As you may or may not have already heard, Life and Style reported last week that an insider (most likely Gary's friend Jordan) spilled the beans about the Teen Mom salaries. Your first thought might be, "Who cares?" But some people do seem to care a lot, admittedly including me. The question is, why?
Many applaud the show for being a hip pregnancy deterrent. Others insist that it doesn't paint a dismal enough picture. Those who believe it does a disservice by making young motherhood look less than hellish often cite their belief that the only thing saving the cast from public housing is the bags of money MTV is showering upon them. But really, are the girls' lives much different now than they were when 16 and Pregnant first aired? Even if we believe that MTV has turned Teen Mom from a docu-series to a scripted drama (frankly I don't think any of the cast are good enough actors to pull that off), they have stayed true to the girls' roots. If the show never existed, would any of them be in dramatically different living situations than they are now? I doubt it.
MTV works hard to portray the Teen Mom cast as broke and struggling to provide for their babies. Catelynn, despite placing her baby for adoption a year ago, is still stuck at home in a dysfunctional and emotionally abusive family. Amber and Gary seem to stay in their volatile relationship for no other reason than having nowhere else to go. Farrah works rough hours and needs her late boyfriend's SSI to help support her daughter. Maci seems to do alright but that could be attributed to her parents' assistance, though she still worries about moving out of their house and paying the rent on a new apartment.
None of their situations strike me as unrealistic. I was a teen mom, I know quite a few teen moms, and I've seen all of these scenarios (and more) play out in real life. What does seem odd to me is that they are living the way they are if they're getting $60,000 paychecks. Compared to the other top MTV stars' salaries, $60,000 a season is chump change. But it's a respectable full-time yearly salary for an American family, especially in the areas where the girls live. They could live comfortably on that particularly with their additional sources of income, which actually makes a lot of people angry.
Recently I spoke to a young woman ("T") who backed out of 16 and Pregnant's second season. She wanted to go on the show because she felt she could be a positive role model to other young mothers. But MTV producers wanted to focus a lot more on her struggles with bulimia, her less than stellar relationship with her mother, and her 20-year-old boyfriend's religious family who kept her a secret and pushed her to place the baby for adoption. She was offered $2,500 during filming and an additional $2,500 when her episode aired. If the father of the baby was involved, he would get $1,000. "Hardly 'rich', but enough to help with the expenses and leftover medical bills," she told me.
I asked her how she feels about the show now that she's a mother:
The show mostly shows the hardships in my opinion, the moments all mothers reach at some point when they are sleep deprived, frustrated, and just need a break, but it is looked on more harshly because of the fact these are teen moms and not 30-something-year-old women.
When I watched season 1 of 16&Pregnant, it psyched me out beyond all belief. They showed the girls tired, run down, emotional, and struggling with everything. I was so worried I could not handle it, because I literally thought my life was going to be made up of only those frazzled moments shown on TV, but when my daughter was born I was surprised to find it was not as bad as I thought. Sure, it was frustrating, tiring, and there were times I wanted to rip my hair out, but it was not like I had hyped it up to be.
And that is the crux of the issue.
People must care about the money because they're searching for an explanation. They want to know why the girls on Teen Mom are not destitute and seething with regret. Every season during the Dr. Drew finale wrap-up, I get the feeling he's doing PR damage control by constantly reiterating, "You love your child but life would be sooo much easier if you didn't get pregnant, right?" Sure, each of them has her own problems (some bigger than others) but they are not "teenage mom" problems so much as they are personality flaws or unfortunate family situations that anyone at any age could be strapped with. Still, because of our assumptions about young mothers, the only way their lives make sense is if they have enough money that the hardships don't matter as much. But a lot of young moms who aren't on TV say the same thing: It's difficult, but it's worth it. It's not as bad as they thought it was going to be. That makes people very uncomfortable.
I asked T what she or her friends think about the claim that MTV glamorizing motherhood and whether she thinks the show curbs pregnancy:
Whether or not it is a deterrent is relative to who watches it. Someone might see it and think "wow I don't want that, I better be more careful!" and others might see how amazing pregnancy and birth is and think they want it NOW. It really depends on the person.
It occurred to me that's the bottom line. We debate whether MTV is encouraging or discouraging pregnancy. When it boils down to it, I'm not sure they're not really doing either. MTV is presenting us with a relatively straightforward narrative about the lives of young women who often have little in common with each other besides giving birth. We're filling in the rest all by ourselves.
