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As a social media marketer, you are stuck with producing regular content for your blog. The reason that you do this is of course simple – to give your customers a reason to return to your site. You are adding value to the already great services and products that you offer by giving away free information to your loyal following on just about anything and everything to do with your industry.

This of course puts you where you want to be in your field – you are not just a producer of products, but an actual thought leader, giving people the information they need as well as the services. You are a content marketer, and so you produce content on a regular basis.

Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, LinkedIn – these are all fabulous sites that are filled with fabulous information that fabulous people like yourself have put there for free. Where’s the reward, I hear you ask. Where are the thanks? Where’s the money?

Ok, so it would be little disingenuous of me to suggest that as a content creator you are not getting anything in return from the likes of Facebook et al. to allow you to post on their carefully crafted social networks. Of course you do – you’re rewarded with likes and followers and traffic to your website, a percentage of which, in turn, will convert into paying customers.

3 Social Networks That Pay For Posts

1. tsu

tsu generates its revenue by serving ads – the same as most social networks. The difference, however, is that tsu gives almost all of the revenues generated from the ads back to its members. As much as 90% in fact.

It’s not just content, however, that results in monetary rewards. You get paid as well when you invite someone new to the platform. And it doesn’t stop there. The Hootsuite blog explains the payments even further (and provides the infographic below):

2. Bubblews
Bubblews kicked off to a flying start when it launched in June last year, attracting 200,000 users in its first week, according to Business Insider.

Trying to break the rules a little (in what I think is a rather finicky and misguided attempt to try and be ‘unique’), it doesn’t use hashtags but “+” signs instead, and handles are not prefixed with an “@” sign, but an “&”. Why bother, I say.

3. BitLanders
BitLanders is way, way ahead in the 21st Century social media game, not only paying its users for content, but paying them in cryptocurrency to boot.

Content creators are paid an amount determined by their BuzzScore, which is, as is described on the Hootsuite blog, a “number ranging from 1 to 100 that is influenced by the number of followers, people you have invited to join the network, the amount and quality of content you share on the network. Users can use their Bitcoin for PayPal payments in minimum payouts of $10. They can also choose to use their earned cryptocurrency to shop for gift cards, or donate it—for these two options, users don’t have to wait until they reach the $10 amount to transfer money.”