Tips on Renting Referrals from PTC Sites

In the world of making money from PTCs, it’s a known fact that you won’t be making any big amount in a short period of time without any referrals under you.

Generally, there are two types of referrals. The first one is a referral that you acquire through your referral links and banners, otherwise called as direct referral. In a real world, there are plenty of them. If you are good at spreading your referral links and banners and convincing people, you’ll get lots of direct referrals in no time. Unfortunately, getting direct referrals is not an easy task for most.

The second one is called rented referral. They are the easiest referrals one could make, provided that you have money to spend. That’s because rented referrals can be acquired for a price. Most PTC sites get unreferred members (those that didn’t register under anyone). These members are sold or rented by PTCs in packs for a price. When bought / rented, they will earn for you with the clicks they make for 30 days. After that, they expire. You can either pay again to renew your referrals service so they’ll continue earning for you in the next 30, 60, or 90 days depending on the renewal periods available from your PTC. A referral for rent generally cost around 30 cents or less for one month (prices may be higher in some PTC sites that I haven’t joined yet, I’m not sure).

Although renting referrals is an easy way to get referrals working for you, it requires a bit of management and math to really profit from them. That’s because there are times when people purchase referrals and end up not getting the money they spent back even after the referrals expired. In effect, they are spending more than what they earn. If this is your case, better rethink your referral renting practice.

Here are some useful tips which you could use when renting referrals to avoid wasting money and start profiting from it:

1. As a rule of thumb, many high-earning PTC users don’t invest anything from their pockets when it comes to PTCs. They’d rather earn first what they need to invest in the site than spend their own cash and go scratching their heads when the site goes haywire the next day. Start from scratch. Then start spending once you’ve acquired the amount necessary to buy the smallest pack of referrals. It might be a slow start but you can brag about the fact that you started from scratch and made it big in a PTC site without investing any money except hard work and your time.

2. Rent referrals only from trusted sites. It’s a sad fact that there are PTC sites that sell bots instead of real people as referrals. If this happens, the bot will click minimally or stop altogether. Before doing any referral buying, make sure that the site can be trusted in terms of renting referrals. Neobux and Palmbux are proven PTCs that sell real members as referrals instead of bots.

3. You must be able to recycle your referrals. Recycling means replacing a referral for a new one, especially if it’s underperforming. Imagine buying 50 referrals and then having only 20 0r 10 of them clicking while the rest barely clicks at all. Why pay for the rest of them when they’re not doing you any good? If there’s no recycling of referrals available for you to do manually, better rethink buying referrals. It’ll be just a waste of money.

4. Once you’ve rented referrals already, don’t cashout all your funds when you reach the minimum payout. It’s best to save those funds for managing and maintaining your referrals. If you always leave your funds empty, next thing you know you’re out of referrals as you can’t renew nor buy new ones because you don’t have funds anymore.

5. Manage your referrals regularly. Have time to look at your rented referrals. Recycle the underperformers and keep the ones that regularly make you money. Recycling, by the way, costs also so if you’re out of funds because of cashing out all of it too early, you’ll be stuck with your underperforming referral until they expire. Recycling underperformers might cost you but it will only be a minimal amount which you could earn back if you get a replacement referral that clicks more ads. Use common sense when recycling underperformers. You might have a referral that used to click the maximum number of ads then suddenly stops clicking for three days. Don’t recycle them immediately just because of this. They could be on a vacation or having some momentary trouble and then return to their usual clicking later on. Always think that it’s hard to come by referrals that religiously click all the time.

6. Always make sure to renew your referrals that perform better for another month or two. Like I said earlier, it’s hard to come by good clickers especially during these times when rentable referrals get sold out fast in just a few minutes. So always make sure that they stay with you for a long time.

7. Save up for buying more referrals. This is to make more bucks faster.

8. Always click your ads. Don’t miss it. You’ll be wasting potential earnings if you miss out even a day.

9. If you can finally afford one, upgrade your account to get more out of your referrals and personal clicks.

10. Don’t forget to do some math all the time. Always make sure that you get back the amount you spent for your referrals and make profit also. Always remember that you need to grow in terms of earnings and not just merely survive inside any PTC program.

WHAT'S NEXT?

