Earn Effectively

As you know the companies like Pay Per Post , Smorty , Blogsvertise , Review Me and others have established themselves in the market of Blog Business, with the posts that are paid and they take absolute commissions. Ever since John Chow reviewed a plugin - OIO Publisher I did show some keen interests in the plugin, since at the time of launch it was free and free things are rare to find and one such thing is the plugin I am talking about. It was a product of time and was free to public till 16 December 2007 .

The plugin has been developed by Simon Emery who is a Law Student but turned to PHP and started playing with Vbulletin Forums and then started to build his own sites based on PHP and MySQl. Now as a result of his active mind and thinking bloggers have got some relief from the middle man although not many have taken it as a primary Concept at their websites and still they are using middleman and loosing many new advertisers.

I also had some Problems installing the plugins which Simon Made that is OIOPublisher , Sometimes the paypal IPN had problems and sometime other’s . Initially I did not have Intention to trouble Simon but then My Wicked mind thought why not trouble simon with my Problem and ask Solution from him.

So I took Snapshot of my blog’s Admin Page and emailed him my problem, Within 2 hours I got the reply which I thought would take some more time to get back. Then I had another problem installing his new plugin I emailed him for his help and viola he was there chatting to me on YM.

He did chat with me on YM and I asked him a lot’s of Questions about his life , career and other as well which I have edited somewhat to fit in this blog post.

Ravi Singh: Simon Can I ask you one thing
Ravi Singh: how old are you
Simon Emery: 21
Ravi Singh: Really
Ravi Singh: I think that is impossible
Simon Emery: lol well 22 in january

Ravi Singh: Actually, how did you have an idea of making this plugin?

Simon Emery: wpbankroll.com - i saw that back in the Summer, and figured i could do better….then i heard people complaining about all the 50% commission going on at ReviewMe / TLA etc , so i thought id have a go

Ravi Singh: how did you learn PHP, R u an Engineer ?
Simon Emery: no, i studied law actually..but at the end of 2005 i started playing with vbulletin forums….and progressed to building my own sites in php / mysql ,then i turned to CMS like pligg and wordpress

Ravi Singh: Really that’s amazing ,So what are you doing these days ? Is this part time or Full time ?

Simon Emery: well i finished University in the summer….and have had the last few months off to work on this, then im due to start working in London in January / February time

Ravi Singh: So How did this plugin help you out in Making you popular did it leave an impact or not ?

Simon Emery: hehe well its slowly starting to pay off….not exactly an over night success….but people like John Cow are starting to take note of it, so its slowly paying off i think it can only grow in the long term, so it should be worth it*

Ravi Singh: Actually Yes many have started taking note of your Plugin Thinking of Wp Text Ads priced at $127 Why did you price at such a low cost ?

Simon Emery: well initially i didnt want to charge for it at all….but i had to eventually to start generating revenue….but the reason its low cost is that its true power doesnt lie in the ad selling…..no one has really noticed it yet, and i havent documented it properly…but the API can let me provide services that no one else can…take that conversation system for example, its completely unique and its the basis for a blogging social networking community eventually, not to mention the fact that the API can let me provide CPC ads to people, to fill in the gaps where bloggers cant sell directly ,so they can always have a full inventory.

This Interview lasted well over one hour where Simon was chatting with me on Yahoo Messenger Live and did answer my all questions . To Save the length of the blog post I did cut off the full interview at this time (It is 1:06 am in INDIA) and time for me to sleep so I promise I would post the interview in my next post.

Last I must thank Simon for this beautiful and helpful plugin that he developed for all of the blogger community.