Well, I’m going to do the same, but go one up on John and Tyler by offering cash incentives, as well as links back to your blog.

Yesterday I wrote about the Pay Per Post ‘Review This Post’ scheme. If you missed yesterdays entry, go read it just now - we’ll wait for you to catch up :-).

Back again? OK then, I’m sure you can see where this is going… Basically, if you review an entry on the Get Rich Project, you’ll get paid $7.50. If you also meet a few other criteria, I will link back to you in a review round-up. Consider this - the Get Rich Project is a PageRank 4 site (and has been as high as PR 6), with a fast growing readership. A back link from here could be quite valuable.

Criteria

So what are the criteria? Basically:

• Review an entry, complete with link. Do this by clicking the “Review this post…” button in the entry and accepting the Pay Per Post “opportunity” (requires signing-up).
• Within the review, you should link to the Get Rich Project home page with the link text “getting rich online”.
• Reviews should be at least 150 words, or thereabouts.
• Letting me know about your review (include the URL, name of your blog, etc), through the contact form would be a good idea.

Once I’ve collected enough reviews, I will round them up and link to your blog home page, and the review itself.

Back links and cash for a measly 150 words? What are you waiting for?!

¹ See here and here for examples.

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In essence it’s an affiliate scheme; a blogger places the button at the end of each of his posts, and if someone clicks on it, they get a unique Pay Per Post opportunity created for them. If they accept the opportunity and promptly sign up for PPP (new users only, I think), they will get $7.50 once the review is complete. Of course it wouldn’t be an affiliate scheme if you (the blogger, in this case me) weren’t getting paid, so when the review is posted, you get $7.50 as well. It might not seem like much, but if you have a large enough readership, it could prove a nice little earner.

Another benefit, is back links. Each review will link back to your blog, so as well as the financial benefits, you could end up with a substantial SERP + traffic boost.

All in all, it seemed a win-win deal. Of course, time will tell.

So Why Pay Per Post?

I actually signed up out of curiosity. There had been renewed buzz about PPP recently, so I wanted to see for myself what it was about. The “Review My Post” feature caught my eye, after I realised The Get Rich Project probably wouldn’t qualify for the Pay Per Post Marketplace (I have had a break of more than 90 days between posts recently). I’d like to try out the Marketplace, eventually, to see if it’s a better performer than ReviewMe (so if anyone from PPP wants to approve this blog, despite the break, I’ll happily write up a good word or two!).

So what do you think? Good idea, or waste of time? Would you try out “Rate My Post”?

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From the back (emphasis is mine):

At 26, Scott is a successful stockbroker and media commentator. He runs his own weekly finance radio show, chooses to drive a wreck and lives a full and rich life. His radio show has been described as finance for people don’t do finance. He makes money funky; your money can look after you once you learn to look after it.

The Barefoot Investor is the only finance book I’ve managed to read from start to finish; lets face it - finance is a bit of a boring subject for most people. The book distills much of the jargon and dry subject matter into a form which can be easily related to, easily understood, and easily acted on.

It’s hard to describe the difference this makes. While reading The Barefoot Investor, you start thinking about how you are going to implement the tips and ideas you get, and more importantly, when. This book makes you want to take control over your finances, and it gives you the information you need to do it.

It’s important to note that this book is (mostly) not about short-term gain. Most of the advice is based on long-term strategies which will make you “financially free” (i.e. not worrying about your finances and not living payday to payday). There are some short-term strategies for helping you get on the right track, but mostly the book looks at the “long game,” or - in Barefoot Terminology - “working your Mojo.”

For me, the best chapter (or “step”) in the book, is #3 - “Repo Your Repayments.” This chapter primarily deals with debt and what can be done about it. It clearly looks at many of the common forms of consumer debt, why they’re bad, and more importantly, what can be done to get out of the trap.

So in summary - buy this book. If you’re looking for a book to help you understand your finances, with clear, practical advice, I don’t think you’ll find one much better than this.

¹ Examples would include: Your Money or Your Wife, What Price the Little Things, and Be a Bank Account Tart

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So how kind of him to share what he knows, in the form of a free eBook?

‘Make Money Online with John Chow dot Com’, is a compendium of previous articles from John’s blog, with a little updating to bring older information up-to-date. Tapping into his blog archives like this demonstrates the power of a good blog - the content for a book is already there, it just needs to be reformatted. if you’ve been reading johnchow.com for a while now, you may well know all of the contents of the book already. Even so, having John’s articles collated into one easily portable format is quite handy.

Anyway, the eBook itself; it doesn’t quite have the professional appearance of the usual internet marketeer fare, which is part of the point, I guess. The purpose of the eBook is purely to act as a traffic generator for johnchow.com, not to upsell another product. The first few pages actually deal with this, and it’s refreshing to read something which isn’t acting as a giant sales brochure. The Jerk, John is not.

Obviously the book does still have a monetization plan. The plan is affiliate sales. It’s the chapters relating to this which I found most useful. At the very start, we are given a list of recommended money makers. While there were some of the usual suspects, I’ve now learned of a few new schemes to try out on the Get Rich Project, and how best to optimize their use.

Much of the book deals with growing a blog. While it is all good advice, a lot of it has been written before (and not just on johnchow.com), so it can get a little repetitive. However there are still snippets of gold hidden away in there, so it’s worth at least skimming each section.

All in all, the eBook serves best in one of two roles:

1. a quick catch-up, if you’re new to making money online
2. a “pocket reference” style book - you already know the stuff, you just need a little reminder now and then.

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Reviews currently cost $40, and requests are handled by Review Me. You an see the Review Me Marketplace entry here, though it is a bit out of date.

Please note that if you want me to review a product or service, I need to actually try the product out first, or I won’t be able to review it! This is the main reason why I stopped doing reviews before - I was being asked to review a service I had not (and usually could not try). I will not lie to my readers by saying I used something I had not. So yeah, if you have, for example, an eBook you want me to review, you’ll have to give me a copy first.

I look forward to hearing from you!

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