Varolo Village Daily

Varolo Online Earnings Increase

noreply@blogger.com (S.Harvey) — Thu, 05 May 2011 02:28:00 +0000

May 1st saw ad prices increase to $0.02 per 30 second ad. This means that all new campaigns with Varolo will be at this new price. It also means that village earnings will be increasing.

Each village will begin to see their daily, village earnings, go up as the old campaigns finish running and the new ad price goes into effect. This is great news for all current Varolo members. If you are not part of Varolo you need to join and start growing your village today.

Varolo is now at 113,000 members, and continues to see daily growth of about 1,500 new members. With this continued growth I expect to see ad prices steadily increase every month. The number and variety of ad's are also increasing. Many area's are seeing a number of targeted advertisements from local business's and more national campaigns are being seen every week.

All of this means it is getting easier to make money online with Varolo. Again if you are not a member of Varolo I would encourage you to join. Take a look at the Village Member Spotlight for this week or the Varolo Villages page and join Varolo today.

Join my Varolo Village:

http://www.varolo.com/village/Harvey75

And lets start building your Varolo Village TODAY.

Varolo Review Anne P

noreply@blogger.com (S.Harvey) — Tue, 03 May 2011 19:41:00 +0000

Anne P.

Anne has two lovely daughters and 3 beautiful grandchildren. She is retired and enjoying life as an active grandmother.

When I asked Anne what she liked about Varolo, this is what she said:

"I really enjoy the Varolo site. I am on my computer everyday and being able to watch and enjoy the advertisements makes me feel important. By my responses to the ads, I feel it will help the advertisers with promoting their merchandise, and letting them know what the people feel about them. It is quite enjoyable when watching TV and a commercial comes on and it's one that I have reviewed and stated my opinions on, I get a little giddy and laugh to myself. I think its great to voice an opinion, and also being able to receive rewards for just letting them know how you feel."

Join Anne's Varolo Village:

http://varolo.com/village/AnneP

And let's start building your village today.

Join Varolo today.

Earn Money For Watching Ads

noreply@blogger.com (S.Harvey) — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 23:14:00 +0000

Here is my second post in the series on, How Varolo Rewards You. This is also the one most folks are going to be interested in, because I am going to break down how you earn real money with Varolo.

There are two key components to your village earnings.

1. The total number of active villagers you have.
2. The total size of Varolo

Varolo pays out up to 20% of ad revenue directly to its members, through village earnings. Varolo doesn't pay you directly for the ads you watch, instead your ads are used to calculate the total amount of village earnings you will collect each week. This calculation is based on the minimum 20 ads a day Varolo asks that you watch. Or about 10 to 15 minutes of your time each day.

If you watch 20 commercials a day at the end of the week 100% of your village earnings will be transferred into your vault. So 140 commercials each week is your target, if you only watch 70 commercials in a week you will only get 50% of your village earnings.

Two things to note is that you will never be able to grow a large village and then stop participating in Varolo. If you stop watching the ads, then you cannot collect your village earnings. This is pretty smart considering that Varolo relies on member participation to get the best prices for the advertising.

Second point with village earning is that your villagers need to be active. This is one of the reasons for the design of my blog, and why I am willing to help anyone who joins my village. The best way to keep people engaged with Varolo is to help every one, of my village members achieve their goals and grow their village.

Now on to why the total size of Varolo matters. As with any advertising product, the total number of consumers the advertiser can reach is key to setting the price of the advertisement. This is true for all older advertising vehicles, whether it is billboards, radio or T.V. This is also true for modern internet advertising, the more people use your site, the more you can charge per click on an advertisement..

As Varolo continues to grow, they will be able to charge more money per 30 second ad view. This in turn will mean higher earnings per villager watching that add. So even if your village never grew beyond say 30 members, your village earning will continue to grow as Varolo grows.

Lucky for us, Varolo is going to continue to grow. When I joined just a few weeks ago Varolo was growing at about 10,000 members a month. Now Varolo is growing by about 3,000 members per day. This growth is going to continue for some time, which is why now is the time to join Varolo and start growing your village.

If you are interested in Varolo, join my village or better yet one of my villagers, villages.

Join my Varolo village: http://www.varolo.com/village/Harvey75
And lets start building you village today.

Earn Points for Watching Ads

noreply@blogger.com (S.Harvey) — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 18:25:00 +0000

Starting a new series on the blog, How Varolo Rewards You. There seems to be a lot of questions and a bit of miss information floating around on the web with this subject. So here is my attempt to clear some of it up.

