Can Money Be Made?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 03:41:00 +0000

http://jumeauxetplus-paris.fr/components/com_ag_google_analytics2/mysite.php?html191

Progress at last

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:11:00 +0000

Well I've not actually withdrawn anything yet but here is my latest account info:

$26 ready to withdraw.

My earnings rate has stayed fairly flat at just above o.6 per rented referral per day and I'm down to 1111 rented referrals from 1235.

Here's the graphic:

I have a little dilemma now, should I renew all referrals that I choose to do for 90 days to get maximum discount or follow my current policy? I need to really think this through given that I really want to get cash out. Which is my priority? Possible future profits or cash now?

If you've found this post useful why not subscribe to my RSS feed?

Don't know what this means? Help is here!

Neobux progress report

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 23:27:00 +0000

Rented referrals down to 1146 today's clicks very disappointing. Just two days to go until I should be able to build a pot to cashout.

Did a bit if maths and found that if I retained just my top sixteen clicking referrals I would, with my own clicks, draw out more than I did per year than I did with 1235 rented referrals. I'm not really sure Neobux is a scam but...

If you've found this post useful why not subscribe to my RSS feed?

Don't know what this means? Help is here!

Neobux Income Begins to Collapse

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:05:00 +0000

Let me first say that I'm not at all surprised by it but the collapse in my referral has begun in earnest.

Have a look at this:

Given that the referrals I am not renewing are ones that have clicked at a very low rate you would think that the click rate of the remainder would increase, wouldn't you? In fact the opposite is happening. I'm really wishing I had taken screenshots in July just after I had renewed my Gold membership when the click rate jumped up and with 1235 referrals I was getting around 1600 referral clicks a day. After a week or two it returned to the 840 a day average I was used to.

All very dodgy and I think I can be sure the whole program is massaged. Very disappointing - and I fell for it!

If you've found this post useful why not subscribe to my RSS feed?

Don't know what this means? Help is here!

Update on Neobux Scam

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 22:19:00 +0000

My withdrawal strategy is as simple as can be. Do not renew if average clicks is less than 0.8 and when required renew those with an average greater than 1.0 for 90 days the rest being renewed for 30 or 60 days depending on cash available.

Progress? Not much yet. My rented renewals have reduced from 1235 to 1201 but the clicks I am receiving has remained much the same!

From the 28th of August I have a number of days with few renewals due and whereas in the past I would have reinvested this money I shall this time aim to withdraw.

I am due payouts at Donkeymails and No-minimum however due to the reduction in PTP rate at Donkeymails I will be using EQOO2 as the focus of my cashouts now.

Over the next week or two I will write honestly about where I have been earning money lately and I shall write a long article on PTP.

If you've found this post useful why not subscribe to my RSS feed?

Don't know what this means? Help is here!

Neobux Scam?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 18:00:00 +0000

I have here to be open and admit to my utter stupidity - I rather let things go with Neobux and took my eye off the ball. All of a sudden I realise how much I have invested and with little prospect of getting it back.

How did it happen? Well here is my tale of woe...

Look at the numbers:

Invested so far = $720.00

Amount received = $225.08 (re-invested of course)

The banners show this:

Of the amount earned it has all been reinvested of course so the reality is that I have lost $720 so far although I am a Gold (Sapphire) member with 1235 referrals. My major concern at the moment is how to get out whilst minimising losses.

All my referrals are now rented as my direct referrals have become inactive; even the Gold ones. I can't believe I never spotted that. Never mind I was probably too caught up promoting GDI!

I will update here on my exit strategy.

If you've found this post useful why not subscribe to my RSS feed?

Don't know what this means? Help is here!

ClickBux finally bites the dust?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 08:34:00 +0000

I've written a few times in the past about ClickBux and what I thought would be the eventual demise. Well it finally seems to have happened. I've logged on and clicked for ages - never in expectation of payment - and today when I tried to acess the site I got a short glimpse of a site suspended message before it jumped to an ad.

Now this has happened at least once before so it may not be the real end yet but I would have thought so. ClickBux was notable for carrying all the ads a self-respecting site admin would have refused [and I suspect many of them were self-sourced] so it is no great loss!

RIP ClickBux?

If you've found this post useful why not subscribe to my RSS feed?

Don't know what this means? Help is here!

GetRef Is No Scam!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 14 May 2008 21:05:00 +0000

I was pottering about this evening doing some housework on my blogs and when I looked on Google Analytics I found that this blog had been attracting some traffic on the search term "getref scam". Well I have been a member of GetRef for some time and I have nothing but good things to say about it - read my earlier post.

