I have taken sponsored opportunities from PayPerPost, they have been great in getting me connected with a lot of advertisers. The money was not that bad either. But this is just TOO much for me to handle.

For those who don’t know, PayPerPost has an internal affiliate program where you get $15 per blogger sign up and $25 per advertiser sign up. BUT, the process to get paid for any of those referrals is anything but ordinary.

For blogger sign ups -

• When you sign up a blogger, $15 once the new Postie gets paid for their first opportunity post.

For advertiser sign ups -

• If you sign up an advertiser, you’ll get $25 when they make their first deposit

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So far I have 11 blogger sign ups, which translates to $165, and they are all pending. Money which I will probably never see. That’s nothing though, some bloggers I read over on the PayPerPost boards have dozens more sign ups than me with just a handful that have gone through.

PayPerPost Affiliate Program on CJ

I have an affiliate account on Commission Junction, so when I logged in today to get some banners etc… what do I see there? Hey, it’s PayPerPost! They are in CJ’s system.

I was thinking OK, maybe now I can actually make some money with them. Since the conversion was pretty OK – ish for like a month of exposure on my sidebar, as you can see from the screenshot above. Wonder how much the payout is? $1! Yep you read that right, you now get ONE DOLLAR per blogger and advertiser sign up! The difference is that any signups via CJ don’t need to go through getting paid for their first post, or making their first deposit in order for you to get paid. They just need to confirm their email with them.

To me this is just downright wrong! Why couldn’t they have offered a smaller payout in their internal affiliate program without the hoops?

Fine, they have a right to promote themselves using whatever avenues they can. They have their “Argus” project being launched soon, they want to lure in bigger advertisers like movie studios, record companies, etc…so basically they need a bigger user base to show them that. VC Dan says so himself “I’ll share that I’ve built a few businesses in the online advertising space and 50,000 Posties isn’t nearly enough for the kind of checks the big advertisers like to write.” I understand that you want to make more money, everyone does.

So what’s up with the buck!

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Hyder has been blogging for the past two years on this blog. He started Weborithm, his web company, in 2007 and along with designing blogs and websites also releases various web related products.