Will you be a toastmaster at my 30th Birthday (masked ball) in 2011?
Not the craziest micro-job in the world, but it’s fairly loco to be advanced booked for a 2011 micro-job. Still it gives me plenty of time to work out how to blend a Venetian-style mask with the garb donned by this chap:
I shall be copying this chap... (minus lake)
While you’re at it, here’s a wedding video to edit…. yes.. Vicky wins the award for best selection of eclectic Micro-jobs. Quite what the prize will be, I don’t know…perhaps the happy thought that the blog now contains a picture of an unnamed man. Even his website – http://www.thelakestoastmaster.com doesn’t have his name, perhaps part of the toastmaster code of conduct!? I clearly have much to learn…
When I first setup the blog, I was hoping that lots of people would want to advertise – driving schools, garages that repair Lotus Elises etc.
My first step was to install Google Adsense (See Lotus links), for which I get cash everytime someone clicks on the link. Except, I can only request a transfer if it reaches £60. So far (in 12 months), it’s only produced £19…damn! Plus some of the Google links are fairly random:
China traffic vest Specializing in traffic safety vest traffic vest, police traffic vest http://www.parz.cn/
So, it was with some extreme excitement that the first banner advert request from a company I’d never worked with (Microjob.co) happened on Monday. You can see their bright green advert on the right hand side of the blog, but before such an endorsement, I thought I had better check them out.
There seem to be quite a few “Micro-job” websites on the internet which have grown up to help organisations and companies draw traffic to their social media presences (Facebook, Twitter etc.) or their own websites. By visiting the microjobs page, on Microjob.co visitors can see a list of jobs and earn cash by:
Leaving comments on a website blog or forum
Making banners
Joining as a friend on Facebook, Twitter
Producing video for social networks
When not being “Micro-job Man” at night, I work for a marketing and design agency and so it’s an interesting concept – useful for companies who’ve just setup their website or social media site and don’t want to look like Billy No-mates. I shall have a nose and see whether there’s some more income for the Crashed lotus campaign….
So, the question that is clearly on everyone’s lips – where did this mysterious £67.07 come from?
It just so happens that thanks to all the micro-jobbing, a quick search on google for “micro-job” reveals some probably not entirely unexpected results:
#1 in Google for “seo micro-job”
#4 in Google for “micro-job”
#4 in Google for “website microjob”
#6 in Google for “website micro-job”
#7 in Google for “blog micro-job”
All this high-stakes visibility against the “micro-job” and “microjob” keywords could not go unnoticed and I was contacted by a micro-job website designed to help make people cash with social media microjobs: http://microjob.co/ (Could you include the word “micro-job” more in that paragraph? Ed.)
What would a banner cost? I pondered and thought 2 micro-jobs (minus paypal thievery) would be a reasonable amount and so I shall get beavering in Photoshop….watch this space…
Hot of the heals of my Titchmarsh copy-catting was finishing off http://www.langfurniturerestoration.co.uk/, a website to promote the fine restoration skills of Andrew Lang. Given my usual tendencies, I’m thinking meeting him was a useful blessing for the future:
“Hello, do you do french polishing….???”
So the grand total of Lotus-based debt to go is……[drum roll]…………[more drum roll]…………….[phone a friend?]……..£1218.81!
Surely, the finishing straight!? Or at least, one before the final corner!
So, it was with some extreme excitement that the first banner advert request from a company I’d never worked with (
