Posties

It's estimated that about 4000 children are born with Down Syndrome in the U.S. each year. Down Syndrome is a condition defined by the presence of an extra chromosome. It can cause a number of physical and intellectual developmental problems. Hearing and visions deficits and heart and lung problems are common among people with Down Syndrome. One of their biggest problems, though, can be a lack of

It's estimated that about 4000 children are born with Down Syndrome in the U.S. each year. Down Syndrome is a condition defined by the presence of an extra chromosome. It can cause a number of physical and intellectual developmental problems. Hearing and visions deficits and heart and lung problems are common among people with Down Syndrome. One of their biggest problems, though, can be a lack of

My mother died of breast cancer twenty years ago and one of my aunts lost the same battle a few years later. Three other women in my family survived breast cancer. The numbers put me in a high-risk category, but the fact is that if you have breasts, you can get breast cancer (yes, men get it, too.) Diagnosis and treatment have come a long way in the years since Mom died, but we still don't have a

My mother died of breast cancer twenty years ago and one of my aunts lost the same battle a few years later. Three other women in my family survived breast cancer. The numbers put me in a high-risk category, but the fact is that if you have breasts, you can get breast cancer (yes, men get it, too.) Diagnosis and treatment have come a long way in the years since Mom died, but we still don't have a

We recently received another framed photo to add to our collection of Posties on "The Great Wall of Posties." It's always exciting to open up the package and see which Postie is sending us something. This particular one comes to us all the way from Iowa, courtesy of Postie Jody. Jody is a full-time mother who brings in some family money via blogging. In fact, Jody says that it's with the

There are so many generous-spirited posties involved in community projects, causes and charities that I don't think we'll ever run out of material for our new Izea blog feature about posties doing good. We have to start somewhere, and I've made an arbitrary decision to focus today on two posties. Both are involved in animal welfare and both have created blogs dedicated to supporting some of their favorite causes. Pelf is The Turtle Lady. She's dedicated her academic pursuits towards preparing for a career preserving the critically endangered river terrapins. She must be pretty good at what she does, because she's visiting the US on scholarship as I write this, studying with some of the foremost experts in her field. She talks a lot about her beloved terrapins on her personal blog, but ther

Just before lunch Jenni brought a box over to me that was addressed to Ted and I. Upon opening the box I uncover a magical treat, a basket of cookies, brownies and popcorn! YUM! Lisa, Drew, Elizabeth, Colleen, Loretta, Karen, Corrin, Alli, Marisa, Hope and Julie sent us a care package after they heard about our incident Thursday night in New Orleans. Here's some pictures of the goodness... Travis and the Basket of Goodness Basket of Goodness The note. Definitely did brighten up our day, Thanks guys! Basket of Goodness, again

Yesterday I asked Posties--hey, Advertisers are welcome to also--send in photos of themselves wearing something green. After all, we want to share IZEA Loco with everyone! And we received two submissions, who get to share in our monthly cakeplow fun today. Here they are: Postie lisamariemary: Postie Heather in Beautiful British Columbia: Want to see your face get cakeplowed at the next IZEA Loco? Just send a photo of yourself wearing green, to ashley[at]izea[dot]com and I'll make sure and hang on to it.

Yesterday I asked Posties--hey, Advertisers are welcome to also--send in photos of themselves wearing something green. After all, we want to share IZEA Loco with everyone! And we received two submissions, who get to share in our monthly cakeplow fun today. Here they are: Postie lisamariemary: Postie Heather in Beautiful British Columbia: Want to see your face get cakeplowed at the next IZEA Loco? Just send a photo of yourself wearing green, to ashley[at]izea[dot]com and I'll make sure and hang on to it.

We met some of our very own Posties at the SXSW Interactive Festival earlier today. We always enjoy that! When you have a chance go check-out their sites: - Kitykity.com - Mom's Brag Vlog Great to meet you guys!

