Thunderbirds are go!

Credit Crunchies is a group blog and right now we are open to new members joining the team.

When you blog as part of a team you get more than just a ready made platform. Effectively you get the power of full time blogging without the cost and effort required to maintain a full time six updates a day blog. As such your work can expect to enjoy a much higher readership level and your adverts (which you will control) will enjoy a much more profitable rate of clicks as a side effect of this.

Furthermore your posts form part of a much larger body of work which means that in "SEO terms" you gain a considerable advantage. This advantage goes further to allow you time off from making posts without a drop off of readership on the blog. Also the promotion, link building, technical, design and other tasks are already taken care of. You don't have to go it alone.

With other writers already present at the start of the project your posts will not sit naked and bereft of comments for very long. This social proof of the popularity of your work should help to propel your blogging carrier forward. If that's not enough myself and other writers will be happy to help you with any areas of your written abilities you would appreciate additional advice on.

In short blogging as part of a team is a win-win situation.

Team members will get all of the following:

Freedom to write to their own schedule
Freedom to address topics their own way (within reasonable limits of good taste, topicality and family friendliness)
The ability to harness the power of working as part of a team
A profile page which focuses link love to your other projects
A short biography space at the end of each item that provides link love to your other projects
Exposure to new readers and new ideas
The chance to help people with your skills and experience while also possibly helping yourself
The chance to make new friends
Technical support
Networking opportunities
Access to an advanced advert rotator which will display ads against all posts you make (under development currently)
A contact form to protect your email address
All the other benefits of being in a friendly team of successful bloggers


So what do you need to get in?

First visit this form and create yourself an account. This will allow you to log in and set a few basic details.

Second come back here and after logging in introduce yourself with a comment about who you are.

Third - I see your comment and we chat and so long as you are not incapable of putting a few words into a logical order to convey an idea I will probably add you to a team (or maybe two). At the moment (October 2008) there are the main blog team and the mini blog team. At the moment (October 2008) I will mostly be adding people to the main team and the mini team.

Fourth - blog away - we're hear to look at budgeting, credit crunch issues, making and fixing and saving money. This can include growing your own veg, healthy eating on a smaller budget, investing, banking advice, job hunting or anything else that will help people. If there is not a suitable category message me your ideas.

Fifth ... only joking that's all there is to it.