Otherwise known as “What You Will Make as a Families.com Blogger”…
I am writing a mini-series on how to become a Families.com blogger, and what the benefits are to being one. If you missed the beginning of the series, feel free to start reading it here. If you just missed yesterday’s blog, you can find it here.
Okay, so I held off discussing the money portion of this job because I figured if I told you what you would make as a blogger up front, you would say, “Great, I’ll just apply and skip the rest of this stuff!” And since I happen to love the sound of my own voice, I didn’t want you skipping directly to the application, I wanted you to listen to my babbling, interesting or not.
Oh, the pay? Fine: $3 a blog for the first three months, and $4 a blog after that. The minimum amount of blogs per month per topic is 20, of course, and the maximum is 75. At $3 a blog, you are making $60 – $225 per month. Once you are bumped to $4 a blog, you are making $80 – $300 per month. That is not including the other random side jobs Lisa will send out to her bloggers on an irregular basis. I have done several odd jobs for her, and will make an extra $30 from those jobs once all is said and done. There is also the revenue that you make from people reading your blogs–you get a percentage of the profits that Families.com makes, and that amount is based on the amount of views your blogs receive. The more readers, the higher your payout becomes. You won’t get rich from blogging at Families, but you’ll sure be able to pay some good-sized bills with it.
I can hear everyone now: What if I want to cover more than one topic? Well, you have to prove to Lisa that you have the staying power and the commitment to Families necessary before she’ll turn multiple blogs over to you. You must blog for Families for a couple of months, you must blog 65 – 75 blogs in your own topic each month during that time, and for good measure, you should probably have a fair amount of blogs postdated on an ongoing basis. Lisa doesn’t want to hire you to do multiple blogs if you are just going to do the minimum on each blog each month. She needs someone who will write their maximum each month for each blog. Once you have proved you can handle two blogs and keep them well populated with new and fresh info every month, she may even allow you to take on a third topic, although you will have to prove yourself on two topics for a couple of months before she’ll hand you a third. In the end, if you cover three blogs, and write the maximum each month, you will make $900 a month with Families (75 blogs x $4 = $300 x 3 topics = $900.) Not to mention your portion of the revenue, which would probably fairly good-sized if you were posting that many blogs. Of course, with that many blogs to be written, you will probably be writing fairly close to full-time but still, it tells you just what is possible as a Families.com blogger.
Sound good? Great, let’s get down to the nitty-gritty: The application!