How to Make Money With Paid to Click Sites
How to Find the Best PTC Programs
How to Spot PTC Scams
How to Get Referrals for Your PTC Sites
Make Money with Trusted Paying Paid to Click Sites
Helpful Tips on Building a Referral Magnet Website for Your PTCs


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Make Money with Trusted Paying Paid to Click Sites

If you’re still looking for good paying PTC sites to join, here’s a list of PTCs that I’m currently using, they’re still trusted and paying for now but things always change. Anyways, I’ll still be updating this list in case things get worse. I hope my list and the corresponding details attached with each PTC will help you in deciding which sites to join, Good luck!!!

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED


Available ads: 4 to 5
Per Click: $0.01
Referral: $0.005 (standard) $0.01 (premium)
Minimum Cashout: $2 first until you reach $10
Payouts: Instant
Payment Processors: Paypal, Alertpay
Other info: Trusted and has been in the industry for a long time
Payment Proof1


Available ads: 5 to 7
Per Click: $0.001 - $0.02
Referral: $0.001 - $0.01
Minimum Cashout: $2 first until you reach $8
Payouts: Instant
Payment Processors: Paypal, Alertpay
Payment Proof1



Available ads: 4
Per Click: $0.0025 - $0.02
Referral: 10% referral earnings
Minimum Cashout: $1
Payouts: 30 days
Payment Processors: Paypal
Other info: Offers paid to read emails, earn 4 cents from their "daily clicks" program
Payment Proof1, Payment Proof2


Available ads: 8 and up
Per Click: $0.0025 - $0.01
Referral: 25% - 75% referral earnings
Minimum Cashout: $5
Payouts: 1st and 15th of a month
Payment Processors: Paypal, Alertpay
Other Info: Offers paid to read, paid emails, and paid to signup


Available ads: 5 to 10
Per Click: $0.01 - $0.015
Referral: $0.005 - $0.01
Minimum Cashout: $9
Payouts: 15 business days
Payment Processors: Paypal, Alertpay


Available ads: 10 to 15
Per Click: $0.005 - $0.01
Referral: $0.0025 - $0.005
Minimum Cashout: $7.99
Payouts: 45 business days
Payment Processors: Paypal, Alertpay


OTHER PAYING PTC SITES


Available ads: 4 to 5
Per Click: $0.005 - $0.01
Referral: $0.0005 - $0.001
Minimum Cashout: $7(standard) $5(upgraded)
Payouts: 30 days
Payment Processors: Paypal, Alertpay, Liberty Reserve
Other Info: 5 cent sign-up bonus


Available ads: 7 to 8
Per Click: $0.005 - $0.015
Referral: $0.005 - $0.015
Minimum Cashout: $4
Payouts: 1 to 10 days
Payment Processors: Paypal, Alertpay, Perfect Money, Liberty Reserve


Available ads: 5 to 10
Per Click: $0.0002 - $0.02
Referral: 30% referral earnings
Minimum Cashout: $1
Payouts: 2 weeks
Payment Processors: Paypal


Available ads: lots of ads
Per Click: $0.0001 - $0.01
Referral: 50% - 80% referral earnings
Minimum Cashout: $2
Payouts: 30 days
Payment Processors: Paypal, Alertpay
Other Info: Offers paid to surf, paid to read, paid emails, and paid to promote


Available ads: 15 and up
Per Click: $0.0001 - $0.005
Referral: 40% referral earnings
Minimum Cashout: $5.5
Payouts: 24 hours - 14 business days
Payment Processors: Paypal, Alertpay, Moneybookers
Other Info: Offers paid to click, read and sign up


Available ads: 10 and up
Per Click: $0.0001 - $0.01
Referral: 50% referral earnings
Minimum Cashout: $5
Payouts: Instant
Payment Processors: Paypal, Alertpay


Available ads: 3 to 4
Per Click: $0.01
Referral: $0.05
Minimum Cashout: $2 until you reach $10
Payouts: 72 hours to 7 business days
Payment Processors: Alertpay


Available ads: lots of ads
Per Click: $0.0001 - $0.01
Referral: 5% referral earnings
Minimum Cashout: no minimum (e-gold) $1 (other payment modes)
Payouts: 2 weeks
Payment Processors: Paypal, Alertpay, Liberty Reserve, Perfect Money, E-gold
Other Info: Offers many earning oppurtunities like paid to read and paid to signup
Payment Proof1


Available ads: 4 (Paid to Click), 2 (Paid to Read)
Per Click: $0.005, $0.01 - $0.06 (Paid to Read)
Referral: 20% referral earnings
Minimum Cashout: $2
Payment Processors: Paypal, Alertpay
Other Info: Offers many earning oppurtunities like paid to read, paid to click, paid to write, and paid to play


The PTC sites you see below are either subject to further testing or are simply very slow earners that I don’t bother giving any details at the moment but they are surely not scams yet.









