Weekly Bloggertunities – 2/16

New Weekly Blogging Opportunities

New weekly round-up of opportunities for bloggers – Fun events and linkys to join, review opps, sponsored post companies to partner with, and more. If you have any great events that are open for sign ups, be sure to leave a link in the comments! And feel free to share this post in any of your own networks or groups too – The more we support each other, the more successful all of our blogs will be!

Writing Jobs

• Women’s Website: Freelance bloggers needed to write content for a women in business focused magazine. Pay runs from $15-$100, based on quality, experience, and length of article. Apply here – Freelance Bloggers Wanted.
• Examiner: Choose a local topic that you are an expert in – I’m the Frugal Living Examiner in my city – and apply to be a writer for Examiner.com with your very own column. It’s a great way to connect with local businesses, and you can earn a steady income from a successful column too!

Reviews & Giveaways

• Bright Starts: Calling all thrifty mom bloggers! Do you have an infant and want to review our newest value gear collection? Email brightstarts@kidsii.com. You can also see and respond to tweet if interested.
• Social Moms: Recruiting for African American and Hispanic/Latina bloggers. If this is you, or you have someone you’d like to refer – Fill out the form to be considered for new fun campaigns!
• Brad’s Deals: Sign up for new blogging and review opportunities with Brad’s Deals. It requires you to enter full referral info – If you’d like to use mine, it’s Meagan Paullin, sunshineandsippycups@gmail.com… Website I think you can figure out on your own, lol.
• Shaklee: Sign up to be a part of their blogger product review team – You have to commit to their privacy standards, but those are easy and things you should be doing anyway. Great products!
• Mompact: I’m still looking for some really great new bloggers to join our review team at Mompact.com! Check out the products – and if you think that your blog would be a good fit, email me {Meagan at sunshineandsippycups@gmail.com} to let me know a little about you and your site, and why you would like to partner with us. All products are mom-invented, and we would love to add some really professional bloggers to our team!

Sponsored Posts and Paid Opps

• McDonalds: Join the Family Arches focus group. After you sign up, you’ll see the opp to give feedback on a new Happy Meal idea. Leave a comment that you’re interested – If chosen, you’ll be rewarded with a $25 McDonalds Gift Certificate!
• Coupon Cabin: Sign up for their blogger outreach program, to be the first to learn about new events and opportunities.
• Blog Friendly PR: Sign up for a free account here, or upgrade and get access to more PR contacts for only $5. Learn more here – Blog Friendly PR, and feel free to use my name as a referral if you’d like {it’s Meagan Paullin}.
• Social Spark: One of my new favorites – It only took a few months to move up in their system, and I now get very well paying opps with them. It’s super easy to apply, the posts are always simple to put together, and they pay out directly to PayPal. Monetize Your Blog with Sponsored Posts.

Great Tips & Resources

• Improve Your Blog: This is my new favorite article, and I’ve been referring to it all week – 103 Ways to Improve Your Blog in 15 Minutes or Less – All easy peasy updates you can do. Love it.
• Link Medic: This is a huge list of 120 links to free blogging resources. From keyword tools to Twitter tools, it’s got some amazing info.
• Pinterest: Check out my Blogging Tips board on Pinterest for tons of great stuff – All of the articles I find that I think are super helpful. Do you have a blogging board on Pinterest too? Leave me a link and I’d love to follow you!

Events to Join

• Stumble Tumble Tuesday: Join us each week, link up your favorite post, and learn how Stumble Upon helps drive traffic for bloggers.
• Click, Color, Capture: Another fun weekly link up – Learn new photography tips and share your own favorite photo in each weeks color theme!
• Reviewer’s Retreat: I am SO excited to hear that so many of my bloggy friends are going to be at this event – If you haven’t bought tickets yet, learn more about this awesome conference for review bloggers and get yours today!

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