At the beginning of this year I sat down with the team and set a goal of having 100,000 Posties by Janaury 1, 2008. 100,000 Posties?!? At the time we only had around 11k and the growth rate didn't indicate that was necessarily achievable. The team agreed to my seemingly unattainable goal and whispered, "this guy is crazy" under their breathe. I am not going to say they weren't right about the crazy part. I knew it was going to be a major undertaking and over the past year we have worked very hard at getting the word out about PayPerPost. Of course we couldn't do it all alone. We owe a lot of our growth to our loyal Posties and Advertisers, you guys are awesome and represent the best community on the Internet. Our good friends Michael Arrington and Jason Calacanis have also done a stellar job of driving traffic and making sure the entire blogosphere knows our name. We simply couldn't afford that type of advertising if we had to buy it. I really need to find some time to write thes

Today we received another framed photo to add to our Great Wall of Posties"! This one comes from "The Domestic Diva." As you can see she put some effort into making it for us! I particularly like the added touch of the woman on the corner of the frame (second photo); I can only assume she must be a diva as well! There was also a note reading "PPP totally rocks!!! (my socks)" which I thought was fun!When you have a chance head over to http://thedomesticdiva.org/blog! And check out the homepage at TheDomesticDiva.org. It's a pretty "rockin'" page!If you have a photo you'd like displayed on The Great Wall of Posties please send it to:PayPerPost The Great Wall of Posties 150 North Orange Avenue, Suite 304 Orlando, FL 32801

As y’all know I’ve been a pretty happy member of PayPerPost for about 3 months now. (If you’re not sure what PayPerPost is, then check out my The King Of Paid To Blog Networks.) I’ve been happily plugging along writing sponsored posts for $5 a pop most of the time, getting excited about the occasional $7 or $10 post. Well, it looks like that’s about to change… PayPerPost has had a problem with the Alexa rankings of blogs not properly updating in their system for many, many months now. They are aware of the problem and recommend logging out of youraccount, logging back in and waiting a few days to see if the stats update. I’ve done that numerous times as my Alexa ranking decreased from 750,000 to its current 350,000, but my numbers never updated. I didn’t worry about it too much until today. I was poking around looking at the offers that I was not eligible for and noticed quite a few that had no Google PR requirement (PR hasn&rsq

Yesterday we received a package from Postie Cherry, and in it was a framed photo to add to The Great Wall of Posties!  She'll be receiving a PostiePack with some awesome swag in it!  Included with Cherry's photo was also a wonderful note I felt worthy of sharing with everyone! When you have a few moments, check-out Cherry's blogs: - Cherry's Comfort Zone - DigiScrapz: Captured Memories - Wishing and Hoping - Blogsilog

Posties, Please tell the blogosphere that today is World Alzheimer's Day! We revised this week's Alzheimer's Association opportunity to reduce the number and complexity of linking requirements. We want to make it easier for you to quickly inform your readers of the importance of helping to end Alzheimer's during the month of September! Your effort will help raise $1 million that will be matched by the Harrah's Foundation in the month of September, so timeliness is key for this opportunity! Please help us fulfill the remaining 100 posts tomorrow, on World Alzheimer's Day! The opportunity asks that you please encourage your readers to host their own World Alzheimer's Day "Purple Party" during the month of September, in honor of World Alzheimer's Day! Ask your readers to invite family, friends and colleagues to donate the money they might have spent on an evening out... to the Alzheimer’s Association! Visit the Alzheimer's Association to discover steps to planni

When I came back from lunch today I had a huge envelope sitting on my desk! I love, love, love surprise packages! Then I noticed who it was from, and it is noneother than our recent "Featured Blogger", Erica! She sent us this really awesome picture & frame for us to hang on The Great Wall of Posties. I'm on it, Erica, and I'll be sending out your PostiePack shortly! In addition to the frame, Erica also included a really nice note I thought worth sharing with everyone:SO nice, Erica! It makes us feel good to know we're doing some good in the world! If you haven't already make sure and check out Eric's blog at http://www.beautiful-mess.com/blog.

Posties and Advertisers we need your help! Within the next few months our new space upstairs will be complete. We'll have another 10,000 square feet of room for us to expand and we'll finally have enough space to invite you all over for a party (well... 50 at a time or so anyway). The problem is we are going to have huge amounts of bare, naked, ugly walls crying for some Postie love. We simply don't have enough pictures of you guys to fill all that space. To those of you that are new to the Great Wall of Posties let me give you a run down of how it works. 1. Send us a framed photo of you to the address below (bonus points for dying your hair blue or making your own shirt). Please make sure that you provide your shipping address, your name, your username and your shirt size. PayPerPost Wall of Posties150 North Orange AvenueSuite 304Orlando, Florida 32801 2. We'll take your photo and hang it on our wall. We will also do a blog post about your photo and hook you up with a lin