This PTC list can change anytime depending on the sites’ performance. If they end up as scam, you won’t see them here anymore.


WHAT'S NEXT?

How to Make Money With Paid to Click Sites
How to Find the Best PTC Programs
How to Spot PTC Scams
How to Get Referrals for Your PTC Sites
Tips on Renting Referrals from PTC Sites
Helpful Tips on Building a Referral Magnet Website for Your PTCs




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How to Get Referrals for Your PTC Sites

The quickest way to make money from PTC programs is to have a bundle of quality referrals. In fact, most of your earnings will come from your referrals. What do we mean by quality referrals? They are your referrals who always click their ads. Referrals are also human, and human can be lazy sometimes. If they don’t click you can’t earn from them, as simple as that.

As easy as it may sound, it is one of the biggest challenge for most PTC users especially for newbies. Looking for referrals requires a lot of effort; but once you’ve done it correctly, all your hard work will payback as your earnings will increase when your downline starts building.

There are many ways to build a huge referral base; but you have to be patient, you have to be honest, and you have to believe in the program you're inviting others to join. Always make sure that you’re not telling them to join scam sites. In a way, credibility also helps make or break your efforts to get referrals.


Here are some popular and effective ways which you could use to get referrals:


1) Make a website or blog about PTC.

This is one of the most challenging but exceptionally reliable means of acquiring referrals. Write an article about your experiences with PTCs, your recommendations, or some tips that you could share to them. Then, use this opportunity to place your referral links or banners in the website you made. It works well because you only have to write it once but people looking for ways to earn online will see it again and again.

There are a lot of free blog or website platforms out there that are easy to setup which you could use to achieve this. You could start a blogspot blog (or maybe wordpress) like this one, start making squidoo lens, or maybe write for hubpages.

Making websites is challenging because often times you have to sell your ideas to your audience or visitors in an instant to get them into action. You have to be able to capture their attention and give them the information that they need. One helpful tip that I could share to you in this regard is to make catchy titles. “Lists” and “how to” titles are some of the best examples. If you want to learn more, try my article about writing a great blog post.

The more informative and convincing your blog / website is, the more probability of it generating referrals for you. Be sure to research and use keywords to help your search engine presence.


2) Purchase / rent referrals.

Purchasing un-referred members from PTC sites is a common practice. There are many PTC members who either did not sign up under anyone, or their referrer closed their account. These members then go on sale. You can buy or rent them for a price, usually ranging from $0.30-$2 per referral. These referrals usually expire after a month. After that, either you renew your rent so you could earn from them for another month; or they go on sale again. In most cases, you will only get members that have been active recently.

This method of gaining referrals is the easiest. If you have the capital, you can gain a lot of referrals in a short time. There is huge earning potential. As your downline grows, your earnings grow rapidly.

There is only one condition. Most sites will not guarantee that the members you buy will be active after you purchase them. You may pay for 50 referrals only to see a week later that 10 of them rarely or never click. So, basically this is an "at your own risk" method of getting referrals.

Another important note: You should not purchase referrals from a site that you do not completely trust. There is word spreading around the PTC community that some scam sites are selling bots (automated clickers) as referrals. If this happens, the bot will either click minimally or stop altogether. You should always be careful when investing your own money in a PTC site.

Also, you should do the math. When you purchase referrals, you should be able to make your money back before your referrals expire. Take into account how much you make off of referrals as well as how many ads the site has each day.


3) Be active in forums.

There are some forums about making money on the internet where you can share your knowledge and ideas about making money online through PTCs. Be active, involved and interested. Share your opportunity when appropriate and invite people to PM or email you for the link and more information. If you could offer them great help, they will trust you and the site you're recommending more.

You can also get direct referrals in other forums by editing your signature. If the forum rules allow, you can add a banner or a referral link about the PTC sites you are in on your signature and then every time you post a new message, everyone will see your links.


4) Participate in Referral Exchanges.

Referral exchanges occur in forums where you can trade referrals. What this means is that someone will sign up as your referral for a site you belong to if you sign up for one of theirs. For example, if you want to get referral for PalmBux, then you have to start a new thread in a forum like "I need Referral for PalmBux". Any one who hasn’t joined PalmBux yet, will reply to your thread. In exchange for his / her participation, he / she will provide link of his / her PTC site, which you should join also.

