Getting Paid Online To Review Real Products Offline

July 19th, 2007 · 6 Comments ·

I received a small package in the mail late last week from PayPerPost. This is a company that I have done paid reviews for online, and made quite a bit of easy money with (over $1500) in my spare time.

I opened the package right away of course, as past experience has always proven really cool stuff comes in the mail from PPP. This time it was something completely different though: a product sample…

I will tell you upfront that I am not being paid for this blog post - well, not directly anyway, I always make money when I blog - but I did want to share this concept with you and tell you about the latest from PayPerPost.

The company is barely over a year old and is one of the most innovative and creative online companies I have ever worked with. The CEO, Ted Murphy, is outrageous - someone I have deemed "The King of Buzz Marketing" in the short time I have been following him.

What they offer is a service between merchants and bloggers, as the middle man in the huge market of online advertising. Anyone (me, your mother, my neighbor) can set up a blog and review products and websites for pay. The top 4 bloggers for PPP have already earned well over $10,000 each. Of course, those are earnings from PayPerPost alone. As you well know, most bloggers have multiple income sources (contextual advertising, ad sales, affiliate marketing, etc).

The way it works is that you sign up to be a "Postie" (a blogger for PayPerPost) and then you review all of the opportunities when you log in to their website. You choose the 'opps' that are a good match for your blog, and you write reviews for those companies. Some of them are site reviews, some are product or service reviews, some of them just want mention of some sort (they are buying text links).

Back to the small package I received - this is part of a new service from PPP where they send you products or samples and give you a chance to TRY it and then review it.

What I got was a sample of Freeze It from www.freezeitgel.com. I had to laugh at the irony of this showing up in my mailbox, because I had just wenched my back last week down my right shoulder blade.

This is not the first time this year either. You might remember my recent post about Repetitive Stress Syndrome. There was a reason that topic was on my mind . It can be especially painful to sit in a computer chair and work any length of time in that condition. I know I'm not alone on that - in fact, I was just reading a few days ago that Bonnie (fellow reader) was suffering from a similar injury. Ouch!

Anyway, you can imagine how funny it was to me that I received this particular product sample at such a perfect time. I mean, they could have sent me dog food samples (I don't have a dog) or anti-aging cream ( ) or anything really.

They actually sent me a lot of it too. I think I got 4 sample packs - and you get at least 2 or 3 uses out of one sample (using it generously). This stuff ROCKS. If you've ever heard of Bio freeze or had hot/cold massage therapy… you know what I'm talking about. And I doubt I would have sat down here to tell you all of this if I hadn't used their product first… because the pain in my right shoulder blade is directly related to my mouse hand

Well, and funny thing - I had decided not to take the "opp" simply because I was busy with other things this week, but I've managed to tell you how much I love their product anyway. But the true point of all this rambling was to tell you about this new option or opportunity that PayPerPost is testing - to let their reviewers test products hands-on and then pay them for their reviews of those products.

I like it

Best,