SocialSpark: November 2008 Income

This is my second month for SocialSparks sponsored posts. Last month October 2008, I earned $ 63.25 for 9 opportunities taken.

This month, November 2008 I earned $ 54.01 with 10 opportunities. Here are some reasons that contributes for this month earnings:

I only got 10 opportunities taken.
The highest paid post the I got is only $ 7.50 while last month I got $16.25
My real rank influenced my qualification for taking some opps.
I sometimes declined some opps due to other important personal matters than making post.


It really takes a hard work for watching an opportunity every moment. Also there are many bloggers who were watching and if you are lucky you can get and reserved many. And that you only have 12 hours to make the post or else it will be given to another blogger. I often reserved certain opportunity but fail to make a post.

My First Cash-out from Payperpost and SocialSpark

It's been a month now since I successfully availed opportunities from Payperpost and its sister company Socialspark, they are both owned by Izea, Inc. And Both pays their successful bloggers monthly.



To cash - out at SocialSpark:

1. Login.


2. Look for Account button -> manage my finances


3. Blogger Payout Page will appear


4. Look at the account snapshot - you may click cash out when your current account balance is at least $20.


5. Check your Paypal

To cashout from Payperpost

They will send you an email to check you Paypal account once they successfully deposit your earning day by day, depending on the date where the opportunity/ies taken.

Check Paypal regularly to update your finances, to monitor your earning from blogging.

Below are my online earning from blogging, joining video contest and ebay. This proves that you will really earn online but this should not be your main source of income, just a sideline or part time for extra $. How much did you earn online so far?

SocialSpark: Finally Got 2nd November Opp, after 6 days

Visiting SocialSpark daily and many times a day refreshing my browser to see if there are new opportunities are available. I noticed that SS nowadays has less incoming opp from advertisers as seen in their latest opportunity page.

Observing a gap of 3 days, 2 days or 1 day before a new opportunity in the market place are posted. Anyways, these are just my opinions based on my observation as a new blogger.

To sum it up. My November opportunity are only two, dated Nov 5 and Nov 11. Will be watching and observing for the whole month to see how does it works.

Follow my SocialSpark Trail for more updates.

SocialSpark Affiliate Experience

Affiliate is like an online sharing between an online merchant and the website or blogger owner by placing advertisements on his website to sell the products of bring potential costumers to the merchants website in exchange for a profit share of the products in three ways:

• Pay per Click
• Pay per Sale
• Pay per Lead

Since I am on my way of exploring how to earn money online and also curious as to how Affiliate marketing works, I tried taking affiliate opportunity in SocialSparks. As seen below were my taken affiliate opportunities dated October 14 and October 21, 2008. I have followed the all the requirements:

• To make a post of each affiliate opportunity in my blog.
• Generate a code
• Paste it in my Blog

Everyday, I checked my account on affiliate, It is clear the Start date (10-21-08) and End Date (10-21-09).

Last November 2, 2008, I received an email with subject, Ended Links Still Active and the body of the letter are as follows:

Please be aware that the following links are from affiliate opportunities
that have recently ended:

423667/Personalized Flash Drives

423693/WhiteWalls Art Gallery... Love Art?

423665/FirstStreet USB Turntable

Please remove these from your sites as you will not receive any additional
payments from click-throughs.

Kind Regards,The SocialSpark Team

Opps! I thought it will end on October 2009?! Anyways, Delete, delete. What can I do! Hmm. Another lesson to learn again.

SocialSpark: Stages in Taking an Opportunity

When you are qualified to take an opportunity in SocialSpark (all green boxes), on the upper right corner of the web page, you can see a Take this Opportunity button, click it. It will lead to you the advertiser's description and requirements, especially the links or images to be included in your post and the number of words.

Here are the stages in taking an opp. You will received an email in your account in SocialSpark under message center and in your personal email with the following subject: (will show real sample from my opp)

• Reservation Created - "You've successfully reserved the Opportunity My Suit II at the $11.00 offer amount. Now I'm not saying you have do it right. this. second. However, remember that you have 12 hours to complete and submit a Post on this Opp! So, now that it's in reservation, feel free to take a stretch or even a shower. Don't forget to wash behind those ears! (Then, make your post!)"
• Post Created - "You have successfully submitted your post!
  Your post will be reviewed by Customer Love. You will be notified if the post passes or is rejected. If rejected you will be instructed on what to do next."
• Post has Passed Automated Review - "Your post, Custom Suits at MY.SUIT, has been scanned to ensure that certain requirements have been met. It is now eligible for auto approval or manual review."
• Your Post was Approved! - "Your post, Custom Suits at MY.SUIT, is now available for payment in 30 days."

A sample of this sponsored post can be found in Aloha GEMS site.

SocialSpark: October 2008 Income $ 63.25

Out of 9 opportunities that I had taken from October 15, 2008 - October 31, 2008, 1 blog post was rejected due to the adverstiser's requirement that blogger should be in the US Continental, unfortunately I am in Hawaii. But that was okay, At least I've learned a lesson to read carefully the requirements before taking the opp and before posting.



Below is a screen shot of the taken opportunities under my account in SocialSparks. To view my Sponsored posts sample : Go to Aloha GEMS - my sponsored blog site under PPP and SS.

SocialSpark: Your Blog Has Been Approved, What's Next?

That was my questions before, What's next?

• Login to SocialSparks


• Look for marketplace button -> browse opportunities


• Under POST , look for GREEN (OPEN) and GREEN (QUAL) boxes, it means that the opp is open and you are qualified to take that opp.


• Now it is up to you which opp you will choose.


• Take the biggest qualified offer first.


• Click the icon of the advertiser and it will lead you to opp descriptions and requirements. Read and Read.

Got it?

SocialSparks: We were Unable to Approve your Blog

Costumer Love from SocialSparks sent me emails that they were unable to approve my blog due to the following reasons:

• September 29, 2008 - "Unfortunately we are unable to accept your blog at this time. We require that a blog be active at least 90 days before we can approve it. Feel free to resubmit your blog when it meets this requirement."
• October 10, 2008 - "However, we cannot approve it at this time due to its grammar.
  Please take some time to adjust the grammar in the posts to read more clearly. This will benefit your Opportunities in the Marketplace in the future. Once this is done, please resubmit your blog to us."
• October 13, 2008 - "Your blog, Aloha Gems, is now available to all qualified users in the marketplace". Yeheey!

Lessons:

1. Blog should be 90 days with at least 20 original posts.
2. Always Check Spelling and your GRAMMAR.
3. Re-read your post.

SocialSparks - Earn Money with your Blog

There are few points that I would like to share to those who have not yet tried SocialSpark in monetizing their blog:

• I submitted my PayperPost blog (Aloha GEMS) to SocialSparks and was accepted after few disapproval.
• I have many qualified opportunities in SocialSpark than in PayperPost. Why? SocialSpark did not require Google Page Rank only the Real Page Rank in IZEA.