Showing posts with label MyLot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MyLot. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Midweek Update

Hello again! How is your week going? Mine is absolutely flying by! I have been enjoying checking my links, making connections with other clickers, and seeing my balances rise. Here are today's updates:

NeoBux - Still going strong! I got another direct referral, thank you! As of right now, I have $1.812, so if things continue this way, by the end of the month I should have broken even on my referrals and hopefully get some more. I am going to be out of town this weekend so I will lose a little, unless I can find an Internet café.

Work from Home HQ - I still love this program! I haven't earned as much as I would have liked over the past couple of days, since several of my ads weren't paid due to ghosting. I do have a couple of referrals so far and today's ads have been approved. Today's balance is $4.24. Ghosting means that ads don't show up on Craigslist for some reason, no one knows exactly why. Various theories include the time of day, type of ad, the number of ads posted, and the IP address. I figure it is the luck of the draw, I will still log in every day and attempt to get my 5 ads. Does anyone know if you can try again if an ad has been declined? For the first time, I had to phone verify my account. Here is the link to do so in case you need to as well : https://post.craigslist.org/abq/H/reb/none/x It was very easy. I just typed in my phone number, and got an automated call with a code that I typed into the site.

MyLot - I have made $0.31 so far. Not a lot of money, but then again, I haven't been posting much. Some users have made thousands of posts and are top earners, so I know it is possible. For me, this site is an amazing way to network and to discuss PTC programs. There are all sorts of discussions going on and it really caters to any interest. I recommend signing up if you like to write and meet people. I have just arranged a referral exchange with another user starting today.

Wordlinx - I am still clicking actively and now have $0.47, saving up for those referrals! My referral exchange from MyLot is for this program. With this program, I will get $0.05 for the referral itself, then 5% of click revenue. I am promoting this program using easyhits4u, but I haven't had any results yet.

GetRef - I have earned enough credits to promote there, and I chose to promote Wordlinx since so many others are already promoting NeoBux. I am waiting for enough ratings to be able to click ads to earn credits. I unfortunately have had two declines due to not reading the directions fully before clicking to join them, so now I have to wait 5 more days (out of a 7 day block) to be able to try again.

Swagbucks - I am now up to 12 swagbucks, which is about 1/4 of the way to a $5 Amazon gift card. I have downloaded the toolbar and continue to use it whenever I am looking something up online. I really like this program, I search a lot and figure I might as well get paid for it! Even if it takes a while, the prize is more than I would have had if I had just been on Google or similar sites.

EasyHits4u - I have been clicking every here and there and have been making my goal of earning at least 50 hits per day. I have won several batches of banner impressions and some tickets to their drawings. I am promoting Wordlinx here but still haven't had any referrals. If I don't get anything in a month, I think I will change what I am promoting.

So that's the update! How are your endeavors going? Don't be a stranger! I'll update again before I leave town for the weekend.

Sunday, February 15, 2009

One week in!

Hi all! Thanks for sticking with me this far! I have been plugging right along and feel confident that this month will be a success for me. I just want to give updates on all my programs before this week gets rolling. I want to mention that from now on, you'll find links to my favorite programs on the upper right hand corner of the screen. We'll start at the top, with NeoBux.

NeoBux- I am happily clicking and am glad to say that I have another direct referral that I found through my involvement at MyLot. I am following her blog and recommend her highly! I have broken the dollar point and feel that I am well on my way to meeting my goal of at least breaking even by the end of the 28-day referral rental period. I figured out that in order to break even, each referral needs to make 50 clicks over this time. Hopefully those that don't will average out with those that do more. Depending on how much extra I have, I will recycle those whose click average is less than 2.0.

Work from Home HQ - I can't say enough good things about this program. I am so glad I found it! As of today, I have $3, soon to be $3.75 as soon as today's ads are approved. I am looking forward to applying this money to NeoBux rentals and renewals. Today I logged in later than usual and still had no problem getting my daily limit of 5 ads. I am glad I didn't give up on this one.

MyLot - This is another program I won't be leaving. I am now up to $0.21 and I have broadened my interests and hope to be adding to various discussions soon.

You may have noticed that I have added some new links to my favorites. The first is WordLinx, a program I got involved with in a referral exchange.

WordLinx - This is a super PTC program that has plenty of ads to click at various times of the day. I already am up to $0.30 and it's only the second day. This money/site credit can be cashed out, used to get hits on your website, or to purchase referrals. I am saving for the last option. Referrals are $0.70 each and are currently "sold out" until mid March.

GetRef - This is a PTC and GPT site that allows users to cash in for legitimate referrals on various websites. You have to sign up for programs to get credits to be able to click and promote your own. This is taking longer than I would have liked, but I am going to stick with it. I have already found 2 more stellar programs and have taken advantage of their easy to use communication platform.

Swagbucks - This is a paid to search program that randomly allots "swagbucks" that can later be cashed in for gift cards and prizes. Its search results are from google and ask.com, so it is very trustworthy and usable. I have been doing my usual level of searching and have already been awarded 8 swagbucks. This one's a keeper!

EasyHits4u - I joined this program through GetRef and am very glad that I did. It is a very clean and professional site with a smooth running interface for ad surfing - no separate windows, which I love! It offers bonuses and it was very easy and fun for me to rack up enough points to start promoting another site (I chose WordLinx) in very little time. Definitely worth checking out!