Ask people their opinion about the show and you can infer a lot about their politics. The comments on the episode recaps I've been doing for MomHouston.com are often shocking in the depth of hatred and disgust pointed at sexually active young women. Even self-proclaimed feminists who should be supportive of all forms of reproductive freedom chime in with pearls of wisdom like, "The answer to all teenage pregnancy is abortion!" 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom are an endless festival of slut-shaming served up as an educational tool.
Teenage pregnancy sits squarely in the intersection of our most pathological American obsessions: female sexuality, public aid, race, religion. Teens moms are an easy target, because who is going to defend them? MTV tapped into a gold mine with this one -- a topic so emotionally fraught and politically intense that hardly anyone can resist offering their opinion about it. Like the proverbial train wreck, once you see the show you can't drag your eyes away. We care about it because we like scapegoats. We care about it because we like to pat ourselves on the back when our prejudice is validated and enjoy the indignation when it's not.
So next time we as a nation sound off about "babies having babies" and how much money they are or aren't making for doing so, let's question whether we are really interested in social reform or if we are playing into cultural attitudes about age, gender, sex, and socioeconomic status. That, I think, could be the enduring lesson we salvage from the Teen Mom phenomenon.
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Amid Modest GDP Numbers, Obama Calls Again for Targeted Initiatives to Help the Economy
October 29, 2010 12:57 PM
ABC News' Sunlen Miller reports:
Standing from the factory floor of a business he called an “all-American success story,” in Beltsville, Maryland today President Obama mentioned today’s GDP numbers and again said that his mission is to accelerate more rapid growth.
“This morning we learned that our economy grew at a rate of 2 percent over the last three months,” the president said to workers at Stromberg Metal Works, “We’ve had nine consecutive months of private sector job growth, after nearly two years of job loss.”
The president said that while government cannot guarantee the success of any company, his mission is to accelerated that growth though targeted and temporary measures to help boost the economy.
“As we continue to dig out from the worst recession in 80 years, our mission is to accelerate that recovery and encourage more rapid growth,” the president said, “we've got a responsibility to offer temporary and targeted incentives to spur investment, to knock down the barriers that stand in your way, and to help create the conditions you need to grow and to hire and to prosper.”
One example of the targeted approach at recovery, President Obama today called again for an initiative to allow businesses to immediately deduct the entire costs of job-creating investments all next year thought he end of 2011.
“That accelerates hundreds of thousands of dollars in tax cuts: real money that businesses can use to expand or hire new workers.”
The president said this is no “shot in the dark,” that it’s a proposal that works – and offered up a new Treasury Department report as evidence to prove just that.
“A new report from the Treasury Department estimates that it will accelerate $150 billion in tax cuts for 2 million businesses, large and small, around the country,” he touted,” It would temporarily lower the average cost of investments by more than 75 percent for companies like Stromberg, creating a powerful new incentive for businesses to invest more right now -- perhaps about $50 billion, which will generate more jobs and more growth.”
The president said this is not just a good idea, but a proven one that will “put a dent in the jobless rate,” that he called still “way too high right now.”
Noting that the nation is still in the height of political season right now he said it will be over soon.
“When it does, all of us are going to have a responsibility -- Democrats and Republicans -- to work together wherever we can to promote jobs and growth. And the idea I'm advancing today is one that both Democrats and Republicans should be able to support. In fact, Republicans have actually offered this idea in the past.”.
Before making his remarks the president toured the metal factory – wearing protective glasses he greeted the workers and tested out one of the machines on the factory floor.
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October 29, 2010
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As you may or may not have already heard, Life and Style reported last week that an insider (most likely Gary's friend Jordan) spilled the beans about the Teen Mom salaries. Your first thought might be, "Who cares?" But some people do seem to care a lot, admittedly including me. The question is, why?
Many applaud the show for being a hip pregnancy deterrent. Others insist that it doesn't paint a dismal enough picture. Those who believe it does a disservice by making young motherhood look less than hellish often cite their belief that the only thing saving the cast from public housing is the bags of money MTV is showering upon them. But really, are the girls' lives much different now than they were when 16 and Pregnant first aired? Even if we believe that MTV has turned Teen Mom from a docu-series to a scripted drama (frankly I don't think any of the cast are good enough actors to pull that off), they have stayed true to the girls' roots. If the show never existed, would any of them be in dramatically different living situations than they are now? I doubt it.
