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I’m a Founding Member for Mom Bloggers For Social Good #SocialGoodmoms

January 10, 2012 by Momstart 7 Comments

Jennifer James is an amazing blogger with quite the platform. She blogs, she networks, she speaks at conferences and she has her very own very large community Mom Bloggers Club. So it’s needless to say that her influence is humongous. What’s she choosing to do what that influence lately?

Social Good!

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Last year she want on a trip with One Moms and while helping others in Africa she came back inspired to get more mom bloggers to work for social good, she created Mom Bloggers for Social Good. You all know I love helping others. I try to support a few different charities through MomStart every year. So I signed up to be one of the founding members, now get this there are 400 founding members so I picture great things throughout the next year with Mom Bloggers for Social Good.

The goal of Mom Bloggers for Social Good is to spread news, fundraising initiatives, and advocacy campaigns of the charity partners Mom Bloggers for Social Good is working with. Another goal is to fully fund insight trips for members to travel domestically and abroad to visit the Mom Bloggers for Social Good  partners whether they are in Africa or LA. I know this is an exciting time for Mom Bloggers to use their influence on-line to help others plus lead by example and get other mom bloggers to do social good as well. 

Be sure to follow along with Mom Bloggers for Social Good to see what we’re up to.

On Twitter: @socialgoodmoms

Use the Hashtag: #socialgoodmoms

And like Mom Bloggers for Social Good on Facebook

Filed Under: charity, personal Tagged With: charity, Mom Bloggers Club, social good

Action For Healthy Kids Share Your Breakfast with Kellogg’s

March 10, 2011 by Momstart 2 Comments

You might have missed the Share Your Breakfast twitter party on Tuesday morning with @MomBloggersClub, but that doesn’t mean it’s too late for you to help make a difference in someone else’s morning. Kellogg’s has partnered with Action for Healthy Kids because they want to make a difference helping children who go to school on an empty stomach. 

Can you believe that nearly 1 in 4 kids in America struggle with hunger? It’s not that surprising with the rise in the cost of gas and that groceries keep going up in cost. The easiest meal to skip is breakfast, but facts show it’s very important to have a well balanced breakfast to start off your day. The Kellogg’s Company believes in this and that the power of breakfast can help families make the most out of each day.

To Help, Kellogg’s hopes to share 1 million breakfasts in the 2011-2012 school year.

How Can You Help?

orange cinnamon rolls

Share Your Breakfast! Now through July, Kellogg’s is asking people to take a picture of their breakfast and share it at ShareYourBreakfast.com. By just uploading one photo to www.shareyourbreakfast.com or by texting the word SHARE with a photo or a description of your breakfast to 21534 one breakfast will be shared.

Every morning, Zoe loves to have oatmeal, a banana, vitamin and a glass of milk. Well, daddy made these wonderful Orange Cinnamon Rolls one morning and we all thought she would be happy for a change. Nope, this girl didn’t like the orange cinnamon rolls and had to have her bowl of oatmeal, a banana and glass of milk. I just had to share that about Zoe, realistically, I feel very fortunate that we are able to put food on the table and give our children anything at all, let alone let them have a choice in what they have for breakfast. So, I’m going to upload this photo of our Saturday morning breakfast with dad, to help donate one breakfast to a family in need!

What does your family like to have for breakfast?

 

 

This is a sponsored post through a compensated Mom Bloggers Club member program.

Filed Under: Announcement Tagged With: Action for Healthy Kids, Kellogg's Cereal, Kelloggs, Mom Bloggers Club, Share Your Breakfast

Stay at Home Moms are making money writing

June 18, 2009 by MomStart 10 Comments

You can make some money blogging but I’m not in it for the money nor am I making much. Most of what I do I do as a hobby but with encouragement from friends and the fact that I do receive stuff almost on a daily basis, I feel I’m becoming a business if I want to or not.

Bloggers can also make money using sites like Pay Per Post or Sponsored Reviews. However when using these you must be careful if you feel any importance in your page rank. Google will strip you of your Page Rank with out any warning and re-submitting your blog is a pain in the butt or so I have heard.

You can also make money just writing for other sites. I’ve tried a few out but I never stick with it to find out if I could make money with it. The reason being is that I just love my blog too much. So I decided it’s all or nothing for Mom Start and here I am. Blogging away. However, I do want to share a few sites with you.

I know some moms have success with gather.com. One of the mom bloggers that I used to read, if I remembered who it was I would link to her. I’m so sorry, but I did join by clicking on your link loves gather and makes a lot of money with it and gets a lot of gift cards for shopping though gather. I had a lot of trouble figuring out how the points worked on gather, but when you only spend 10 minutes at night when you’re exhausted from chasing children all day things just don’t add up. Here is a blurb from a mom I know over the internet:

Gather, the leading social network to make new friends and form new social circles, today announced that its members have exceeded $500,000 in total earnings by redeeming Gather Points™. Since the beginning, the Gather Points program has been a popular site feature that rewards members for creating great experiences for the community. With the economic downturn, Gather Points has become an even more important member benefit. Since the start of 2009, members have redeemed over $85,000 in points they have put towards everything from home improvement projects and family vacations to summer fun for the kids.

