Holy smokes that was fast! After applying and being accepted as a ScreenScape Street Team member earlier this week, I’ve already received the package of supplies in the mail (took a total of 4 days – one of those being a holiday). Being a Canuck and an avid eBay shopper, I’m used to waiting 3-4 weeks for parcels to arrive. However it looks like these ScreenScape parcels are being mailed from Charlottetown, PEI, which is just a couple of provinces away. Canadians signing up for this program can therefore expect their parcel to arrive pretty quickly.

The package was gigantic, and pretty heavy.

I think it’ll be a neat idea to see just how much ScreenScape is spending out-of-pocket to hire ME, and from that try to guesstimate how much of their product they need to sell to at least break even.

A quick check with Canadian Post shows that a package 18x12x1.5″ at 1.9kg cost them $9.54 to mail from Charlottetown to Halifax in three business days.

Check back soon to see the contents of the package – I’ll also try to put a price on all this stuff.

While getting my daily distraction fix on facebook, I noticed an ad in the sidebar promising $150 to stick up 50 posters around my neighborhood.

Being a student at the largest University in the Maritimes, and growing up in my home town of Halifax, I figured that I knew the city well enough to spam its bulletin boards with posters. I would be performing some street-level marketing for ScreenScape (just a link to the facebook application for now, they have their own website but no mention of the advertising job as far as I can see). Their program allows users to display news tickers or menus, sell rich media advertising, play videos, etc. on LCD TV screens to keep their patrons entertained.

The payout looks decent for a ScreenScape Street Team member – $2.00 per poster, an extra $50 if I stick up 50 posters within my first two weeks (which comes to $3.00 per poster!). However it’s not just the poster-sticking that gets you the cash – a sharpie pen is used to create a subdomain for each location you plaster (ex. spiffyowl.screenscape.net) to a) help draw attention to the poster and b) prove that you didn’t just stick up fifty posters in the same building. Each and every poster also needs to be photographed and documented to prove that you actually put it up (they’ve also employed ‘secret street team ninjas members’ who periodically check on your work). Upon returning home, you will need to fill out an individual form for each poster, uploading the photo, location, venue type, and subdomain. And it seems that your earnings are still not guaranteed – ScreenScape admins will review each submission and will grant the $2.00 based on the quality of the venue! I can’t comment on how strict this review process is as of yet, but it will certainly make or break the deal.

Suddenly putting up 50 posters seems like a lot of work, but I’m not too quick to dismiss it. I signed up on facebook and quickly received a reply the next day letting me know that I was on the team. I’m currently waiting for my free package to arrive in the mail (they provide the posters, along with a sharpie marker, sticky tack, and scotch tape). Once I’ve earned a minimum of $50, they are supposed to mail me a check.

Currently it looks like this program is limited to those living in Canada or the United States. You will need to be 16 or over, and provide an address (so they can mail you your package and checks) and tell them a little about yourself.

There are other ways to make money with this program – they allude to bonuses for plastering stickers and leaving brochures in appropriate places. A currently poorly-defined referral system also seems to factor into these bonuses as well (I’ve asked them if they will set up a system to perhaps track the number of referrals and grant me a % of their earnings, still waiting to hear back on this).

I don’t know how long it will take to find places to stick up these posters and report them, but once I receive the package I’ll document my day and review the program on the Spiffy Owl!

Yes indeed! The Spiffy Owl was created Nov 12, 2008. Soon these pages will be filled with the chronicles of a spunky University student as she tries to make a quick buck while dissecting brains on the side.

Stay tuned my currently absent and unentertained readers, after getting more backend stuff worked out on this blog I’ll get the show rolling!