Paid Opportunities

ARE YOU LOSING MONEY????
Blogitive, Sponosred Reviews, Pay Per Post – they’re all great in theyre own way, right? I mean, it’s good to have companies that give us, as writers, the chance to make extra money off of our blog. But, in the long run, are they REALLY doing US a favor? I mean, think about it, some of these companies take as much as 75% of the money the advertiser is paying for US to write the post. So what work do they really do? We are the ones doing the research, writing the reviews, posting the links, submitting the blog entries then waiting on payment. Sometime you have to wonder, is this worth the $5 you’re making? Maybe to some people it is, but I think many bloggers get slightly disgusted when they realize the pennies we make to the dollars they make.

And to add insult to injury, Pay Per Post has even created a new slap in the face…I mean a new “program” that allows the blogger to sell PPP listings right on their blog. What does this mean? Well, it means you place their cute little banner on your blog that reads “I’ll Write a Review for You!” (or something along those lines), then you market your adorable banner so visitors can agree to pay Pay Per Post to have YOU write about THEIR company. Then, in return for your efforts Pay Per Post will throw you a table scrap of the money you have made pretty much on your own. How sweet.
So why not change it? Why not take control of 100% of your earnings? You may think it sounds hard, but it’s totally not. All it takes is a little creative genius (which I’ll provide for you) and a little time to market, which is nothing but easy.

First, the entire concept of taking in 100% of YOUR profit is to eliminate companies like Blogitive, PPP, Smorty, etc. Now I’m not saying to cancel your accounts with them – that’s ignorant, but instead, remove your banners and links asking people to purchase reviews through them and do the following –

1. You will want to determine a cost that you will write reviews at. Take into consideration that the companies I have mentioned generally charge their advertisers $20 - $30 PER REVIEW! So you can undercut them and sell more reviews or offer the same charge and see what happens.

2. Create a simple review button that is linked directly to your Pay Pal account. If you have a WordPress blog, you can just sign up for THIS free program and they’ll give you a button that supposedly works great. OR, if you have any site other than word press, it’s super easy, and way better in my opinion. Here’s what you’ll do (You MUST have a Pay Pal account):

3. Login to your account at Paypal and go to the "My Account" page.

4. Choose the Merchant Tools or Merchant Services tab at the top of the page.

5. Under Website Payments - You will see a place that says Donations.
Click where it says: "Donations"

6. Choose a name for your donation button which will ACTUALLY be your “Buy a Review” button – it will have nothing to do with a donation – it won’t even say donation, ok? Just trust me on this one.
Now Pick what you want it to say when people buy the review -
”Buy a Review from (Your Site)”, “Best Reviews in Town”, etc.

7. Where it says "Donation ID"....leave this blank.

8. Where it says "Currency", use the currency that is used in your country.
Example: USA would be "US Dollars"

9. Where it says "Buyers Country", just leave this alone.

10. Where it says "Choose a button", ok here’s the only kinda tricky part. You can choose from 3 pre-made buttons that deal with “donations”. We are too smart for that, right? So Tori is going to show you how to pimp your site for free. I have created a few buttons below. They are 100% my work, but since you are so cool, you can use them for as long as you want, free of charge, ok? So pick out a button you like, or feel free to create your own.

Here's the code to use this image:
http://aycu20.webshots.com/image/24379/2004066376949595443_rs.jpg


To use the apple, use this code:
http://aycu17.webshots.com/image/23256/2005685227831676304_rs.jpg


For the hand banner, use this:
http://aycu35.webshots.com/image/23154/2001066413729171649_rs.jpg

For the "Hire Me Flower":
http://aycu22.webshots.com/image/27301/2003284519331889702_rs.jpg

Mag. Glass:
http://aycu15.webshots.com/image/25614/2003209787171204307_rs.jpg

11. Now paste it into the part on the Pay Pal create a donations button that says Customize your button by entering the URL where the image is stored.

12. Where it says "Security Settings" Click Yes to encrypt your payment button or no, not to encrypt. You don’t have to encrypt. If you choose not to encrypt the only risk you really run is someone altering your settings, like raising or lowering your fees, etc. They can’t get into your actual pay pal account or do anything else. Sometimes you may have problems if you choose to encrypt because the computer will not allow people to make payments. I have yet to figure out why.

13. Now click where it says: "Create Button Now" and you’ll have your html code. You can paste your code wherever you want – sidebar, in articles, etc. Pretty neat, isn’t it? *IF for some reason your button DOESNT work, try to remake it and select NO for the encrypting.

***If you want to buy a Review of My site, Paid Opps, I am charging $20. Your $20 will get you a review that is approximately 400 words long and a link in my side bar for 1 month! If you're interested email me at paidopportunities@yahoo.com, click THIS LINK or click my banner below. Be sure to include in the side notes exactly what you want your review on as well as links! All reviews are published within 72 hours of payment!

Labels: advertising, Blogitive, paid ad writing, pay per post, Pay U2 Blog, PPP, smorty

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