How I made over 30k in 1 month with free-ipod type sites...

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Most of the offers now a days you have to pay more then just shipping and a lot of the offers are e-mail/zip submits. Which doesn't have nearly as high a payout as some other offers. So the business model is a lot different. How you going to give an ipod away when all you have zip submits and surveys that pay $1? The user would have to do 100's of them. And for the most part people are impatient. When before when the offers were good you could do about 2-10 offers and get an ipod. (depending on the site if it was referral based or not) But there was way too much fraud in the incentive industry that advertisers said fuck it.
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I've not looked at it from the webmaster/site owner side of things only as an affiliate, but that can't work.. half the zip submits are for the same sort of sites...

Get your free ipod by completing only 997 forms to get a free ipod!

PF' glad to hear you aren't one of the cowboys, sorry if I sounded like I was havin' a go. Take it you've covered your arse (or ass) legally regarding selling the sites. Some sort of disclaimer on the shit no-one reads when they join? As I'm sure if a new owner doesn't deliver to your members then you could be in the shit as much as them.
 


i wish i read this before i dove into doing a freebie site. a few days back, i started a blog posting freebies and currently sending traffic to it via PPC. ppc cost avg .28 per click via both google and yahoo. i get about 1.60 avg per zip/email submit so i figured hey, who wouldnt want to get a free $500 gift cert? especially if i do not spell everything out and simply just say, enter email here for your free gift cert? well i have to say, thus far, i'm losing everyday with ppc. people are smarter today and are very suspicious about giving any personal info out so although visitors are clicking the ads and then the link to the offers, they are not putting in their email or zip so i'm not getting paid.

anyone know what i can do better? any suggestions?
 
i took a look at doing a GPT site late last year, but with a slight twist. I haven't developed it further. I thought about incorporating this idea with something like SecondLife was what I was gonna do - but didn't either know HOW to code it right - or who could do it for me.

Maybe it's worth a look for someone who knows a bit more about the business.

vicky
 
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But I seriously don't understand how some of those advertisers made any money at all. Like for example true.com had a free trial that paid out arond $35 in march 2007. The user could just cancel within 7 days or use gift cards. So how they made money off of that is beyond me. And there were tons of offers just like that.
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Oh god I LOVED the true.com offer. That was by far the most popular offer to do because it got you a lot of points for free. I think sites like mine made these kind of offers go away though. Unfortunate but I guess it couldn't last forever.

LazyHippy, no offense taken. Thanks for the advice; I'll have to add that bit into my terms of service before I sell.

vivianrollins, yeah I don't see how you can make money doing that. The CPC is way too high.

Vicky, if you really believe in your idea, you can always get someone to code it for you via elance or something similar. Good luck with it.
 
LOL I knew that someone else knew what I was talking about. My best hour in gpt was $500 in profit thanks to the true.com offer.
 
Speaking of GPT sites, does anyone have a list of networks that still have a lot of incentive offers?
 
Most all networks still have some sort of incentive offers.

Blockbuster is around and huge.

If you dont m ind me asking what GPT sites do you guys run/ran if you dont want to put it out there or cant just pm me. the names.

Also IF YOU ARE OPENING A SITE, DO NOT USE FSR, SHITCODE or SFS get a script coded.
 
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Most of the offers now a days you have to pay more then just shipping and a lot of the offers are e-mail/zip submits. Which doesn't have nearly as high a payout as some other offers. So the business model is a lot different. How you going to give an ipod away when all you have zip submits and surveys that pay $1? The user would have to do 100's of them. And for the most part people are impatient. When before when the offers were good you could do about 2-10 offers and get an ipod. (depending on the site if it was referral based or not) But there was way too much fraud in the incentive industry that advertisers said fuck it.
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I was doing some research today to find out how much those networks could be making in profit after giving away an ipod.

I found a site that says you only have to complete 1 offer, for an 8gb video ipod. There was a ringtones offer, couple others and blockbuster so anywhere from around $15-$30 commission to the affiliate for a user completing an offer. All they had to do was signup for 1 offer and refer 5 friends.

Even if the users completed a $30 signup and refered 5 friends that's about $180 and I checked on ebay and those are going for about $200 new.

That site has to be a scam then?

I found another network of sites that gives you points for completing offers and when you accumulate a particular number then they send your free gift but, I couldn't find where it says how many points you need.

After you accumulate those points by signing up for various offers then do you also have to refer friends? I think you would have to. You have to get 5 signups + 5 refers to make anything.

Then if you're trying to promote a legit site which requires more signups and more points to get a free ipod. How are you going to compete with a site that only has you complete 1 offer? Everybody is obviously going to go there thinking it's legit since there are so many screenshots of people with their free ipods.
 
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I was doing some research today to find out how much those networks could be making in profit after giving away an ipod.

I found a site that says you only have to complete 1 offer, for an 8gb video ipod. There was a ringtones offer, couple others and blockbuster so anywhere from around $15-$30 commission to the affiliate for a user completing an offer. All they had to do was signup for 1 offer and refer 5 friends.

Even if the users completed a $30 signup and refered 5 friends that's about $180 and I checked on ebay and those are going for about $200 new.

That site has to be a scam then?

I found another network of sites that gives you points for completing offers and when you accumulate a particular number then they send your free gift but, I couldn't find where it says how many points you need.

After you accumulate those points by signing up for various offers then do you also have to refer friends? I think you would have to. You have to get 5 signups + 5 refers to make anything.

Then if you're trying to promote a legit site which requires more signups and more points to get a free ipod. How are you going to compete with a site that only has you complete 1 offer? Everybody is obviously going to go there thinking it's legit since there are so many screenshots of people with their free ipods.
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See, the thing is, many people who try to get a free ipod with the sites that require you to complete an offer and refer 5 friends, complete the required offer but FAIL to refer the required 5 friends. They might get 1 or 2 or none at all. That is how these sites made a lot of money back in 2005 or so.
 
Ben89 said:
See, the thing is, many people who try to get a free ipod with the sites that require you to complete an offer and refer 5 friends, complete the required offer but FAIL to refer the required 5 friends. They might get 1 or 2 or none at all. That is how these sites made a lot of money back in 2005 or so.
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oh ok yeah that makes sense, I didn't think about that. I should know since before I got started in affiliate marketing I tried to get one of those things. I used to get gift cards and try to sign up myself but, I didn't use proxies so I didn't get credit lol
 
they lose money on every ipod that they ship out, but they dont end up sending that many
 
Ben89 said:
See, the thing is, many people who try to get a free ipod with the sites that require you to complete an offer and refer 5 friends, complete the required offer but FAIL to refer the required 5 friends. They might get 1 or 2 or none at all. That is how these sites made a lot of money back in 2005 or so.
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This would work particularly well if you're ONLY allowed to refer 5 friends, because guaranteed 95+% of the time, not all 5 of those people are going to sign up...
 
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