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You might wonder why I do Sponsored Posts. To some, they are the mark of an amateur. To others, they are a viable source of income. Here’s what they are to me.

Freelance Gigs

I’m a freelance writer, and I often take gigs in the tech writing, business writing, and copy writing markets. A sponsored post is merely a quick freelance gig.

Scholarship

The money I make from quickie online writing projects goes into a fund that helps offset the cost of getting newbies online. Sometimes I meet a business owner who is in dire need of an online presence, without the funds to make it happen.

While I’m not a charity, I do like helping folks when I can.

I’ve helped quite a few people get started – when they sign up for my hosting company, I use my affiliate money and sponsored post money to offset the initial tech support. I’ve also helped folks with pro-bono business coaching. Paid posts help me still pay bills, when I do the freebies.

Genuine Recommendation

Most of the time, I only take reviews that I think my international, business, and writing readership will find useful. I also often take sponsorships from causes I want to promote.

It’s like paying it forward. A non-profit sponsors a writeup. They’re exposed to thousands of readers. I get paid. I give time and money to charities.

With all the “making money online” sites out there, I often wonder how they give back for what they’ve received. (Feel free to blog about this on your site & let me know!)

Here’s the thing about entrepreneurs – sometimes when we’re young or newbies and don’t know WHAT we want to do, just that we want to work for ourselves and be our own bosses – we sometimes get taken for a ride, sold a bill of goods. And we sometimes run up our credit cards on projects that don’t turn out like the infomercials say. (Ok, so the fine print reads that you may earn less than what they show, but dreamers are glued to the happy couple talking about how they made a fortune off of the easy-to-follow program.)

We are sometimes older and wiser down the road and find ourselves needing to rebuild our credit so that we can buy things, like business cards or (ahem) business coaching for our new and likely more successful venture.

I’m really glad that there are businesses out there, like Bad Credit Offers that have products and programs to help people with bad credit rebuild to better credit and get the things they need in the process.