A bit of this and a bit of that

I’ve been a beta user of SocialSpark for a couple of months now, and you might have spotted a couple of posts on one of my blogs talking about it. Anyway, it’s now open for everyone to sign up, create opportunities if you’re an advertiser or pick up opportunities and blog about different things if you’re a blogger.

I’ve gone ahead and created a profile for myself; actually, I’ve created 2 profiles, one as a blogger and the other as an advertiser. You see, if you’re an advertiser you can create a variety of different opportunities, from paid ones, to free ones called Sparks. Sparks can be used by bloggers to get ideas of different things to blog about. I created one of these and got a few posts back about a plugin I wrote called Entredroppers.

From a blogger’s point of view, there are some differences to Izea’s other product, PayPerPost. Probably the biggest different is dynamic pricing. Advertisers can put up an opportunity at a particular price, but this can go up if noone takes the offer. If many people queue up for it, then the price is pushed down again, in an economic model that tries to match supply with demand. It’s not an easy thing to do, so it will be interesting to see how it pans out as more bloggers and advertisers join the fold.

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Note: This post was sponsored by IZEA