[ ! ] The Sugarbuzz Project

Last year, I was a huge fan of PayPerPost, a company that pays you to make sponsored posts on your blog. According to my 2008 online income report, I made a pretty good amount of money, mostly thanks to PayPerPost. For a long time, I went around telling everyone I could about the service, even scoring a pretty big stack of referrals (even though none of them ever moved past the signup stage, so I didn’t get paid for them).

And then, something changed. One day, I logged in to my account to find that all of the great paying offers (as in, above $5 per post) were gone. Instead, there were tons of offers ranging from less than a buck to maybe $3. To me, that was a bad thing, considering the amount of money I had been pulling down from that site. So naturally, I strayed from them and have done a significantly smaller amout of sponsored posts.

Fast forward to today. IZEA (the parent company of PayPerPost and SocialSpark) has gone live with PayPerPost v4.0. The system is set up totally different than before, and needless to say it has its ups and downs.

The way their new system looks and feels is very similar to other paid-to-post systems, only green (and by ‘green’ I don’t mean ‘eco-friendly’). It is still very easy to use, although I’ve noticed that lately they have been a bit short on offers (probably due to the economy and the transition to the new system).

Another thing that PayPerPost has changed is instead of paying out net 30 (which I believe is how they used to have it set up), they are now doing a minimum payout level of $50. I really did prefer seeing my money faster, especially with the lack of offers available. The fewer offers, the longer it will take to reach that payout level.

Other than the slow business and the high minimum payout, I still feel that IZEA has a viable project on their hands, and I do look forward to giving PayPerPost v4.0 a good test to see how it works. Hopefully I can make money with them again.

This is a sponsored post.