Comments on: ProBlogging Job: Fixed Pay or Revenue Share?

By: Nagalakshmi Tadakaluri

Nagalakshmi Tadakaluri — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:12:06 +0000

I think fixed pay is best for every one.

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By: yuga

yuga — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 18:39:38 +0000

I’d go for fixed pay. It’s instant gratification. Then work some way to bigger payouts each year or every 6 months. WeblogsINC has fixed pay and some of their writers get pay increase when the blogs become successful.

By: Rico

Rico — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 10:08:19 +0000

If you were the boss, which payment scheme would you offer Abe?

By: AnP

AnP — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 08:33:13 +0000

I agree with Jayvee, doing both is best

By: jayvee f

jayvee f — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:13:57 +0000

getting paid by revenue share tends to give you a bigger sense of achievement because you feel like you are truly reaping your blog rewards.

fixed pay is steady, but you somehow don’t feel as empowered.

By: Noemi

Noemi — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 01:20:50 +0000

The main obstacle that I would go against paid or revenue sharing blogger is that all that efforts in writing should have gone to developing your own blog. Blogs don’t turn successful overnight. One has to treat income generating blogs as a business. Experiment and develop. Find out what works and what doesn’t.

To write for one own’s site is my choice because I get residual income. I continue to earn for efforts I placed into writing months ago or even years ago. The only reason that I am earning modest income is because I bought out old blogs and domains of my daughter who developed her sites for years (some dating back 2000). I would still go for developing blog(s) than work for other people…unless of course, the writing job doesn’t take a lot of time.

By: Marco

Marco — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 00:39:18 +0000

There should be a poll to see which one is the most popular…

The fixed option carries more risk for the investor/employer… and hence it is up to the employer to keep the blogger up to the job…

The variable/share option has less risk for both parties - and could be successful just as long both parties keep up their end of work to grow the blog…

By: ruth

ruth — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 19:17:01 +0000

of course, that’s just looking at the first year. by the second year, when your page rank has stabilized and archives of posts are substantial enough, your blog will be more attractive to advertisers and your blog’s revenue can be much, much more…

i’m not convinced if one is really better than the other, esp if you’re in it for the long haul. so yep, maybe jayvee is right, you should do both

By: jayvee f

jayvee f — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 15:47:30 +0000

which is why you should do both