Tuesday, 21 August 2012 The Value of Words A rather taboo subject that always crops up on the regular #bbloggers chat on Twitter, is the matter of Sponsored Posts and payment for blog content. It's one of those great mysteries that no one wants to divulge any information about, but still want to know all the answers to. You know me though, I'm open and honest and if I can help anyone out with anything I will (to a point that is, don't expect to throw me 50quid to do in your mother in law or anything). This lunch time I had a mini #bbloggers chat of my own to see what other people thought about pricing YOUR words. As usual people weren't openly prepared to reveal how much they take for posts, but it was good to find out how people thought about these things. My initial question was how people felt about this; do they think it's fair that a blogger with more followers got paid more, or do they think the payment should be based on content alone. It was a mixed reaction. I personally understand that I, who has around 550 posts on my blog (not taking into account non GFC members who follow it, my readership from accumulative platforms reaches around 2000 if you add them up) would receive less than a blogger who has 1000+ visible followers on their blog (that's GFC followers that are usually added as a widget in the side bar