We finally got the chance to blog about the Bloggers Choice Awards and get paid for it. Bloggers Choice is a new website that will be giving out blog awards for several different categories. We are currently up for Best Blog about Blogging, but it definitely is a tough competition.

hanks to Mike, we are currently offering blogs to get more chance of getting voted for, you can see by visiting our two posts about the Bloggers Choice Awards.

Voting has started, so get your blog listed asap, it will only get harder. Voting stops May 22nd (my birthday) and the winners will be “officially” announced at PostieCon. I definitely hope there will be mention of 2nd and 3rd place, because some blogs will be very difficult to beat. By doing that it will give some of the smaller blogs, who worked harder on the awards to get some extra exposure.
If you have started voting, make sure to vote for Blog about your Blog, and the rest of the blogs in our community. To beat the big blogs, we have to work together.

I love the idea of awards, and this is a great way to vote. You may remember Blog about your Blog had it’s own blog of the year voting at the beginning of this year. It was great fun, and everyone got a little link love. Let’s hope bloggers choice will be a big hit and beneficial for everyone.

It’s that time again, Comment Friday!

Comment friday is a fun and simple idea. Leave us a comment about anything you want. By leaving a comment, you will have your blog visited by me, and you may even get a link out of it. I will select a blog from the comment list to be linked to and have their link on our blogroll, until next friday.

We have many of the same commentors participating weekly, we are getting some great and fun discussions. Not only am I visiting blogs, but other people are checking you out as well.

Last week we ALMOST had 30 comments! I know Comment Friday is getting posted a little later than usual but I hope we can get break 30!

If you are up for a bloggers choice award, check out our posts about the awardsÂ

It was good to see the comments following my previous BAYB posts on the Bloggers Choice Awards.

As a small thank you to all of those who responded I have mentioned you on my own blog post today, together with links to your blogs and award URL’s. To view click here.

If nothing else, it’s another link to add to your Technorati total.Â

Thanks again.

Good luck,
Mike.
Mike’s Money Making Mission

After a nice, long, tiring, hot, cold, day trip to Disneyland and an exciting dramatic day yesterday, I am back to the blogging world.

Disneyland was crowded, like it was a weekend. Heres a few “highlights” of our trip.

• We got to the front of the line at the Maderhorn (sp?) and then they closed it down for an additional 30 minutes, due to technical difficulties. It ended up being after 11:30am before we even got on our first ride.
• Lunch actually was not that expensive. Maybe 10 dollars per person, including drinks.
• There is tons of Star Wars things there! George Lucas is insanely rich.
• Fast Passes are the worlds best invention. We got to get on Space Mountain and Indiana Jones with them.

I mentioned the next day, well, we went to the beach with family. Somehow my 1 and a half year old son got tar stuck to his foot. What a nightmare! So we had to leave, water wasn’t going to get this sticky stuff of death off of his foot. In turn, it got all over me. It’s not fun trying to drive with tar on your hands! Don’t be alarmed though, it wasn’t hot tar, it didn’t hurt, just didn’t come off.

I am going to share with you the ultimate secret of how to get tar off your skin. Drumroll please……. BABY OIL! If for some reason you ever need it to come off, now you know. Just rub a little on there, and it will basically come right off.

Getting back to business, thanks to the guys for holding down the fort. Good to see the voting on bloggers choice! Pretty impossible to beat Pro-Blogger, but worth a shot. Also our RSS Feed Subscription Contest is going well. We’ve seen our subscription rate go up to 80, right now it’s at 70. I think I may end the contest early (less than 200 subscribers) just because I am excited to give the MINI FRIDGE away, and start the next blog competition. We have some great entries, and I wish you all could win. Also, a big thanks for blogging about the competition, it helps!

Stay tuned for my next articles including: How We Got 300 MyBlogLog Members and we might just have a contest to go along with that article.

Thought I would just check in so everyone knows I’m still around LOL – it’s been about five minutes since I last posted in here. Got two great submissions for Blog Doctor and I’m working on those as we speak so we should have the first weekly edition next week.

Over on Quit Your Day Job I’ve been doing a lot of posts about sequels (five in all) and I’ve been getting some very strong opinions! So if you haven’t already done so yet come on over and vent about your most hated sequel or declare your love for your favourite! Just to give you an idea of some of the stuff I’m talking about one of my lists are 5 prequels that I’d like to see and one of them that I suggest is Predator. Would love to see Predator through the ages – imagine him facing off a quick draw!!!!

Further to yesterdays post about the Blogger’s Choice Awards here are the BAYB readers who have commented so far, together with the links to their awards page so that you can vote for them:

Blog About Your Blog
Bobbarama
Polliwog’s Pond
Mike’s Money Making Mission
Gospel According To Rhys

If you would like readers to vote for you please leave a comment, together with your Blogger’s Choice Awards URL. In return please vote for those already listed.

Note: When registering with BCA do not use a Hotmail or MSN email address as their response seems to get lost in the blogosphere.

Good luck,
Mike.
Mike’s Money Making Mission

I like to keep up on what’s new with blogging. I’m frequently checking out new websites, blogs, and other tools for blogging. Sponsored Posts fall into that category. I am very active in trying out new sponsored posts services and seeing who is good, and who’s not, basically.

I worked out a deal with SponsoredReviews.Com to get paid from them and get to write a review. We all win.

SponsoredReviews.Com seems to be a mix of ReviewMe and other sponsored posts services, yet they better connect bloggers AND advertisers. You can apply for a task and set your price, as well as have advertisers FIND YOU.

A huge selling point for them is that you can name your own price. Some of the other paid review sites aren’t even worth visiting anymore, because our reviews at Blog about your Blog are “worth” more than 5$. At Sponsored Reviews I can ask for my own price.

You can easily find new advertisers to write about with a few simple clicks. From there advertisers can accept, decline, or negotiate. If there is a problem on either side about price, there is a negotiate feature so the terms can be worked out.

I would never recommend any website that hasn’t paid me. SponsoredReviews has now sent me two payments, on time. You can expect your payment two weeks after your review is written and accepted.

If you want a Blog about your Blog review it could run you a suggested anywhere from 50-100$, but we are currently only charging 40$.