Why I do not like paid posts

As marketing assistant for various trendy companies, looking for fancy bloggers, I am very often faced with the following answer: I would be more than happy to advertise your products, but my costs are the following:$$$. In such cases, I do not like to reply back.

I am blogging for a couple of years already and I am still at the beginning of the learning process of how to successfully promote myself. More specifically, how to use the weapon of my words to win more customers, money, products. Till now, with only one exception, I relied exclusively on my power of using the words and felt the freedom of being free to share my knowledge with the other as often as I had time. Probably my latest marketing experiences taught me something about how to better promote my non-for-profit blogging business.

But, what I do not like when I receive the corporate answers is the idea of accepting to trade your freedom of writing. In many places in the world, journalists will be extremely happy to be free to write without being forced to ponder each of their word for not offending corrupt politicians or businessmen. Some are paying with their lives. Blogging is an honest option to use the Internet for freely sharing your thoughts. As long as your web host allows, you are free to post as often as you want about what do you want. You can exercise your critical thinking. 

In the case of a paid post, obviously, you will praise the values of a product, even it is ugly or harmful or completely unworth the money. Some people ask $70 the post, plus the free delivery of the product. I am completely against this attitude and I wish that many people will realize they and how they are wrong. And this is also the responsibility of the companies that went used to pay the media - online including - for reading what they want to read about themselves. Call it the dangerous denial of the consuming age.

Unless further notice, the posts on this blog are free as spring birds.

Clean your Google history with only a couple of clicks

Google will soon change its privacy policies and will show us a new look.
The move is already creating discussion at the European level and there were formulated several calls for investigating seriously the implications.
For those keen to get ready with a relatively clean Google history, this tutorial may help.
What really makes me sad is that for various commercial aims - which I understand and sometimes I am also using on a daily working basis - Internet is becoming more a business than a way to enjoy expanded possibilities for knowledge.
I just was reminded this morning how lame are Google's policies in terms of promotion and development of its products. Take, for example, Google+ which was joined rapidly by millions, shortly after launch only because it was a brand made by Google, but whose development was neglected. The development strategies of this company are very slow and relatively reluctant in my opinion. When you have such a brand, you are bold to engage your customers.
Anyway, from tomorrow on, get ready for changes.

How to avoid scams?

As a dedicated freelancer, curious to try very projects and professional challenges, I encountered lately a very unpleasant aspect of the "free" work. It means, literally, that after your virtual employer push you with 10+ mails each day regarding the progress of your work, sooner after you deliver the products in due time and expressing your full availability for corrections, the story is over. No money, honey!

In a way, I was lucky enough to lost small amounts of money - the whole lost is around $30 and hope that it is enough - but on the other hand, given the efforts spent with writing and documentation it is a loss.  

The best ways to avoid such situations are:

- ask carefully about the payment methods. 

- eventually, do not send your articles before part of the sum is released.

- report the theft to the administrators of the website and leave them a bad review. Some people may be as naive as you and trust that intellectual work is always paid work.