11 December, 2006

I made a reference last week to wanting to get into [tag]selling insurance[/tag].

I had a commenter who asked a question about an [tag]insurance company[/tag] that has relations to the one I was going for.
I replied to the comment, and even sent an email to the person, to make sure they got my comment.

Today, I get a comment again from “Alex”, who basically reposted the link, and showed that they are, in fact, a spammer; One that actually is human, rather than another Tramadol-bot.
Kudos to you for getting by me, but guess what: I just ate your links.

I’ll be glad to let your links live with some actual weight, for a price. I’m not employed by your sister company yet, so advertising rates still do apply. There’s also a penalty rate for being a spammer of $10 per spammed link.
Your total cost is $40.
PayPal button’s on the About Me page; Yes, I accept credit cards, as long as they’re not stolen.

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Or not. I forget that humans make mistakes in this digital world. Alex is not a spammer; Alex came back and noticed that the same link was posted twice, and gave me a corrected link to an article that’s actually a rather interesting look at just how people think of Life Insurance.

Much of that article is the truth, and I know it from personal experience.
My mother had life insurance policies on all of us, because she wanted to make sure we all had good burials when we died. She didn’t want us buried in a flimsy wood box, but rather, in a decent casket, in a decent graveyard.

Thus, my apologies to Alex; Ye be not a spammer. Just human.

It seems that PayPerPost (the guys who’re giving out really good blog money) is finally offering us a way to track our referrals to the system.

Just for telling you about the system, getting you to sign up, and to make your first post, I get a $15 referral fee, which, I will admit in my low budget state, is sounding mightily delicious. Green makes me think of salad, and with that extra green from the referrals, I can do just that: Have a salad at Sweet Tomatoes.

For me, PayPerPost is a very easy to use system. I log in, look at a list of opportunities that I think might interest me, find one that actually tickles my interests, write about it, and thirty days later, I get paid for it.

You might notice that you don’t see too many posts like that here, either — they only allow you to do so many per day, and recommend that you only do posts that actually interest you. I’d never blog about getting a brazilian wax done normally (though Colleen might, hahaha!), so why should I do it just for the money?
(of note: I have no interest in having my hairs forcibly removed from betwixt mine legs with hot wax. ow. just ow.)

In summary, PayPerPost:
* Is quite easy to do.
* Can be quite fun, when you choose topics that interest you.
* May help to renew your interest in normal blogging.
* Will put money in your PayPal account when you get paid to blog about the things you love.