You Will Not Get Rich From This Blog

My buddy Eddy Solomon over at Work at Home No Scams wrote an article a couple weeks ago that caught my attention. Actually, it really wasn’t the article itself, but rather a single sentence that stood out for me and has stuck in my head.

“How would I go about doubling or tripling the effort that earned me the few cents?”…

This wasn’t pertaining to any particular program, but rather was a look at his early days of playing around with different opportunities, and learning how to take a few cents and consistently build on those meager earnings and turn ‘em into something far more substantial.

Sure, we can all join a Paid to Click program, click a few ads, make a few cents, and then repeat the process with another Paid to Click program. Eventually earning enough to cash out. Congrats we just made a couple dollars… yay for us.

Personally, I’ve never been happy with just a couple bucks. Using the money I earn and putting it back towards advertising, upgrades, and subscriptions ( and the occasional six pack ) has always been my focus. Although, my focus is often clouded by the multitude of programs and services that I could, should and do use to build my business ( $$$ ). Unfortunately time has been a factor for me as of late, so I’ve made some tough decisions that should not only increase my weekly and daily earnings consistently but also provide for more opportunities for growth in the future. Plus allowing me more time to work on my other project, take care of family and real life, and even find an extra day or two to get to the gym.

Here’s the thing. I’ve been at this for a long time, so I’ve built some downlines, got my name and face out there and learned a few tricks. I have commissions coming in from a lot of different programs, even when I’m not doing anything. Like I said above, I try to put most of what I earn back in and try to get my earnings to grow on a daily basis. To be truthful, I’m not even close to where I thought I’d be. I’m probably making more than most of you reading this, but my vision was far greater than $10, $15, or $20 a day. Of course I’m still building on that but thinking again about the sentence Eddy wrote.

“How would I go about doubling or tripling the effort that earned me the few cents?”…

The answer was pretty obvious.

I needed to refocus my time and earnings. Basically I needed to get back to spending less time working online and redirecting the commissions I was already making and turning them over as quickly as I could, and then repeating the process. Both increasing my daily earnings, whether it is an additional twenty cents or one dollar a day.

So the first thing I did was free up both money and time, by dropping $100 a month in subscription fees. All from Traffic Exchange subscriptions. I know this might come as a shock for some of you, and don’t give me any shit about viral marketing or building my list. This is not the post to discuss the hows, whats, and whys of Traffic Exchanges, Safelists and Downline Builders. These are all resources I love and will continue to use, just not in the time sucking way I have been using them this last year.

Moving on.

So what I did the last couple weeks was concentrate on putting in about an hour a day max clicking my ads on eight Paid To Click / Read. This was the time saver I needed. Then moving my commissions quickly into an ad on ClixSense for NeoBux. Since I had freed up $100 I was able to get a few ads up throughout the last couple weeks and increase my daily earnings on NeoBux ( without renting or managing referrals )…

Now I’m not really focusing on “how many” referrals I bring in. What I’m doing is making sure I’m seeing a consistent ( word of the day ) increase in earnings. Since I can’t control the actions or intentions of my referrals ( Hey!, Where’s my $168,840.00? ), it would be silly of me to just be satisfied with bringing in twenty referrals and then hoping they all remain active. No, I’m moving money as fast I can earn it and keeping things moving and flowing in the right direction, not just on NeoBux, but on several programs. Concentrating on Paid to Click programs first ( yes, I am clicking those quarter cent ads ).

Okay, I think that’s it for me today. I had a few more things to talk about and share, but I think I’ll keep you guys hanging until the next post.

Phil ( philsfault ) Ames

In the next post we’ll discuss how to maximize our time and I’ll throw some more results and examples at you.

Daily Babble, Will Work for Pennies

I swear I have way more to talk about and share than just ClixSense and NeoBux, but they have both been hot topics the last couple weeks. So Yeah, this wasn’t the post I intended to write but, here ya go..

So it’s at the point in the night where I know I’m not going to be very productive. After spending a couple hours replying to emails, comments and reading other bloggers ramblings ( BoneHead ), I’m tired, but feeling the need to quickly put something together before bed.

Whenever I write a post about NeoBux, whether it’s the main topic or just a casual mention, the majority of the emails or comments I receive basically express the same thoughts.

“NeoBux is Great but I need a strategy for renting referrals.”

“It’s impossible to pick up referrals because everyone and their dog is advertising it.”

My reply to the rental thang is always; “Try not to use much of your own money when playing with rentals” and “Use your earnings to manage you rentals instead.” Honestly, I can’t endorse any strategy other than that, so… um, yeah. Good luck.

