Welcome to Something for Nothing

You all know my story of how I found PayPerPost on Digg. I’m blessed to say that I am Postie 61. Yes, that means I was the 61st person to notice the greatness that was to be found in PayPerPost. I knew Ted was on to something and I had to be apart of it.

I must admit that I joined on a whim. I figured even if I didn’t get paid I didn’t care because I had absolutely nothing to lose by doing it. It was for fun. Plus, it had a list of opportunities by fox and speed.tv and I can’t remember all the rest, but they were actual companies and not just link to this piece of spam website.

Well, I have to admit that I think I’ve done quite well for myself. I’ve personally slowed down the rate at which I’m blogging since the initial addiction. I’ll write more about this later. However, here’s a quick summary of my earning since June 30th when I first posted to PPP (PPP=PayPerPost when I’m lazy, which is most of the time).

Number of Paid Posts: 195
Average Posts Per Day: 1.72
Amount Paid by PPP: $1,130.63
Amount To Be Paid by PPP: $329.30
Total Amount Earned with PPP: $1459.93
Average Earned Per Post: $7.49

Right now all of that money just goes into my bank account to cover life expenses. I can’t say I’ve spent it on anything. I just don’t believe in going out and buying something because I just earned $1500 extra dollars. I purchase things because I want to or because some other motivation. The fact I have money doesn’t influence me to spend more. I recently won $20,000 in a business plan contest. All of that money is just sitting in the bank earning more money. I have no reason to spend it. I prefer to just save all the money that I can so that later on down the road I have money in the bank to do whatever I want with it. How boring is that? Oh well, down the road when I have plenty of money to do whatever I want I’m happy.

Now, if I can make a personal request of Ted and PayPerPost. If you can just get the payout for the opportunites to increase by about 2 to 3 times the current rate then I could quit my job and just blog and do consulting work on the side. It would be a great combination since with this increase in payment I would make enough to pay all the bills. Then, anything I do consulting would just be the icing on the cake. Am I dreaming? I don’t really think so. I do need to keep developing my blogs, but I think there is a definite potential for this to happen.