Typical Blog Wages – How Much Money You Should Make Blogging
First off there are no typical blog wages; not if you blog for yourself, and certainly not if you blog for others. Clients have different budgets, different advertising, and different situations. Still, everyone always asks about actual wages.
That said, I figured I’d post some wages that either I’ve accepted, or wages that I know other bloggers have accepted recently. This may help to give you some idea of what’s decent vs. unfair vs. really good.
Variables: In all of these situations, I’m assuming that one, the topic is one you know well, and two, you know how to do blog tasks easily. If you don’t know a topic well, or understand how blogs work, your wage goes down because you’ll waste time researching topics and trying to figure out how to work the blogroll. Also while some clients require say, five posts a week, you’ll need to consider that if you’re paid page views, you’ll likely be posting more often.
Typical blog wages:
Dealing With Blog Compensation Offers – Clients Who Offer Too Much Money
The other day I posted: When someone hires you to blog, which tasks are they hiring you for? At the end I said I’d be back to discuss clients who don’t know about blogs; who are more than happy to pay you simply to post and do nothing else. There’s actually more to this issue than clients who are only looking for posters. You’ll run into a few general negotiation scenarios as a blogger:
- Clients who offer too much money for too little work (this actually is a problem, below I’ll tell you why).
- Clients who offer you joke wages but want the world with a cherry on top. (The worst IMO)
- Clients who offer low wages but really aren’t trying to screw you over – they honestly have no clue.
- Clients who offer you a fair wage at the time you sign on, but add on tasks here and there, until eventually, you should be making more money; of course, you’re still making the old wage.
- Clients who offer the right wages for the right tasks. Networks over private clients seem to be better at this. Although, I’ve had perfectly fair private clients. I’d wager it’s dependent on experience.
Obviously, clients run the gamete – there are tons of other in-between situations you’ll see. But the above are fairly common. It would be tough to cover all the above in one post, so today let’s focus on the first one; clients who offer too much money for too little work.