Varolo has several vehicles for rewarding its members. One of these is the point system. Every time you watch a commercial on Varolo you earn points. The number of points vary based on the commercial. Average points over the last few weeks is 1 to 5 points per 30 second commercial. With most individuals generating about 250 points per week.

However this is starting to change, since Varolo's official launch on 17 April, there have been a number of new advertisers. The last few days I have received an average of 2 movie preview ads each day. (This is my first time getting these and they appear to be new advertising. Most of my villagers agree.) These movie previews have earned me between 30 and 60 points each. I have seen 6 previews, that makes about 240 points in 3 days, thats 10 points less then last week, for the whole week. So the amount of points earned each week has definitely seen a boost.

As with everything Varolo does, there is a social aspect to earning points. I can't seem to nail down the exact percentages but you will earn points from your village members. So the larger your active village the more points you will earn each week. Again I can't nail the exact number down but it seems to be about a 10 to 1 ratio. So for about every 10 points a village member earns you gain 1 additional point. (If anyone can provide more guidance please let me know.)

Now an important note:

Points are not the same as money for Varolo. And no you can't cash the points out for money. This seems to be the major misconception when it comes to the point system. Points are turned in for prizes, and only prizes.

The smallest prize being a $10 dollar gift card for Walmart, the largest is an iPad 16Gb. There are a number of gift cards, MP3 players, and personal DVD players in between. I am sure as Varolo grows the number of prizes and the variety will also grow.

If your interested in joining Varolo, join my village: http://www.varolo.com/village/Harvey75

Or go to the Village page and join one of my friends.

Join my Varolo Village and lets start building your Village today.

Varolo Has Officially Launched

noreply@blogger.com (S.Harvey) — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 12:36:00 +0000

Today Varolo has left open beta and launched! This is great news for members and those who have been watching to see what Varolo will do.

Here is my favorite excerpt from the CEO, Mr. Prince's launch post.

"I have said it many times before. Varolo is not a sprint, it is a marathon. This often falls on deaf ears because people see the concept and think they will be rich overnight or that it will be easy. And while true for some, most people have to work to grow a village. But if you work at it, your village will grow. As you continue to work at it…it will begin to grow on its own…and that is when things get exciting.

Varolo is a numbers game. Some believe they should be earning big money with a village of 10, 25 or even 100 people. While this is a great start, large villages of active users is what generates good earnings. For most this doesn’t happen over night. We are splitting fractions of pennies on each ad and it takes lots of ad views to earn good money. All we at Varolo can do is provide a system and the ads. The rest is up to you!

As you continue bring users that watch ads, over time this will be the premier advertising platform on the web and advertisers will pay top dollar on each ad view, and you will earn a revenue share anytime one of those premium ads is viewed by anyone in your village. That is the Varolo promise to our users. Every money making example we share is based on 1 cent ad prices (unless otherwise specified). So imagine with those examples as the ad price goes to 3 cents, 5 cents, 10 cents, and even more!

What we need now are committed users that understand the vision and value of Varolo that watch their ads and grow their villages. Do this and we will all find extreme success. Thank you for your participation. It is people like you that will make Varolo succeed."

Kevin Prince, CEO

I really enjoy how he compares Varolo to a marathon and not a sprint. I have taken this approach with Varolo from day one when I joined in March this year. Another excellent point is on village sizes and working for steady growth, something else I can get behind and truly the reason I started this blog.

My hope for the Village Daily is that it will become an engine for village growth, not just my own village but for everyone who is in my village as well. I am dedicated to the long marathon and helping all my village members grow their own villages. Growth of Varolo and each of my members own villages will be the only way to truly succeed. Varolo is now growing at a rate of 5,000 new members weekly and this growth is why I believe Varolo is a true revolution in advertising and the wave of the future.

If your interested in joining Varolo, join my Village: http://www.varolo.com/village/Harvey7

Or go to the Village page and join one of my friends.

Join my Varolo village today, and lets start growing yours.

Are You Online More Than An Hour A Day?

noreply@blogger.com (S.Harvey) — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 19:12:00 +0000

Are you online more than an hour a day?

If you answered yes, than I would suggest you take 10 minutes of that web surfing time and use Varolo. Varolo is a new company with an A- rating by the Better Business Bureau. It hasn't been around long enough to achieve the A+ rating. Varolo rewards you for doing something that most people do for free, watching commercials.