“Gather Points have helped me buy the extra things that my kids have asked for without having to break the bank!” said Bridget A., a Gather Member who has earned $2,460 since joining the site in 2007. (http://cheekymommaof2.gather.com/) “I used my earnings from Gather Points to entirely fund our 2008 summer vacation to the Oregon Coast, where I also got to meet a fellow Gather member.”

“I have been a cash earner since Gather rolled out points spending in 2006,” said Monica Kennedy of Tennessee (http://crochetbymonica.gather.com), who has earned over $2,800 sharing her crochet expertise with the community.  “The money I have earned at Gather — doing what I love and had done elsewhere for free — has become more than extra cash for family fun. It has turned into a real, viable business for me.”

Another site moms are making money on is Helium. I have not tried Helium yet but I looked over it. It looks like a very professional site, this is what I was told:

Helium (www.Helium.com), which has quickly become the world’s largest writing community and a favorite destination for thousands of stay-at-home moms.

Helium recently announced that its writers have exceeded $1 million in total earnings. The amount — more than half of which was generated over the last six months — is a significant validation of the Helium publishing model.
At present, over one thousand Helium writers have earned more than $100, and top earners have made over $5,000 in a matter of months. Because of its flexibility, Helium is a natural fit for many stay-at-home moms who enjoy writing and have an interest in supplementing their household income.

One stay-at-home mom in Rhode Island, Trudi Buck, has earned over $3,200 over the last year by writing articles such as “How to Avoid the Holiday Bulge” for Helium.  A divorced mother of three small children, Trudi depends on the supplemental income she earns from Helium to cover special or unexpected expenses. “It is important for me to be home right now, at least until we get my daughter’s epilepsy under control,” says Trudi.

Another stay-at-home mom, Adina Allen, has made nearly $900 over the last year by writing about various parenting topics. A mother of three young children who lives in southern New Jersey, Adina spends about one hour each day on Helium, writing articles on a range of topics, such as “Simple Tips for Preparing Your House for Sale,” “Hottest Toys for 5-7 year old boys," and "Pros and Cons of the Walmart Credit Card."

Although it’s not “quit your day job money,” says Adina, the extra income generated from Helium is no small change either, especially in these tough times.

“I use my Helium earnings for simple household things like lunch money for my son, diapers for my twins, and my coffee addiction at Dunkin Donuts,” she says.

Recently named by Writer’s Digest as one of the “101 Best Websites for Writers,”  Helium rewards its writers based on merit, including the number of articles purchased through the site’s Freelance Writing Marketplace, winning writing contests and achieving high ratings from fellow writers. 

Helium is free for anyone to join and the community includes a variety of writers, including professional journalists, college students, stay-at-home moms, and medical and legal industry professionals.

Mom Bloggers Club has a few opportunities every now and then that come up. I did a post for compensation and you could think of a lot of my posts as for compensation. We’ll give you this product and 15.00 to go along with it, but it’s not much and considering how much I would charge per house I’m losing money. That’s why I don’t consider my blog writing for money, it’s more of writing to help my family save some money.

Twitter Moms has some opportunities as well. Most of them are way more work than I want to do and you only get a chance at getting something. I really like to have all of the details worked out before I do any of the work. That’s just smart right?

Mom Central pays you to blog or they provide gift cards or other opportunities.

Mom Select also provides opportunities. I’m working on the All program with them and they sent a Hayden Harnett bag worth 198.00. I was in shock when I read the value on someone else’s blog.

When it comes to getting paid though, you have to watch out for other concerns, which is another reason why I shy away from getting paid. People will not believe your posts if you were paid to write it. I want people to believe me so if I don’t like a product or find a flaw I will write about it. I just feel that showing that I’m going to write what I honestly think about something is important. More important than making the sponsor or company that provided the review item happy. I agree with Stephanie Azzarone’s article Should Mommy bloggers be paid? I also feel that we should be held accountable for our relationships with companies. We need to be paying attention to how the FTC regulations come out. I’ve kept quite for a while about how I feel because yes I do feel like I work hard on my blog, but I’m not sure I want to be paid.

I suppose this is how I feel, If I was writing for someone else’s website like Helium or gather, I would want to be paid. If what I was writing about a company or if I’m providing links and advertisements I want to be paid, but if I’m writing a review, my honest opinion, I do not want to be paid. I want the freedom to say yes I like it or this is a piece of crap. So to all of you mommies that want to make money while staying home good luck, get organized, find your niche and remember, it’s still work. It takes dedication.

Filed Under: personal Tagged With: FTC regulations, Gather, Helium, Mom Bloggers Club, Mom Central, Mom Select, Moms paid to write, Twitter Moms

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