Hits4Pay and FusionCash Review.

I plan to review two sites later in this blog. First, I want to share some stats. The nice thing about posting these stats is the fact they are legitimate. I am not afraid to show you the most impressions I have had in one day is well less than one hundred.  I want to share with you the growth of the sites in the first month. I hope if you follow this blog you have come to terms with the fact this is not a “get rich quick” program.

As you can see from this graph (this graph tracks Blogger posting) the number of views for each day this week.  Views are growing steadily, even at this site. 

The only way I am driving traffic myself, is with Facebook, Twitter and Google buzz. Google finds the site right away if you search for the correct title (Eric’s Work at Home help for the 99ers). I am glad to see at least a handful of people are reading the blog daily. 

With any business the first month is very complicated. And that is with a plan in place. So, I am very pleased with the growth of this business, considering there was no plan. This once again this proves how easy it is to “get started” in internet marketing. The trick is making what you have started, profitable.

The next few months will really tell the tale. The economy is stable enough to not have an adverse effect on internet marketing in the next few years. I think the initial rush to become an internet marketer is over. There is much more free “useful” information available than ever before. You have to find it but it is there. Smartphones may have a big impact to online shopping in the next year.

With gas prices rising to record levels, high internet speeds, low cost PCs, Smartphones and WiFI available everywhere, I can’t believe this is not a reasonably good business decision. If I can continue to keep it going without investing any money all the better. I will keep re-investing what I am making to achieve my one year goal. Truthfully, at this point I would not see investing money as a risky proposition.

You are welcome to follow my path or develop one of your own. You may be able to make what you need a month just by using sites like Vindale Research http://tryvindale.com/VuPXVQVw, MySurvey https://www.mysurvey.com/ and FusionCash http://www.fusioncash.net/?ref=emachuca3.  

Now, on to the reviews of Hits4Pay and Fusion Cash. Hits4Pay was one of the first sites I signed up with. Hits4Pay offers a $10.00 sign on bonus. They than pay you to view internet advertising and you are paid $.002 on the averagefor each ad viewed. I have viewed 125 ads and have been paid $2.50. The ads come from 2-6 at a time every few days. 

The have a program they call an affiliate program, but it is actually a referral program. The difference is you pay $5.99 a month and they randomly link their home page to your account. Anyone signing during that period becomes your downline. The theory being, you get referrals without any work. The truth is you are in rotation with hundreds 9maybe thousands)of other members. You would need to add a large number of referrals just to cover the $5.99 a month. You must also file federal tax paperwork prior to payment.

Hits4Pay http://hits4pay.com/members/index.cgi?emac2011 is not a scam.  Just like other sites, you need to build referrals to make any money consistently.

FusionCash http://www.fusioncash.net/?ref=emachuca3.  was the first site I signed up with after Mturk. They provide mainly trial offers. I am not interested in that aspect of the business right now, so I seldom use the site. I do have $9.00 in my account, so I keep adding things here and there (they do offer a few freebies) until I reach the $25.00 payout minimum. I will then drop the program. 

At FusionCash you are paid to sign-up and complete trail offers from businesses. Some are quite large payments. They offer you $100.00 to sign up and install Direct TV. Some credit cards, book clubs and insurance quotes make up most of the offers. If you are good at keeping records and don’t mind tying up credit, FusionCash and Vindale Research are an option.

Keep in mind the offers are one time only and if you don’t read the fine print and rules and follow them, you can get burned.

FusionCash  http://www.fusioncash.net/?ref=emachuca3 is not a scam. If you complete the offers as described you get paid. I think the people who call these programs scams, either had unreal expectations of what they would earn or they can’t follow the rules.

I can really relate to those who start these programs and then drop them in a couple of weeks. If you listen to the hype at these sites the bar is set extremely high. They promote the thinking, that everyone who joins the program succeeds. When you don’t reach their bar, you think you have failed where others have succeeded.

I learned a long time ago to set reachable short term goals that build on your long term goal. Your life will be much richer, if you feel like you succeeded every now and again. 

My initial goal was to see if any of these sites offer a real opportunity to make money. I have reached that goal. I have identified a number of sites that offer those opportunities.

