Easy Way to Contact Bloggers for Advertising

PayPerPost has always offered a great way for advertisers to get advertising and links from bloggers, but it was more of a mass blogger campaign for advertisers. Now with the introduction of PPP Direct, advertisers can contact bloggers directly and negotiate their fee.

Bloggers can make money blogging with this sytem since advertisers will pay them based on what their site is all about rather than generic parameters aimed at a group of bloggers. Advertisers simply click on the badges that bloggers have on their sidebar and make an offer. Blogger then can counter the offer or take it and complete the assignment.

It is an easy way to use an escrow type service to facilitate blog advertising and not have to rely directly on either the blogger, or the advertiser to complete the transaction. PPP Direct cuts out the massive overhead. Where competitors like ReviewMe charge 50-100% markup and keep up to half your money, PPP Direct only charges a 10% fee, 5% of which goes to transaction fees for PayPal and credit card processing.

Bloggers set a minimum price they are willing to take for a post, but it is truly negotiable. There are many instances where bloggers may do the posts for less, or more based on how well the advertisers website relates to their blog.

How Good are Your Money Management Skills?

Was looking for a little quiz to post about finding out your ability to manage your money. I found a simple one on the AARP site that does the duty. It is a simple True/False quiz so there is no math involved at all. Just answer the questions and see what kind of score you get. The quiz will only take a couple of minutes to complete so it isn't daunting by any means.

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Stonehawk Drug Rehab

Stonehawk drug rehab center offers somewhat of a different approach to addiction. Instead of forcing addicts to use a 12 step program like many other treatment centers do, Stone Hawk just teaches students how to live. The program is designed to cleanse the body and then cleanse the mind. The leaders have tried many programs themselves and found this way to be the one that worked for them. So they have already been down the road of recovery.

Filthy Rich Businesses

It's a dirty job, but someone has to do it. Entrepreneur.com has an interesting article about making money from getting dirty. These are businesses that aren't exactly pretty, but the owners have a nice niche and are taking advantage of the profits that go along with it.

Jay Villemarette cleans skeletons--mostly animal and human skulls--for a living. He owns Skulls Unlimited International and insists there's never a dull moment at the office. We'll take his word for it. After all, his company might be cleaning a gorilla skull one day and that of a chipmunk, a giraffe or a human the next.

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Another business that I've seen on The Learning Channel, or one of those places was a guy that cleaned up after the dead. The show followed him as he cleaned up after dead bodies when the police had already gone. AIDs victims, murder victims, etc. This is all work that the homeowner was typically responsible for, but the problem with disease made it a bad idea for them to clean it up. Many times they were contacted by authorities to do the claen ups. Others have used the deceased's Death insurance to cop the bill.