MTV works hard to portray the Teen Mom cast as broke and struggling to provide for their babies. Catelynn, despite placing her baby for adoption a year ago, is still stuck at home in a dysfunctional and emotionally abusive family. Amber and Gary seem to stay in their volatile relationship for no other reason than having nowhere else to go. Farrah works rough hours and needs her late boyfriend's SSI to help support her daughter. Maci seems to do alright but that could be attributed to her parents' assistance, though she still worries about moving out of their house and paying the rent on a new apartment.
None of their situations strike me as unrealistic. I was a teen mom, I know quite a few teen moms, and I've seen all of these scenarios (and more) play out in real life. What does seem odd to me is that they are living the way they are if they're getting $60,000 paychecks. Compared to the other top MTV stars' salaries, $60,000 a season is chump change. But it's a respectable full-time yearly salary for an American family, especially in the areas where the girls live. They could live comfortably on that particularly with their additional sources of income, which actually makes a lot of people angry.
Recently I spoke to a young woman ("T") who backed out of 16 and Pregnant's second season. She wanted to go on the show because she felt she could be a positive role model to other young mothers. But MTV producers wanted to focus a lot more on her struggles with bulimia, her less than stellar relationship with her mother, and her 20-year-old boyfriend's religious family who kept her a secret and pushed her to place the baby for adoption. She was offered $2,500 during filming and an additional $2,500 when her episode aired. If the father of the baby was involved, he would get $1,000. "Hardly 'rich', but enough to help with the expenses and leftover medical bills," she told me.
I asked her how she feels about the show now that she's a mother:
The show mostly shows the hardships in my opinion, the moments all mothers reach at some point when they are sleep deprived, frustrated, and just need a break, but it is looked on more harshly because of the fact these are teen moms and not 30-something-year-old women.
When I watched season 1 of 16&Pregnant, it psyched me out beyond all belief. They showed the girls tired, run down, emotional, and struggling with everything. I was so worried I could not handle it, because I literally thought my life was going to be made up of only those frazzled moments shown on TV, but when my daughter was born I was surprised to find it was not as bad as I thought. Sure, it was frustrating, tiring, and there were times I wanted to rip my hair out, but it was not like I had hyped it up to be.
And that is the crux of the issue.
People must care about the money because they're searching for an explanation. They want to know why the girls on Teen Mom are not destitute and seething with regret. Every season during the Dr. Drew finale wrap-up, I get the feeling he's doing PR damage control by constantly reiterating, "You love your child but life would be sooo much easier if you didn't get pregnant, right?" Sure, each of them has her own problems (some bigger than others) but they are not "teenage mom" problems so much as they are personality flaws or unfortunate family situations that anyone at any age could be strapped with. Still, because of our assumptions about young mothers, the only way their lives make sense is if they have enough money that the hardships don't matter as much. But a lot of young moms who aren't on TV say the same thing: It's difficult, but it's worth it. It's not as bad as they thought it was going to be. That makes people very uncomfortable.
I asked T what she or her friends think about the claim that MTV glamorizing motherhood and whether she thinks the show curbs pregnancy:
Whether or not it is a deterrent is relative to who watches it. Someone might see it and think "wow I don't want that, I better be more careful!" and others might see how amazing pregnancy and birth is and think they want it NOW. It really depends on the person.
It occurred to me that's the bottom line. We debate whether MTV is encouraging or discouraging pregnancy. When it boils down to it, I'm not sure they're not really doing either. MTV is presenting us with a relatively straightforward narrative about the lives of young women who often have little in common with each other besides giving birth. We're filling in the rest all by ourselves.
Ask people their opinion about the show and you can infer a lot about their politics. The comments on the episode recaps I've been doing for MomHouston.com are often shocking in the depth of hatred and disgust pointed at sexually active young women. Even self-proclaimed feminists who should be supportive of all forms of reproductive freedom chime in with pearls of wisdom like, "The answer to all teenage pregnancy is abortion!" 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom are an endless festival of slut-shaming served up as an educational tool.
Teenage pregnancy sits squarely in the intersection of our most pathological American obsessions: female sexuality, public aid, race, religion. Teens moms are an easy target, because who is going to defend them? MTV tapped into a gold mine with this one -- a topic so emotionally fraught and politically intense that hardly anyone can resist offering their opinion about it. Like the proverbial train wreck, once you see the show you can't drag your eyes away. We care about it because we like scapegoats. We care about it because we like to pat ourselves on the back when our prejudice is validated and enjoy the indignation when it's not.
