Paid-Content Made Easy For Weblogs

Poplish.com allows writers on the web to easily incorporate a paid-content system into their own personal websites. Easy and inexpensive, writers also keep one hundred percent of the profits

Ottawa, Ontario, (PRWEB) January 12, 2004 - It's short for "popular publishing" and it's putting a new twist on the paid-for content Internet business model. It's called Poplish.com.

"Things work differently for the user if making money off them isn't a website's primary concern," says site creator and sole administrator Lee Zanello. "Most might argue thats a good thing."

Version 1.2 of Poplish.com officially launched on Wednesday, January 14th, 2003, giving writers on the web the ability to easily incorporate a paid-content system into their own personal websites. Writers who post their articles to Poplish.com can link to them from their own personal website or weblog; Poplish.com then automatically tracks every sale made and places the money earned directly into the writers personal site account. The writer keeps one hundred percent of the profits.

Registration for Poplish is free, and the site currently has a sign-up bonus of one dollar (U.S.) for the first 150 people to register with the site. The promotional offer aside, users must usually first purchase a Poplish card for five dollars (U.S.) before posting their work. The site keeps one dollar and the remaining four dollars are placed on the users Poplish card, to be used up in ten-cent increments. Purchasing a piece written by another writer costs ten cents, with the full ten cents going into that writers account. Posting an article also costs ten cents, with the money going back to the website. There are no other fees involved with the site and no percentage taken off when it comes time for a writer to cash out their earnings.

Call me crazy," says Zanello, "but I'm not looking to make a lot of money off this thing. If I can break even sometime in the next couple of years I'll be happy; I'm just content to put the service out there and see who will run with it."

Early responses from the user base have been enthusiastic and very supportive.

If the kind words I've been receiving from our initial users continues," says Zanello, "we're on the edge of something really great here."

Because it is so easy and inexpensive for writers to utilize Poplish as a paid content system for their own websites, the site also contradicts the belief that a paid content based site needs to have its own strong corporate identity in order to sell content.

We do have some feedback and quality control measures in place," Zanello says, so that first-time visitors to the site can easily find something they might like to read, but the main drive behind this site will be the diversity of its writing community. People will probably more often find Poplish by following the links on the websites created by writers they are already reading, writers who have already established themselves with their readers. They won't necessarily be arriving at our site by punching up www.poplish.com on the Internet."

For more information, please contact:

Lee Zanello
Site administrator and owner of www.poplish.com

475 Elgin St. Apt. 1009
Ottawa, Ontario
K2P 2E6

Telephone: 613-234-1140

http://www.poplish.com

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