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Now that I’ve been blogging for nearly a year, I can say that I’ve seen a wide variety of bloggers.  From the personal to professional blogger, I’ve seen just about every kind.  Yet, there is one type that I don’t see too often, and I’m glad.

From time to time I come across a blogger who does not communicate effectively.  Now this is fine, but when I find something interesting about his/her content then I am prone to return to this site.   You might be asking me why I just don’t leave the blog, find another, and never return…  Well, like I said before, if I find something endearing about a person, I tend to stick around.  However, I still find it really annoying when the person doesn’t actively work on or at least proof-read their content.  I’m not saying that this blog is perfect, but I at least try to make it readable on some level.

So now that I’m done complaining, I’m going to go visit one of my favorite blogs, and sift through another article today.

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.  Begin it now.

Goethe

-German Poet, Novelist-

Never let others block your path when following a dream.  Despite what others might say, dreaming is never a bad thing to do.  Yes, some may fear failure and wager their future on success, but failure is often misconstrued.  Fail to achieve that dream, and I’ll say that you still have a chance.  Failure is only a learning experience on the road to success.  Let it stop you in your tracks, and you will get nowhere.  So prepare for failure, don’t aim for it, and you’ll land yourself at the destination of success soon after.

Have you ever noticed how difficult it is to develop an ability when you concentrate on it?  I’m not referring to becoming aware of a problem and solving it, but something which often takes place when you do so.

If you have a problem and think about it all the time, you are likely to create more of a problem.  This is because you add stress and other variables into the actual path to reaching the solution.  Instead of just realizing what you have to do and taking action, you are taking unnecessary steps to finding a simple solution.

You may have heard before of a process in which you “take a few steps back,” in order to solve a problem.  This tends to work because you are in fact separating yourself and the problem.  In turn, you are taking you and your emotions out of the equation and leaving a problem and a solution.  It might seem like a simplistic view, but most if not all problems really are that simple.

If you have dealt with Pay Per Post, then you know how difficult it can be to get approved.  However, if you have worked with other related but less popular businesses then you know where I am coming from.  So here is my story…

A few weeks ago I figured I would start down a path of monetizing ThoughtSponge.com.  Little did I know I would be sitting on my hands for weeks to see any result from the initial registrations I had made.  So day one of this journey I registered for Pay Per Post and also Smorty.  To my surprise, only a day later I see an approval from Smorty stating that I have in fact been approved.  After that I got a little antsy and figured that Pay Per Post would be as quick.  But as you would have guessed, things didn’t go as planned.

Pay Per Post was completely dead to me, or I was dead to it for about two weeks.  Their process has you wait after you have entered some code on your site for approval which may take, “a few days.”  So I sat back and figured that a few days wasn’t incredibly too long for a site that seemed to have a ton of requests and users.  As the days passed and turned into weeks, my vision of a very efficient business turned into one guy at a laptop manually approving each blog at a time.  Whether or not this is how the business is run doesn’t really matter.  What does matter is the e-mail I received once I prompted Pay Per Post for an answer…

I fire an e-mail to Pay Per Post and again I wait.  A few days later I get a response stating that their was a problem with some new coding or update that they were doing and hey (you guessed it) I’d have to wait a few more days.

At what seemed like the end, there was and still is another problem.  It seems that after a thorough review of this site.  From top to bottom, banner to footer, and post one to post… here I guess, Pay Per Post has shot me down.  Pay Per Post describes this blog as having followed or contributed to the following activities, ”payment from online contests, lotteries, pyramid schemes.”  It makes me feel like a criminal.  Perhaps I will flee the country, but for now I am back to resolving a lengthy problem with a company that has horrible customer service.

Conclusion

Expect only great customer service if you are paying for something.  For example, my hosting company for this site practically sits with their e-mail open and ready to e-mail me back before I even have a problem.  On the other hand, Pay Per Post puts you in queue of 200 or more people and takes days to answer a simple question.  Every time I deal with a company like this starting out, I always have to ask myself whether or not this will be the norm.

So here I am awaiting the Pay Per Post “ticket system” to get done updating so I can wait once again.  Will Pay Per Post create a new Postie, or an angry Anti-Postie on a destructive campaign?