So next time we as a nation sound off about "babies having babies" and how much money they are or aren't making for doing so, let's question whether we are really interested in social reform or if we are playing into cultural attitudes about age, gender, sex, and socioeconomic status. That, I think, could be the enduring lesson we salvage from the Teen Mom phenomenon.
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Amid Modest GDP Numbers, Obama Calls Again for Targeted Initiatives to Help the Economy
October 29, 2010 12:57 PM
ABC News' Sunlen Miller reports:
Standing from the factory floor of a business he called an “all-American success story,” in Beltsville, Maryland today President Obama mentioned today’s GDP numbers and again said that his mission is to accelerate more rapid growth.
“This morning we learned that our economy grew at a rate of 2 percent over the last three months,” the president said to workers at Stromberg Metal Works, “We’ve had nine consecutive months of private sector job growth, after nearly two years of job loss.”
The president said that while government cannot guarantee the success of any company, his mission is to accelerated that growth though targeted and temporary measures to help boost the economy.
“As we continue to dig out from the worst recession in 80 years, our mission is to accelerate that recovery and encourage more rapid growth,” the president said, “we've got a responsibility to offer temporary and targeted incentives to spur investment, to knock down the barriers that stand in your way, and to help create the conditions you need to grow and to hire and to prosper.”
One example of the targeted approach at recovery, President Obama today called again for an initiative to allow businesses to immediately deduct the entire costs of job-creating investments all next year thought he end of 2011.
“That accelerates hundreds of thousands of dollars in tax cuts: real money that businesses can use to expand or hire new workers.”
The president said this is no “shot in the dark,” that it’s a proposal that works – and offered up a new Treasury Department report as evidence to prove just that.
“A new report from the Treasury Department estimates that it will accelerate $150 billion in tax cuts for 2 million businesses, large and small, around the country,” he touted,” It would temporarily lower the average cost of investments by more than 75 percent for companies like Stromberg, creating a powerful new incentive for businesses to invest more right now -- perhaps about $50 billion, which will generate more jobs and more growth.”
The president said this is not just a good idea, but a proven one that will “put a dent in the jobless rate,” that he called still “way too high right now.”
Noting that the nation is still in the height of political season right now he said it will be over soon.
“When it does, all of us are going to have a responsibility -- Democrats and Republicans -- to work together wherever we can to promote jobs and growth. And the idea I'm advancing today is one that both Democrats and Republicans should be able to support. In fact, Republicans have actually offered this idea in the past.”.
Before making his remarks the president toured the metal factory – wearing protective glasses he greeted the workers and tested out one of the machines on the factory floor.
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As you may or may not have already heard, Life and Style reported last week that an insider (most likely Gary's friend Jordan) spilled the beans about the Teen Mom salaries. Your first thought might be, "Who cares?" But some people do seem to care a lot, admittedly including me. The question is, why?
Many applaud the show for being a hip pregnancy deterrent. Others insist that it doesn't paint a dismal enough picture. Those who believe it does a disservice by making young motherhood look less than hellish often cite their belief that the only thing saving the cast from public housing is the bags of money MTV is showering upon them. But really, are the girls' lives much different now than they were when 16 and Pregnant first aired? Even if we believe that MTV has turned Teen Mom from a docu-series to a scripted drama (frankly I don't think any of the cast are good enough actors to pull that off), they have stayed true to the girls' roots. If the show never existed, would any of them be in dramatically different living situations than they are now? I doubt it.
MTV works hard to portray the Teen Mom cast as broke and struggling to provide for their babies. Catelynn, despite placing her baby for adoption a year ago, is still stuck at home in a dysfunctional and emotionally abusive family. Amber and Gary seem to stay in their volatile relationship for no other reason than having nowhere else to go. Farrah works rough hours and needs her late boyfriend's SSI to help support her daughter. Maci seems to do alright but that could be attributed to her parents' assistance, though she still worries about moving out of their house and paying the rent on a new apartment.
None of their situations strike me as unrealistic. I was a teen mom, I know quite a few teen moms, and I've seen all of these scenarios (and more) play out in real life. What does seem odd to me is that they are living the way they are if they're getting $60,000 paychecks. Compared to the other top MTV stars' salaries, $60,000 a season is chump change. But it's a respectable full-time yearly salary for an American family, especially in the areas where the girls live. They could live comfortably on that particularly with their additional sources of income, which actually makes a lot of people angry.
