Announcement: We Now Pay $20 Per Article

By On July 3, 2007 · 17 Comments

Yes it’s true, after 8 months of slaving over this magazine every morning (and often night), it’s finally reached that magically happy place of attaining decent ad revenue. This comes from a variety of sources, including Google Ads, Text Links, Sponsored Posts, and Banner Ads.

Starting July 1, I will be paying $20 for each original published article. Which means that Brave New Traveler has now entered the ranks of a paying publication.

What is an original published article? It’s an article that is not published anywhere else (including your own blog). This is important for a variety of reasons, but mostly to avoid search engine confusion.

Reprinted articles will remain unpaid, since the reward for an article reprint is usually wider author visibility and traffic sent to their own blogs/websites.

So thanks again to all the readers and writers that have contributed to the success of Brave New Traveler! I’m excited to see what the future holds…

 
 

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Ian MacKenzie

Ian MacKenzie is the founder and former editor of Brave New Traveler. He is a now a contributing editor to Matador, and the network's architect. Ian is also a documentary filmmaker, with his first feature (One Week Job) released in 2010.

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  • http://www.ThroughTheLenses.ca Jasmine Huang

    Congratulations on the success!!! Looking forward to contributing more articles to BNT.

  • http://www.ourmaningranada.com ourman

    It’s a great sign of progress. Congratulations.

    Maybe I’ll find a really subversive charity you can donate mine too if the opportunity comes up again.

  • http://cultofdegan.com/weblog/ degan

    awesome, yay!

  • http://www.travepod.com/members/zento Lucia

    Great News! Better start writing then!!

  • http://www.nerdseyeview.com pam

    Congrats. This must mean you’re earning enough from the site to give back to your writers. To that I say, hooray for you! Hooray for BNT!

  • http://www.bravenewtraveler.com ian mackenzie

    hi everyone, thanks for the comments! it’s an exciting moment.

  • http://www.gobackpacking.com/Blog Dave

    Congrats – always cool to see a goal set and achieved!

  • http://www.travelblogger.com/members/jamaiken sean

    sweet man, thats great news! Into the future we go.. haha!

  • http://www.travel-tips.ca/ Eugene

    That is good news for anyone in to the writing mode and for your site. Excellent.

    EV

  • http://www.cam2yogi.com cam2yogi

    So… by chance does this include articles already published? Hah, it’s worth a try.

  • http://www.bravenewtraveler.com Ian MacKenzie

    cam – you know, i’d love to back pay all the previous authors, but that would bankrupt the meager storehouse i’ve managed to stock up many times over. ;-)

  • http://www.balticvisitor.com John

    I’m impressed that you have got to the position where you can pay. I don’t have any ads on my own blog, because it’s early days and they wouldn’t bring in any revenue. Good luck with it all now that you’re paying.

  • http://www.eyeflare.com Jack

    Well done and congratulations on being able to make this switch!

  • http://www.vintage-tees.blogspot.com/ Kuanyin

    Hooray for your kindness on sharing the wealth and good fortune. Keep up the good work.

  • http://www.15minuteDate.com/blog Cindy

    That is really cool! You have achieved the goal that many bloggers have always dreamed of :) Great job!

  • http://N/A Mark Harrington

    Thats great, I’m a freelance writer that is always looking for something new to write. How do I sign up or send in my article? Will be happy to hear back from you soon. markorvll@hotmail.com or markorvll@yahoo.com

    Thanks
    Mark Harrington

    • http://www.holisticwithhumor.com/ Christine Garvin

      Hi Mark,

      It’s actually $25 an article now, and you can check out the submission process here: http://matadornetwork.com/contributors/

      Thanks!