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Get paid to blog with Smorty

April 30, 2007 by Tricia

Have you heard of Sm0rty yet?

Sm0rty is a brand new service that allows bloggers to blog for money. I believe that Sm0rty launched near the end of March 2007. Advertisers that would like to promote a product, business, service or website sign on to Sm0rty and create opportunities that bloggers who have registered into the system can then select and write an opinion about the topic of the opportunity for a specified amount of money.

Sm0rty is basically the middle man handling the transactions between bloggers and advertisers. Advertisers get links within posts and articles about their products or sites, and bloggers get paid to blog. Once a blogger selects an opportunity to post about they have up to three days to complete their task. Keep in mind though, that Sm0rty is in Australia and the time limit is posted in Australian time.

At this time Sm0rty is only accepting blogs on their own domain in the form domain.com rather than domain.com/blog. They are accepting blogs that are at least three months old, indexed in Google and that have a minimum of 2 posts per week. Bloggers are paid weekly for they tasks that they have completed. The prices that bloggers are paid for their blog advertising can vary but it’s based on the sites page rank, Alexa rank and it seems how quickly tasks are returned and if they are accepted once handed in. Bloggers with high ratings can apparently make up to $100 per paid post. The minimum price is supposed to be set at $6, but at this time I can see one opportunity that is valued at $3.00.

If you’d like to get paid to blog why don’t you try signing up with Sm0rty and see if your site gets accepted.

I had the worst weekend!

April 11, 2007 by Tricia

I’m starting to feel like a broken record. “I don’t feel good” … I hope I don’t sound like that, really. In person or on this site. It’s just that, I really really don’t feel good! LOL

You know I like posting on my sites right? Well … if you don’t see new posts for day or more it’s probably because I’m not feeling all that well. I mean, I’m a woman … I can talk and post all day if I want to – it comes with the breed. We have lots to say. It’s just that when I’m feeling really bad I can’t make myself sit in front of the computer.

I thought that getting a laptop might help so I got one last August. My thinking at the time was that if I was having a bad day at least I could lie down or slouch on the couch (that rhymes!) and still type away, or at least surf my favorite sites. Stupid me … I’m a lefty and I like sitting or lying on the left hand side of the couch (left when facing) and uh … my left arm is touching the couches back. That makes it kind of hard to type. LOL

So you know what I do now when I’m lying on the couch not feeling well enough to sit up? I lie on my side, and have my laptop on the table next to the couch. I pull the table over so it’s touching the couch and lean in a weird position and type that way. I must say this works much better for surfing than it does for typing.

At least now that I have a laptop … well when my husband isn’t hogging it … I can go outside into my back yard garden with it, or uhm … I can lie in bed with it or even shhhhh take it in the bathroom. Shhhh I didn’t say that!

Having told you all the different ways that I can possibly use our computers, when I’m feeling good or bad, none of that helped me this weekend.

I have my bad days, and my semi better than bad days, but I think from Friday onward I’ve been the worst that I’ve been in a while. I might even be able to go back earlier than Friday, … but I know that whatever is going on got worse and worse from Friday onward.

I’ve been getting fevers in cycles of every two hours or so. It spikes up and I’m freezing and shivering, and then, maybe 20 minutes later I’m peeling off the sweater that I just put on because I’m too hot since the fever is coming down again. I’ll just start to feel better and boom another feverish spike. So on top of all the other medications that I take I’ve been taking Tylenol regularly for the last 6 or so days to try to control the fevers.

If you ever wondered why the domain that this website is on is called Feverishthoughts – well there’s your answer. Fevers are a regular part of my life. So is thinking.

I guess I withstood the fever spikes on Friday pretty well, but by Saturday they were taking their toll on me. My abdomen was aching and I was still feverish on and off. I went through a weird napping phase over the weekend and slept on the couch on and off from Saturday through to Sunday. I think the first time I slept in my own bed in days was Monday night.

Yesterday was the worst. Gut rot supreme. When I got up in the morning just looking at a glass of water almost made me lose whatever was in my stomach at the time. I think I got up around 9 a.m. and I managed to stay awake until about 3 pm, but then I crashed on the couch again until 6 or 7 pm. Spent a bit of time with my husband and then crashed on the couch between 10:30 pm and woke again at 3 a.m for an hour at the most. I thought I was wide awake, but ended up falling asleep on the couch again by 4 a.m and woke at 8 a.m. when my husband came down stairs for breakfast.