Recently I spoke to a young woman ("T") who backed out of 16 and Pregnant's second season. She wanted to go on the show because she felt she could be a positive role model to other young mothers. But MTV producers wanted to focus a lot more on her struggles with bulimia, her less than stellar relationship with her mother, and her 20-year-old boyfriend's religious family who kept her a secret and pushed her to place the baby for adoption. She was offered $2,500 during filming and an additional $2,500 when her episode aired. If the father of the baby was involved, he would get $1,000. "Hardly 'rich', but enough to help with the expenses and leftover medical bills," she told me.
I asked her how she feels about the show now that she's a mother:
The show mostly shows the hardships in my opinion, the moments all mothers reach at some point when they are sleep deprived, frustrated, and just need a break, but it is looked on more harshly because of the fact these are teen moms and not 30-something-year-old women.
When I watched season 1 of 16&Pregnant, it psyched me out beyond all belief. They showed the girls tired, run down, emotional, and struggling with everything. I was so worried I could not handle it, because I literally thought my life was going to be made up of only those frazzled moments shown on TV, but when my daughter was born I was surprised to find it was not as bad as I thought. Sure, it was frustrating, tiring, and there were times I wanted to rip my hair out, but it was not like I had hyped it up to be.
And that is the crux of the issue.
People must care about the money because they're searching for an explanation. They want to know why the girls on Teen Mom are not destitute and seething with regret. Every season during the Dr. Drew finale wrap-up, I get the feeling he's doing PR damage control by constantly reiterating, "You love your child but life would be sooo much easier if you didn't get pregnant, right?" Sure, each of them has her own problems (some bigger than others) but they are not "teenage mom" problems so much as they are personality flaws or unfortunate family situations that anyone at any age could be strapped with. Still, because of our assumptions about young mothers, the only way their lives make sense is if they have enough money that the hardships don't matter as much. But a lot of young moms who aren't on TV say the same thing: It's difficult, but it's worth it. It's not as bad as they thought it was going to be. That makes people very uncomfortable.
I asked T what she or her friends think about the claim that MTV glamorizing motherhood and whether she thinks the show curbs pregnancy:
Whether or not it is a deterrent is relative to who watches it. Someone might see it and think "wow I don't want that, I better be more careful!" and others might see how amazing pregnancy and birth is and think they want it NOW. It really depends on the person.
It occurred to me that's the bottom line. We debate whether MTV is encouraging or discouraging pregnancy. When it boils down to it, I'm not sure they're not really doing either. MTV is presenting us with a relatively straightforward narrative about the lives of young women who often have little in common with each other besides giving birth. We're filling in the rest all by ourselves.
Ask people their opinion about the show and you can infer a lot about their politics. The comments on the episode recaps I've been doing for MomHouston.com are often shocking in the depth of hatred and disgust pointed at sexually active young women. Even self-proclaimed feminists who should be supportive of all forms of reproductive freedom chime in with pearls of wisdom like, "The answer to all teenage pregnancy is abortion!" 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom are an endless festival of slut-shaming served up as an educational tool.
Teenage pregnancy sits squarely in the intersection of our most pathological American obsessions: female sexuality, public aid, race, religion. Teens moms are an easy target, because who is going to defend them? MTV tapped into a gold mine with this one -- a topic so emotionally fraught and politically intense that hardly anyone can resist offering their opinion about it. Like the proverbial train wreck, once you see the show you can't drag your eyes away. We care about it because we like scapegoats. We care about it because we like to pat ourselves on the back when our prejudice is validated and enjoy the indignation when it's not.
So next time we as a nation sound off about "babies having babies" and how much money they are or aren't making for doing so, let's question whether we are really interested in social reform or if we are playing into cultural attitudes about age, gender, sex, and socioeconomic status. That, I think, could be the enduring lesson we salvage from the Teen Mom phenomenon.
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Amid Modest GDP Numbers, Obama Calls Again for Targeted Initiatives to Help the Economy
October 29, 2010 12:57 PM
ABC News' Sunlen Miller reports:
Standing from the factory floor of a business he called an “all-American success story,” in Beltsville, Maryland today President Obama mentioned today’s GDP numbers and again said that his mission is to accelerate more rapid growth.
“This morning we learned that our economy grew at a rate of 2 percent over the last three months,” the president said to workers at Stromberg Metal Works, “We’ve had nine consecutive months of private sector job growth, after nearly two years of job loss.”
The president said that while government cannot guarantee the success of any company, his mission is to accelerated that growth though targeted and temporary measures to help boost the economy.
