Examiner.com is a new growing online news presence that utilizes local people who write based on their particular areas of interest or expertise. I first noticed it coming through my Google News feeder just under articles from the Washington Post, LA Times or Baptist Press.
Out of sheer curiosity I checked out their writing opportunities and decided to apply. You are now reading the ranting of the “Wilmington, Del Southern Baptist Examiner,” since I was approved this week. I’ll be contributing between 2-4 articles a week that will automatically feed into the Wilmington, Del. region of the Examiner.
I do get paid for this. While it isn’t much, I do get a little for every page view. Payment is affected by the number of “subscribers” to my articles and the number of comments, since an active comment section means that more people are looking at the pages and staying longer, which affects the ad rates on my pages.
If you have a few seconds and want to help a friend (yes, that would be me), then go to my page and subscribe to my articles. By subscribing, you will get an email alert when I submit a new article. You can delete the email or check out the article (which helps me because it counts as a page view even if you don’t read the entire thing). You can also make me a “Fav” examiner if you are so inclined.
I hope to build readership both locally and nationally since news readers pick up the feeds outside Examiner.com’s local region. That will take a little time, but it will happen.
If you are a writer and decide to check it out for yourself, please contact me before you sign up. There is a referral program and I can get some extra money if you name me when you apply. I am committing that some of that money will go to support entrepreneurs through kiva.org or clean water efforts overseas.
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David is an entrepreneur, pastor, coach, and author. He has his doctorate from George Fox Seminary where he studied under Len Sweet, his M.Div. from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and has done post graduate work in communications from the University of Alabama and the University of South Florida. He lives with his wife Brenna Phillips in Smyrna, DE. 
