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Apple Inc.’s digital music store iTunes is now the third-largest music retailer in the United States with 10 percent market share, overtaking Amazon.com in the first quarter, according to a survey released on Friday.

The NPD Group report highlights the growing strength of digital music in the U.S. market as physical sales of compact discs continue to slide.
Apple’s iTunes is third behind market leader Wal-Mart Stores Inc. with a 15.8 percent share, and Best Buy Co Inc. with a 13.8 percent share, according to the survey of 40,000 people aged 13 and older.
Both of those retailers mostly sell music in the CD format. Online store bestbuy.com has a 1.1 percent market share with sales of both CDs and digital music.

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1. If you’re posting to a blog using WordPress (Like I am), do not put the post as a page. I don’t care how long it is. If you don’t want the whole thing on your front page, use the MORE and it will work just fine. The requirement is to get it into your Archives and if it’s a page, it never Archives, it just sits there.

2. Avoid being rejected by PPP due to lack of words
Look at the word count. The advertiser is paying for you to say something. Some don’t want much, just 50 words. I do try to give them more than that. 50 words is barely a sneeze and if your a blogger worth their salt, you can scratch up more to say. Visit the site your writing about. If they’re willing to pay you five bucks or more, they deserve some of your attention. Don’t just write from the copy they give you.

3. Avoid being rejected by PPP due to posting one behind the other
The minimum you can post a sponsored post on your blog is one-to-one which means that you have to have another non-sponsored post in between.

3. Follow the rules
Now, I’m not big on reading manuals or Terms of Service and I will tell you that PPP’s rules are a bit small and light for me. Yes, that is my one complaint. I am near-sighted and they look like they’re using 8 point type. However, if you miss something, they do give you another chance to get it right which is nice.

4. Sponsored by PPP, Sponsored Box - The Grey Box
Get that Sponsored Box, sponsored text in there correctly. It is important to keep things legal. You want your readers informed as to why they are reading something strange on your otherwise non-strange blog. Now if you’re just ranting and raving on anything (I have a blog for that. Doesn’t everybody), the public might not notice. However, you still need to tell them. I don’t really know why, as I haven’t completely read the manual yet, but I like this outfit so I may take time to cut and paste it into Word and increase the point size. Well, enough grousing on that.

5. Include the link text from the advertiser in your post
I’m pretty good about that although from point to point I have forgotten in my excitement over this process. Again, they give you another chance to make things right, so there you are.

6. Read the rejection email
Believe it or not, I really think they want you to succeed at this and are not some giant, no-name, faceless corporation with no heart. What I mean is, don’t get angry and give up. They clearly spell out what you need to do to make the post useable. That’s why I like them. Every one I’ve submitted has been rejected and I’ve fixed them according to what the problems were and then it went through. I think that’s why I really didn’t think this was a scam constantly rejecting you until you get so frustrated you just give up and leave.

That’s all I’ve learned so far in terms of PPP. I’ll be back with more tips as I learn more.

Judy B., Editor

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Well, when I was originally asked to blog on this, I wasn’t sure what they wanted besides putting the press release out there. Upon further investigation, I found they wanted a bit more which is great. I got into Pay Per Post by accident stumbling across it on somebody else’s site and following it to the source. Boy, was I glad. I was looking for a way to pay for my blog hosting, and getting paid to blog seemed a good way because I’m blogging about something all the time anyway.

While I like the idea of getting paid to post, I would like to get advertisers in the music industry more interested in my little JAMBUZZ blog, which is where the PayPerPost Direct idea comes into play.

I like blogging and I don’t necessarily like the business aspects: scam control, getting paid and how it’s done, chasing money after blogging on something and the like. The idea of a middleman worked for me, but other companies charge a HUGE percentage for their services.

The idea of going on the Internet to advertise on blogs allowing blog posts to sell a product or service is not only unique, but a large step ahead of many other ideas to get the word out for advertisers. I saw their vision and apparently PPP already has 6500+ advertisers onboard who “get it” as well along with God only knows how many happy bloggers posting away.

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