I actually know of a couple of big time bloggers who have sponsors who provide products or services to the bloggers, and not cash. The sponsors will in turn receive either a mention in every blog post with a link back to their homepage or a banner advertisement.

This is actually a win-win situation for both parties. Imagine if your read my blog of original posts without me touting a product, website or service, but I always sign off my post with the line: “This blog is sponsored by Company ABC” or “This post is made possible by Company XYZ” or even “Please visit my sponsor, Syarikat 123”.

I think that sponsorships like these are non-intrusive and are better in the long run but not many companies are willing to try it out. Aiihhh cheapo!

But of course, the blogger has to present readership data and demographics in order to win over a sponsorship. I wonder when my blogging can reach that level, if ever! It would be awesome when that day comes!

Last month, in my post “Are You Kidding Me?“, I wrote about an awful new paid to blog (or blog for pay) marketplace where we have to bid for the job and my bids were left in a pending status for ages. Well, they are, up to this point, STILL pending.

I found that I am actually not the only person. Does that make me feel better? I don’t know, but it shows me how irresponsible advertisers are. They rather put our bids on hold while waiting for a better (equals lower) bid to come along by a better (equals higher Google PageRank) blogger.

I mean, if our blogs are not suitable, just reject us straightaway. Why leave us high and dry with no decision and no closure, right? Or if you, the advertiser, feel that our bid is too high, just make a counter offer, but please be realistic and realise that no, we are not going to get 100% of what you are paying, just 65% of it.

Please make it worth our time to craft out a really good piece of writing for you.

So Easter is finally over and I crazily spent the whole Easter weekend practically blogging and blogging. There was almost no sponsored post to write since it was a three-day holiday weekend in the United States so I took this break to catch up on my blogs. The passion blogs are still sorely neglected, though

Each day, I was churning out more than ten original posts. Not that it was difficult but it can be pretty boring just writing away all alone facing the computer. That’s why I need a laptop or a internet enabled mobile phone so that I can blog lying down on my bed or show off in Coffee Bean hehehe

Thankfully, I have a friend to keep me company via SMS. I would message him via instant messenger and he would receive my text messages on his phone and he would then reply me via SMS. I hope that he would not curse me when his phone bill arrives. SMS from the US to me is not cheap for him hehehe