Today is going better. It’s going on 6 p.m. and I’m still awake. I’m still feverish and achy in a gut rot kind of way though.

What really killed me yesterday was that it was 1k Tuesday again. This time they were going to put out 5 $100 posts, and one $500 post. Judging by the leaderboard for the day I think they might have put out as many as 7 $100 posts. I missed all of them as I woozily lay on the couch with the lap top in front of me, watching all day (whenever I was awake that is) for big money writing opportunities to show up. The only one that I managed to see was the $500 posting opportunity at about 7:50 pm. I tried for it, but of course didn’t get it.

Oh well, them’s the breaks. I did get that excellent posting opportunity last Tuesday, and there’s two more 1K Tuesdays coming up this month. Maybe I’ll snag something on one of those.

Even though I still feel like crap today I’ve been working hard, trying to make up for not really doing much if any internet work over the weekend. Chris had a short day at work too and he’s been working on making some funds too. We actually broke a personal record today and we are both on the leaderboard at the same time. It might not last for the rest of the day, but as of right now, we’re both listed as being in the top 10 money earners for the day:

That’s me at the top, yeahhhh, and Chris is second from the bottom in the second column. Cool huh? Together you can see that we’ve made over $200 US. We actually made a bit more than that too because we each did some work for other companies too. Whoohoo! Boooyahhh!

Being sick at home and not knowing when or if I’ll be going back to work sucks, but I can’t tell you how much I appreciate the companies that have enabled me to make some money from home, and the advertisers who’ve made that possible too of course. I always try to do a good job when I’m writing – paid or unpaid. I do hope that visitors to this site enjoy all of the posts and excuse my “feverish thoughts” from time to time too.

I think it might be time to go and lie down again. Hopefully I won’t fall asleep again! If you don’t hear from me for a while I’m still here, still reading … I’m just trying to feel better is all, and uh … I’m probably surfing your site in a weird and uncomfortable position while on the couch. LOL

Ted M is the Best!

April 5, 2007 by Tricia

Still on cloud nine. Please, nobody do anything to bring me down – this is so nice!

Why am I so happy? Well, as you know some of the posts I write are compensated. I do some work for several companies, but I try to spread it out over several blogs. I also try to take writing opportunities that suit me – my personality, lifestyle, interests and or would be something very interesting to tell my readers.

One of the posts that I wrote on Tuesday was for Pay/perp0st. I actually enjoy the work I get from all the companies that offer me work, but Pay/perp0st is most definitely the best as far as having the largest choice in writing opportunities. I like being able to pick what I write about – it works out much better that way for me and my readers. Pay/perp0st opportunities are also available in a range of pay scale too.

That was the case on Tuesday. The post that I managed to snag required very specific Alexa and Technorati ranks. This blog happened to qualify and I was lucky enough to get the $2,500 writing opportunity. No, you did not read that wrong. That’s how much I was paid to write the post that I just linked too.

Some people might think I’ve sold my soul. Yes, some people are strongly against these kind of posts. When I first started blogging I really didn’t want to have advertising on my sites. Unfortunately times change. I became quite ill and was unable to return to work. I had to find a way to make an income from home. Hence the posts. However, please know that I try to only write about things that I think are interesting.

Anyway the point of this was really to give Ted, the owner of Pay/perp0st a bit of love. There are very few business’ of any kind that rewards their workers as well as Pay/perp0st has in the time that I’ve been working with them.

The company works very hard to secure good advertisers for Pay/perp0st. They’ve also worked very hard to get a wide variety of bloggers working for them. As I said there’s usually a variety of paid writing opportunities to chose from so you can pick and choose what you’d like to put on your blog. Yes there are days when I visit and I don’t find anything that I’m really interested in, or perhaps I mostly only see opportunities to write for companies that I’ve written for in the past. I don’t take ops on those days.

Ted is also very good about creating writing opportunities for the bloggers. Sure, the posts are often to promote some new Pay/perp0st feature, but some of them are just plain silly and he puts them out there for the heck of it. Does anyone remember my catfish video? I guess that opportunity was to promote the fact that advertisers could ask bloggers to do videos to promote their site or product, but over all it was just plain fun.

