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$, but we are currently only charging 40$.

I was asked by Nick “The Details” Techboggle to complete some sort of modern day chain letter deal. Namely, come up with a paragraph explaining each of my top 5 obsessions, and then tag, or pass it on, so to speak, to 5 more bloggers to rinse and repeat. That is a tall order, unless you are a compulsive obsessive with 5 names in your address book.

Wife It is no secret that I am into my wife, especially when she stands over my shoulder like this and reminds me that I love her dearly and will do anything to make her happy. It must be a joint obsession, however, because when I am at home watching TV while she is off at work, I often think about her, and mysteriously she’ll phone me up a few seconds later.

Blog I am into the Pisstakers blog, big time. It started off as an obsession, when it was all new and I knew not what the hell I was doing. Gradually I developed a routine and it all settled down a bit. In the last couple of weeks, though, the time being spent in different endeavors is building again. Relax, breathe deeply… the traffic will come.

Chocolate I am prone to the odd bar now and again. Nothing regular, just some dark, cocoa-rich chocolate about 4 times a week at 10pm. I don’t subscribe to the camp that says cocoa has healing properties and will cure all known ailments. I secretly think that is a load of crap. The smile on your face while eating chocolate is what cures you!

Cycling This obsession comes under 2 categories. The healthiest obsession actually involves being on a bike and pedaling. My terrain of choice is a mountain, and lots of it. Sadly, there are no mountains nearby, so that obsession has dwindled recently. For balance, however, I will still happily sit through every hour of the Tour de France. That is a sad obsession limited to 3 weeks a year, thankfully.

Balance Whenever I walk into a room I can’t help but look at the decor. I used to refurbish places for a living and my thing was to try and achieve balance in terms of layout. So I hate it when there are 2 different sized windows on the same wall, or everything is green, or a picture is off center. (To be honest the most obsessive person I know like that is my millimetric wife.)

On that note, I will end and pass you over to 5 horribly obsessed folk, who I have met on my travels these past few months. Hopefully they will find a few minutes to put pen to paper and continue the fascination with obsession:

Mike Polli Scott Memphis and … Anita

One of my blogging friends, Tisha nominated my blog, Mike’s Money Making Mission, for the Bloggers Choice Awards in the Best Business Blogs category.

Now I didn’t know too much about this award thingy but this is what their site said:

‘Welcome to the Blogger’s Choice Awards! Here you’ll see which blogs are currently making an impact in the blogosphere. All of the blogs you see here are nominated, voted and commented on by users like yourself! Winners will be announced on June 2nd at PostieCon in Orlando FL.’

There are over 33 categories of blog where you can vote and nominate others. These cover a range that should include most blogs.

It got me thinking that perhaps we could all help each other with these Bloggers Choice Awards. If we all nominated a few of our BAYB blogging friends, and voted for each other, we might get some publicity and perhaps a few referrals. What do you think?

I’ve just joined myself, though the confirmation email hasn’t arrived as yet. Once this is received I can vote and nominate.

If anyone has any suggestions as to how we can use these awards to help each other please leave a comment.

Good luck,
Mike.

Link: Bloggers Choice Awards.

As I am exposed to new blogs, I notice many are now becoming community or collaborative blogs. If not, at least they use guest posting from time to time. It’s definitely beneficial to have multiple bloggers on one blog. Which brings me to our latest blog review.

One of the blogs on my feed reader, is a great tech blog, Crystal Coast Tech. Recently we have been able to work together and exchange advertising spots. You may notice a banner in our rotation about their site. Just the same, we have a Blog about your Blog Banner on their site!

They are running a busy website developement site, and when they get the chance, a great blog as well. To meet demands, they are also using guest tech bloggers. They get a good amount of traffic, I believe about 900 pageviews per day, so it’s a great opportunity to be a part of their blog.

Our friend Nick, who we’ve mentioned several times on our blog, most recently his Evil John Chow Photoshop Contest. I referred Nick to the Crystal Coast Tech Blog a few weeks ago. Since then he’s had several articles posted on the blog and got to know the guys behind the blog.

This is what Nick had to say about Crystal Coast Tech:

“Being a frequent poster on CCTECH, I would have to say that Anthony is a great guy and a great blogger, even though he is constantly busy with his web design business, he is still great to talk to and I am thankful for the experience gained from writing on his great blog!”

Anthony has given me a few tips I’ve used for this blog. Plugin advice etc, that I am definitely thankful for. So as a bit of a thanks, go on over to their blog for me and let them know BAYB sent you.

I am a little biased, but I am allowed to be right?

This week I have chosen the GiveawayProject. Michael blogs about all the competitions, contests, and giveaways around the internet. He also blogged about BAYB already when he wrote about our Mini Fridge Giveaway. We have exchanged nice emails, and he left a few comments for comment friday as well. We try to reward those who are really promoting us, reading about us and just being involved.

We wish Michael well on his blogging project, and we will be sure to announce our future contests on his blog.

Announcement: We have finally been added to Text Link Ads. If you want to advertise on our sidebar check out our TLA Package. We also are offering RSS feed advertisements. I can also fill those manually if you want to work something else out.

Thank you everyone for participating in Comment Friday, we are just under our goal of 30 comments. I know we can make it happen next Friday! Tell your friends.