I hope you take the time to look at these programs, remember, the links are in the upper right! Best wishes and stay tuned!

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Weekend Wonders

Hi all! Happy Valentine's Day! I hope you find some time to be good to yourself today!

I just wanted to weigh in with a few updates for the weekend. Things are going well for me at Work from Home HQ. I have been doing it steadily every day while I have my morning coffee, and with the exception of one ad that got ghosted, I have been paid 0.15 per ad. Not counting today's submissions, I have $2.25 in my account. I will request payment as soon as I hit $20, it should take about a month, and I plan to pump that money straight into my NeoBux referral rentals.

Each day, I learn something new at NeoBux, either through good old fashioned personal experience or through the forums or chat. The first thing I learned is the importance of clicking each and every day. Now that I have referrals, I found that unless you click 4 ads on any given day, you won't earn unlimited clicks from the referrals on the following day. This won't be a problem for me until next Saturday, when I will be out of town for a day. Hopefully I won't lose too much. Really, this is a hobby and I don't want to be too much of a slave to it!

Many people complain that there are only 4 ads for standard members to click. I have found that I can get a few extra clicks by logging in whenever I have a spare minue, during my lunch hour at my day job, for example. I have had as many as 7 clicks in one day. Those 3 extra clicks have the potential to add up, so I would say if you have a few extra seconds, check your account! Yesterday, I was in the chat and heard people talking about "extra" ads. I don't know if this had to do with it being on Friday, but I took advantage of them!

As you know, I rented 20 referrals, which was a $5 investment on my part. As of yesterday, I had 6 referrals that hadn't clicked at all, so I recycled them at a price of 8 cents each, so that was 48 cents more as an investment. Then, I decided to enable autopay, which was a mistake on my part, since I don't fully understand it. What I do understand at this point is that autopay extends the referral at a discounted price (10% off), and that they charge you every day that the referral clicks. So, by the time I had gotten home from work, I was actually down about 10 cents, but it isn't lost money, I just extended the referrals who had clicked. I think that for now, I prefer to manually extend my referalls, since I don't have much of a cushion to fall back on. Maybe I will try to enable it next month.

This SNAFU aside, I have a financial goal to have made at least $5.48 (to cover my initial investment for the referrals) plus at least 0.01 cent for each of the clicks that I have made for myself, then I will feel successful just to have broken even. I am learning that this takes a lot of time and patience, but I really feel that it will be worth it in the long run! Looking at the totals of veteran users' forum posts assures me of that. I have 2 referrals that aren't clicking right now, but I am not going to recycle them. I am going to leave it as is to see how this pans out for the month. I don't want to bite off more than I can chew!

As of right now, I have only earned 5 cents from my involvement at MyLot , but really, I have gained much more. I have several friends on my list and have been introduced to many programs and ideas that I don't think I would have found otherwise. So, for that reason, it's a keeper.

I have decided that it is better to work on a few good programs than to overextend myself working on a bunch of them. So, I would like to begin to search for more ways to get traffic and signups from my links. I am already on Twitter. Any more ideas?

Best wishes to you all! Keep clicking!

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Stepping it Up

Hello everyone! Hope you're having a wonderful Thursday. I'm happy to report that things went well for me yesterday. I had breakthroughs with 2 opportunities and found another one to share with you.

I decided to take a chance and rent some referrals at NeoBux. I didn't take the decision lightly and hope that you aren't disappointed in me for it! Truth be told, I had $5 that I had earned a while ago that was just sitting in my PayPal account and I decided that I could afford to play with it. So, I transferred it to my account and got myself 20 referrals for a month. I did my clicks for the day, and went to sleep (yes, I keep very odd hours).

Just a few words about what I understand of renting. Rentals can be performed only once a week. It is necessary to rent twice, have 50 of your own clicks, and have been a member for 2 weeks to upgrade to a golden membership, so I am on my way. It is also extremely important to keep clicking ads in your account to be able to get unlimited clicks from referrals, so rest assured I will be clicking daily!

When I woke up this morning, my 20 referrals had only 9 clicks. I hope to see this number go up after I have completed my clicks for the day. If referrals don't perform, they can be "recycled" - interchanged for a new one, at a cost of 8 cents per replacement, which is cheaper than the original cost of 25 cents per referral that I have paid (new renters get a 5 cent discount on their first 2 rentals). I am still deciding when the best time to recycle would be in order to maximize profitability. I have autopay off for the moment since I still have to figure that out!

My best news is that I have a direct referral on NeoBux, from this very blog! I cannot thank you enough! I hope this can be a profitable journey for all of us.

I conquered my trouble at Work from Home HQ. When the ad notice came into my email box and I copied and pasted the link for sumbission, I just deleted the parenthesis that were at the end, clicked submit, and voilĂ , they all got approved! So I have made 75 cents both today and yesterday, and I plan to keep going, so I will have about $20 for more referrals at NeoBux by the end of the month. I want to note that one of my ads was flagged and removed by Craigslist, but I was still paid for it.

My new opportunity is called MyLot. It is a social networking and discussion site where members can make money discussing anything under the sun. Pay is available for both member posts and for referrals. This figure is a bit nebulous since pay is based on the quality of posts (from what I understand). Yesterday I participated in 3 discussions, and pay is posted around every 24 hours, so stay tuned, I will let you know if I made anything. Members earn 25% of what their referrals bring in.

Best wishes for today! Keep searching, keep clicking, and keep helping one another!