Varolo:

100% FREE
Nothing to buy
Nothing to sell

Just watch commercials.

Varolo is a permission based marketing company that rewards you. Why? Because nobody watches commercials anymore and advertisers know this. So the founder of Varolo realized that if he rewarded consumers for watching commercials two things would happen.

First, people would watch the commercials if they were rewarded. Second, advertisers would be willing to pay good money for a large dedicated viewing audience.

Varolo has three primary vehicles to reward it's members. One is a weekly sweepstakes, which has been growing by $25 a week for the last month. Two is through points, each commercial is worth points and you can cash these out for prizes. Third is through earning money by having a village of friends that you have asked to join Varolo.

Varolo is for real, and you need to join. It takes just ten minutes of your day, then back to your normal web surfing. Join today.

Join My Varolo village: http://www.varolo.com/village/Harvey75

Or go to the Village page and join one of my friends.

Join my Varolo village today, and lets start growing yours.

Varolo Weekly Sweepstakes

noreply@blogger.com (S.Harvey) — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 04:33:00 +0000

Learned something new about the Varolo weekly sweepstakes, and how to maximize your entries, which maximizes your chances to win.

With Varolo you receive one entry for every ad you watch. Your target is 20 advertisements a day, about ten minutes of your time. But Varolo will actually let you watch on average 23 commercials. This means you get an entire extra day a week worth of entries. Now here comes the best part. That extra day of commercials can be worth double entries.

Thats right, your extra 21 commercials can actually net you 42 entries into the weekly sweepstakes. Once you hit your mark of 140 entries for that week, or 20 commercials a day, every commercial over that is worth 2 entries into the sweepstakes. So instead of just a 140 entries for the week you can actually get 180 on average.

Remember I said the average is 23 commercials a day, but last week I averaged 25 each day. So on Saturday I had 210 entries in the weekly drawing. Now its time for the real kicker, the sweepstakes has a splash up, so if you had a village of just ten members, you could average 400 extra entries each week. That's almost as good as having 3 extra villagers.

I encourage everyone to watch the maximum number of advertisements a day that Varolo will give you, and increase your chances of hitting the Jackpot or being a part of the village splash up.

So join Varolo and start getting rewarded for doing something everyone else does for free.

Join My Varolo village: http://www.varolo.com/village/Harvey75

Or go to the Village page and join one of my friends.

Join my Varolo village today, and lets start growing yours.

Varolo Launches In The U.K.

noreply@blogger.com (S.Harvey) — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 21:09:00 +0000

Varolo opens in the U.K. today. This is good news for members who are working to grow their villages. This now allows you to invite all your friends from across the pond. Remember Varolo doesn't restrict where your villages members are from, as long as Varolo is in their country they can join.

This is also good news for villages in general, I have posted before that the larger Varolo gets overall the higher our earning. Remember that this will now increase the incentive for those international brands, raising the size of the target audience; which raise what they are willing to bid for each of our views.

This is also just one more way we can show that Varolo is not a scam. This is for real. Advertisers want you to watch commercials on their products, and Varolo provides you an incentive to watch.

So keep growing those villages and remember to think outside the box. Talk to your friends in Canada, the U.K. and of course the U.S.A. and lets grow Varolo and our villages.

Welcome to the Varolo village, and I hope you have fun and decide to stay for awhile.

If you would like to join Varolo, join my village or take a look at the village page and join one of my friends.

Join My Varolo village: http://www.varolo.com/village/Harvey75

Or go to the Village page and join one of my friends.

Join my Varolo village today, and lets start growing yours.

How Varolo Works

noreply@blogger.com (S.Harvey) — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 21:57:00 +0000

So the question is, how does Varolo work?
How do I earn money watching commercials, or even why would I get rewarded for watching commercials?

Short answer, Varolo is a profit share mechanism that works similar to television when charging advertisers for air time.

The long answer is below with a little of my own history.

It has been about 5 years since I last watched a T.V. commercial. I watch T.V shows, I watch movies on T.V., I just don't watch T.V. commercials. Most of this is due to my DVR, I record a show I like and then I fast forward past the commercials. That simple. Same thing with listening to commercials on the radio, I listen to the radio everyday while I drive to and from work. When the commercial comes on I change stations or I start my MP3 player. Pretty much I have had an ad free life up until March, when I found Varolo.

