Isles Tech

Yesterday I blogged about my mounting debt problem, to the chagrin of my 80 or so regular droppers. :) The prices of goods in the Philippines continue to rise, and my monthly salary as a classroom teacher is now simply not enough to make ends meet, since I am financing the education of my younger brother and younger sister, as well as my own at the University of the Philippines - Cebu. My only other talent aside from teaching is writing, but although I had done some professional writing for a local Cebuano magazine*, I had never thought that it is possible to earn from blogging. Of course, I had already heard about payperpost -- almost all of my blogging friends have PPP accounts. But the first time I applied, this blog got rejected. When I complained about the rejection, one of PPP's reviewers emailed me an explanation why the blog was rejected, which made me exclaim:

BTW, I was surprised to receive your email. I never thought you would take the time to respond personally to one of your applicants, esp. that the applicant had been disapproved and therefore economically useless for you.

The next email was even more surprising, something which you seldom see in a market-driven Internet:

I very much appreciate your response Vincent, and I'd like to say that we do not regard our posties as being economically useful or useless. We here in the Customer Love team only look at the fact that you chose us to blog with, and that you should receive the exact same level of service as someone that's been with us since the beginning. :)

But then, I forgot all about my application and the rejection, until I tried creating an account at PPP and the system rejected my usual username. I tried my generic password and I was able to log in, confirming that I did already have a login.

Yesterday, after I thought of my mounting debt, I decided to resubmit my blog. Just a few minutes ago, I received this:

Hello Vincent Isles,

This is a notification letting you know that your PayPerPost blog, Isles Tech, has been approved and is now available.

You can now take opportunities and write about them on your blog.

So that's it then. I've always loved writing and blogging and reviewing things, and this time I'll be paid for doing it. I love PPP :-) (And not just because I will be paid, but because of their excellent customer service when I was yet an economically useless blogger for them.)

To my blogging and PPP friends: welcome me, and I'm one more competitor :-) (But hey, you may not have younger brothers/sisters to educate :))

(* My story Mga Sulat Alang Sa Tulo ka Binuhat - "Letters for Three Persons" is published in the July 2, 2008 edition of Bisaya Magasin.)