It sounded interesting at the time, especially with a hint at making money while blogging, so I jumped aboard then.

At the end of June, I get an email: “BlogStar Network is now [tag]PayPerPost[/tag]”
Curious, I go to peek at this thing. “Hmm… Sounds sneaky.”

I check it out, and they say that all you need to do is get a blog in there, and start posting.

My first day in, I posted three of the entries, and let them sit there. I sorta let the whole thing sit back for a month, not thinking that I would even get paid, or would see some sort of delay in payment.

When the first few payments ticked in, I was unbelievably astounded. I felt like I had won the lottery or something, and was telling the family about it. Mother came home from the hospital that night, too. I told her about it the next morning, while I was checking her blood sugar, and she said to me, “Justin, it’s about time you start making money with that thing.”

Little did I know that she was going to pass away later that evening.

So, with the loss of my mother, whom I love dearly, I had nothing else to do but find ways to make money, and make it fast.
I started dabbling in PayPerPost on a regular basis at this point.

To date, I have been paid $1,171.76 by the guys at PayPerPost. They only owe me $93.50, some lime green silly putty, and a PayPerPost shirt.

What do I do with the money?
I pay bills. Lots of bills. I put gas in my car, and have a little left over to eat lunch at work.

I am daring enough to have a celebration pizza for dinner tonight. Just pepperoni and black olives.

This means that I can soon go print out my PayPal statement, and show one of my friends that there is serious money to be had on the Internet.

There was another puzzle for $500 that ran later on in October, but I decided that I wasn’t going to even bother with it. While marketing buzzes usually work quite well the first time, repeating it immediately usually doesn’t provide the same results. The first puzzle was fine — it had only 64 pieces. The second puzzle, I hear had 192 pieces (That’s ridiculous. It’s not even funny.).

Here’s hoping that PayPerPost finds a new way to offer competition over large prizes.