There are users who will try and get your credits by claiming to have signed up under you but haven't. Even worse, in my view, are those that do sign up under you wait until you give them their credits and then never click again.

But let's get it clear GetRef as a concept is brilliant - it is well administered and used wisely will help you build your downlines effectively. If you have arrived here trying to check if GetRef is a scam do me a favour and leave a comment as to why you think it might be.

If you've found this post useful why not subscribe to my RSS feed?

Don't know what this means? Help is here!

Bux.to Bux Scam?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 14 May 2008 15:24:00 +0000

From uronlinebiz.com 13 May 2008

Recently the word scam seems to have become a common word on most PTC related communities. This isn’t a good thing as for a long while the PTC industry has been drying up on new advertisers. Many of the outside advertises are still sceptical of the PTC advertising method so they look to forums and blogs to find out more which is where they are put off by the scam spam.

According to the dictionary the word scam means “a confidence game or other fraudulent scheme, esp. for making a quick profit; swindle.” This would mean the fraudster would have to be using a site for the soul purpose of defrauding the member’s right from the start. Because this has defiantly been the case with many PTC sites in the past it has now caused a paranoia effect where some people jump on this word at the slightest sign.

It has now come to a stage that if a member’s payment goes a day over due that member will then go to a popular PTC community and insists that they were “scammed”. Quite often it’s a cheater who has been caught and just wants to get a last word in but sometimes it is someone simply jumping to conclusions without being objective.

Examples

The most logical example for this growing trend is members on the audit wait at bux.to. It’s a fact that bux.to is the largest and most popular PTC site and therefore has the longest audit waits. For a premium member the TOS states 30 business days after request till you are paid. For standard members it is 60 business days.

With over 6million members last reported it is evident that even these durations are too short for the site to payout on time and they are indeed not making these dead lines. However this does not mean it is a scam. The TOS also states that they cannot be held responsible for work stoppages which are commonly caused by mass support tickets.

This is a nasty cycle because the people who lose patience waiting file a support ticket but then so does another 100,000 that day each requiring an examination of their account. A PTC site is always under pressure to answer their support tickets so they cannot avoid even a low priority ticket while they could be doing a more important process such as payment audits. Audits themselves are a high priority and take a lot of time no matter what you know about PHP. If you have 1 million members asking for payment there are numerous cheat checks required for each.

Simple Answer? Stop taking new members until they are able to cope with the numbers they have. I am one of those complaining I requested payment on 18 Dec 2007 and had sufficient patience not to raise a support ticket until 28 April 2008.

I'm sorry but if they are unable to trade and within their terms and conditions they should be stopped from operating. For my own part I will wait until 28 May 2008 and as the Whois Database gives a .de reference I shall raise the matter with the German Police. If they are stupid enough to fill their pages with "success" stories boasting of $10,000 payments then they deserve to be subjected to rigorous investigation.

If you've found this post useful why not subscribe to my RSS feed?

Don't know what this means? Help is here!

Word from Wordlinx

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:00:00 +0000

Cheap Upgrades to End

Sent out as a paid ad to those who choose to take them has been a new entry on the Wordlinx blog. There are to be important changes to the site:

"Over the last few months we have been developing a brand new system to provide more paid adverts for everyone. It's unlike anything you have ever seen before. It has been custom built from the ground up with a unique design and brand new features.

We plan to release the system on May 15th 2008 GMT. As the system will create many more adverts for all members, our Verified membership will increase in price from $5 to $10 per year on May 30th 2008 GMT. This does not affect members who are currently subscribed. Current Verified membership holders will continue to pay $5 per year until they cancel their subscription through PayPal. Only new Verified members will have to pay the new $10 price".

I've been earning quite well on Wordlinx so have decided to take the upgrade. Wow! I was astonished at how many extra ads I got to see. It will only take a month or so to pay for the upgrades and I got 100 ads to go with it. Very good value. If you are not a member of Wordlinx yet get over to it now and take advantage of the cheap upgrade.

If you've found this post useful why not subscribe to my RSS feed?

Don't know what this means? Help is here!

Is The Marketplace Full?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 05 May 2008 08:00:00 +0000

How Many Paid To Click Sites Will Survive?

There seems to be few days pass where we don’t find the launch of a new Paid to Click (PTC) site. Some of them come blazing in with a fanfare, the admin has obviously spotted the need for a wide range of advertising to get the initial members, whilst others enter the market with something of a whimper.

