Thoughts on Being a Paid Blogger

The aforementioned tweet.

Thoughts?

Below is a collection of articles written recently, mostly by fellow bloggers, about the state of the industry.  These are the type of articles that started flooding the internet last week.

Send me any I missed, and I’ll link them up.

Casie Stewart – The Blog Days are Over Now, don’t get me wrong because there IS a difference

Mashable – How Social Media is Changing Paid, Earned and Owned Media

Zach Bussey – Bloggers and PR – The Spiral of Earned Media

Rebecca Levey – Someone’s Getting Paid, Why Aren’t You?

CC Chapman – Nice Guys Get Paid Too

I Love to Sew

Have since I’m very young, single digits young.

Gotta work out what to do with the sleeves.  I think the shoes on the right are more correct.

I also enjoying quilting, look:

That stitching is quite intricate, and gold, so beautiful. And just to say it, that’s a difficult pattern.

It’s made out of handkerchiefs, and NEVER again don’t do it; the material is too thin and very tough to work with.  Click here to find out why the photo of said quilt is so bad, and here to meet Andy, who I gave it quilt to.  Ahhhh the benefits of having had a blog forever, that last link is from 2008!

Oh wait!  Just had a great idea… I’m gonna go grab some embed code, one sec…

Kay – here’s the video that’s playing in the above photo…. so meta.

I recently lost my miiiiind over this song. It’s Skrillex and I’ve been OCDing out.

The break at 0:40, listen to at least that, because when have I ever blogged about music? Only once before.

 

 

Yes I'm For Sale

Everything here at KeriBlog.com is!

Same over at The Canadian Explorer – my 3 year, 80 episode awesome Internet Show.

I realize it’s not very apparent when you look around here, this is why:

This Blog is Quite Different Than My Other One

It was always very easy with my old video blog… #1 Canada, #2 Keri.

But not here, here is different. Since this site really got going at the start of March several themes have naturally emerged:

They include (so far):

– driving and cars
– fun! I go to a lot of exciting events around Toronto. Plus I can have fun just about anywhere.
– I also explore many off-the-beaten-path destinations
– tech
– social media
– imagination and mind power
– internet memes
– cute outfits and hairstyles
– gymnastics
– online security
– books

I wasn’t comfortable to sell before now, I take such things seriously.  Now, it’s time.

I Love My Very Plain Website

Isn’t this the plainest website you ever saw?! Yup!

It’s intentional… white background, blue links, a classic layout.

A better header and a beefed up side-bar is coming, complete with ads(!), but all within reason, because I’m big on fast load times, how old school of me.

Coming Soon – *Brand New* Video Streams and Shows

Now this I am VERY excited about, more details soon.

The new shows will help shape this blog, and I’m going to keep ’em separated.  Serious & Professional Keri over there, whatever I feel like here.

What Exactly Will be For Sale?

Banner ads, video pre and post-roll, product placement, hosting engagements and speaking engagements, video-coverage-for-hire and more.

Why Buy From Me?

I’m reliable, positive and safe for work.  I’m professional and easy to work with.

I’ve had an internet show since 2007, I’m a pioneer – The Canadian Explorer

You can trust your name in my hands.

My audience is tech savvy, educated and highly engaged.

That’s one of the best reasons to buy here… I generate a high level of engagement from other influencers.  The content I create is spread through my network and generates discussions.

30% of visitors here stay for longer than an hour.

We’re a Good Fit If…

I must feel the same trusting way about you.

If you are also looking to form long-term relationship.

And I must feel good about endorsing you, it has to be a natural fit. For example, getting me to advertise cooking pots would never be believable. Similarily, if I can’t look someone in the eyes in real life and confidently recommend you, not interested.

I’ll leave you with this, my Gold Standard of Videos, Exploring the Canadian Navy. I talked my way onto a warship for 2 nights, then hitchhiked home on the plane. Go Navy!

Exploring the CDN Navy from KeriCDN on Vimeo.

Kay that’s it for now, stay tuned. I can’t wait to tell you more as it happens!

Hello, An Update

Been a busy May, eh.  Can you believe it’s mid-May ugh.

Let’s see…

Went to a Toronto FC game recently, always a great time beacuse it’s a loud and rowdy crowd.

Learned that soccer is called, “the beautiful game”, because once the clock starts it doesn’t stop, so therefore the game is always contained to two hours. Unlike football, which has so many stops and starts I practically died of boredom last year and left early.

Box view:

Got a haircut, this time Matthew from Brennen Demelo Studio. He just returned from Berlin Germany, where he was furthering his education,.

That’s one of the best parts about this place… you can go to any stylist there if your regular isn’t available, and everything will still come out amazing.

What else…

Oh, I got this idea in my head a few weeks back…. I’d like to be a Toronto tour guide atop a double decker bus, spouting off into the microphone facts about the city and Canada. You do not even realize how much Canadian facts I have here in my head.

I’d film the entire experience of course, and then ideally I sell the video to some tourism outfit which promotes Toronto, and this is just one of a million ideas I have everyday and WHERE IS MY ARMY TO HELP ME EXECUTE IT ALL???

Now please give a warm welcome my new music sponsor, Capo Productions!

Royalty-free music is pricey and important. Did you know  YouTube uses a robot to scan the audio on your video as it uploads, determines if you are  using a song you don’t own and flags your video for further analysis?

Thank you Fred, I’m pumped about this!

Here’s some noteworthy technical things:

From top left to right:

– I’m quite proud of that pie chart, specifically the yellow chunk… this is the average time spent on my blog.  35% of visitors spend over an hour here. So thank you for pushing play!

– I think the private cloud market will explode soon, and have been thinking to invest in it

– there’s something you don’t see everyday, a red light on the side of a Macbook, my Macbook.

– that’s my Klout score, holding at a solid 50, not bad not bad. See how it says I’m an “activist”? I like that.  It got many of my “influential about” topics correct (McDonalds, ha), except for ‘Keri Hilson’, I’ve never typed her name ever?

Kay that’s a long blog post, TTYS.