Earn money blogging for Wise Bread

Do you know a lot about personal finance or frugal living?

Would you like to share that knowledge with tens of thousands of readers while earning money for your writing?

Then join the Wise Bread's blogging community!

• Why blog for Wise Bread?
• What do I get paid?
• What kind of bloggers are you looking for?
• Can I write on other topics besides Personal Finace?
• How do I get started?

What are the benefits of blogging for Wise Bread?

Greater exposure

• Joining Wise Bread gives you instant access to a thriving community of readers and commenters. Wise Bread gets over a million page views per month.

• In less than three months after publication, we became one of the most popular personal finance blogs on the internet:
  • We are the number one personal finance blog as ranked by Blog Flux.
  • We're ranked in the top 2000 according to Technorati rankings.
  • We have over 130,000 links from all websites, according to Yahoo search.
  • Wise Bread has been bookmarked by thousands of people on Del.icio.us.
  • We have over 17,000 Feedburner subscribers.

• Wise Bread has been mentioned numerous times by major websites such as New York Times, Lifehacker, Boing Boing, Fark, Digg's home page, The Register, IMDB hotlist, Consumerist, Crooks and Liars, Del.icio.us's homepage, Reddit's homepage, and the Mother Jones Blog.

• You get more traffic from search engines because Google and Yahoo! favor websites with lots of frequently updated content and incoming links.

Make more money

• As a group we are able to attract bigger advertisers and charge higher advertising rates. Many major advertisers refuse to deal with blogs unless they reach a certain traffic threashold.

• We will help you find the most lucrative monetizing opportunities and help you get the most financial value out of your writing.

What kind of bloggers are you looking for?

Wise Bread bloggers are dedicated to living smart, savvy and fun lives in spite of our limited resources. We value writers who are creative, resourceful and internet-savvy.

Here are a few of the major topics we're interested in:

• Savvy shopping tips to keep you stylish, sassy, and solvent.

• Frugal living suggestions that keeps you living a rockstar lifestyle on a shoestring budget.

• Financial advice that is easy to understand and easy to apply.

• Career and money-making ideas that'll add zeros to your bank account.

• General grownup know-how your parents forgot to tell you.

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Can I write on other topics besides Personal Finance?

While Wise Bread is all about living large on a small budget, we are building additional blogs on other topics. Currently, we are looking for bloggers for our new parenting and healthcare blogs.

How do I get started?

Email us at recruiting@wisebread.com with the following:

1. Three sample posts of at least 400 words. These posts should show off your ability to write in different styles (for example, show that you're able to write concise how-to guides as well as interesting commentary ). The three sample posts MUST be on topic. If you are linking to existing work, those must be on topic too.

You are welcome to send other examples of your work, but please remember the three on topic sample posts are an absolute requirement.

2. Five concrete and specific ideas for future posts. Include details and/or an outline of the meat of the posts. For example, if you plan on writing about effective budgeting techniques, please list briefly what some of those techniques would be.

3. Please include in the title of your email which blog you are applying for. If applying for Wise Bread, put [application for Wise Bread]; if applying for parenting blog, put [application for parenting blog]. 

We're looking for smart, helpful and insightful writing. We love stories that are authoritative, extremely useful or highly entertaining. For more tips on your application, check out Lynn's Problogger article How to NOT get Hired for a Blogging Job

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