Archive for ‘Online Money-Making’
PPP payments a bit late
We have about 11 payments due to us, and it has been sitting there for three days or so. I wonder what is going on at PPP? I am not worried about being paid because so far PPP has kept their promise and always paid their bloggers. But as a company which is beginning to make an impact on the paid blogging scene, I find it disturbing that they cannot get the payments approved on time. Plus, there is a whole list of pending posts which has yet to be approved by PPP, and its already the end of February!
I think I will just sit tight and wait for them to resolve this issue. If this goes on for a week, I’ll send them a support ticket.
10 new ways to make money online
Here is a list of ten new ways to making money online. Of interest is that PayPerPost was listed as one of the viable ways of making money online. Some of these suggestions may not be possible for those who are not so technically-inclined, but a majority of bloggers should be able to pick up one or two of the suggestions.
An interesting read indeed, it does give one some ideas.
Getting paid for Google Adsense
Do you know that Google AdSense sends out cheques in local currencies to publishers in 43 countries? Currently they are supporting Electronic Funds Transfer in 16 countries. If your country is not eligible for payment in local currencies or electronic funds transfer, you can still get paid. But, you will have to find a way to cash in those USD cheques
If you are from Malaysia, of course you still can get paid. The best way is request your cheque using standard postal service. But here comes the bad news. You will receive your cheque only two weeks after they send it by postal mail. You will also have to wait for another 30 days (floating cheque) after you bank-in to your local bank account. Malaysian local banks will usually take a high charge such as buying the currency at a rate of RM3.4/RM3.35 per dollar (depending on current currency rates), 10% commission fee and an “unknown” commission for money transfer service (from US bank to Malaysian bank to your own bank account).
Overall, the process will take about on average (30 + 14 days) = 44 days to get your money into your bank account. This does not include how many days/month you should wait in order to reach the total minimum of USD 100 in your Google Adsense account
Blog To Profit
A staff from Blog To Profit recently contacted us saying that this blog was accepted into their program. Certainly I am very excited about the opportunities, it will certainly open the horizons for more money-making endeavors online via the way I love — blogging.
I have replied to their e-mail and they have yet to respond. Still waiting for their reply and I hope I will be given some assignments to blog about. I am very grateful to Blog To Profit for the opportunity and I look forward to future assignments from them.
PayPerPost townhall meeting transcript
PayPerPost CEO Ted Murphy recently conducted a townhall meeting with 75 Posties who manage to go through to the system (due to system limitation). Unfortunately I was not present due to other pressing concerns. However you can read the transcript of that meeting here. I believe that some very important issues, particularly those playing in my mind, were asked and answered promptly by Ted.
The main issue Posties have with the new segmentation system is the banning issue. Oh, yes, I can understand that very well because the Opps currently available on PayPerPost is based on the number of tacks you have. The more tacks you earn, the more likely that you are going to get from the high-paying Opps. Most of the Opps now require at least three or four tacks at minimum, so a ban will severely affect the tacks rating.
For example, currently this blogger has four tacks, 44 votes and 7 bans. That is about 15% of the advertisers who decided that they do not like my write-ups and decided to ban me instead. Unfortunately advertisers are not required to make a vote for the Opps taken up, so this is not really a true reflection of what the quality of the posts for PayPerPost are.