She Posts talked about bloggers wanting to be paid for the services they provide…and that bloggers, specifically mommy-bloggers, do themselves a disservice when they don’t ask for monetary compensation.

I started blogging without really making the connection between what I was doing and how women like PW earn an income. We tend to think of being paid in a strictly monetary sense, but that’s been a bust because I’ve never gotten a check from the blogosphere…lol

It made me sit back and wonder…how does blogging pay me?

What about the giveaways? I’ve won some really cool ones, and been able to offer others…but is that being paid?

And is blogging really about the money? Many bloggers eschew the concept that the motivation for blogging is the cash value. The Bloggess refers people to this video when asked about motivation for doing what she does.

So many reasons why people blog…

We have community with the writers behind the blogs that we read, and the people who read ours…

The ability to say what you really think, with the (relative) anonymity of the blogosphere? Like therapy, but without the shrink bills…

An escape of sorts, from the everyday…

It seems that everyone blogs for a reason- and those reasons, the way we are paid, are as varied as the people who have them…

So how does blogging pay you…?