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How Much Should You Charge for Sponsored Posts?

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Do you struggle with knowing how much to charge for sponsored posts? Read this to help you decide your rates!

Someone wrote in recently and said,

“You’ve given us a lot of great information about sponsored posts, but you haven’t yet specifically explained how to know what to charge. Can you elaborate on that?”

Knowing how much to charge for a sponsored post can be difficult — especially when you’re first starting out!

I touched on this slightly in a recent post, but I wanted to give some more specific details on how to figure out what you should charge.

Here’s what I suggest…

How to Get More Sponsored Posts Opportunities

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Do you want the opportunity to write more sponsored blog posts? Read this post for some practical advice on how to get more sponsored posts opportunities!

Often times, bloggers feel like they have to have a certain number of followers or a certain level of traffic to secure sponsored posts, but that’s not true!

If you have people who are listening to what you have to say, you’re an online influencer and therefore brands may want to pay you in order to reach your specific audience — regardless of the size!

Because here’s the thing…sometimes brands actually prefer to work with bloggers who have a strong and loyal smaller audience!

If you have a community who really listens to what you say, that means you can effectively advertise to them because they will pay attention and take action when you talk about a brand.

5 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Accepting a Sponsored Post

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I received this great question from Charity on the Your Blogging Mentor Facebook page about sponsored posts:

“I re-launched my blog about 2 months ago, and was recently approached by a company about doing a sponsored post. Do you have any advice about how to set rates for these posts and how to set guidelines for what you will and will not do in sponsored posts? Do you feel like it is wise to accept a sponsored post so early upon re-launching my site?” -Charity

This is such a great question, because I truly believe that one of the most lucrative ways to make money as a blogger is by working with brands and doing sponsored content.

Some of you may be immediately turned off by this idea and you might be feeling like, “Wait! But isn’t that sleazy to accept money from a company to write about their product?”

Well, it can be. Trust me, there are plenty of companies that want to pay you to post cheesy, sleazy posts — all they care about is getting their link in a post on your blog because it will help their SEO.

How to Start Working with Brands as a Beginner Blogger

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Guest post by Lisa Sharp from RetroHousewifeGoesGreen.com

I’ve been blogging for over ten years and for about eight of those years I’ve been working with brands.

In the early days when there weren’t blogging networks to help connect bloggers and brands, bloggers had to reach out to the brands on their own. This may seem scary but it actually can be a great way to get sponsored posts as a new blogger or to simply skip the middleman.Continue Reading