After a positive review from my BFF Shen, I decided to try out blog marketing site PayPerPost (PPP) where we're paid for our honest opinions on various products and services. To date I have made $224.53 which is a great tiny sum for doing what I love to do anyway. It helps pay my electricity and Internet bills.

For copywriters, the critical part is usually getting paid, so for me, I am happy to take up any writing jobs that are guaranteed to pay. After all, for writers, time is money. And now with Jack in my life, my time is even more precious to me, so I gladly sacrifice sleep time for writing time that I know will pay.

I'd never thought of blogging for money before encountering PPP. Previously all my blogs had been personal or about my cats (they have their own blog). But since I began writing for PPP, I began thinking seriously about what direction I wanted my blog to go, and the opportunities I selected reflected that.

I've always felt strongly about keeping myself educated on the important things in my life: managing personal and family finances, health issues that might affect my loved ones, and (okay, not important, but they light my fire) my passion for apps and gadgets and widgets, which I've begun writing about more recently so much so I decided to resurrect an old tech blog I had started a while ago and place my tech posts there. Those are the only ones that feel a little out of place here.

In addition, I've taken a greater interest in learning how to drive traffic to my blog, improve my page ratings, and optimising my hit rate through search engines. I have also been networking more with other bloggers and learning even more. It's an excellent way to learn online entrepreneurship.

So to the people running PPP, thanks for giving us regular folk a great way to earn money and helping us, in the process, learn about blog marketing and improving our blogs overall. Cheers!