Make money by being Staff?

[ClicketyKat]

Has anyone ever made money by being staff for a forum, or perhaps offering to organize someone's blog and keep it going? What kind of pay are we looking at for that and how many hours a week was it required of you. I've never gotten paid but at times I realize I work very hard and probably SHOULD get something out of it.

 

[Nomad]

I have made money by becoming staff on forums, but in most cases, I earned as a posting package team member, I once earned $45 per week as a moderator on a forum, and I was supposed to work 3 hours every day.

 

[nana kwasi]

I have earned money by joining the staff of forums, but I mostly did it as a part of the posting package team. However, I once received $20 per week as a forum moderator in exchange for working two hours per day.

 

[Nadiel sahmen]

I have earned cash by joining the staff of gatherings, but I for the most part did it as a portion of the posting bundle group. Be that as it may, I once gotten $30per week as a gathering mediator in trade for working two hours per day.

 

[Amanda_5]

I have gained money by working as a member of staff for organizations, but I primarily did so as a member of the posting bundle group. However, for two hours a day of work, I once received $30 per week as a gathering mediator.

 

[Shortie]

I can't say I have ever made any money by being staff on a forum for someone as it was never anything I thought of to be honest and I was doing it to help out rather than get something out of it. I have however seen people asking and offering to work for payment as a staff member and it does seem like it's a popular thing, definitely more popular than I thought it was. I think for me, it would be having the time to dedicate to a staff job on a forum.

 

[Kale]

Yes. I've had paid jobs but they were not on a forum. They were regular W-2 jobs and work from home at that. You were a moderator basically, yes. I also was a volunteer mod of a big Discord server for a popular free to play game, but they'd sometimes give us free stuff or so. It was moderating comments, images, videos, etc basically along with moderating the social media pages.

 

[Cory]

I can't think of a time when I've been a paid staff member, especially considering all of the boards I've been a staff member on are on free forum software.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

Not on a forum, aside from earning credits for promotional items.

I'm paid to write for blogs though. One paid me by the hour. Another pays me by words in a post.

 

[Arantor]

I've been paid in the past to write promotional copy for tech companies - dull stuff that was old-school SEO-bait. It wasn't very interesting.

Forums, though, I've never been paid by any forum I've been a member or prospective staff of, mostly because I prefer to keep the lines clean. E.g. back in the days when DzinerStudio was pretty much *the* goto premium theme designer for SMF, I helped out because I liked helping out, and I liked supporting them - they offered me staff and free access to the themes, but I rather kept the subscription as-is and stayed non-staff, because it meant I was operating on my terms. I just find it avoids tricky entanglements down the line.

 

[capnsquarepants]

Not really forum staff, but I was part of the support team for a webhost, and my "payment" was a free low-end VPS. Didn't really use it, and the hours needed was not as fun as I thought, so I left.

 

[Henrywrites]

Not on a forum, aside from earning credits for promotional items.

I'm paid to write for blogs though. One paid me by the hour. Another pays me by words in a post.

I am interested on knowing how payment by hours works. Does it have to do with how long you stay on the blog or what exactly?

 

[timewo]

Online I have never made any money being staff at a forum, offline I have made far money as an employee of a very reputed company