Free Shirt Friday – IZEA
September 4th, 2009 by 
kim
Heather from BC gave me this fancy smancy green IZEA tee while in the blogger’s lounge at last month’s Affiliate Summit in NYC*.
IZEA is a social media marketing company and the world leader in sponsored conversations. They operate a network of over 250,000 bloggers and 25,000 advertisers around the globe.
SocialSpark.com, my favorite IZEA property, is a blog marketing network that connects advertisers with bloggers through an online marketplace. I personally have taken several “opportunities” that include Pay-Per-Click (can be promoted via Twitter and Facebook), Sponsored Websites (that put hover ads on your websites), and Blog Posts (that I fully disclose are being sponsored).
I think Social Spark is not only profitable, but fun (and I wish they had an affiliate/referral program). Yesterday I took an hour to review a few opps and ended up writing two blog posts about what I learned on those sites. Most posts require 200 words which isn’t hard to come up with. Considering the price paid for post varies from $5 to $300 per post (mine were both somewhere in the middle of that), it turns out to be a pretty good hourly rate! Plus I added new unique content to my sites, so it was a double bonus.
Check out BenSpark.com’s SocialSpark Saturdays for great insight on how to most of out of SocialSpark. You can join me on his “I’m Not A Famous Blogger” Crew.
Recently IZEA also released Sponsored Tweets that matches tweeters with advertisers. This is the best “get paid to twitter” program I’ve seen thus far as you can review and accept or reject the tweet that that the advertiser would like to send out. Some advertisers even let you write your own tweet. I will decline a tweet if the “ad” doesn’t fit my audience, as I don’t want to risk losing valuable followers if they think I’m spamming them. But if an advertiser wants to advertise a shoe sale via Twitter to my @shoeaholics followers, everyone benefits! Sign up at SponsoredTweets.com.
*I also got to meet Ted Murphy, Founder/CEO of IZEA, while in NYC. Watch for a “Famous Tongue Photo” in an upcoming post!
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September 4th, 2009 at 5:35 am
Kim, thanks so much for the shout out there. I’m very glad that you are part of my crew. And looking forward ot the post about the Tongue picture. Do you need me to send that to you.
September 4th, 2009 at 5:56 am
I was gonna hijack that picture from your Facebook photos, but if you want to send me the “real deal”, I’d appreciate it, thanks!
September 21st, 2009 at 10:25 pm
Another free friday shirt! I tried checking Social Spark and think that site would be very interesting. I’ll find some time to check out the flow of the site.
September 26th, 2009 at 3:51 am
Nice and impressive friday shirt I will tried
September 29th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
hey.! Kim you are looking very cute in green this a good medium of advertising.,the information in this article is very nice.thanks for the share.
October 8th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
I nice twist on “Casual Friday”. Very creative…I like it and will try it with my people.
November 5th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
First off loved the pic, the hands on your hips was a nice touch
Secondly Socialspark sounds ok but I would discourage users from purchasing hover ads. Surfers are becoming more and more irritated by hover ads and are ignoring them no matter what the content.