But, anyway, yes… this is me. Thanks to Robyn and her Paying It Forward, you get to see what I look like. This is my ‘eek! The camera is 2 feet away and gonna flash in my eyes!’ look.

So why do I have ‘I ‘heart’ Ted’ on my forehead? Well, Ted is Ted Murphy, the owner of PayPerPost, the one who made it possible for me to blog and get paid for it. Paid blogging has to be the greatest invention since sliced internet. Hooray for money!

By the way, do you know how hard it is to write on your own forehead in the mirror? Go try it some time.

I know I’m eagerly awaiting to see if I can grab this opp. $1,000 would help a lot, considering I just had a computer die on me. I desperately need a new(ish) computer. At least, I need another computer that runs.

I’m not sure if they are trying to attract new bloggers or just satisfy bloggers that have been around for awhile. I know segmentation has hit a lot of people hard (myself included) and it doesn’t help that they’re running opps with only a $5 minimum, even if the advertiser wants a PR7 blog until PostiCon (not sure when that is, can’t remember). I guess they did this to attempt to attract new advertisers, but it’s not fun.

PPP is building itself up to be the biggest blog advertising site on the internet, so I guess that’s a plus. The more advertisers they have, the more money I can make.

I just can’t wait for bigger opps and I really want to win the money!

So what’s this great news that they’re going to announce?

I hear it’s going to be a big change in the way payments for posts are paid out. Up until now, the only way you could get paid by PPP is via PayPal. However, now I hear that they’re going to combine their store with the payout. In other words, you’ll be able to purchase things with your PayPerPost money.

They’ll be adding more merchandise, and not just PayPerPost branded things. You’ll be able to buy things that are related to blogging in various ways like new computers, printers and books on writing, internet promotion, etc. You’ll be able to ‘bank’ your cash until you have enough to purchase these things. This will definitely be a bonus for people who, for various reasons, are unable to get a PayPal account to receive money.

I’m sure that people will love this new feature, especially since the merchandise will be sold at a 10% discount vs. other sites.

Unfortunately, most of us don’t have PR9 blogs. But if you have any PR at all, you still have the potential to get a much higher minimum. I cannot recall the pay scale exactly, but I think PR4 has a minimum of $35 per post and PR5 has a $100+ minimum. But don’t quote me on that! I do not have an advertiser account, so I cannot go look. But it has been talked about on the PPP blog and on the forum.

For advertisers, there is an up side to all this. They only pay 35% of however much they pay bloggers. That means that if you post a $10 opp, you also have to pay PayPerPost $3.50. Other places similar to PPP, like ReviewMe, charge advertisers 100%. So for a $10 opp, you’d end up paying $20. Ten to ReviewMe and ten to the blogger. What this means, obviously, is that an avertiser has the potential to reach many more customers through PPP with the same budget.

At PayPerPost, you can set it up so that people get paid to review your posts. Any post at all in your blogs. The down side of this is that the person who blogs about your post must not be already enrolled in PayPerPost.

The up side of this is that if you have a blog that qualifies, with at least 20 posts in the past 90 days, then you can get $7.50 from reviewing one of these posts. I don’t have this installed on my blog, because I think it can get to looking a bit spammy. Many people, however, like it and have put it on some or all of their posts.

On the other hand, it can be a great way for someone to generate traffic. A person who hadn’t thought about signing up for PayPerPost sees that they can get $7.50 for writing about a post they might have written about anyway. They sign up for PPP and get $7.50. The original blog owner gets another $7.50 for reviewing the new blogger.

Not a bad system there. It’s definitely a good way to get people interested, as if the money that it’s possible to accumulate by blogging through PayPerPost wasn’t incentive enough.

There must be a few things left that I can take for this blog, but I think most of my blogging is going to end up being done on my ‘niche’ blogs now. They do have okay Google PR.

So if you have a blog and you want to post blog ads to make a little extra money, click on the link in my sidebar. At the top of the page. Can’t miss that.

I’ll get $15 if you sign up, you’ll get money for blogging. Everybody wins.

Performancing.com itself is very confusing. Since PPP bought neither the editor for blogs nor the ad network, I’m not sure what they did get. It’s hard to tell. I see the editor, statistics and the ad network. Did PPP get the statistics? Or is that part of the editor? It’s hard to tell.

I signed up at Performancing.com, to take a look at the statistics. There’s only one problem, I can’t tell how to get them to work! The instructions are very bad and the site, once logged in, is no more informative nor intuitive than before logging in. Actually, it is even less informative.

So I poked around for a bit, but I’m still confused. When logged in, you cannot get to the statistic activation page by any means that I can see. You have to actually go back to the instruction page. This is very stupid. All in all, it’s very hard to navigate around the site.

I tried, I’ll go back to using other things instead. I can’t see how Performancing got as popular as it is.

I’m guessing it’s the same camera package given away for the postie patrol, with camera, printer, paper and memory. If so, the memory’s not much (only 128MB), but that’s solved easily enough.

So why would I want a HP camera when I’ve already got a camera?

Well, I’d use the new camera regularly. Take all sorts of digital photos and stuffs. But my old camera, I might turn into a doggie cam. Strap it to my big dog. She’s BIG. Her neck is bigger around than any human’s neck. She’s also really heavy. I’m not sure how much she weighs, but it’s got to be somewhere around 80-100lbs. I think. She wouldn’t notice a regular camera strapped to her.

Anyway, with a doggie cam, we’d get a dog eye view of her playing with her toys. Her squeaky alligator, her squeaky ice cream cone, her squeaky hamburger or… her favorite toy… empty 2 liter bottles of soda.

Then again, she might decide that the camera is a squeaky toy, too, and would try to chew it up! So maybe that’s not such a good idea. I’ll have to come up with some other use for my old camera…

Watching it, I can’t help but think that this Postie Patrol was a bit much. A multi-media treasure hunt… But it seemed like that poor woman had too many things to find. Without incredibly good luck, she would have lost.

But, she did win. And she did get the $1,000 and the camera stuff. There’s something I thought was sort of funny… before they gave her the money, they were telling her what all the HP stuff was: a camera, a printer thing, paper… and a 128MB memory thing for the camera. 128MB, these days, is nothing for pictures. I think it’s about 50 really good quality pics on my 4 mega pixel camera (if that), which isn’t much, when a roll of film holds 24 exposures. They’ve just finished handing over $1000 and a $300-$500 camera package (not sure exactly, I might check HP’s digital photography review page later) and they have to scrimp on the camera memory? Why not at least 256MB? 512? Heck, why not a whole gigabyte? Since HP was sponsoring the whole thing, I think they can get the memory a lot cheaper than the $50 or so it costs regular consumers.

Oh well.

By the way, HP sponsored this post.

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