… this fall at BuzzParadise! It’s hard to say that the summer was restful, as there were numerous international campaigns to lead across the globe.
Particularly with the advent of the “Media Campaigns” - allowing a great number of you to take part in sponsored posts campaigns or video diffusion. While we still are tuning the model to make it better, here’s more information on a subject that I’m sure will interest you: payment and billing.

Several things have evolved regarding the subject, so here is an update on the situation:
As you probably noticed, you have to confirm your billing information and status for each campaign to make sure it is up to date for legal, fiscal and accounting purposes. We do need to make sure that your personal information (or professional for those concerned) is valid for the establishment of a “bill/certificate of payment” that you will find in the “My earnings” section.

From now on, in a process simplification for everyone,  a period of 7 days preceding the payments will be reserved every 2 months for the validation of your information.
Just to remind you, payments from BuzzParadise are done via Paypal exclusively, during the first week of each odd month: 7/8th of January 7/8th of March 7/8th of May etc…
Every 23rd of the month preceding a wave of payments you will receive an email inviting you to validate your information regarding the campaigns available in the “My earnings” section. You will have until the end of the month, so 7 days to validate the campaigns that you wish to be paid for. Starting on the night of the 31st, the validation period will stop so that we can check everything is ok on our side and send out the PayPal payments in the next following days.

Earnings

To give a concrete example: The next validation period will take place between the 23rd and 31st of October 2009 at midnight. All the profits validated during this period will be transferred to your PayPal account on the 7th or 8th of November. Not so difficult in the end, right?

Just pay attention to fill in your profile with your PayPal information!
One important detail: a minimum of 10 €/$ is necessary to validate your profits and be paid. If you haven’t reached this amount, your profits will be transferred to the next payment period. If you still haven’t reached the limit after two payment periods, you will exceptionally be allowed to validate your profits and be paid.
All your profits will appear as usual in the “My earnings” section, the only difference being that you can’t validate them outside of validation periods. One of the interests of this method are to make you validate all your campaigns in one go, as well as to reduce the steps necessary to lower the number of bills/certificates to edit. Yes, at BuzzParadise we’re also trying to help preserve the planet!

Always wanted to serenade your love, but only let yourself sing in the shower when no one is home? British singer/songwriter Jamie Cullum wants to help you! He’s made a sweet black and white personalizable video that lets you let him serenade your valentine! Which leaves you more time to plan that special night!

My prince charming, Gael García Bernal (yes, THE Gael Garcia Bernal…he’s all mine and has been ever since Crimen del Padre Amaro), has already sent me my personalized Valentine’s video:

Isn’t this much nicer than a singing card? You can send yours by clicking here.

Just last week, the nominees for this year’s Oscars were announced. Several of the nominees should come as no surprise after their successes at the box office and at the Golden Globes just a few weeks back.

I recommend going to the Oscar website in order to see pictures of past Oscar nights, to learn about this year’s Oscar festivities, to download the Oscar widget, or to find a complete listing of the nominees for the 81st Academy Awards. You can also find a quick bio on this year’s yummier-but-definitely-not-funnier-than-John-Stewart Academy Awards host, Hugh Jackman.

Here’s a very brief summary of the nominees for some of the top prizes: Read on

This month’s Trendy BuzzAngel is called Helene. She lives in London and blogs about luxury, art and fashion on theluxechronicles.com.

- How old are you?

A lady never tells.

- Where do you come from?
I’ve led a rather peripatetic life so that’s a complicated question for me. I grew up partly in Canada and partly in the U.S. and as an adult, I’ve lived in Montreal, Paris, New York and now London. I feel most at home is Europe, especially France and Italy.

- What do you do for a living?

I’m a lawyer by training but I now work in the luxury industrywwwwwww.

- When did you start blogging?

Exactly one year ago this month.

- Why did you start blogging? What does blogging give you in your daily life?

I came across many fashion blogs that were funny, irreverent and offered an alternative viewpoint to that found in mainstream fashion publications. I kept looking for blogs on the luxury industry that offered the same kind of insight or witty commentary and I couldn’t really find anything that even came close to the better fashion blogs. A journalist friend of mine kept telling me I should start my own, so I finally did.

Read on

This month’s Trendy BuzzAngel is called Vainzine. He comes from England and blogs about music. Read the entire interview to learn more about him!

-  How old are you?
26

- Where do you come from?
England

- What do you do for a living?
Listen to music and write about it

-  When did you start blogging?
About a year and a half ago

- Why did you start blogging? What does blogging give you in your daily life?

I started blogging because I wanted more expressionistic freedom in my writing. I had previously been writing for a magazine and I didn’t have creative control over what I was doing. Now I do. Read on