 I wanted to start a daily blog documenting my findings. I have reached that goal. I am posting daily to my blog Eric’s Work at Home Reviews http://ericsworkathomereviews.yolasite.com/ . 

My next goal is to double or triple the amount of impressions and clicks to my sites. 

Like always, sign up and follow the blog, use the banners and text links to visit and sign up and start making money. Any questions you may have or sites you would like me to review can be posted at the EWAHR Forum page. Next review: GetBuxToday  and EasyHits4U.

Peace.

NeoBux Review

The next site I use daily is NeoBux  http://www.neobux.com/?r=emac2011.  NeoBux offers the same services as ClixSense http://www.clixsense.com/?3405527&jun12. You may view ads and be paid or you can advertise on the site. As a viewer it barely differs from ClixSense. You see the same ads over and over. In 3 weeks I have made $ 0.738. You will probably make $0.10 a day after a week or two. 

NeoBux also offers an upgrade promising you more ads each day, but the math doesn’t seem to work in your favor. Until you build up the referral end of the business, this only creates a few dollars a month.

As an advertiser you get the same audience as with other sites. I am not sure if this is a waste of money or not. The audience is definitely not a “targeted” audience. No matter how hard a site tries to spin it, the people viewing the ads are getting paid to view not paid to buy.

I know I keep repeating this, “The goal is to run this business using no money out of pocket.” This is another site I can “blindly” click ads and get advertising credits. I am still working on driving traffic and tracking what is going on. I have been using a limited number of ad credits each day. I limit my ad to 100 views a day.

My background in quality assurance has made me a big believer in charting statistical data and keeping an eye out for trends. Luckily, everybody offers some sort of data collection. My goal is to see what spending 100 ad credits a day gets me. 

  I used $5.95 of the money I earned at Mturk and bought 1000 ad credits. Each credit should equal 1 view (or impression). Now my splash page is basically a link to my blog. I have a picture of a stack of coins, there is some verbiage about reviewing websites and the URL for my site. 

In theory, a viewer “views” the ad, then they click the hyperlink to go to my website (this is a “click”). Once they are at the website they will click on the referral links and become my downline or they will click on an affiliate link to make a purchase.

By using 100 credits a day I should see 100 impressions. A very small percentage won’t be viewed at all. Of the remaining impressions I have been receiving 1 click and no sales. Based on how the whole thing works, I expected as much. I have actually been getting a higher percentage of “clicks” from my Craigslist advertising than I have with buying advertising.

If I get 1 “click” for every 100 ad credits I buy, the more credits I buy the more “clicks” I should get. As long as this doesn’t cost me anything out of pocket, I will keep buying credits for a month or so to watch the data trends. I know 100 views a day is a very small number, but I wanted to use an example were the “math” would be easy to understand.

I plan to increase the number of views to 200 then 500, to see if the 1 in 100 pattern changes. The cool thing with EasyHits4U http://www.easyhits4u.com/?ref=emac2011 you can even set what days of the week you want your ad viewed. It should be easy to spot any trends.

NeoBux is not a scam. It does produce a very limited income at first. Like I said in my last blog you have to build downline for it to make any real money. By registering with more than one site you can double or triple that income in minutes a day. I recommend this site.

If you are just starting out these are good site to start out with, mainly for the ad credits. I think it would take a very long time for this to be profitable on its own. Years, at the very least. 

I do want to take a minute to take back some of the things I had previously stated about Vindale Research http://tryvindale.com/VuPXVQVw.

I had said in a previous blog, even though I got offers to complete surveys daily I could never complete them and I had no idea if I was getting paid for the time I spent.

It turns out the problem may have been Firefox (my browser). I ran into a site that wouldn’t let me load a banner using Firefox, I had to use MS Explorer. I then thought I would try Vindale again using Explorer.

I normally get an email offering me 10 surveys at $1.50 each. With Firefox I would start the first one and it would kick me out of the survey at some point. Using Explorer I was able to complete all the surveys offered at that time or that I am qualified for. But, I was offered 10, I didn’t qualify for 2 or 3 and was able to complete a 2 or 3. So it was more like 6 than 10. Either way they paid me for the ones I completed.