I’m getting very doubtful about the number of sites that can be realistically supported. OK, I know someone reading this is thinking about the Billions of Internet users out there however when a well established site like Donkeymails has only 192,000 users and Adbux boasts of 829,000 members then that really is about the size of user base available at the moment. There will be a continuing trickle of new users but the market is not increasing at the massive rate it was doing so earlier this year.

What then for the future? Plenty of the recent crop of PTC sites including one which has paid me [Eurocent Bux] have, after a bright start, settled down to just 4 or 5 ads per day. I’m beginning to wonder whether it might be in the best interests of both site admins and users to see some mergers in the market leaving us a smaller number of PTC sites but with a greater likelihood of being paid.

If you've found this post useful why not subscribe to my RSS feed?

Don't know what this means? Help is here!

Scam Warning – SebasBux

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 04 May 2008 13:10:00 +0000

I should start by saying that I have yet to receive first-hand confirmation that this Paid to Click is a scam but look at the evidence.

Well where does site the name come from? This is clearly an attempt to trade on the name of the very highly regarded Paid to Read site operator Sebas Broekhoff. Sebas has a fully justified fantastic reputation as a site admin – and he always pays on time! The naming of this site seems to be a very cynical attempt to trade on his name. A look at the InterNIC Whois database shows the site owner to be Sebastian Laborda Mas based in Miralcamp, Spain.

The ads? Compare the ads which are available on this site and they bear little resemblance to those on other PTC sites. We have seen this previously – on sites that have folded!

Beware!

If you've found this post useful why not subscribe to my RSS feed?

Don't know what this means? Help is here!

Paid To Read Sites

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 03 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000

The Power of PTP

When I first started out with this blog I was trying to see how much money I could make starting with nothing and slowly building up. I started out by signing up to some survey sites; a couple of PTC sites and a single PTR site (OurPTR.com which as you will see later is still one of my favourite sites). Sadly it was not for some months that I realised how wrong I was to not sign up for some PTR sites. Whilst the earnings may not seem too great to begin with if you stick with it you can earn much quicker than with PTC sites – and even better can get two or three pretty much on Auto-pilot.

Anyone who would like to follow my simple formula should as a first step join these three sites:

Donkeymails

Worldwide Cash

No-Minimum

When you join you will receive a confirmation email that will contain a link for you to click on and then you are up and running. In blogs later this week I shall give full instructions for getting the best out of each of these sites.

Each of these sites has PTP as an option and I will give a brief outline of how it operates. If when you have joined the site you select Paid to Promote you will find a link that you can use to advertise the site in the format:

http://www.donkeymails.com/pages/ptp.php?refid=jjlp86

If you click on the link you will see (in a new window) what happens when you click on my PTP link. You should also see that I have not received credit for you viewing the page. Why not? Well this is simply because you are restricted to which sites you can advertise the link on.

Why Bother? In exchange for advertising this page on an authorised site you receive PTP credits and, for example, on Donkeymails you receive $0.75 for each 1000 credits.

So where do you advertise the sites? Initially I would suggest on the other sites mentioned above.

How much does it cost? Well for some time I never paid to place a PTP ad but simply redeemed either points or cash from clicking on the other sites. For instance 625 points on WWC buys you 600 PTP ads that converts to about 100 – 125 Donkeymail PTP Credits.

Why for 600 views might I only get 100 credits? Views are tiered – for instance you may get 1 credit for a view from a person in US, Canada, UK or Australia but as little as 0.05 credits for a view from a person in China!

Before I finish for today I should quickly mention that I do very well out of credits on GetRef.com too!

Go on then – go and join them!

If you've found this post useful why not subscribe to my RSS feed?

Don't know what this means? Help is here!

The Return

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:42:00 +0000

After a considerable break I am now ready to update on how I have been making money online. I have four main sources of income none of which will yet make me a millionaire (in any currency) but I have established a regular small income.

Firstly there are the surveys; secondly Paid to Read sites; thirdly Paid to Click sites and finally Afilliate Marketing. Over the next few days I shall outline my main sourses under each of these headings - I will then round up with a look at downline building.

If you've found this post useful why not subscribe to my RSS feed?

Don't know what this means? Help is here!

Paid to Click Delight

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:19:00 +0000

Gives Me Some Heart

One of the smaller sites I have been following for a while is EuroCentBux. This has around 2000 members and is bilingual (Anglo-French) offering a small number of ads each day.

Yesterday I spotted a new newsletter and the English was not exactly brilliant - in fact I found it easier to read the French version and I've not used French for many years (about 30!). I contacted the admin asking if he wanted me to tidy it up. This I did.