This method works very well because chances are; you will be getting a very active referral to make you money. The reason is because that person wants you to be active in their program, so they should be active in yours also. As long as you stay active they will too.

The drawback to this method is that you will probably want to set a limit to the number of sites you will join. You don't want to sign up for so many sites that you cannot stay active in all of them. So, in this way, there is a limit to how often you can do this.

There are a lot of forums about GPTs (Get Paid To) or PTCs where you can exchange links with members. You can start on these forums:

www.ptctalk.com
www.talkptc.com
www.getpaidforum.com
www.gptboycott.com
www.ptcdatabase.com


5) Join Traffic Exchange Sites and Downline Builder Sites.

Actually, I haven’t tried these personally but I’m getting a lot of buzz about these in PTC communities. The idea behind traffic exchange sites is to surf other people’s sites to earn credits which you’ll use to advertise your site for other people to surf and earn credits as well. In short, you get people to view your site, or referral link, in exchange for viewing their site or referral links too. “I see yours, you see mine”; get the idea?

I don’t think spending your hard earned credits on advertising your referral link or page for other people to surf is a good idea to gain referrals. You’ll just be wasting time as more people will just view your ad then jump to the next ad since they’re only after earning credits to get their own agendas pushed through using traffic.

The only way I see this method working is for you to build a page where you could advertise or sell your referral link or links much better than just showing the signup page for your PTC. As you will see when you start surfing, you only have a brief moment to capture the viewers’ attention and get them to visit your site and sign up. If you don't, they will surf right past your page. So, you need a page that will load fast and get the surfer to click. If you’ve made a blog or website about PTCs already; maybe you can use it instead of your individual referral links.

Regarding downline builders, it also works based on credit system. You earn credits through clicking or signing up programs, which you’ll spend on either getting others to view your program (through clicking), or getting others sign-up to your program. I believe you earn more from sign-ups as compared to clicks. The same goes for making people sign-up under you which will cost more as compared to just having them view your stuff.

In both methods, there’s a great chance that you’ll be acquiring lots of referrals. The only problem is there’s more potential for them to be inactive simply because they became a referral as a cost or side effect of their quest to achieve something else and not as their main goal or as a means to achieve their end.


6) Advertise on PTC sites.

It might not be new to you that most of PTC sites’ advertisers are their members as well. How many times have you seen PTC sites and their login pages whenever you click ads in one of your PTCs? These are usually the handwork of PTC members who wish to get referrals for their PTC site and rarely from the owner of the PTC site itself. Guess what? You can also use this method to advertise your stuff. Instead of cashing out your earnings, you can spend it on advertising instead.

This can be an effective tool, especially for new PTC sites. If you are using an old PTC site to advertise another old PTC site, everyone who clicks would most likely already be a member of that site. However, if you advertise a hot new PTC with few members, you can really benefit from this method.

Additionally, you could use the same method as the one stated in traffic exchange sites. Advertise your “highly sellable” page filled with your PTC referral links, or maybe your own blog or website about PTCs that also contains your referral links.


7) Tell your family and friends.

Most people don't think of this even though it’s so obvious. Chances are, they do not know about it. They may or may not want to participate, but it can't hurt to ask. Just make sure you don't exaggerate. Just tell it as it is: “they could earn extra income for very little effort”.

You can also invite your online friends in social networks to join, just don’t act too spammy or they might remove you from their friends list; or worst your account might get banned. Create MySpace, Facebook and Twitter pages with your referral links and banners in them. Be sure to add personality and content to your pages in order to keep visitors there longer. Once your pages are complete, link your friends and family to them to get the word spreading started.


The methods above are a guide for you on how to start getting those referrals. Though building your referral may take some time, rest assured using these methods will give you new sign-ups ready to pour in a lot of money. I am sure there are a lot of other ways to increase your downlines on any Paid-to-Click (PTC) programs. If you have other tips you use and want to share, just post a comment!


WHAT'S NEXT?

How to Make Money With Paid to Click Sites
How to Find the Best PTC Programs
How to Spot PTC Scams
Recommended PTC Sites
Tips on Renting Referrals from PTC Sites
Helpful Tips on Building a Referral Magnet Website for Your PTCs


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How to Spot PTC Scams

Due to the roaring success of PTC programs, fraudulent PTC sites which are run by scamming people populate the internet. According to some, 99% of the PTC industry is a scam. I’d say that’s way too many. We can’t be completely sure how many of these programs are scams, but for someone to exaggerate it in such proportions is reason enough that scams are flagrant in the PTC business.

