And That’s….the Truth

As you all know six months ago I had to quit my outside job due to babysitter issues.  Since then I have been trying to earn a little extra income off the Internet.  I have tried paid blogging and freelance writing.  Out of the two, I definitely preferred the paid blogging.  It paid better and I had so much fun doing it.  But, I’m thinking that I need to go in a different direction now.  Because of the latest Google update that took away all my page rank for all my blogs, I haven’t been able to make hardly any income at all through paid blogging so I have decided that I may need to look back into freelance writing.

So, I have a question for all you freelance writers out there.  How do you find good paying freelance writing jobs that are legit??  I have searched a lot of sites over the past year and most of the sites that I have discovered offer very little pay for the type of work required or they are just a scam to make people shell out their valuable money.  I’m sure there are some legitimate sites out there, but honestly guys I am unsure as where to find them.

So if you could give me a little nudge in the right direction I would be so grateful and maybe, just maybe, I can’t start earning a living again to help out with household expenses and things that my kids would like to have.

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Honestly, I really can’t understand what motivates people to do and say some of the things that they do.  Yes. I am talking about a particular incident.  As you all are aware, I occasionally participate in some paid blogging.  That is, I get paid to write reviews about different companies and products for a small amount of compensation.  I’ve never tried to hide this fact, nor have I denied it.  I started doing paid blogging as a way to earn a little extra income working from home since I currently can’t work outside of the home due to baby sitting issues.  Up until a couple of weeks ago, I didn’t think there was anything wrong with this or didn’t realize how badly paid bloggers are treated on the Internet.

Now, I don’t pretend to be an expert in the world of blogging, Internet marketing or SEO.  So, I have come to depend on others to kind of lead me in the right direction.  Up until today that has worked out pretty good.  But, when a so called “expert” gives false information on purpose (their reasons, who knows??) just to scare the pants of us bloggers who aren’t quite as informed as they are, that really burns me.

Because of this misinformation that I was given today, it totally stressed me out and really got me to thinking about why even bothering doing what I am doing on the Internet.  Thankfully some other people who are a lot more knowledgeable in this field set me straight  and I’m not quite as stressed as I was earlier.

My point to this entire “rant” and yes, it is a rant.  Is WHY do some people set out to cause grief and unhappiness for others.  Does it make them feel better about themselves?  Do they think that if I get discouraged and quit doing any online activities at all that means more work for them?  Honestly I’m trying to figure out why these type of people exist on the Internet and what their motives behind messing with other less experienced people are.

On a brighter note, having this experience today did show me that there are people out there who are more than willing to share their “truthful” experiences with us all and to these people I would like to say thank you.  To the trouble makers, I would like to say “Go Away!”

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A few weeks ago I entered a contest over at Jenn’s Blog and I would like to tell you all that I won!! This was a very simple contest to enter, all you needed to do was do a blog post about what you are most thankful for and let Jenn know where she could find your post. Then yesterday she picked a post that she liked and seriously much to my surprise, I won!! Because Jenn is such a nice person, the prize that she was giving away was some scented products, but if you live in Canada (which I do) she will substitute the prize for a gift certificate from an online store. So, I received my email from her today telling me I won! I’m totally excited about this and invite you all to stop by Jenn’s Site to see when she has another contest up and running. You can bet I’ll be one of the first ones to enter!!

Thanks Jenn!!

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Many of you may not be aware of this. But a little while ago I entered a scrapbooking contest over at Christine Murphy’s. If I win, I will win some pretty neat scrapbooking stuff. For the past week, the voting has been open to the public. I was doing pretty good for a while, but now I am falling behind. So, this is my plea to you all to please come out and vote for KIM. You can vote just the once if that is what you would like, of if you would like to help me out further, you can vote every day until October 31. The choice is yours as every vote counts and I would appreciate even one vote.

Thanks for all your support in this matter!!

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