The Bidding of Blogging

I received an interesting e-mail from Jeremy C. Wright this weekend describing a new auction he was running on EBay. I've seen posts from Jeremy over at Peter Caputa's blog quite often so I welcomed the message.

Apparently, Jeremy has been very busy figuring out how to leverage blogging into the business world. Several months ago I heard that he had entered negotiations to sell his blog to an unnamed (at least not one I can remember now) party. He's back at it again.

This time, Jeremy is amongst the first bloggers I've heard of to offer his services via EBay. As the auction describes:

This auction allows you to utilize this blogger for 3 months. He will produce between 5-10 posts a week. In addition, the blogger will work with you to see what potential there is for blogging for you and your company - in effect acting as a blogging consultant for you for the period.

If it is a fit, the blogger is happy to negotiate a deal to make the position a more permanent contract position for a reasonable fee.

Note: I have explained my reasons for doing this more fully at my blog. Who is this blogger?

Hire a succesful blogger to help your company's blogging dreams become a reality.

Source: EBay.com, "Blogger for Hire - Start or Improve Your Blog"

So far, it seems to be working fairly well. The bidding is up to $1000 and utilizing some nice little payment features from PayPal, those payments can be spread across time even. Can this be a trend? Smart marketers will be wary of ending budgets and this is a great time to cash in on that opportunity.