My next contact was the admin thanking me and offering me a free ad. What a gentleman! We hear so many stories of greed and avarice around online earings I thought it was wonderful to find someone acting so honourably. This has restored my faith somewhat in the industry.

If you've found this post useful why not subscribe to my RSS feed? Don't know what this means? Help is here!

GetRef Review

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:00:00 +0000

GetRef.com is a free to join site which has become absolutely central to all of my activity in Paid to Read (PTR) and Paid to Click (PTC) type programs. It is central to the development of my downlines and is great for cheap Paid to Promote (PTP) activity. The basic premise of the site is that you either earn or buy credits and then spend them in attracting people to join your downline in programs.

Earn

How then do you earn credits?Your first option is to join the downline of another members program. This may seem very simple – and is – but try and join a program that you are really likely to use. If you get a reputation as someone who joins programs but then becomes inactive you are likely to hit trouble later on both by being denied the chance to join programs and members not joining your downlines.

Having joined GetRef then to join a program you select “Earn” from the Home Page and then select “Earn Credits by Joining a Program”. You are presented firstly with a list of the Top 7 Paying Programs (those for which you earn most credits) and below this programs for which credits are offered are grouped by <> <> <> <> <> <>.

When you select a program you may be faced with offers from a number of members (promoters). You may be anxious to just simply earn the most available credit(s). To help you make a decision you are given information about the promoters of the program – The Promoter Rating (how many times a user has accepted an earn request); The Earners Rating (This tells you how many times a user has been accepted for an earn request) and finally the total rating. You may be more comfortable going with an experienced promoter or just go for the most credit(s). For my part I tend to choose a newbie with a promoter rating of zero to give them a chance to build a downline and help encourage them to use GetRef; the way I see it the more active users of GetRef the better for everyone.

Having chosen your program select it by clicking on the program name next to the promoter of your choice. On the page that comes up you will see a description of the program written by the promoter and you are given the chance to rate the description. Some of the descriptions are dire and others very full. Personally I use this to state conditions to be met before I will hand over the credit(s). A summary of the promoter’s history is given and you are then given a stark choice of Agree or Back. If you choose the Agree button you are committed to joining or it will affect your Earners Rating. Finally, if you agree to join, you are given the link to join the program by and full instructions on what to do to gain your credit(s).

Tip 1. Let the join link open a new window – do not right click and select new tab it doesn’t work properly.
Tip 2. When you go to the site and join it may be necessary to carry out an action in a confirmation e-mail; if you don’t do this the promoter will not see you in their downline.

Now all you can do is use the program and wait for the promoter to authorise your credit(s). If this hasn’t happened in 72 hours you may force the transaction to gain your credit(s).

The second way to earn credits is by selecting “Earn” from the Home Page and then selecting “Earn Credits by clicking links”. You are presented with (a very long) table of small ads which shows the link and also how much credit you will get for viewing the page for 15 seconds. The amount for each individual ad is very small but you can build credits very quickly with a good session of clicking. Why do people put these links here? I will discuss this when dealing with your Spend options.

The third way to earn credits is by referring others to GetRef. For each member you directly refer you will receive two credits. I do not plan to expand on this option here other than to say I regularly run GetRef banners in Traffic Exchanges.In addition to earning credits you can also buy credits following the “Buy Credits” link from the Home Page. $10 will buy you 40 credits (50 if you are a Gold Member) and you can spin these credits out a long way.

Spend

OK. Let’s assume you have some credit and look at how you can spend it.

Following the Spend link from the Home Page you can (if you have at least two credits) select <<>>. It is possible to promote over 2200 programs on GetRef so just select your program from the list that comes up.The first thing to enter on the form you first see is your program referral ID. Be careful - as it says on the page - the referral ID is not necessarily the same as your login id. For example, my Wordlinx login id is jjlp86 but my referral link id is 20953. Enter the total number of credits you are assigning to this program and the credits per referral. This could be as simple as 2 and 2 but on popular programs I tend to offer 2.2 credits; just a little more to help you get towards the top of the program listing. Do not go mad and offer way over the odds - these credits are hard earned! However, if you offer just 2 credits for Adbux, which claims around 500,000 members, then the chances that hell may have frozen over before someone joins using your link is spectacularly high! Having assigned credits select Update and test your referral link. All you have left to do now is write a description of the program. Please take some care over this – nothing puts me off joining a program under a promoter more than when they have either not bothered with a description or made little effort. To say “$0.01 per click” tells me nothing! Is there anything you know which will help me get the best out of the program? Remember that an honest user is not just using the program to build your downline but to earn cash.

