PPP demand

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I had been refreshing my page once a minute. Suddenly the number of opportunities went from 28 to 36. Great! These latest additions were paying good money too. Even better! Clicked on the first one that interest me. Yes, I can definitely write about this! Clicked on the "Take Opportunity", only to be greeted by the RED LETTERS OF DREAD (RLOD): All of the available posts for that opportunity have already been taken. Already been taken? Quickly, I checked the other fresh opps. More RLOD! Here's another acronym for you: WTF! In less than two minutes, all the available openings for each opp were taken! This gives you an idea of the feeding frenzy that is going on on the demand side of PPP. Hopefully, the programming team can add an indication to an opp that shows when all available openings taken (but not submitted).

Update, 6:49pm: I don't know if PPP rolled out a new and improved site but after I posted the above, I was able to get some high dollar posts. Financially, today is my best PPP day ever. PPP, I don't know what happened but thank you!!!! Oh, the number of opportunities at this moment is 160!!! I don't know who is responsible at PPP for this, but they deserve a big, fat RAISE!!

PPP supply & demand

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I have read and heard a lot of comments of frustration from my fellow posties. One good friend made a very astute remark about how this is simply supply and demand. Oh, so true! When I began with PPP in early July, there were almost 1000 posties who were allowed 3 posts per day --- a demand of 3000 posts. Today, there is almost 20000 posties, allowed 2 posts PER BLOG per day --- a minimum demand of 40,000 posts, perhaps an average demand of 80,000. On the supply side, I saw about 50 opps in July and today there are 30. (At one time the opps had soared to over 100.) Each opp can allow 1 or more postie to blog about it.

So there has been a 20 to 30 fold increase on the demand side and not much change on the supply. We'll see what happens when 'segmentation' --- where advertisers will restrict their opps to specific posties --- is implemented. Some advertisers already practice some degree of segmentation (by type of blog, by page ranking, if a postie has already written about a specific). If I get the time, I would love to compose an economic model of the mathematics at work here.