So the how and the why of Varolo are both tied into the fact that people just don't watch or listen to advertisements; and the ad agencies know this. Varolo changes everything by giving you an incentive to watch the advertisement. Varolo rewards you, the consumer, for doing what the advertiser want you to do, watch their commercials.

Varolo gets paid ad revenue based on the number of active members watching commercials. This is the same way T.V. shows charge advertisers for the number of viewers who watch their shows. The main difference is that Varolo has a feedback mechanism to validate that you actually watched an ad; while T.V. just prays you watched and didn't wander off to do laundry or put the kids to bed.

Now keep in mind that Varolo only lets you watch about 20 commercials a day, roughly 10 minutes of your time. While some might complain about this, it is actually a brilliant feature. As the number of Varolo members grow, advertisers will have to place higher bids against each other to have their commercials aired during your 10 minutes, over that of their competition. Again this is just like with regular T.V., the more people who watch a show, the more advertisers pay for those precious commercial interruptions.

So Varolo makes more per commercial view as the number of Varolo members grow. This means that the rewards to the members grow with them. This is why it is so important to grow Varolo membership overall and not just your own village. Every time I see a new member has joined I know that means my own rewards are going up; because the overall number of members is increasing.

This is particularly important for people with small villages like my own. I only have about 6 active members right now; and thats okay. I know overtime my village will grow, and while I am waiting I know my village earnings will keep growing, because membership with Varolo keeps growing.

The profit share comes about in the fact that Varolo rewards you the member in three ways.

1. You earn points for each commercial you watch. These points vary based on the commercial and what the advertiser paid per view.

2. Every commercial gets you one entry into the week sweepstakes. Varolo has grown the weekly sweepstakes by 25 dollars a week since I joined around the first of March.

3. You earn even more points and money from you Varolo Village. Your village consists of those Varolo members who joined using you refer link. You earn a small percentage of each ad they watched based on you degree of separation. I will talk more about the village earnings in a later post.

So there you have it, the Varolo basics. Just keep in mind a few things about Varolo.

*It is 100% FREE
*You don't have to buy or sell anything
*Varolo takes about 10 minutes a day

So, I hope you will join my Varolo Village and start getting rewarded for watching commercials.

Join My Varolo village: http://www.varolo.com/village/Harvey75

Or go to the Village page and join one of my friends.

Join my Varolo village today, and lets start growing yours.

Is Varolo Legitimate

noreply@blogger.com (S.Harvey) — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:19:00 +0000

So one question comes up when I talk to people about Varolo, in all sorts of forms.

Is Varolo legit? Is Varolo a scam? Is Varolo for real?

The answer is yes, Varolo is legitimate. It is a real company. The problem seems to be with the way some members are advertising it. I have searched the web and seen the pages. Join Varolo and make $3k/month. Join Varolo and earn $1k a week. I joined Varolo one week ago and now I make $100 dollars an hour. This just isn't the way to do things.

Is it possible that you can make a lot of money with Varolo? Most definitely yes. But earning depend on the size of your Varolo Village and the total number of Varolo members.

The best way to look at Varolo is that it is a broadcast company without any T.V. shows, just the T.V. commercials. Advertisers pay broadcast companies based on the number of viewers who watch. The more popular a T.V. show, the more money advertisers are willing to pay. The problem with this model is that nobody watches T.V. commercials. Even if you don't have a DVR, commercials are the time you take to do other things like change out the laundry. Advertisers know this and are still willing to pay large amounts of money to networks, hoping that a hand full of viewers may watch their ad.

Varolo changes the marketing world by giving you a reason to watch the commercials. Varolo is a targeted permission based marketing company. Targeted because you get to say what commercials you want to see. Permission based because you actually log in to watch the commercials. This all works to help advertisers know where the money is going. In turn, you get rewarded for watching commercials by points, sweepstakes entries and village earnings. These all give you a reason to watch.

So how do you really make money with Varolo? Just like they do with T.V., it's all about the viewer ship. The more Varolo members there are overall, the more advertisers will be willing to pay for each commercial that's watched. This in turn means larger village earnings. Varolo pays out up to 20% of the ad revenue per view to villages. So in reality the first key to your village earnings is the overall size of Varolo. The second key, your personal village size, will determine what you can potentially earn.

