Sponsored Reviews 5/11 Payment

This is my first payment received from Sponsored Reviews. My personal blog was chosen by an advertiser two weeks ago. The task was simple and the pay was great. I received $40 which is 50% of the price paid by the direct advertiser. The other 50% was credited to Sponsored Reviews.

If you would like to earn more cash from your sites, make sure to create an account at Sponsored Reviews. It's free to join!

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Bucks2Blog 1st Payment

I have been submitting campaigns to Bucks2Blog but never got an offer from them until last week. Just when I least expected, I got an opportunity from OrangeSoda. After writing the review, they sent me $20 for the published post on my giveaways site.

Are you a blogger? Sign up now to Bucks2Blog and receive new campaigns from them straight to your inboxes. Take note: This site does not have affiliate offers. Therefore, clicking on the link will not give me any credits. I just want to share this to everyone.

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Music for a Chic’s Lifestyle

Songs are meant for others to hear. We play some music and dedicate this to someone without him or her knowing this. It is just we think that the song is for the person we have in mind. Perhaps, the lyrics just simply say what we think he needs to know. It expresses what we feel directly as opposite to wall paintings which message still needs to be decoded due to depth of conveyance of what the artist means.

Lyrics for songs are made to be simple just as how a person would say what he feels to the other individual concerned. They are plain words with music added to them. As it has been said, poetry is closer to wall paintings which message still needs to be discerned. Idioms are commonly used as opposed to direct expression in a song. When Bruno Mars says,” when you smile the whole world stops and stares for a while,” he meant it literally. This is why songs capture the hearts of the people in an instant they are played. Men have tendency to play the songs that they wish their women want to listen to. But for women, they get hooked to songs that they make them feel that they are being serenaded. It made them feel that somewhere in the world adore them so much to the extent that songs are made for them, poems are written, and original oil paintings are created. Women are women. When men want such feeling actualized, women on the other hand can feed their minds with thoughts and be in an in-love state, in an instant. Simply put, most of the time women listen to songs to feed their egos on top of being carried away or on top of just simply being music lovers.

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Got an Email from AmplifiedMedia.org?

While I was checking my inbox last week, I saw an email from an advertiser. A part of her message says:

"Hi Algene, My name is Emma with Amplified Media. We are a small Internet based organization that strives to connect advertisers with websites. We have clients in the money saving sector who are interested in advertising on iamthecoffeechic.com. Contact me at emma@amplifiedmedia.org for more information, or feel free to pass along your ad rates! I look forward to hearing back from you."

Instead of searching more about Ms. Emma and Amplified Media, I immediately responded to the email. To be honest, the advertising rates I offered her were overpriced. In less than an hour, she replied with this:

"Thank you for your time and consideration. You have a great site! Unfortunately that is out of my clients price range; the most they can pay is a total payment of $25 a link, $50 for two. Please keep my organization in mind should you reconsider!"

Who wouldn't want an instant cash by simply posting links on my main site? So, without second thoughts, I discussed certain terms and conditions with her. She gave instructions me two major tasks:
1st To add a sentence with one link on my post about fashion.
2nd To add a sentence with one link on my post about wedding.

When the two sentences were inserted on my existing posts, I sent her a message about it. She replied again with a quick note saying:

"Excellent work; thanks! Expect the $50 USD payment in the next 24-48 hours from Landon Montgomery at accounting@amplifiedmedia.org."

Since I had nothing to do for that day, I decided to search about the advertiser. To my surprise, there were many bloggers saying negative comments about her and the site where she is affiliated with. Well, I don't always over react so I waited for the funds to be sent on my Paypal account. After 24 hours, there was still no message from her. So, I emailed her again:

"Good day Miss Emma! Can I ask for an update about the payment? I will be removing the links in 12 hours if I don't get any reply from you. Thanks."

Guess what? She replied right away. And I received the payment in an instant! See proof of payment below:

Verdict: Emma of Amplified Media is not a scam. 

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Paypal Phishing

A day won't pass without receiving any notification emails from Paypal. Since I am hosting giveaways, there are always new funds coming into my account from different bloggers who wish to participate with my events. Aside from this, I'm also fond of co-hosting online contests so I send some USD to the main hosts of the upcoming giveaways. Well, the point is there are numerous transactions happening on my Paypal account every single day. Because of this, reading emails from the said site has already become part of my daily routine. There were no issues or problems that I have encountered from Paypal so I was shocked when I received an email from service@paypal.com. The message looks legit especially that it comes from a registered domain email.

Instead of clicking the links added on the email, I opened a new tab on my browser and logged in to my Paypal account. After checking everything, I discovered that there were really no problems or limits happening on my account. So, I came back to check the message again and realized that the Paypal anchor texts contain two links: www.paypal.com and

http://www.paypal.com.vuicir7c1mkhm.11macmvejqpq1vj16a843e2t4m6xg.com/

Therefore, the message sent by service@paypal.com is a complete scam. If you receive such messages, the first thing that you need to do is to check the email of the sender. Don't click any of the links found on the mail. Rather, check your account on a new tab.

The full email:

Dear Paypal,

We need your help resolving an issue with your account. To give us time towork together on this, we've temporarily limited what you can do with your account until the issue is resolved. We understand it may be frustrating not to have full access to your PayPalaccount. We want to work with you to get your account back to normal asquickly as possible. What's the problem? We noticed some unusual log in activity with your account. Please checkthat no one has logged in to your account without your permission. Take a moment to change your password and security questions and review your account information and recent transactions for changes or unknownpayments. If you see a payment you don't recognize, go to the Resolution Center andreport it by clicking "Dispute a Transaction". Case ID Number: PP-001-678-432-653

Confirm Your Account *link*

If you didn't add this email, let us know right away. It's important because it helps us make sure no one is getting into your account without your knowledge.

Sincerely,
PayPal

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$100 from oDesk Employer

Withdrawing a part of my last week's income. Thanks to oDesk for the endless opportunities! Most importantly, to all my bosses who never stopped trusting my capabilities as a contractor. Want to earn without leaving home? Click the banner above!

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Terms: Employers Vs. Clients

To be honest, I use clients and employers interchangeably when it comes to describing the big bosses in the oDesk community. Thanks to Jacqueline Pittenger for emphasizing the differences between the two terms. While reading articles from the oDesk forum, I came across a thread that she started. Below is the complete message posted by Ms. Jacqueline.

"Here at oDesk, we’ve debated about the words we use to refer to each other for quite a while now. More than a year ago, we changed how we refer to those hiring on oDesk from “buyers” to “employers.” While that clarified things — new and long-time users alike knew an “employer” was the one doing the hiring — we’ve learned from our community that many of our users don’t actually think of the person hiring as an “employer.”

Our users are entrepreneurial, independent and ambitious. They are working and hiring on oDesk, the world’s largest online workplace, because they want to take advantage of all the opportunities and freedom online work provides. In doing so, they have many different types of work relationships - short, long, one-time, and recurring. It’s no longer always about an employee-employer relationship. It’s about getting the work you want, when you want it, where you want it - whether you're the person hiring or the one being hired.

With that in mind, we have decided to use a term that is more neutral, so we will now be referring to those hiring on oDesk as “clients.” It’s going to take some time for all the changes to roll out, and for everyone to get used to the adjustment. But over the next several weeks, you’ll no longer see the term “employer,” and instead you will see the term “client.”

Thanks for your patience as we continue to evolve oDesk and learn from our users!"

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