Showing posts with label pay per click. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pay per click. Show all posts

Thursday, April 3, 2008

A Penny For Your Thoughts

Are you frustrated by the constant barrage of online offers that turn out to be scams? Yes? Well, so am I! There seems to be no end or shortage of all the crap that gets hurled at online marketers these days. I started this blog basically as a means of presenting all the various programs out there and review them for you in advance to explain them and separate the crap from the gold.

I used to laugh at all the obviously lame offers and the "too good to be true" offers out there, but now I'm actually a bit worried. I got an email from one of those "Get paid to read emails" sites today that offered me a penny to come back to my account, log in and read the penny email. That's right, folks...one whole cent! Ooh! A penny for my thoughts!

I don't know whether to laugh or cry. It wouldn't matter if this site was a scam or not, or if they really do pay, as I'm not waiting to find out. My time is valuable. YOUR time is valuable. I only want you to read this if you value my opinion. I don't know if my thoughts are worth a penny to you or not, but I do know that your time is worth more than the cent they offer to you for the time it takes to log in and view that ad for 30 seconds.

You CAN make money online, but you have to be wise about it. You need to invest a small amount sometimes to get started and you need to maximize your time in the best way possible when you start earning that online income. Don't get lured by the promise of a few pennies. You are worth far more than that, my friends...

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Combining Programs To Maximize Profits

Hello! I hope everyone is doing well!
For my tip today I wanted to give a quick example of how you should combine the programs available to you in order to maximize effect and profits. I know you have some sort of affiliate program to sell, in either an ad or a website you are trying to promote, but how do you get that message across with the least amount of investing and effort on your part? Well, there are many ways.
The most obvious ones are to join a link exchange program to promote your website, or an ad forum to post an ad. I have some fast, free and easy ones to join listed in my links. However, one other way that works amazingly well is to join a pay per click (PPC) or Paid To Click (PTC) program site. I know you're thinking "Oh, those don't make any money. I tried one and only made a few cents!". Exactly. I couldn't agree more, and I don't recommend them to actually make any money, but rather, to use them as a free advertising forum for your product.
This is putting a bit of a twist on it when you use it NOT as a means to make money. Let me give you an example. If you were trying to make money, the average threshold for most of those programs is $10, which would take the average person MONTHS to acheive. They also don't tell you that, once you join, there are hardly ANY ads to click in the first place, so there's virtually no way to make any big profits.
However, you CAN use this to your advantage. If you join a program like Adbux (in my link list) they have a system where you can exchange your click credits for views of your own site to others. Now, the vast majority of people are in it for the money only and don't even consider that, but when you see how few ads there really are, and that they have a membership currently OVER 700,000 (ALL greedily looking for new ads to click), then you realize what a potential marketing goldmine it is.
So the plan is simple. You join up at no cost to you, then click their ads until you reach the exchange credits threshold (which is only 75 cents!) and then put your ad/site up for everyone else to see. Keep in mind too that these are all people looking for "work at home" money making programs, so it's the perfect target audience!! And it's all FREE advertising! Can't go wrong there. Tip: When choosing your interests upon sign up, make sure you pick "biz2biz", "get Paid to" and the like. While you may like music and sports and the other categories, there are NO ads for these topics, so you'd be out of luck. You must pick all the money making type topics for it to work.
Until next time, have a great week!