Starting in April Varolo had about 65,000 members and announced that minimum price on all ads would be $0.01 per 30 seconds. In the middle of April with roughly 75,000 members Varolo announced that May 1st the minimum on all new ad campaigns would be $0.02 per 30 seconds. So in just 2 weeks Varolo set and then doubled advertisement costs. This means it doubled all village earning as well.

As of the 18th of April Varolo had 90,000 members. It is now growing at a rate of about 1,000 new members everyday. When they hit a million members, I can see ad revenues at about 10 - 25 cents per view.

If you have a village of 10 members and the average commercial is 10 cents, then each commercial watched will generate about 1 cent for your village. That means each villager will generate 20 cents each day, or 10 villagers will generate $2 a day.

I believe that Varolo will continue to grow and that within the next year or so they will hit the 1 million member mark. So in about a year a village of 10 people will be earning close to $60 dollars a month. Remember advertisers pay more for larger audiences. So as Varolo grows, so grow the village earnings.

Varolo is legit. It is not a scam, though some members might be snake oil salesmen.

You can see that with a few hundred villagers watching commercials you could make some real money, but that's the key. To make money with Varolo you will need an active Village of several hundred people. But even a small village has the potential for real earnings as the overall Varolo membership rises.

So that's the truth on Varolo.

I would encourage everyone to join Varolo today. The sooner you join, the sooner I can help you start growing your own village.

Join my Varolo village http://www.varolo.com/village/Harvey75
Or check out the Village page and join one of my friends.

Join my Varolo village today, and lets start growing yours.

What is Varolo?

noreply@blogger.com (S.Harvey) — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 06:14:00 +0000

Varolo is a company that connects advertisers and consumers together in a truly unique way. Varolo provides advertisers with a vehicle for targeted, permission advertising; while providing it members, consumers, with an incentive to watch those advertisements. Varolo is 100% free for members and doesn't require you to buy or sell anything. Varolo simply rewards its members for watching commercials!

That's right. Varolo rewards you for doing something most people will either avoid or do for free. The reason for this is that everyday more people are avoiding the advertisements. With the help of technology people are able to stop watching commercials on T.V. and avoid hearing them on the radio. I should know, I was one of those people. With no one watching, advertisers are just throwing good money after bad and they know it. Thats were the genius of Varolo comes in.

Varolo provides you, the member, an incentive for watching the commercials. Instead of having the ad revenues doled out among broadcast companies and actors, Varolo shares those revenues with its members. In fact, a members village can earn up to 20% of the ad revenue that Varolo gets paid. The ad revenues Varolo receives are also what make the sight free for members. So this is part of what makes Varolo so great for the member.

From the advertisers perspective Varolo is a win - win option as well. Varolo allows advertisers to use targeted marketing, to find consumers who have indicate an interest in their product. Varolo also provides feedback to the advertiser that the commercial was actually watched and how well it was received. These two aspects are what the advertisers aren't getting with the classic model and are what make Varolo unique.

Now, I mentioned that Varolo members receive an incentive for watching the advertisements. This incentive has three forms. First, every commercial is worth points, these points come in a spread and not all commercials are the same. Members receive points for every commercial they watch. These points can be cashed out for various prizes. Second, each commercial watched provides one entry into the weekly sweepstakes. This sweepstakes is drawn every Saturday, check my blog for the current weeks jackpot. Third, members are afforded the opportunity to grow villages and earn up to 20% of the cost per view of a commercial. A village is Varolo's term for your social network of members.

So at this point you are probably wondering how much time a day Varolo will take. Varolo takes about 10 minutes a day. Most commercials are the standard 30 seconds and Varolo asks that you watch 20 commercials a day. They also set a target goal of 140 commercials a week to earn 100% of your village earnings. This is not something you can just set on autopilot and expect to work. Varolo is set up so every member needs to participate if they expect to receive the maximum rewards.

Lets have a quick review of Varolo:

100% free to join!
Doesn't require you to buy or sell anything.
Takes about 10 minutes a day.
Has advertisers paying you to watch their commercials.

If you are still hesitant about joining Varolo I would suggest you sign up and give it a week. If Varolo isn't for you, you can always cancel your account.

If you would like to give Varolo a try please join my Varolo Village. I will do whatever I can to answer questions and help you grow your own village.

Join My Varolo village: http://www.varolo.com/village/Harvey75

Or go to the Village page and join one of my friends.

Join my Varolo village today, and lets start growing yours.