Limes with Orange

A couple of weeks ago, I received my first email offer from someone asking me to blog about their product in exchange for a sample. I had heard other bloggers mention these sorts of interchanges, but had never experienced it for myself. It's pretty cool actually, that someone out there thinks my blog is a good place to advertise their stuff. In the end, I wasn't interested in the product so I declined. But I now have another option: PayPerPost Direct.

So how does this work. I put this handy dandy little badge in my sidebar showing that I'm part of this program and if an advertiser is reading my blog and likes it enough to want me to blog about their service or product, they just click the aforementioned handy dandy little badge. And voila! I have a new chance to make money.

Of course, there are already other companies that offer similar services already out there, but they take a whopping chunk of change for the privilege, between 50-100% markup!! But PPP Direct only charges a 10% service fee and half of that is simply to pay the credit card or PayPal fees. That should make the advertisers happy which, hopefully, in turn makes me happy.

And I have to admit, I'm far more comfortable with the idea of working through an intermediary that I already know and trust than working directly with an advertiser that I don't know from Adam (many apologies to my friend Adam who must be so sick of that expression). Now I guess I just wait and see if it works!

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