You Will Not Get Rich From This Blog

Sorry guys, I’ve been in a bit of a writing slump this month. It’s gotta be a summer, I’m busy as hell, wasting to much time playing a particular game desktop tower defender , can’t seem to focus, too many distractions type of slump. I’ll get over it.. don’t worry.

First off I wanted to congratulate my little buddy Nick, and his band PK for picking up the opening slot for the Aerosmith concert tonight. Awesome Nick! You Rock!! Well, actually, you better rock! Do lots of jumping around and use that move I taught you ; ) . See ya at work on Tuesday, can’t wait to here all about it.

Anyways,

So I wanted to give you guys an Instant Cash Sweepstakes update this week. A couple posts back I wrote an award winning post ( whatever ) titled “Instant Cash Sweepstakes. Got a Minute?”. I’m going to resist the urge of repeating myself and just encourage those of you who haven’t read it to give it a looksy.

This is how my first two months with ICS looks. Obviously I had a little help from the three hundred referrals I introduced over my first couple months; I’ll talk more about that later in this post.

Instant Cash Sweepstakes payments to date

Notice the $56 payment circled in red. One of the cool features about ICS is the referral matching bonus. Whenever one of my referrals wins tickets, coins, a few cents or even the $50 daily sweepstakes, I get paid 100% of their win as well. Pretty cool, and definitely worth promoting in my book.

So how did I bring in over three hundred referrals in two months? First I created THIS rather simple page using Splash Page Maker. The main graphic was created with the help of Instant Banner Creator. Because I’m really not that techy I find both of these programs to be invaluable resources for creating my own promotional materials. Anyways, 90% of my advertising was done on ClixSense, using money that I had coming in from several streams of income ( like Instant Cash Sweepstakes!! ).

So now I’ve added another solid and consistent stream of extra income to my money making arsenal. Although I’d like to see a few changes made to ICS I’m pretty happy that I’ve found a growing and energetic company that will no doubt evolve and provide more opportunities in the future.

Wanna know a little more about how Instant Cash Sweepstakes works and it’s sister company Ask Your Target Market? Watch this presentation by Lev Mazin from the 2010 Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco.

I promise I’ll break out of my writing funk and and get more content up. As I told Eddy this week, I need to focus on writing more about how I stopped “trying” to make money and got in the zone of just making money.

On a side note. If you are using Splash Page Maker already and would like to use any of the pages I create. Drop me an email, I’ll be happy to share the love. As they sing in High School Musical…”We’re All in this together…. “. It’s my four year old daughters favorite movie right now, that song is stuck in my head.

Phil ( philsfault ) Ames

Oh Oh Oh.. I don’t know about the rest of you but I am so F’N jazzed about “MatrixMails” new site launching soon ( Multi-PTC ). Since it will come from the very awesome and seasoned “MatrixMails” team, ( paying since 2002 ) , I’m sure it will be nothing less than spectacular. I just wish they would hurry up already.

Daily Babble, Promote This!

I think I figured out why you guys are getting some of my older posts sent out a couple times a week. Even though I haven’t published anything new in a couple weeks, I’m always writing, tweaking and editing new posts. I’ll usually publish a post in “private” just to see how it looks before I actually share it with the world. Sometimes I forget to change the status of my unfinished work to private before hitting the “publish” button. Once I realize that I’ve just published an unfinished post, I race back to my blogs back office ( dashboard ) and make sure you guys don’t see whatever lame ( but soon to be brilliant ) post I’m in the process of writing.

So I think whats happening is I’m confusing “Feed Burner”. Feed Burner is the service I use to manage my blog subscriber list. When I publish a post, Feed Burner sends my subscribers an email.

Um, soooooo… yeah. I apologize for the random older posts hitting your inbox this week. I know you get all excited and stuff when you see that I’ve published something new. Sorry, I guess that makes me a tease ( I can live with that ). Also seems that while deleting a couple of the posts that I was working on and decided I didn’t like, I also inadvertently deleted a couple of the posts I actually wanted to keep. Crap!

Anyways… For those of you still with me. Lets move on to today’s post.

Instant Cash Sweepstakes.Com

I joined this site a few months ago and forgot about it. A couple weeks ago I was cleaning out my bookmarks and came across it again. I decided to give it a second look. Remembered why I liked it in the first place and then decided to give it a good test. Lets get to the “test” in a minute.

What is Instant Cash Sweepstakes?

I’m not going to add a bunch of fancy words and try to over explain how market research works. The powers that be are working behind the scenes, gathering our opinions, ideas, and even our responses to simple and quick three question quizzes. In return we are often rewarded with a bit of compensation for our time and effort. See “It’s just a Survey. Don’t quit your day job”.

