Comments on: How Do You Pay Your Bloggers?

By: Best of Performancing : Performancing

Best of Performancing : Performancing — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:22:14 +0000

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By: Ahmed Bilal

Ahmed Bilal — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:08:58 +0000

I know other bloggers who use the traffic / subs / links bonus as well with a lot of success.

It’s amazing how much you can accomplish (and how much good work you can get from people) once you’re willing to spend a little extra money.

By: Ryan Caldwell

Ryan Caldwell — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 08:15:22 +0000

the “salary + bonus” model has the same advantage as buying your wife roses….well, not the exact same advantages…but you get my point.

By: Ryan Caldwell

Ryan Caldwell — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 08:13:55 +0000

Another model that I use is “salary + bonus” – i like to surprise the bloggers who are consistent and good.

An example:

Blogger X signs up for $150/month for 20 posts.

I really like blogger X and think she’s worth more than $150 for 20 posts

So I surprise blogger X by giving her a $200 check the next month. As long as she’s doing a good job, I keep it at $200 until I think her contributing value is higher and I’ll raise it another $50

By: Chris Garrett

Chris Garrett — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 08:00:46 +0000

I like the $/post + traffic bonus idea, and other metrics could be incentivised also such as posts that bring in more subscribers.

By: asfaltkonijn

asfaltkonijn — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 07:19:15 +0000

At this time I’m paying the bloggers in my network 5$/post and I’m also experimenting with a Digg traffic bonus (a flat 50$ for each article that hits the Digg.com frontpage). Money shouldn’t be the sole motivator for the bloggers, but it’s obviously an important one.