Hire yourself out with PayPerPost Direct

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PayPerPost is at it again, rolling out yet more upgrades and somehow becoming even more awesome. Their latest feature is PayPerPost Direct, a new program that cuts out the middleman by letting advertisers hire bloggers directly to write blog ads. So if they're hiring you directly, do you really need to go through PayPerPost for that? Of course you don't need to in the strictest sense, but when you consider ease-of-use, the security of having an arbitrator to ensure that you get paid (or, if you're an advertiser, to ensure that you get what you pay for) and the fact that PayPerPost only charges a 10% fee (unbelievably low compared to the 50% and up charged by competitors such as ReviewMe), it begins to look like a pretty sweet deal.

So how does it work? Bloggers in the network simply place a badge on their blog advertising their availability. If an advertiser surfs across such a blog and sees what they like, they can just click on the badge to sign up and hire that blogger to advertise their site. It doesn't get much easier.

The other improvement this rollout brings that's got me all excited is the ability to reserve an opportunity for six hours. Six hours!!! This should make it much easier to nab quality opportunities that have actual relevance to this blog and to you, dear readers.

PayPerPost just keeps making it easier to make a good bit of extra income for just a little bit of extra work. Have you signed up yet? Why not? You can use any of the links in this post to head over there and sign up today, or if you feel like helping a girl out, you can also click the affiliate badge over on the side bar to send a little kickback my way.

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I still miss my MBTV

So it seems that TWoP has been bought out by Bravo.

Well, huh. I'm not sure what to think about this, or what to expect. I've mostly made my peace with TWoP (although I still avoid the forums), but I guess I still have enough bitter resentment residue from forum run-ins to find their massive success slightly irritating, even as I'm happy for Sars. Mostly, I'm wondering if this will change the site much, and make the insufferable parts even more insufferable, or if the corporatization will temper the a-holery that sometimes goes on over there... or if it will just make it worse.

Whatever happens, should be interesting.

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