You Will Not Get Rich From This Blog

First things first. Holy Crap!! I woke up this morning and, like most of you, was greeted with another catastrophic event. Although I feel as if the 8.8 earthquake in Chile is currently taking second stage to the potential tsunami threats throughout the Pacific, I’m sure the media will re focus it’s attention tonight. Updating us on the grim news that the body count has risen dramatically and another amazing part of the world has been devastated. Best wishes goes out to everyone in Chile, and continued love for Haiti and Eddy’s family and friends.

Sigh

So lets segue from a tragedy into something a bit more positive.

I’ve been a member of Treasure Trooper from probable the beginning. What was it, five years ago? I did a lot of promoting back then and built a hefty downline in a short amount of time and really haven’t done much with it since. Don’t get me wrong, it’s one of my favorite incentive based programs ( along side Cash Crate ), but I’m not one to complete offers just to fill my inbox with spam and my paypal account with monthly paychecks ( read my post Using Incentivized Programs Responsibly ). I keep the occasional referral link floating around and of course on this blog. If there is somewhere I want to shop or something I want to join, then usually I’ll take a look at what I can get paid for.

A bit over a month ago, Treasure Trooper introduced “Cash Clicks” to the equation. View an ad with no timer, earn five cents each. When they started this I was extremely skeptical. Not that they were going to not pay up, but rather I was concerned with the high value of each ad and the fact that there were around three dollars worth a day. Just seemed like they were being a bit too generous to me. One Cent would have made more sense, while still being generous.

Well, as the days passed the “Cash Clicks” were unavailable from time to time ( met their quota ), and then I’d only get a couple a day. Now, they seemed to have met a happy medium and throw a consistent seven or eight at us a day ( another 35 to 40 cents ). I still think they should lower the value to around one or two cents but, if it’s working for them, then cool, I’ll enjoy the extra money.

Since they were smart about it and made it so you couldn’t just cash out from “Clicks” alone, I’ve noticed a bit of a jump in my referral earnings as well as my second level. Very happy about that. It’s going to be nice to get back to that monthly check from a down line I built over five years ago.

Earnings and Referral Stats

Daily Babble, Incentivized Sites

n·cen·tiv·ize (n-snt-vz)
tr.v. in·cen·tiv·ized, in·cen·tiv·iz·ing, in·cen·tiv·iz·es
To offer incentives or an incentive to; motivate:

So I just did a quick count and apparently there are 805,643 websites that will pay you an incentive ( $$ ) to join programs, sign up for offers, complete tasks, shop and take surveys. Okay, so I didn’t really count websites. I just wanted to give you an idea of how many Incentivized Programs are out there.

I use two. CashCrate and Treasure Trooper.

I’ve seen quite a few posts in forums about how such and such site sends out SPAM email, sells the members phone numbers and personal information, and then labeling “such and such” website a Scam. Look, this is what is most likely happening… and I’ll use Cash Crate as an example.

You join Cash Crate thinking $$. You see that there are a billion offers that will pay you .50 – $3.00 for simply “Filling out the form with Valid Information” or “Participating in the Survey”. You say to yourself, “Sweet, I can knock out about ten of these a day and make a couple hundred dollars a month”. Your right. You can, but realize that every time you submit your personal information just so you can earn yourself fifty cents, you just enrolled your self in the “Please Spam Me Club”. Of course you were too busy counting your money to read the Privacy Agreement or the Terms of Use thingy, that ALL THESE WEBSITES PROVIDE. See, your not getting spammed by Treasure Trooper or Cash Crate or whichever program you are a member of. You’re doing it to yourself… Any questions?

Now here’s what you do..

1 – Keep completing those “free” offers and accept the fact that you’re going to get a crap load of “You’ve just won an IPOD Extreme!!” type emails in your inbox. (“Miley Likes it Big”, that’s my favorite. )

2 – Pick up your referrals people!! Let someone else get the spam instead. You just sit back and collect your commissions ( F’ Yeah .05 more cents!! ). Most Incentivized programs pay you for bringing in new members. Cool, now the only email your going to see is a monthly newsletter and a message saying “You’ve been Paid”.

3 – Use Incentivized Sites Responsibly!! … Sign up for offers you actually want to participate in or join. You probably won’t make $300 a month with this strategy, but if nothing else you’ll stick with the program longer. You’ll use Treasure Trooper or Cash Crate ( or whoever ) around Christmas time when you looking for new places to shop online. You’ll be sitting around watching TV one night, and see an ad for something… you’ll think to yourself “I really want that nose hair trimmer, I wonder if Cash Crate has it available as an offer”? Or to be more realistic. Lets say you want Direct TV. Well the last I checked you can use Cash Crate and earn $55. How ’bout Netflix ( which I highly recommend ), Treasure Trooper pays you $17 to join through them. Okay, one more. When I decided I wanted a Discover Card, I looked at Treasure Trooper offers and “BAM!”, there it was. I made $35 and got a great card ( oh, current incentive is now at $40 ). Of course all incentives and offers mentioned in this post will no doubt change. The examples given were current and accurate as of 1/31/09

Okay, Look. I have over 1500 referrals in Treasure Trooper. I would rather have all of them complete one or two offers a year for things that they really want. Instead, 90% of my refs ( and I’m only assuming here ) have completed a couple free offers, made a couple bucks, didn’t like all the SPAM they were suddenly receiving. Then labeled the site a SCAM or Untrustworthy… and gave up. Not only are they cheating themselves out of money, but what about me? ( me me me ). When my referrals make money, I make money, when I make money, I advertise so that others can make money, and if others make money, then, well… I make more money ( run on sentence allowed for dramatic effect ).

Have fun kids, and please use “ALL” sites responsibly. Incentivized Programs are a great source of extra income and when your not to busy completing all those free offers, be sure to spend some of that hard earned money on advertising for referrals.

Night
Phil

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