Welcome to Smuggle Me

I love talking with people that don’t know much about blogging and tell them that I get paid to blog. Their jaws drop and then ask how I’m able to do that. If they were honest they would ask me what they were really thinking: who pays you to blog? It’s pretty simple if you know something about blogs. Blogs are very powerful and offer a lot of advantages over other forms of online advertising.

It turns out that a lot of people understand this principle, because I’ve gotten a number of requests for me to do paid blog posts. It was pretty nice to do that, but there was quite a few logistical costs that weren’t so fun to manage. For this reason, I’m glad that PayPerPost is leading the industry in blog advertising and has recently started PayPerPost Direct.

I’ve been meaning to add it to my blog for a while, but I’m finally getting around to it. There are actually a number of other options similar to this in the marketplace like ReviewMe. I’ve heard ReviewMe keeps up to half of your money on posts. That makes me wonder why I should even try with ReviewMe. Maybe others have experiences that would teach me otherwise, but for now I think I’ll stick with PPP direct, because they only charge 10%. I’m interested to see if PPP can continue to do it with those margins since I know how much PayPal charges per transaction.

Once again I wish I had Dan Rua’s seat and could enjoy watching PayPerPost’s statistics on clicks, conversions, margins, etc. Maybe once I finish my Masters degree next year I can convince Ted to hire me. I’ll be their resident jack of all traits that can cover for anyone that is gone. Well, I can always dream.

By the way, here’s a link where you can hire me to blog about you, your company or your mamma.