Marqui CMS and Paid Blogging!

As you all know I have been blogging for pay for Marqui for the past 4 months as that gig gets ready to come to a close I want to talk about what my feelings have been, and the feedback you all have provided.

First of all I really dug into the Marqui CMS seeing how easy or hard the application was, and if you do a search on this site for Marqui you can get me impressions. Next Marqui provided us with some very good case studies on companies that were running Marqui. They gave us access to what I assume were un-edited interviews. I covered a wide range of subjects some positive and some negative.

One thing we have always done and always will do is disclose when we are either being paid or have been provided a free software tool to try. There is news just today on advertising and content becoming blurred as their is a perception and I hope no truth to the fact that some bloggers and newsletter creators have not been fully disclosing when a financial relationship exist.

I continue to commend Marqui as they had their entire program open for the world to see. All of you took interest in the articles and also commended us for being up-front. My thoughts on the product continues to evolve and I continue to hope that Marqui introduces some blogging components to the application and make it priced in a way that would attract very small companies like mine as I could use it in a collaborative way and as a web publishing system.

They only complaint I have this round of the blogging for Marqui is the lines of communications were not as good. Marqui took the program over from the group that was managing it initially and have not really said very much in the last 30 days. I do not understand why as they were on quite a roll and had a great program, it seems this second round has not had as much sizzle.

If I were a company that was paying people like me to blog I would overload them with info, so that we would have a variety of angles to evaluate and consider our story topic instead of me writing how they should run their campaign.

Recently I had a fortune 500 company approach me, to write about a new product they were introducing, they wanted to pay me to blog but did not want me to disclose the fact I was getting paid. This would have involved writing 4 articles over a 2 month period. If I had agreed to do this, I could have paid for a dedicated server here for a year. It was real tempting considering or recent growth, thus I am consider other options to raise the $2000.00 a year that I am going need to put in place a solution that will carry us for the next 3 years.

The offer was tempting but I rejected it almost immediately. I tried to work with them on acceptable language but they would not budge and I guess if they were afraid to say they were paying me I really did not need them as a sponsors. Meanwhile I keep the deal I have made with all of you to disclose when I have been provided cash or freebies.

For those of you that have a small company and your webspaces and inter department communications are in disorder I highly recommend that you check out Marqui Content Management Systems. [Marqui]