A lot of you have asked how the auction has been going… I’ll be honest, not too well. At the moment, the highest bid is around $4,500 – now, normally I would have sold for this price, however with the fact that I sold a 30 day old site for $4,000 a little more than a week ago, my expectations were raised a little bit :)

The market seems to be bad now – credit crunch, recession, all that. I also presume the blog is fetching less bids because I haven’t promoted it at all for the last 3-5 months in a row so traffic is at smaller levels than it was at its peak.

Anyways, here’s the deal.

Today or tomorrow, I will be listing this blog under Premium Sites for Sale, since that area is frequented (generally) by buyers with larger pockets and a better eye for a valuable brand. It will be a seven day auction, probably with the same reserve, buy it now etc.

If it sells for more than the reserve, I will no longer be the blogger that runs this site.

If it does not sell for more than the reserve, I will take on a paid writer to update and manage this blog while I am away, and continue running or sell in the new year.

So… I am looking for paid writers. Even if the site is sold, it’s likely that the new buyer will want to hire some paid writers.

I’m posting about this here first, to give a chance to anyone that reads this blog – I’d prefer someone that’s seen this blog before as you’ll know about how posts flow et cetera.

The job:

The pay will be $150 – $300 per month (if only one writer is employed).

Collectively, 10 – 25 posts per month need to be written. Each post will be around 500 – 1,000 words.

If you’re up for this, send me an email at admin@theuniversitykid.com letting me know your topics of interest, how many posts you can contribute and what you charge per post.

I may take on more than one writer, to provide people with variation… however, I do not want 50 guest posts going out in the time I’m away so would prefer to hire 1-3 constant writers that can put out decent posts. The topic will be anything related to this niche – internet marketing, entrepreneurship, making money online, blogging etc. You will also need to do some light marketing.

You will be allowed to promote a blog of your own but NOT a product / affiliate links. So basically you are getting paid to post on a 1,000+ RSS subscriber blog for an extended period of time. The pay is not spectacular, but it is decent.

Again, if interested send me an email at admin@theuniversitykid.com

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