Every month there are opportunities created by Pay/perp0st themselves. Most don’t have huge restrictions in them so a good number of the bloggers who work with the company can take the ops.

Then there’s all the other great stuff that Ted and his faithful Pay/perp0st team have done. Lets see … They paid for a wedding for one of their bloggers. They’ve also tried to do something called a Patrol whenever they are in a new town for a convention or business. I’m not sure how many Patrols there’s been all together but I think at least 6 or 7 bloggers have been given the opportunity to make some quick and easy money by participating in a Patrol whenever Pay/perp0st has visited their city. Take Robyn for example. She’s the one that ran around the cold streets of Chicago last December. She was given $1000 for doing that, and she also got a brand new HP camera and an HP printer.

Someone pinch me!

April 4, 2007 by Tricia

OMG!

Am I dreaming? Someone pinch me please? Did I write a post worth a ton of money? Yes I did, look at the Pay/perp0st leaderboard image I took of the top earners for the day on Tuesday April 3rd:

Oh how I needed this money too! In the wee early morning hours of Tuesday I payed a boat load of bills, more than $1000 worth. Plus, there was that medical test … remember the camera pill I had to swallow in January? That cost me $1200 bucks … our health insurance doesn’t cover that test.

Pay/perp0st really didn’t need to offer an op that was priced that high for me to write about them. I do work for a number of blogging companies and by far and large P offers the most opportunities, good to unbelievably fantastic pay, and you can pick and chose which opportunities suit both you and your blog best. Plus, they are the only paid blogging company that regularly communicates with their bloggers. I’ve written posts praising and thanking them many times absolutely free of charge. I might have also wrote a few posts were I grumbled about changes that they made that weren’t working for me too. It’s just a huge bonus that I got paid so well to do it this time round.

BTW I’m in Canada and our dollar is a little less than the US dollar. Do you have any idea what $2500 converts to in in Canadian money? $2,895.76. Yah baby!

May the Canadian dollar fall just a little bit more before I get paid 30 days from now …

Thanks so much to everyone that stopped by to say congrats on getting that opportunity.

Make money blogging about the things you love

April 3, 2007 by Tricia

Since the day I began working with the blog advertising company Pay/perp0st I’ve had pretty much nothing but praise for them. Regular readers of this site know that I’ve been stuck at home because of my illness and that I desperately needed to find a way to make some kind of income from home. I discovered them just at the right time in my life and since October I’ve managed to make literally thousands of dollars by writing the occasional post on three of my blogs.

Pay/perp0st started up in July of 2006 and each month they continue to grow. They now have 15,000+ bl0ggers working with them writing sp0nsored content on their blogs for all kinds of advertisers.

Small bloggers and big bloggers alike can do well by working with P. That’s right, even if you’ve only been blogging for a short period of time you can sign up for Pay/perp0st and start making some money. Of course your site must be at least three months old and it must have more than 20 posts with no gaps of 30 or more days in the last 90 day period in order to qualify.

Opportunities range from $5 per post to as much as $2,500. Yes, that’s right. The highest price post I’ve ever seen on Pay/perp0st has been for $2,500 and in fact I’m the lucky one who’s writing it now. My hands are shaking and numb as I type this post because I can’t believe that I qualified for this opportunity. I would of course have written a post like this for pay/perp0st absolutely free of charge because they’ve been an excellent company to work with and they treat their bloggers very well.

They are fairly responsive to their bloggers needs. The site is still in Beta so they add new features to the site regularly. Sometimes we praise them, and other times we complain loudly. They listen to what we say and try to make their site work well for both advertiser and bloggers.

If you site is newish and you don’t have a page rank yet – don’t worry. There are many advertisers out there who create opportunities for small blogs every day. Blogs that have achieved some page ra/nk and other forms of ra/nk can of course get paid quite well by some of the advertisers posting opportunities.

Another thing that I like about working with Pay/perp0st is that I can pick which opportunities that I’d like to write. In that way, I can often find opportunities that suit my blogs quite well, and provide my readers with new sites to visit and or shop at through the opportunities that I write about on my sites.

Won’t you come and join me at Pay/perp0st? You can write daily or monthly – it’s up to you, but no matter how often you choose to write I guarantee you one thing – you will make some extra money.

Update: Thank you so much for all the congrats on this post everyone. I’m still shocked!

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