I’ll jus...

IZEA is one of those companies that everyone loves to hate. Why? Well… PayPerPost, the ill concieved program that when launched offered to pay bloggers for reviews of companies and products without disclosure and requiring positive reviews. Many stories have been written about PayPerPost over ...

Tomorrow morning around 7am EST our team will be taking down the SocialSpark blog marketing service for some upgrades. How big are these upgrades? Ummmmmm..... kinda big. It may be a little crazy as things get stabilized through the morning, unfortunately production never seems to mirror QA exactly ...

Ted Murphy, the founder of controversial Orlando-based PayPerPost, is at it once again. He has recently founded a social network for Central Florida web workers called Doterati. There’s much wrong with this, but perhaps a few things right with it. I’m all about giving someone a second ch...

This would be a great post to tie into an ad for online storage or somethign but it is not. This is a sad day for the Wired Kayaker indeed. I have been working on a video for IZEA. This video was an application to be part of the IZEA Fab 4 at IZEAFest 2008. I wanted to include some Wired Kayaker foo...

I am so out of touch with the make money online latest news. My whole head is spinning with all the excitement, humour, suspense, thriller and drama that Malaysia politics and Malaysian politicians bring. Yeah, I know people see politics and elections as something serious and important. I see politi...

The easiest way to describe me? Sassy. While I don’t like to think of myself as a nice girl, I’ve been told I’m the type of girl you take home to mom. I’m a writer, a graduate student, a hockey fan and collector of sunflowers. All-in-all, I’m a midwestern girl, trying to live my life as fa...