The program description also gives you the chance to set out conditions which you expect to be achieved before you will authorise credit. For instance, at the time of writing I am looking to grow my downline at EasyHits4U.com and in my description it clearly states “I will only credit those who surf 100 sites in 2 days. I do not get credit from EasyHits4u until this has been achieved!” Everybody knows where they stand and if people either choose not to join or to join and not fulfil the conditions you have not wasted your credits.
You will be notified by e-mail when someone joins your program. Check your program to see that someone has indeed joined (I have had it happen that someone joined incorrectly or failed to reply to the confirmation email) and when you visit GetRef.com you will find on the Home Page <> simply click on this and it will give you the chance to review the transaction before you Accept or Decline the person signing up to your program. Think very, very, carefully before you decline someone and, if possible, mail them to tell them why you have done so.

That’s it - you have started your first downline using GetRef.com! So, having covered how to Earn credits and Spend credits to create a downline let’s look at using GetRef to make some money! When discussing Earn options I mentioned the option to earn by clicking links. Now we need to look at why, at any time, there are so many links there. The answer is very simply - Paid to Promote (PTP). At many PTC sites like Donkeymails and No-minimum you get paid to promote the site at a list of approved sites. On many of them GetRef is indeed on the approved list. If you have credits and after selecting Spend you select <> you can then add a PTP link.How does this work?

Let me take you through some basic maths based on my PTP link for Donkeymails. On Donkeymails you are paid $0.75 for every thousand credits. In the last 12 days I have had my link in GetRef clicked 1769 times of which 1627 were valid clicks and these clicks made me 796 credits. To get 1000 credits at Donkeymails for $0.75 would, if this sample is representative (and I believe it is), mean my GetRef link would need 2222 clicks to earn $0.75 cents. So how much do these clicks cost? You set the price! If you follow the Buy link you will see that the current notional cost of one GetRef credit is $0.25.

Let’s not get too boring with the Maths but the simple fact is that the break even point for Donkeymails PTP is 0.0013 credits and by buying the links at any cost lower than this you are making a profit! For instance if you bought clicks at 0.0010 you would make a profit of $0.19 (34% profit). A purchase of credits at $10 for 40 Credits allows you to both build downline and earn profit via PTP. However if you upgrade to Gold Membership you get 25% more credits for your money and with a notional cost of only $0.20 per credit if you bought links at 0.0010 credits you would make a profit of $0.30 (55% profit).

So that’s it; how to earn credit and then go on and spend it. There is much more to discover when you join. Gold membership is a steal – you get 10% of downline earnings 5 levels deep and as a Gold member you get random referrals so the number of referrals adds very quickly! Do make use of the message board it will help you to get used to the program much more quickly.One little thing to look out for is the monthly draw. You can make money; get gold membership and win free credits in the monthly draw. As you progress through the site on a daily basis you can earn up to three tickets - so use the program every day and you increase your chances in the monthly draw!

Overall this is a brilliant program. Anyone wanting to build a downline for any program should be a member and it is a great cash converter for PTP programs but you should remember the more you put in the more you will get out.I haven’t written this to try and get referrals but if you would like to join with me my link is: http://www.getref.com/index.asp?id=JJLP86

For me the aim of this review is simply to let you know how the program works and hopefully in enough detail so that you don’t just wander around aimlessly if (when) you join. I hope this has been of some use to you.

If you've found this post useful why not subscribe to my RSS feed? Don't know what this means? Help is here!

Is Make Free Money Online a Scam?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 19:58:00 +0000

Is this another Paid to Click Scam?

From the very beginning I have been a big supporter of MFMO and have built a nice downline. I even refrained from writing badly about it when Chrissy the Admin had the awful problems with PayPal. In fact since the 27th of August I have been incredibly patient.

One of the reasons for my patience was that I had not intended to look for cashout but was waiting to Upgrade at Level 4. On Friday the day came to upgrade and absolutely nothing has happened. In fact no payment processor has been put in place since PayPal told him to stop so I fear now that MFMO is ended.

In most cases that would be the end of it for me however I did a Whois look-up and would you believe the admin lives only about 30 miles away from me! I shall mail Chrissy again and if I get no answer watch this space

If you've found this post useful why not subscribe to my RSS feed?

Don't know what this means? Help is here!

A Good Day

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:25:00 +0000

Daddybux is Back

I was probably the last person to find this out but Daddybux is back and operating normally.