If there’s one thing for sure, PTC programs don’t last forever. Most of them last only a few months. They appear legit in the beginning then end up scamming their members when they disappear all of a sudden. They disappear because of two reasons: they were really setup to scam people; or the site admin can’t maintain the site anymore. Hence, knowing when a PTC site will eventually disappear is a valuable skill a PTC user should acquire.

How then can you avoid being scammed? Here is a list which could help you spot the most likely candidates of turning into scam.

1) First things first. Like what I’ve said in my previous article about how to find the best paid to click programs, check if the site is in any scam list. There are people who are dedicated on tracking these scamming sites and they make lists and PTC updates to warn people about the scams. For starters, google something like ptc scams or ptc scam list to find them. You could also check out GPT boycott and scam.com for the same matter. Check PTC forums. No, not those within the PTC itself, I mean those forums dedicated to talking about PTCs. Take PTCTalk and TalkPTC for example. They’re oozing with the latest about PTCs and their owners.

2) Joining PTC programs should be free. If it requires a fee to join it’s definitely a scam.

3) Check out the pay rates of the company. Legitimate sites typically pay $0.01 or $0.02 for a click. If the company advertises extravagant rates such as $1 to $10 per click, it is 100% scam.

4) Advertising rates must give justice to the rate per click. If the advertising price is too low in contrast to the value of your click, the site is not sustainable and will eventually have payment delays later on.

5) Verify the payout limit of the site. An ideal company should have a payout limit of $10 or less. Bigger payout limits mean longer clicking time for you before you could cash out. Most scammers use bigger payout limits to provide them ample time to collect more souls to fool and prepare for their escape plan.

6) Check what options the company provides for payouts. The usual ones are payment processors like Paypal and Alertpay. Try to avoid the cheques because you can never be too sure if it will come or not. You only have their words as guarantee. Also, check if the site is Paypal verified. Any site which doesn't pass the tough guidelines of Paypal has always the risk of turning scam.

7) When do you get paid? Although there are exceptions, when it’s more than 30 days, it could turn out a scam. Reason for this is that they can’t afford to pay you instantly so they hold your payment request until they accumulate the amount from advertisers or from their own members. When there are constant delays, it just means that the site is either running into money problems (which could just disappear all of a sudden) or is simply a scam. Either way, you’ll still end up losing your end of the bargain.

8) They must have a forum or a support contact info. Make sure that the company has a dedicated helpline that responds to your queries all the time. If they don’t have one, it’s a scam. If they don’t reply to your queries, it’s also a scam.

9) A site must have its FAQ and terms of service at least. No FAQ or TOS means scam. Don’t forget to read their TOS also. Sometimes, scam sites make loopholes in their rules and guidelines to fool you better. Some sites pay their upgraded members only, others don’t pay some countries, while others use this “profit sharing model” where the earnings you incurred is only a representation and your actual earnings is much smaller. Stay away from sites with weird and tricky rules.

10) Check whether the company is properly registered. Use domain look up services in the net. First, take a look at whois information. There you will see the name, e-mail and other information about the administrator. A PTC that uses PrivacyProtect.org or somehow hides info cannot be trusted. Take the name and do a search in forums for a good or bad reference. To find whois info, go to whois.domaintools.com and paste the name of the site.

11) Site that goes on and off and often have maintenance issues can be suspected as scam.

12) Never trust a site that runs under a free domain or a sub domain or free host. No money to pay host equals no money to pay you. Generally they are free for one or three months, so the PTC disappears after this time.

13) Generally, PTC sites with referral earnings equal to or below 50% will last longer. Sites that offer more or even 100% earnings from your referral clicks often end up bankrupt after a few months. There are exceptions of course but always be careful with sites like these as they might just disappear anytime.

14) They should not run the “admin sponsored” or “self promotion” ads forever. A site can survive only if they get external advertisers. If a PTC is always running more admin sponsored ads against external advertisers, it’s always a sign that they might close anytime due to lack of incoming revenue from external source.


WHAT'S NEXT?

How to Make Money With Paid to Click Sites
How to Find the Best PTC Programs
How to Get Referrals for Your PTC Sites
Recommended PTC Sites
Tips on Renting Referrals from PTC Sites
Helpful Tips on Building a Referral Magnet Website for Your PTCs





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