Hey Posties!Post quality, Postie behaviors, adherence to PayPerPost ToS, reporting ToS violations - all of these have been topics of discussions, and we have some answers we think will be incredibly helpful for the entire PPP Community!The Customer Love team focuses a good deal of time keeping Posties on track.  We are happy to share some of those details with you!  We receive reports weekly, nearly daily, on questionable Posties (we even have a document dedicated to them - it's called 'Questionable Bloggers' because we are full of creativity!).  The reasons can be anywhere from unoriginal content to ad saturation or general poor practices.  These reports come from Customer Love, from Posties, and from Advertisers.  It really does take every part of our dynamic community working together!Once we get a report, we send a note to the Postie in question to let them know they've been flagged, and we will be researching the account.  During this time, the Po

It has to come, sooner or later. PayPerPost will be clamping down on some of their posties who are believed to be attempting to game the system. According to PPP, it's known that of late there's a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

This is just a little reminder about the super secret Freeze It Opp!  Isn't it great to be a part of this awesome new program!  We'd like to get lots more samples and products into your hands, but we can't do this alone.  If you continue to do quality posts, more Advertisers will come on board wanting to offer product sampling!We noticed some of you added the Freeze It code to your blog's tags, but haven't completed your post yet.  Step two is trying out the samples you received with the original letter.  What did you think?  Are all your aches and pains at bay?  If you haven't already, find the Opp for Freeze It titled, Try it & See! and submit your post.  Remember to include a photo, too.  Today it's Freeze It gel, who knows what tomorrow will bring!To talk to other Posties about Freeze It, check out the thread on the boards.  If you have any questions regarding this Opp, Try it & See!, please send Customer Love a ticke

As usual, I went to check if there any assignments given to me by PayU2Blog just now.Yip..there are 2 assignments...;D Assignments are normally out on Fridays. But once in a while, we will get some tasks on Tuesdays or Wednesdays. After checking the assignments, I saw 2 unread messages from Tony or Heath.Oopps...warning message from Heath to all PayU2Blog bloggers. If you are one of the

The last few months have been nothing short of amazing for us. We are approaching 40,000 Posties and will cross that threshold next week. As a result marketplace throughput has skyrocketed. We are seeing Opps go faster than ever before. The networks appetite for new Opportunities has gotten to the point where we need to control things a bit and regulate a more even distribution among all of our Posties. I know some of you are going to be upset while others are going to be relieved. Decisions like this rarely make everyone happy, but I am forced to look at the big picture and do what is right for the marketplace. There will be a release later today that will limit Posties to 2 posts per day until further notice. This should allievate some issues caused by some Posties taking an large amount of the available Opps and open these up to more people.

The last few months have been nothing short of amazing for us. We are approaching 40,000 Posties and will cross that threshold next week. As a result marketplace throughput has skyrocketed. We are seeing Opps go faster than ever before. The networks appetite for new Opportunities has gotten to the point where we need to control things a bit and regulate a more even distribution among all of our Posties. I know some of you are going to be upset while others are going to be relieved. Decisions like this rarely make everyone happy, but I am forced to look at the big picture and do what is right for the marketplace. There will be a release later today that will limit Posties to 2 posts per day until further notice. This should allievate some issues caused by some Posties taking an large amount of the available Opps and open these up to more people.

Many of you saw the warped Forbes article that came out on Monday. Aside from having data just plain wrong they went on the offensive against our Posties and Advertisers. This morning I received an email from an undisclosed source who said the following."...I still have lots of friends back there in the upper echelons of the magazine business. I just got a ping from one of them who knows the folks over at Forbes. He told me that your Posties totally rallied for you and that the author of that Forbes piece on PPP got hammered with hate mail from your bloggers. You've got a loyal posse - and the folks at the top of old media have taken notice to your existence. Just a touch of pleasant intelligence from behind the glossy paper curtain!"Way to go Posties. Stand up for what we are doing here. It may not always be easy but together we are changing the name of the game... Viva la revolucion!