On one of the forums I read it is being suggested that the site was suspended for an unpaid bill. If so it gives a terrible impression to members and advertisers alike but nonetheless it is back so hooray!

Since Daddybux disappeared I have been looking more closely at the terms and conditions of all the PTC sites I have joined and, in effect, they are able to just change things as they like or just take a holiday totally ignoring members. I guess at least the people at thebux.com have mailed members to say they were "updating the system after pre-launch". Will they reappear?

Opinion Bar Surveys

I have long thought that Opinion Bar was a scam but not really aired my views. I got a few surveys to start with and relatively quickly approached the earning threshold of £10. As I approached the threshold my survey invites dried up and I presumed that was that. Today, however, I got a new survey which takes me over the £10 so I have requested payment. It just now remains to be seen whether the money hits my bank account (payment is by Electronic Money Transfer).

Edit: 14 May 2008 And yes in the end I did get paid - surveys here are very very slow coming and the payment is slow too - but it is not a scam!

If you've found this post useful why not subscribe to my RSS feed?

Don't know what this means? Help is here!

DaddyBux hits the dust?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:46:00 +0000

DaddyBux Paid to Click suspended by Host

It looks like the latest PTC to fall is DaddyBux. Despite a message saying that the domain is undergoing unscheduled maintenance the URL used for the message is quite telling

http://speedy.usfasthost.com/suspended.page/

Why would fasthost refer the domain to their suspended page unless there was trouble. Despite attempts to contact fasthost there has been no reply as yet. I will update this page if I get further news.

If you've found this post useful why not subscribe to my RSS feed?

Don't know what this means? Help is here!

Michael Badger Campaign

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 20:30:00 +0000

Affiliate Marketing

I just came across a new marketing campaign that Michael Badger has put together, and I have to say it is one of the most innovative campaigns I have seen in a very long time. I have a feeling that this thing is going to take off and turn into a huge viral explosion - one that we will all remember for a long time!

What works about it is that there is a very compelling hook - he is offering to GIVE you a free monthly income with no buying, selling or recruiting. At first I thought that it was just another hyped up website, but after I read only a few lines of the copy on the main page, I realized that this one might actually be different.

Michael very quickly gets into the nuts and bolts of exactly how he is going to accomplish the task of giving so many people a monthly income. It is basically a profit sharing model. He is going to be launching a new membership site offering small business owners and marketers a service in a few months. It is from that service that he will allocate funds to be divided among a pool of people. All you have to do to be part of the pool is sign up now to receive his newsletter and announcements about the upcoming service.

And that's it - you just sign up and you will receive part of his profits.

It's a pretty cool idea really. In essence what he has done is taken the portion of his budget that would have gone into advertising and put it into getting the word out about his service in a big way.

It's an interesting campaign that you may as well sign up for - it's free after all. Or, just take a look for the innovative marketing idea Michael has put together.

If you've found this post useful why not subscribe to my RSS feed? Don't know what this means? Help is here!

Adsentive PTP has gone!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 21:59:00 +0000

Here's a new one (scam?).

I've not seen this happen before - I guess there's a first time for everything. On the Adsentive site the PTP has been reduced from an attractive $0.70 CPM to nothing. No warning has been given and I'm guessing there are many people out there that have paid good money for and are now stuck with ads that will make no income at all.

I've always made it part of my routine to check every day the PTP performance of sites. Today was a good day to have done so. I assume the owner has decided that the rate was too high now that memberships are slowing down. The lack of communication is making me believe that I perhaps should not be waiting with breath held for the payment I am due.

Give this program a wide berth until I can report I have been paid!

If you've found this post useful why not subscribe to my RSS feed?

Don't know what this means? Help is here!

Bux.to Bux Back!!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:18:00 +0000

Bux.to Returns

A bland statement saying:

Oct. 08, 2007 - Bux.to domain shut down due to sabotage!

announces the return of Bux.to. It returned at about 13:40 GMT.

The word I am picking up on is that members of the Adbux forums flamed the Bux.to ISP complaining that Bux.to was a scam. Well, Bux.to seem to have satisfied their ISP and they are back up and running - long may it be so!

If you've found this post useful why not subscribe to my RSS feed?

Don't know what this means? Help is here!

Bux.to Bux Gone

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 10:02:00 +0000

Bux.to Scam Pulled?

It looks like today is the day that many of us have been expecting for some time and Bux.to is no longer!