If they keep sending me emails with 10 a day I should be able to make $3-$5 a day with them. The only thing I like better about MySurvey is they pay you at least 5 points (about $0.50) for every survey you access. I think all in all, Vindale pays better. Vindale Research also offers other ways to earn money.

Vindale Research http://tryvindale.com/VuPXVQVw also offers payment for completing trial offers. This is much like Fusion Cash http://www.fusioncash.net/?ref=emachuca3.  These payments are pretty substantial (although they are mostly one time only offers) for completing the trial offers.

They offer things like $35.00 for trying a credit card, $15.00 to try online game rental, $20.00 to try a payday loan service. If you are good at keeping records you can make a few hundred bucks using the two sites. You have to be careful, you must read all the fine print and follow the rules or they can end up costing you money. 

The next reviews will be Hits4Pay and Fusion Cash.

Peace.

ClixSense Review

Today I will start to delve into each site I use and why I continue to use them. The first sight is ClixSense http://www.clixsense.com/?3405527&jun12

ClixSense is a site that offers to pay people to view internet advertising or businesses can advertise their website. As you will see right away, the ads placed by the “advertisers” are the same ads viewed by the “viewers”. It is s surprisingly short rotation of the same “advertisers”.

 

From a “viewing” aspect you are paid to view an “advertisement” from and “advertiser”. I use quotes because they are not truly advertisements or advertisers. They are webpages linking you to other websites or products. So, it is like a 30 second “in your face” sales pitch. 

These are normally one page “splash” pages. They vary from containing a single URL to videos, music and flashing lights. It doesn’t take long to get “jaded” and you stop really looking at the sites. You will get something new once in a while but for the most part it is the same ads in rotation.

You are paid from $.0001 to $.001 for each ad viewed. Depending on the length of time the advertiser paid for, anywhere from 10 to 30 seconds. Like I said in an earlier blog, I open three or four of these types of sites and skip from one to the next as the ads run.

The pros are it is really simple to do. I sit in front of the T.V. in my easy chair and click through ads as I watch the news. The con is you don’t make any real money by yourself. They decide how many ads you are allowed to watch per day. In 3 weeks I have made $1.072. I will turn that money into ad credits.

The other side of the site is for advertisers. You as a business owner can advertise your business to thousands of views each day. The site has thousands of people viewing ads, your ads are seen by those viewers. You pay for each time someone views your splash page, hopefully they click a link on that page back to your website. 

The pros are you can have your site viewed thousands of times a day for less than pennies a hit. The con is the sites are viewed by guys like me. The only thing I am looking for is internet marketing tools. If you don’t have one that catches my eye in the first 3 or 4 seconds, I have moved on.

The underlying program involves referrals and referral credits. You are allowed to refer other people to use ClixSense just like you do. This is my referral link http://www.clixsense.com/?3405527&jun12. If someone uses that link and signs up for the program they then become your down line. You receive credits for money they earn at the site. Anyone they refer to the program becomes part of your down line. The formula is called MLM or Pyramid or upside down pyramid or many other names.

In the formula you refer 2 people to the program ( 2 down line). They in turn each sponsor 2 people (you now have 2 + 4 new down line). Those 4 new down line each sponsor 2 people (you then have 2+4+8=14 down line) and it keeps multiplying from there. So, then all of you are clicking ads and it is credited to you.

Building down line takes time and effort. Unless you know 2 people, who know 2 people, who know 2 people that want to make $0.10 a day. You will need to convince strangers to see the big picture like you do. The other issue is longevity. You have to keep them in the program. Good Luck.

The program is not a scam. It is limited as a money maker. It is definitely not going to make you money overnight while you sleep. So why do I keep using it? First it is really easy, to me it is about as hard as picking up a penny off the floor. You pick it up and throw it in a jar. Second, I can buy ad credits. I have actually had pretty decent traffic from my ad posted at EasyHits4U  http://www.easyhits4u.com/?ref=emac2011. 

Hopefully, I can get the same from ClixSense.

I will use my ad credits and put my splash page in the rotation. My splash page is a little different than most since it is a link to a review blog. If you have any questions, I have added a forum page to this site. You can post questions or recommend website you would like reviewed. Next time: NeoBux http://www.neobux.com/?r=emac2011.

Peace.