Squareface @ 31°North

Making money writing reviews is becoming dated, and unless you can afford the time to log on to PPP religiously to find a suitable opportunity to post, the initial high of grabbing opportunities will soon wear off. The amount offered for the posts may start to seem miserly and opportunity topics sometimes just cannot be weaved into the genre of your blog.

Setting up your blog with PayPerPost Direct (PayPerPost’s new feature) facilitates advertisers to contact you directly to write a review for them, and the price is your call. Say someone comes across your blog and likes your writing style or the genre of your blog suits their interests, all they have to do is click on the PPP Direct widget on your site and negotiation starts there. I know I will feel flattered should an advertiser actually approach me to write for them, rather than my fishing around in the opportunities marketplace, almost always choosing a good opportunity one second later than others. More time shall be granted to churn out the review too. Right now, it feels like writing PPP posts is training for my exams since reviews are timed and I am pushed to come up with the review within an hour or else the opportunity will slip away. One hour may sound long to spin a review less than 300 words, but be aware of reading time necessary to understand the advertised and planning time needed before presenting it. Unless you wanna cheat your way by crapping. If so, 10 minutes will do the trick.

Competition is stiff in the escrow-like service industry, but PPP stands out from other sites like ReviewMe, SponsoredReviews, Blogitive, Blogvertise, CREAMaid considering its markup rate is the lowest. ReviewMe charges 50-100% markup and keep up to half of your deserved money. Moreover, ReviewMe has comparatively stricter critera to qualify as their bloggers. PPP, by way of contrast, is a window of opportunities. With PPP Direct now, an even larger window.

This concept of advertisers approaching you directly for a niche review is not a new one for SponsoredReviews, but they take away a considerable amount of your fair share — leaving you only 65% of what the advertiser actually pays, as compared to PPP’s 90%, whereby 5% goes to transaction fees. One winning point for SponsoredReviews is that you will receive your payment 14 days after submitting your review, in contrast to PPP’s 30 days. However, the steps needed before successfully getting paid is not as straightforward as PPP. At SponsoredReviews, you have to bid for an opportunity first, wait for the advertiser to approve your bid (which can take as long as they want), before working on the review.

Nothing beats getting duly paid for your laborious work on blog ads.