Imagine: make money sharing worthwhile writing! 

Minimum four new blogs a month (at least two in first two weeks, at least two in second two weeks). More the better for you (and indie media). Must be quality. Must connect with readers. Must be shared and shareable and fulfill our mission.

We’ve now paid out a total of $8,000 since starting this program!

Here’s what we’re paying this month.

> $100/month if you put up 4 or more a month (I spend say 10 minutes to 30 minutes on a blog, so that’s in the range of $50/hour) if you total 5,000 readers or more in the month.

> $200/month if you put up at least 4 blogs a month for a total of 20,000 readers a month.

> $300/month if you put up at least 4 or more a month for 50,000 readers in the month.

> $500/month if you put up at least 4 or more a month for 100,000 readers in the month.

Some guidelines:

Writers deserve to get paid.

You have to be >consistent< to “win.” Secondly, we will not share anything that’s not >quality<, making it difficult for sexy (lascivious) or kitteny (cute) posts lacking other merits to win. Thirdly, if your consistent and quality writing is popular, we’ll pay you for your work and I’m happy to be able to do this, based on our growth (Elephant’s doing well, growing to 1.85 million, this month: Google Analytics). If you don’t want to get paid, you don’t have to play. Writers who are playing can not share their own posts on FB main page, but can on our appropriate focus pages.

Anyone who shares anything like “help me win so I can make money” will be disqualified: I reserve the right to disqualify anyone who is not writing or sharing in the spirit of our mission. It’s great to say: “help support my work on elephant, here’s an article about xxx yyyy” or “help me, friends, by reading and sharing if so inspired.”

Colin has been busy building up our new web site design (check the front page:elephantjournal.com) and until we have our “Ecosystem,” I want to in some way encourage our friends to share up the good word about “the mindful life.”

Send your article to:

elephantjournal.com/submit

(Note: editors and volunteers are eligible, but can not share their own articles on our main Facebook page [you can however share the article once per day on appropriate focus pages] if you choose to “play.”

Also: if you wish to collect your winnings, you must email your total as of the last day of the month by noon MST on the 1st to editorial @ elephantjournal dot com. Even five minutes late, and nada).

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Here’s what we paid out last month:

Paid Writers for the Month of June

Ira Israel
Number of articles:     4
Total views:        6,615
Payment due:    > $100/month if you put up 4 or more a month (I spend say 10 minutes to 30 minutes on a blog, so that’s in the range of $50/hour) if you total 5,000 readers or more in the month.

Benjamin Riggs
Number of articles:    4
Total views:        6,142
Payment due:    > $100/month if you put up 4 or more a month (I spend say 10 minutes to 30 minutes on a blog, so that’s in the range of $50/hour) if you total 5,000 readers or more in the month.

Tara Lemieux
Number of articles:    27
Total views:        41,289
Payment due:    > $300/month if you put up at least 4 blogs a month for a total of 20,000 readers a month.

Jennifer White
Number of articles:    16
Total views:        57,153
Payment due:    > $300/month if you put up at least 4 blogs a month for a total of 20,000 readers a month.

Stephanie Vessely
Number of articles:    7
Total views:        5,850
Payment due:    > $100/month if you put up 4 or more a month (I spend say 10 minutes to 30 minutes on a blog, so that’s in the range of $50/hour) if you total 5,000 readers or more in the month.

Tracy Crossley
Number of articles:    5
Total views:        21,358
Payment due:    > $300/month if you put up at least 4 blogs a month for a total of 20,000 readers a month.

Kate and Waylon also blogged up a storm, but are on staff so don’t get to play.

Details from last month.