{"id":1148,"date":"2007-04-07T12:31:43","date_gmt":"2007-04-07T17:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/04\/07\/business-20-bloggers-get-cheques\/"},"modified":"2007-04-07T12:31:43","modified_gmt":"2007-04-07T17:31:43","slug":"business-20-bloggers-get-cheques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/04\/07\/business-20-bloggers-get-cheques\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey, I&#8217;m on Techmeme \u2014 cha-ching!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Talking Biz News, the writers-turned-bloggers at Business 2.0 magazine &#8212; who were directed to start blogs by editor Josh Quittner &#8212; have <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.jomc.unc.edu\/talkingbiznews\/?p=2362\">received their first paycheques<\/a> based on their blogs. As part of the deal that saw everyone start blogging, Quittner said he would be paying his writers a bonus based on how much traffic their blogs got.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"left\" id=\"image229\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/snipshot_d4r4o7qirkw.jpg?w=525\" alt=\"snipshot_d4r4o7qirkw.jpg\" \/>The Business 2.0 editor &#8212; who watched one of his writers, Om Malik, leave the magazine to start his blog empire last year &#8212; says the top blogs at the magazine, including <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.business2.com\/beta\/\">Business 2.0 Beta<\/a>, got cheques that were in the thousands of dollars. Others got cheques for hundreds of dollars, and some got less than $100. The lowest-earning, says Quittner, also got a little advice about maybe reconsidering the subject matter or approach of their blogs.<\/p>\n<p>This is a fascinating experiment, as far as I&#8217;m concerned. Will the payments that the top bloggers are getting start to breed resentment within the Business 2.0 offices? Will some of the lowest-earning bloggers change their strategy to try and boost traffic? How soon until someone tries a few SEO black-hat techniques, like ghost linking to sites about mesothelioma?<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Talking Biz News, the writers-turned-bloggers at Business 2.0 magazine &#8212; who were directed to start blogs by editor Josh Quittner &#8212; have received their first paycheques based on their blogs. As part of the deal that saw everyone start blogging, Quittner said he would be paying his writers a bonus based on how &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/04\/07\/business-20-bloggers-get-cheques\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hey, I&#8217;m on Techmeme \u2014 cha-ching!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}