How Instant Cash Sweepstakes ( ICS )works, is you are given a few quick quizzes a day. The quizzes are a very short three questions. You literally spend less than a minute completing each one. Compensation is in the form of tickets, coins or a few cents. Tickets are used in the daily $50 draw, coins are used to buy more tickets and the few cents is added to you account. When you reach a balance of $2 or more your considered “vested” and can then cash out via PayPal.

When you invite friends and family ( referrals ), you get a matching bonus of whatever they win. Of course I love a good referral program so I wanted to see what damage I could do and give it a good test. Plus I wanted to see if and how fast they paid.

One of the downsides to ICS is they don’t have much in the way of promotional banners. Just a large widget and a referral link. So I put together a quick page using Splash Page Maker and Instant Banner Creator. My Promo page.

I use ClixSense for ninety percent of my advertising, so that’s where I focused my attention for a week. Using only the earnings I had from everything else I do online, I placed my standard $24 ( 2000 view ) ad on ClixSense. Normally I expect a 1% return from my ads. That means for every 100 views of whatever I’m advertising I expect at least 1 new referral ( for Free to Earn Programs ). My first ad pulled over forty referrals ( NICE!! ), and I was able to cash out later that evening.

A couple more ads later and I’m now requesting payments every day. So far I’ve received all of my payments within a few hours.

How much can you earn if you Don’t refer other people?

I racked up over a dollar in just over a week just participating a couple times a day. Usually the cash prizes range between one and ten cents. Of course we all get a chance to win the $50 daily prize. So although referring others is a faster way to increase our earnings, the minimum $2 cash out is an easy mark to hit for those of you who prefer not to promote.

Talk to you guys this weekend. I have a lot to share so I’ve got to do a better job of finishing and publishing posts.

Phil ( philsfault ) Ames

Oh I forgot to mention. My Wife and seven year old son left for France yesterday to visit family. So it’s just my daughter and I for the next two weeks. Although I’m going to miss not having half of my family around, less laundry to do every night is always a good thing.

Daily Babble, Promote This!

It’s really no secret that I love Paid to Click / Paid to Read programs. I honestly feel and have proven that they are not only an awesome way to earn money, but an even awesomer way to build downlines in other programs. Most of the PTC’s I’m involved in allow me to convert my earnings into advertising credits on any given day. Which means I get to advertise a few times a week. The more I advertise ( promote my affiliate links ) the more money I earn from my referrals. The more money I earn from my referrals, the more I get to advertise for more referrals and so on and so on. Basically, when my referrals make money, I make money. It’s really a win win for the patient and persistent.

So when do I get to enjoy some of that money my referrals have so graciously earned me?

Well if you read my last post ( after the talk about dogs, wieners and tee shirts ), that money came in handy this month when we were a bit strapped for cash. Sure I was a bit bummed that my ad budget wasn’t what I hoped it would be, but keeping food on the table, the internet bill paid and gas in my 4Runner was a bit more of a priority. June is going to be a lot more fun. More advertising for me ( $$ ).

Anyways…

Aside from loving and understanding the value of PTC / PTR programs. I also love down line builders. Throw the two together and you’ve got my attention. Which brings me to..

Free Internet Money.Biz

What is it?
It’s basically a downline builder just for Paid to Click programs, with the exception of one other non PTC program way at the bottom.

One of the main advantages of using “down line builders”, is that we get to promote several of our favorite programs at once through one convenient link ( URL ). Potentially gaining more referrals for multiple programs with less effort. The disadvantage is that we take the emphasis off promoting just one opportunity at a time.

Why I like Free Internet Money.Biz“, is because it focuses mostly on “well established” Paid to Click programs. Primarily my top seven!! Hits4Pay, Link Grand, “MatrixMails”, NeoBux, ClixSense, WordLinx, and “AdPaid”. I’m a bit bummed that “donkeymails” didn’t make the list, but until I create my own downline builder, I’m not going to complain too much. Although, I do question a couple of the PTC’s on the list, I did join a couple new one’s.

I’ll only endorse, for now, the program’s I mentioned above.

I also love the fact that’s it’s FREE to join and use, has some great instructional video’s and is “hype” free. The owner and creator of Free Internet Money never suggests that we can make any more than $600-$800 a month. Of course our efforts decide our actual earnings potential, six to eight hundred dollars a month is definitely an attainable and realistic goal.

So yeah, big thumbs up for Free Internet Money.Biz.

Hope everyone is having a safe and enjoyable memorial day weekend. My wife and kids are out of town so I get a bit of “me” time. Which means I get to work work and work. At least the house will be clean for a couple days.

Phil ( philsfault ) Ames

Oh and here’s a little tip. Don’t neglect your surveys! Building an advertising budget ( seed money, working capital ) to build your down lines is as simple as focusing on making an additional $2 a day ( $60 a month ). Where to spend that money is up to you, but I highly recommend ClixSense.

Promote This!, Will Work for Pennies