The internet has made that dream of making a living out of your love for writing easier than ever before. Today, you can start making a steady income by setting up a blog. However, over the past few years, the blogging space has become intensely competitive.
You need the right mix of talent and posturing to make it in this sector. The success story often begins with knowing where to find paid blogging opportunities that are credible and a right fit for your niche. In this article, we tell you how.
Establish Relationships with Brands
To be able to land paid blogging gigs to feature on your blog, you need to put yourself out there. The first step in this direction is to build up a decent traffic to your blog. A figure in the range of 10-12K visits a month is enough to get you started.
Once you are past that threshold, you must work on established a rapport with brands. Here are a few ways of doing so:
- Prepare a media kit, which is basically a portfolio with a lowdown on your blog – your niche, reach, target audience, social media presence, services offered, charges and so on.
- Sign up on sponsored post networks. This is a great way to reach out to brands related your niche without having to manually look for options and sending out individual pitches.
- Make sure your contact information is easy to find on your blog home page.
- Sign up for affiliate networks catering to your niche.
Where to Find Paid Blogging Opportunities
Once you have done the groundwork to make your blog look like an attractive, bankable proposition for potential business partners, it is time to go looking for paid blogging opportunities proactively. Here is our pick of the top resources to do so.
BlogDash
Update: BlogDash is not available right now. We don’t know whether it’s temporary or permanent. We’ll update here once we’ve some information about BlogDash.
BlogDash is an outreach platform that helps brands and PR agencies connect with the right bloggers for collaborations. With a host of plug-and-play functionalities and do-it-yourself features, it is a simple yet effective way to establish streamlined communication and collaboration between brands and bloggers.
The platform caters to almost every conceivable business vertical and blogging niche, which is why it is a go-to choice for many established bloggers. The fact that it has been around since 2011, when the blogging world itself was in its infancy, makes it one of the most credible resources in its sphere.
Get Blogged
If you are just starting out, Get Blogged is the collaboration platform to look out for. Unlike most others in the market, they allow newbies – including blogs with a domain authority score of less than 10 – to sign up and catch a break in their efforts to monetise a blog.
Of course, the payment structure varies as per the domain authority of your blog. Their monetisation model is divided into three parts – sponsored posts, product reviews and social media mentions. In addition, they also facilitate advertising arrangements. There is no dearth of opportunities and you can expect several relevant collaboration options every month.
Considerable Influence
Considerable Influence is also set up on along the same lines, however, this platform looks beyond mainstream bloggers and is more inclusive in its approach toward online and social media influencers.
This is also an extremely user-friendly portal where you can set up your profile in few simple steps and start looking for brands to collaborate with. Influencers can either be invited to work on projects or apply to ones they find appealing. Once both parties agree to collaborate, you give your best shot at the project, submit and get paid.
Conclusion
Passion and in-depth knowledge of your chosen field are the fundamentals on which you build a blogging career. A proactive pursuit of opportunities and staying updated with the latest trends is what gets you ahead.
Great tips thanks so much, as a new blogger it’s really helpful to know there’s a way to find paid opportunities!