As far as picking up new direct referrals for NeoBux, or any popular program for that matter. Remember that everyday, thousands of people like you and I hit the internet looking for ways to supplement their income, and make money. I’m only assuming. So although a lot of the usual crowd and veterans have probably already joined ( whats hot ), theirs always a “Hot” group of new folks ready to join your NeoBux downline, or whatever your promoting. Getting frustrated and feeling like we’re wasting your time is natural. So don’t feel like your alone. Try new things and learn from others ( wink wink ). Or just give up and find a new hobby. I’ve heard Solitaire is a great way to pass the time.

Anyways, I always have that itch to spend money on advertising but I’ve learned to control what I spend, and use mostly (mostly) my earnings from other programs. Like on Sunday when I spent $24 on an ad promoting NeoBux on ClixSense. I re-ran my previous ad that I talked about in the last post, and just to illustrate my point that I mentioned above, I managed to wrangle up 26 new referrals.

Now I usually don’t advertise on Sundays. It’s not a religious thing, it’s just that a lot of times my ads won’t actually post until Monday. I hate that because then I’m then lumped in with everyone else’s ads and I feel like I don’t have the full attention of the clicker ( potential new referral ). ClixSense has been approving ads more frequently and several times a day on Sunday. So I went with advertising on Sunday and it payed off. Yay Me!!

Going to bed now, not even going to check stats.

Night all

Phil ( philsfault ) Ames

Daily Babble, I Advertise, Promote This!, Will Work for Pennies

First and Foremost, I want to thank everyone for chiming in on my little “poll” last week. The amount of emails I received were greater than the actual number of votes. So really I was a bit bummed that more of you didn’t participate in the poll. Still my ego was stoked and I loved and appreciated all the kind words, encouragement and Kudos. Thank you so much, you’re all getting Christmas Cards this year…. not really.

Sometime last week I hit the $1000 earned mark over at NeoBux.
Of that, I directly cashed out over $750 and the rest I used to manage my rental account over the year. Like I’ve said in many a post and ad, “Use your earnings to play with rentals, not your own money”. I’ve rented hundreds in my fourteen months with NeoBux, and have tried several strategies ( sorta ). My latest attempt has actually been working pretty decent for me. I’ve upped the anti to 80% of my daily rental earnings. Even though I haven’t been all that consistent with this, I’m thinking a 20% return isn’t such a bad thing. Still. I really don’t think I have the energy to try to manage a couple hundred rentals and will instead stick mostly with “Direct Referrals”. At least that way I know I’m dealing with real people, whether they click everyday or not. The debate over whether the referrals we rent are “bots” or “real people” or a mixture of both, continues. You know my feelings on this…

Speaking of “Direct Referrals”, or people I’ve personally introduced to NeoBux. I used last weeks ClixSense earnings ( a bit over $12.00 ) to place another ad for NeoBux. I used my old standby capture page to bring in five new referrals. Not bad, but out of 1000 views, that’s only a 1/2 percent return. I would have been happier with at least ten new refs, but with two of the five clicking everyday ( so far ) I’m fine with that. I’m not particularly proud or happy with that page or video. The video was made months ago and the page, to me looks generic and “UN-fun” as well as “UN-branded”. Although it seems to be working for me, I can definitely do better. I’ve got a couple ideas, but you’ll just have to wait. Actually, lets make the next post about the various pages, banners and such that I’ve used to brand myself and promote this blog and “ME!!” me me me

As mentioned in the opening paragraph, I received a ton of emails last week. I’m not going to give an exact count, but it was somewhere between thirty and ten million ( closer to thirty actually ). I do a pretty good job at replying to my emails. I’m a pretty friendly kinda guy, but have this horrible habit of being a bit wordy sometimes. Often, I’ll make personalized videos for some of you who need a visual. For those of you who haven’t gotten that second ( or fourth ) reply… don’t stress, I’m playing catch up. I really need to create a new mail folder titled “Replies and Stuff”. That way I’m not forgetting you, or your email isn’t getting accidentally deleted, or getting lost amongst the shit loads of email I get daily.

I tell you.. when I pass $200 a day in earnings I’m going to outsource for someone to read and answer my email for me.

Actually, I’m so not going to do that. I love answering emails and it would be weird and very impersonal of me to shuffle you off to someone else. So lets just forget I typed that.

Annyyyways… One particular person stood out for me this week. Adam F. is a friendly hard working guy that I’ve had the privilege of corresponding with over the last couple months. He’s turned up in a few of my downlines and I admire him for his continued motivation and patients in this online money making circus. Keep it up Adam!! I’ll get to your last email sometime this year ( possibly sooner ).

That’s all for me tonight. Thanks again for all the love and stuff.

Phil ( philsfault ) Ames

**most of the NeoBux links in this post are Adams. Just my way of saying thanks for working hard and staying motivated.

Daily Babble, Will Work for Pennies