I'd managed to get up to $5 but I never really expected to see anything from them I was just there to see what happened. There are rumours that they have been banned by their ISP and intend to be up and running when they have found a new home. I don't happen to believe that but will keep an eye out for them for a little while just in case.

More and more of the $0.01 ad sites have been failing or proving to be a scam. Stick to the best known and reliable payers. MFMO has been my favourite for a very long time but has hit problems with PayPal which are causing real problems. I'm sticking with it until a new Pay system is in place.

Best for ads at the moment for me is Linkgrand. It is only $0.003 per mail and $0.0009 per referral mail - but I trust it! Payout is only $5.

If you've found this post useful why not subscribe to my RSS feed?

Don't know what this means? Help is here!

Tarbux Scam

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 06:26:00 +0000

I find that after a few days of no ads today we see the old server under maintenance screen - the same as we did with internationalmoneybux.com.

Unfortunately it is impossible to find the owners of the site from a Whois query as they are hidden behind a GoDaddy proxy. Anybody in the States want to have a look?

Chrissy at MFMO is having troubles but is open about what is going on - Support him and seek out the scummy scammers.

If you've found this post useful why not subscribe to my RSS feed?

Don't know what this means? Help is here!

MFMO Troubles

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 05:59:00 +0000

This is the news. I will comment in another post!

Guys,

I have received some of the worse news I have ever received in my life.

I think you know what’s coming ..

Paypal have permanently closed my account …

… for the sale of Multi Level Marketing !

Apparently they have reviewed it, required more info, reinvestigated and have closed and rejected a right to appeal.

Never in a million years would I have imagined this would happen. I made last minute changes on recommendation of many people, I read and re read their terms, and have pretty much jumped through every hoop, and yet they still do this.

What makes me so annoyed is that they will not negotiate. They are not willing to let me know the changes they want. You would not believe how fuming i am !

Paypal have put a massive downer on MFMO. It has made a lot of work and caused alot of upset.

Its moments like this that can make or break not just a site / program, but also a person.

Paypal are not my pal …
they might have put a real stop on MFMO and defiantly done our reputation some damage, but having it made clear that I am to shut up and walk away just means they can stick their business up their butts !
I am working on trying to get funds into my Alertpay and Egold accounts.
Living in the UK makes funding Alertpay pretty tough and with them not been too popular with advertisers or upgraders those accounts have not really taken much. Once Alertpay approve my documents i will be able to transfer cash between my EG and Alertpay account. I know this still leave loads of people wondering what they are gonna do for cashouts, but, stick with me for a minute ..!
Mobillcash and google checkout have not been bad for taking money, they are no good for paying you your commissions, but they create the funds I would need to buy any offline gift cards, postal orders, sending cheques etc …

Google checkout is simple to purchase through, so if you still only use them bum wipes over at paypal to buy things online with, please seriously consider them as a purchasing option. They are not fully integrated into the ads pages of MFMO so if you would like to buy advertising through google checkout then please get in touch and i shall create a button (till i can get it coded dynamical into the ads pages that is!!

Now before I go any further i just need to clear one thing up. I have mentioned it before and need to mention it again to stress the point.

We do not use moneybookers for payouts. They do not like GPT sites, and its going to take me a while to pick up the pieces from our Paypal whirlwind!

I do not want to go through this again as i need moneybookers for other projects.

If MFMO is to have any kind of future I am afraid that we are gonna have to make a couple of changes.
The 1st one is totally out of my hands and something that I can do nothing about (except maybe tell you about http://www.paypalsucks.com !)

make-free-money-onlkine.info no longer use paypal for taking or making online payments and never will again.

The next is not just a preventative measure, its also so as to try and get MFMO back to the way we were 5 weeks ago.
The minimum payout for alertpay and egold will have to raise to $3. I appreciate this is a huge step but one of the very few clues PP give me why my account was suspicious was all the transactions each day for just $1. By raising the minimum payout it will stall payouts a lil’ so i get a chance to catch up as and will obviously not be doing as many transactions. This is a tough decision and I know a lot of you joined because the $1 payout banner. But please try and understand that I am proposing this change to give MFMO a chance for survival.

So what about those who have no alertpay or egold account?

If all you would do with the money you cashout to PP is spend it somewhere else online then perhaps consider opening either an Alertpay or and Egold account just for spending it online!

If you are tied into PP because you pull the cashout into your bank then US and CAN can currently transfer cash into Alertpay. And Egold has many trusted sites to sell your Egold. (i shall have a recommendation by the weekend as i am just trying one site out for buying EG)

Its also interesting to know that once you verify your Alertpay account you can then withdraw to or fund from Egold.

