I was working on random code when I received an email from none other than HBO. So they claimed. HBO apparently digs my site. I was reading further and it was legit! HBO liked this site and thought that my editorial and review style was good enough to review a new show that they are going to be unleashing on the American public.

This isn’t the first time I’ve been contacted by a major company.

The Independent Film Channel contacted me via my Horror Movie Blog to ask me to promote their latest “Horror Fest”. They claimed that my blog was really cool and that it targeted the audience that they were trying to reach with their new series of movies they were showing.

On both occasions I asked for monetary compensation, because they contacted me, and not the other way around. Needless to say they didn’t want to oblige my asking fee of a minimum amount, nor did they really want me to review anything after all. They were just trying to leverage free advertising on my sites.

Both this site and the horror movie site aren’t the biggest sites in the world, and have a small following of readership. This one in particular has just dropped from 9 rss subscribers to 7…but somehow, but some sheer luck I had 85,000 hits last month.

Weird.

I just wish more peopled were clicking ads.

That’s besides the point. The point being that it’s funny that companies like HBO & IFC are trying to get into my world, and yet I have the audacity to turn them down. However, I won’t turn down offers for $500 from Payperpost.com…granted the money is a lot more…but I’m trying my best.

Why didn’t I accept those offers? I could’ve been part of a national marketing campaign!

Simply put: They contacted ME! I don’t sell out for free.

I’ve managed to do this for a long time, and am seeing a few pennies trickle down the well, and for whatever reason, I have a small set of standards that don’t allow me to move forward with lame companies that are giving me compliments for no apparent reason or even read my site on a regular basis. It’s stupid to think that because my sites have more content than the average blog, that I am suppose to jump at the chance to help deep pockets HBO and IFC. I don’t even get those channels!

I take it back. I do sell out for free…I’m an idiot.

But I didn’t take HBO & IFC’s offers to write about their random crap that I wouldn’t even see.

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