And no, that is not a typo for Pasties.PPP – payperpost is one of the great internet sites. Where else can one go to blog AND earn money? Hmm? It is easy, very easy as a matter of fact. I am blogging anyway so I might as well earn some extra money while I am at it. So far I have written 6 paid posts for advertisers through payperpost and am very excited about the opportunities to come. The pay for posts varies widely from $5 – $500 (but let’s be realistic, most opportunities will be in the $5-$15 range) and can be for anything from paintball guns to movie reviews.The advertiser could want you to write in a strictly positive tone or just simply want to see you write – positive, neutral, negative – any publicity is good publicity right?I signed up when I saw an article in an online publication about payperpost and it took a while of me playing with my HTML to get my blog accepted… because I didn’t know what ‘nofollow’meant and it wasn’t until I googled it, that I got

This is an alarming notice to PPP posties who are like me at the moment : writing one paid post after another paid post; monetizing your blog vehemently. Stop and read this impotant post from the advertisers to all the posties. I read about this when I was hanging out at Lilian's blog. Apparently, there was an important post for posties. Thanks, Lilian, for always keeping us well informed of the

I am looking for a handful of Posties to be featured on a new PPP.com site that will be rolling out in a couple of weeks. If you have a decent pagerank (4 or better) and decent traffic Alexa score (250k or better) and you want to be featured please post your url and a 35-50 word description of your site. You will be featured all over the site so expect a nice traffic bump : )Update!Perhaps this will help:

I just realized that I forgot to post the CalacanisCast on our blog after it went live. You can view that here:I have talked about the disclosure issue time and again. This is a long interview that at times seems to go around in circles, but the best part is at the end. Unfortunately you can't fast forward on the PodTech.net player (they should fix that), but if you want to know what happened click here.I am happy to hook you up Robyn! You deserve it : )

Marty, Yvonne and I spent some time Friday afternoon hanging up the Postie photos we've received so far and they look great!Here are some pictures of the pictures (and notice how well the fire alarm blends with them):The pictures that are hanging up right now are close to Ted's desk. That way they are closer to his heart! (How's that for cheese?) Seriously though, the wall is looking great but we need LOTS more photos! So if you haven't sent in yours already what are you waiting for?We will be sitting on the edge of our seats, eager that every time our front door opens it is the mail man delivering us Postie pics.Yeah, me and Veronique goofing off (we can't help it we're really good at it)!

Just as I was posting my previous post I received an email forwarded on to me from one of our advertisers that contained some feedback about the Posties who took his Opp. I wanted to share some excerpts with the Posties because I think it is important as it relates to why advertisers may want to segment some of their opportunities."I kind of expected them to (or hoped that they would…) visit my site and get a general feeling about it, and then write something thoughtful. Instead, many of the posts seemed to have been done in haste and with little style."Ouch. That's not something I want to hear, though I can relate. I have seen some posts that are lacking in style as well. Those Posties receive either 1 or 2 tacks and in some cases are banned depending on how weak the post is. Overall most Posties do a great job, but these Posties can ruin an advertisers experience."I will try again. This time I will require a higher rating from the Posties, and I will block many of those who resp

Many of you took the opportunity for the movie The Ultimate Gift this weekend. In the spirit of sharing feedback I wanted to thank all of you for doing such a great job with this opportunity. The advertiser was really impressed with the posts as is very happy."I'll say it very simply, I'm the last person in the world you need to convince on how strong and immediate the results were through PPP. It was an absolute blast to watch how quickly and how powerfully the web was filled with positive messages through your bloggers. We will naturally launch many more opportunities in the next days and weeks and I can't wait.""Anyway, bottom line, our campaign for The Ultimate Gift has already had a lot of high points but none more exciting or rewarding than when you and Pay Per Post came into our mix. Beautiful stuff!"That's what I'm talkin' 'bout Willis! Great job Posties. Admittedly, the topic was really interesting and inspirational. This looks like it is going to be a great movie, defi

So you wanna be a Rockstar?! Here's your chance. RockStartup is putting out a call to the Posties.RockStartup is currently working on our TV deal and we need your help. We are looking for some pPosties to become possible characters in the show. Our agents, the TV networks and us at RockStartup want to hear and see your side of the PayPerPost story! You have a chance to be part of a real TV show if all goes as planned.- Upload a video of yourself to YouTube, or the like(max. 3 minutes)- Think of it as an audition tape - Show us your story - When you use PPP - What do you use the extra money for? - How has it affected your life? - Be creative, and over the top, but always be yourself - It can be funny, serious, dramatic, positive, negative, whatever, we just want to hear your story- Send the link to travis(at)payperpost(dotcom)- Once I receive the link for your video I will reply with a release that needs to be signed and mailed/faxed back to me. This gives us per