This is going to take a lil time to suss out but what i plan on doing is as follows: (and this list is in no way complete! I will need your input to make it happen!!)

Currently:

UK users can request a postal order (£5min) or online vouchers or gift cards (£10 min) (please bear in mind the conversion ratio)

US users can request online vouchers and gift cards ($10 min)

AUS users also can request vouchers and gift cards ($10 min(aussie dollars!!))

Eventually i want to be able to just send out cheques but at present do not have an account that allows this. For now we will just have to wait and see if my friends from some other countries will get back and and be willing to help with ideas for gifts in their country !!

I plan on sending out our 1st requests for payment by Monday, Please do not expect instant payout When the button goes live its unfortunately a race till the account are cleared out! (in the case of egold and alertpay that is!!) We are going to have maybe one of the largest payout queues in the whole entire GPT galaxy ! It will certainly be a challenge to process !

If you are reading this and would like to cashout a particular voucher or gift card from your country then please use the contact form over at MFMO to let me know and i shall get them ordered and processed asap. Many of you will have large account balances and if you would like to redeem them for any kind of (legit) online vouchers or types of prepaid cards then please do suggest. If they can be brought online i will review it and see what we can cook up!!

Think like department store / supermarket / Amazon / ..etc.. vouchers are totally practically too. They may as well be cash with what you can but with them!! I just need to know what the different department stores are around the world!!

Another suggestion a friend had was Itunes ..?

I dunno!

I need your input!!

Unfortunately these options will have a charge. Each charge will be clear for each option we make and is only to cover any charges i shall incur such as processing fees, stamps envelopes (if pap’!) If its going to cost more than $13 for a $10 request then some different ideas will need to be had! Lets just bang our heads together and see what ideas we can come up with for now.

Our final change is to the way that our current PTSU section works. (or more to the point doesn’t!)
This is a lil off topic when you consider our main issues, but i think its important you know. The change below will not actually change for another week or two at least!.

So, the change …

To get credit for an offer, members will have to be active for at least 5 days and approved by the advertiser.

For those of you who use the PTSU section honestly (thanks!) this will not affect you are you will only be joining sites that interest you (or at least should be!!)

Many users try and abuse the PTSU section as they think it can be an easy 15c. To ensure real value to our advertisers, they will receive receive an email of user names to confirm as active.

I will still be doing the primary check so you will still need to paste in the confirmation email your receive from the offer and that you have not been credited for this ad from a potential advertiser. Its just the advertiser has to then let me know who is playing by the new rules.

The value of offers will change too. I plan on bring it down 10c so that i do not have to charge extra for the extra time incurred verifying EVERY sign up with the advertiser.

If the program you joined did not send a confirmation email then please paste in the email address you used, your username if applicable and the date you joined.

I will change the PTSU section to reflect these changes and enhance the importance of the new rules, for now though i just want you to be aware, that, that section is going to under go a real rethink !

I have to make a really big apology for not been more prepared and having at least some kind of backup plan. I feel embarrassed like you would not believe.

I honestly thought PP would come round and at least communicate, but they do not. Just freeze. Keep you in the dark and eventually slap you on the botty on say ‘Do one’

I unfortunately feel that this is going to be come a common thing. If they done this to me for MFMO, the surly other sites must be getting roughed up by them big bullies too?

PP have now said i can request my funds and Naturally i have requested to withdraw everything to my bank (i say everything, its not exactly loads!!!), will change the email to an unused email try and remove any personal info and do as they have suggested and shut up and leave.

I will be usuing my yuwie blog to air my vexes and let off a lil more steam. (I do not want to curse at MFMO!)

I will continue to work on getting more ways to pay for advertising as well as more options for redemptions and payouts.

I am also still trying to redesign MFMO.
Once done i plan a few things that i just know will get us back to where we where that very long 5 weeks ago ..

Trust me …

It will be HUGE !!!!

Thanks for sticking with MFMO too. It may take me a couple of days to get everything changed such as the banners, all the pages, adding the payout options etc .. Once set up i shall restart my own personal advertising campaigns.
I have to admit that i have not been doing much as i was just too embarrassed, but that’s gone, i must have thousands of TE credits just waiting to be used as well as a million safelist credits!! Thats before redeeming all my ads at where i am upgraded !!

Once i am sure everything is covered as far as the new changes are, expect to see my ads around a few places !!!

To our future ..

Chrissy J – MFMO admin

If you've found this post useful why not subscribe to my RSS feed?

Don't know what this means? Help is here!