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.