Hey! Where’s my $168,840.00?
Howdy Everyone!
Income Calculators are fun, aren’t they? Unrealistic, but fun. They are meant to motivate and give an “ideal” example of whats possible if everyone you referred did exactly what they were supposed to do. Of course we can’t control what our referrals intentions are, and it’s probably illegal to drive to their house and smack ‘em with a beer bottle and scream, “YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND, THIS IS A GREAT INCOME OPPORTUNITY!!” Oh well, we can’t honestly expect everyone to share in our excitement.
Let’s use one of my favorite programs, ClixSense as an example. According to the “Earnings Estimator” ( kinda like an Income Calculator ), we could potentially earn over $4000 per five referrals we introduce. Sounds easy enough. Pick up just five referrals, three of them upgrade to premium and bring in another five referrals each. The scenario would then play out for five levels. Once again, sounds pretty simple.
Now, lets look at what I’ve done so far. I picked up over two hundred referrals in my first two weeks for ClixSense. Actually, to date, I’ve brought in almost Four Hundred referrals, but lets just use the first two hundred ( gotta be realistic, ya know =P ). Now according to the “earnings estimator” I only need three out of five to upgrade and bring in another five, etc etc… Not a problem, right. ClixSense is an awesome program and surely at least One Hundred Twenty out of Two Hundred would take advantage of the $10 a year upgrade.
So that means I should be getting close to earning.. 5 div. by 200 = 40 carry the 12 + 16 – the square root of g kjlkjldkj . $168,840.00!!!
err, well,.. not quite, and not yet. I’m currently just above $200.
Now out of almost four hundred referrals ( oops, sorry I said I’d only use 200 in this example ), I’m now down to 141 actives, not counting my 2nd and 3rd level refs. So what’s the problem? I’ve obviously gone above and beyond in my efforts to secure those mega paychecks. ClixSense asks, “Can you bring in five referrals a month?”. Well, yeah of course. The problem is, we can’t control what those five referrals do.
So here’s the deal. Sorry if I’m repeating myself here. It really doesn’t matter what program your involved in. ClixSense, GDI, Survey Savvy, or whomever. “Income Calculators” and “Earnings Estimators” are there to give you an example of what you could “potentially” earn. They do not reflect a programs integrity.
Now about ClixSense. Seriously guys, take advantage of the $10 per year premium upgrade. Trust me on this one. Your going to get a crap load more ads to click on everyday ( US members will see more ), plus you’ll earn commissions on your referrals purchases and upgrades. Of course you might not see $168,840.00 anytime soon, but you never know. You just might pick up five referrals like me ( hi, I’m Phil ).
That’s all for today. Thank you for reading and thanks for all the awesome comments, emails and messages. Don’t forget to add your email to my mailing list. I promise not to spam you, and you’ll only get updates when I write something new.
Have a nice day
Phil ( philsfault ) Ames
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this is so true. Referals can work out sometimes but most of the time they sign up and then get bored. I have only acumulated 2 or 3 ref for sites such as these, but most are now dead. Nice tips for people out there wanting to make money.
Hi dear, do the PTC sites really pay ?
I enjoyed this entry. Here is what I have learned. It’s all a numbers games. 1 in 10 will actually do anything. If you are real good then maybe 2 or 3 out of 10 are active. Look at a baseball player. They get paid millions of dollars to FAIL (strikeout) most of the time. Hang in there. It will come.
@Troy
thanks Troy. Sadly, it’s true. See you at 12:30 for burgers and beer.
Yeah those income calculators are always way off. I have over 650 in Sqiup and now not even one is getting referrals. I may get one or two new ones in a day if that. Even less have even bothered to log on to the Portal so I am wondering if and when Sqip starts sending out the dividends will people actually get off their ruddy ar*ses and do anything. People complain they don’t make money online but they won’t if they don’t do anything. You and I know it is hard work but it does pay if we join good programs and do some good recruiting. I just cashed 37 bucks in Clixsense and another 9 bucks in Neobux so I ain’t complaining. Keep the blog going.
OMG ( rarely used acronym ), you haven’t gotten paid by Squips yet? I was really hoping you were going to have some commissions by now. Sigh. Oh well, keep up the hard work, and thanks for the comment. They say that 90% of people don’t succeed at earning decent money online. I really wish that wasn’t true, but based on my ( and your ) ref activity it seems to be the unfortunate reality.