Friday, July 18, 2008
13:48 by FoxTwo Ok I'm really late to do this. Seems like everybody has hopped on the bandwagon and joined a relatively new "blogging network" place called SocialSpark except me. Well I finally got around to doing it and signed an account up on SocialSpark.
At first glance, Social Spark seems like a revamped "Pay Per Post", but that's only the first impression. If you actually browse the "marketplace", which is the new name for the "open opportunities" section, you can see several types of "opportunities".
The first available is "Sponsored Posts". This is the usual type that is normally available. That means, you write about a service or a product, submit it for the sponsor to review, and then the sponsor pays you. Something like an advert.
The second type, which is new, is a "Blog sponsorship". Personally I find this category the most irritating of all, and I never will take part in this. What happens is that a blog/website/company will "sponsor" your blog for a time period. To have the sponsorship, you have to install a small piece of code into your blog, which (to me) is irritating and pops up whenever someone visits your blog. If the code contains animation and sound and video, you can imagine how much it'll slow the loading time down! Plus if it's annoying music or video, the visitor has to hurriedly close/cancel/stop the music or video.
Fortunately, you are free not to utilise this portion of the functions if you don't want to.
The third (and final) type of sponsoships available to you is just called a "Spark". Essentially these don't pay you in monetary terms, but in traffic exchange. It really depends on what is offered. Some might review your blog in return, some might link your blog for a month. You have to read the terms before you accept the offer. Some don't even offer anything in return, but to rally support for a specific cause, or for promotional awareness efforts.
Well since I'm still relatively new to Socialspark, I need to explore it much more before I can give a more complete run-down of it.
13:48 by FoxTwo Ok I'm really late to do this. Seems like everybody has hopped on the bandwagon and joined a relatively new "blogging network" place called SocialSpark except me. Well I finally got around to doing it and signed an account up on SocialSpark.
At first glance, Social Spark seems like a revamped "Pay Per Post", but that's only the first impression. If you actually browse the "marketplace", which is the new name for the "open opportunities" section, you can see several types of "opportunities".
The first available is "Sponsored Posts". This is the usual type that is normally available. That means, you write about a service or a product, submit it for the sponsor to review, and then the sponsor pays you. Something like an advert.
The second type, which is new, is a "Blog sponsorship". Personally I find this category the most irritating of all, and I never will take part in this. What happens is that a blog/website/company will "sponsor" your blog for a time period. To have the sponsorship, you have to install a small piece of code into your blog, which (to me) is irritating and pops up whenever someone visits your blog. If the code contains animation and sound and video, you can imagine how much it'll slow the loading time down! Plus if it's annoying music or video, the visitor has to hurriedly close/cancel/stop the music or video.
Fortunately, you are free not to utilise this portion of the functions if you don't want to.
The third (and final) type of sponsoships available to you is just called a "Spark". Essentially these don't pay you in monetary terms, but in traffic exchange. It really depends on what is offered. Some might review your blog in return, some might link your blog for a month. You have to read the terms before you accept the offer. Some don't even offer anything in return, but to rally support for a specific cause, or for promotional awareness efforts.
Well since I'm still relatively new to Socialspark, I need to explore it much more before I can give a more complete run-down of it.
Labels: blog, internet, socialspark