“As we continue to dig out from the worst recession in 80 years, our mission is to accelerate that recovery and encourage more rapid growth,” the president said, “we've got a responsibility to offer temporary and targeted incentives to spur investment, to knock down the barriers that stand in your way, and to help create the conditions you need to grow and to hire and to prosper.”
One example of the targeted approach at recovery, President Obama today called again for an initiative to allow businesses to immediately deduct the entire costs of job-creating investments all next year thought he end of 2011.
“That accelerates hundreds of thousands of dollars in tax cuts: real money that businesses can use to expand or hire new workers.”
The president said this is no “shot in the dark,” that it’s a proposal that works – and offered up a new Treasury Department report as evidence to prove just that.
“A new report from the Treasury Department estimates that it will accelerate $150 billion in tax cuts for 2 million businesses, large and small, around the country,” he touted,” It would temporarily lower the average cost of investments by more than 75 percent for companies like Stromberg, creating a powerful new incentive for businesses to invest more right now -- perhaps about $50 billion, which will generate more jobs and more growth.”
The president said this is not just a good idea, but a proven one that will “put a dent in the jobless rate,” that he called still “way too high right now.”
Noting that the nation is still in the height of political season right now he said it will be over soon.
“When it does, all of us are going to have a responsibility -- Democrats and Republicans -- to work together wherever we can to promote jobs and growth. And the idea I'm advancing today is one that both Democrats and Republicans should be able to support. In fact, Republicans have actually offered this idea in the past.”.
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A month ago, I began a social experiment, to see if it's indeed possible to make money on the internet, without the use of a web-camera (if you know what I mean). I am a stay-at-home mom who loves surfing the internet, and I thought, wow, maybe I can make money off of it! Of course, I thought this was the most original idea known to man until I started researching it and realizing that everybody (and their mama) has a blog about making money on the internet. It's very overwhelming to know where to start, and to not fall into pitfalls along the way, so I intend to create a series on my social experiment in the months to come. This is the first in my series. I'm calling it "Making Money on the Internet". Original, huh?
The first place I started to look was on www.WAHM.com to find what other stay-at-home moms were doing. While I was pregnant, there was a huge buzz on medical transcription, but I didn't want to pay money in order to learn anything. I wanted to utilize my own talents (i.e. knowing how to Google), and waste time. Not saying that medical transcription is a time-waster, it's just not for me. I found out that a lot of people were also selling cosmetics and kitchen utensils. Once again, not for me because I'm not a good sales person. And I can't do that while chasing behind a baby. Not saying other people can't, just not my deal.
One thing that interested me on the WAHM forum was that moms were doing surveys and getting paid for it. I know it sounds weird, but I did not realize there were valid paid surveys on the internet. I am usually circumspect about all those "click here" banners, so I never did. However, I found that forums were a great place to learn about what surveys were scams and what surveys actually paid money. Another great resource is Annika's. I found out so much from her site. There's also a lot of free information on Survey Police.
I'm not planning on endorsing any survey or company here, but I will go into detail on my own blog.
After I stepped into the cold waters of paid surveys, I realized that only a few of them make any difference in my bank account. Since this experiment is a month old, I have only gotten paid once, but I can see the trend, and I soon understood that I needed to broaden the ways that I can earn income over the internet. So I decided to start Paid To Click services. Paid to Click (PTC) are companies that send you emails and you have to view the email for a certain amount of time (usually 30-60 seconds) and then your account gets credited. Usually you earn $.02 per email. Of course that doesn't seem like much, but the companies I've signed up for send 5-10 emails a day, so it adds up.
Now, I'm not trying to get rich here. What I'm looking for is making enough each month to purchase diapers, maybe wipes... maybe mascara.
In addition to Surveys and PTC, I decided to start blogging. I definitely did not know people were paid to blog. I did not realize that the advertisements on the blogs were put there intentionally to bring in revenue. I thought the ads were a by-product of the blog being a free service. Maybe, in certain cases, they are, but overwhelmingly, smart bloggers are getting paid to include advertisements on their sites. So, you get a free blog, and then get traffic, and then sign up with companies that pay you to write blog posts on their products or pay you to have their banner on your site. Once again, I'm not endorsing any company on this article, so if you'd like more information, please visit my blog.
Now, I've also just started blogging, and hoping to increase my viewership. It's best to get involved in different networks, and update your blog regularly (from what I've read) to increase page views and loyal readers. I suppose interesting posts would also help!
This is just the beginning of my experiment. I'm happy with the results so far (a $3 check in the mail! woohoo), but I know it will be hard work in order to make money on the internet. Stay tuned for more about my experiment.
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