Poorer side of the AM coin? TreasureTrooper and the like

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Okay, so before I even knew what AM was, I did things like TreasureTrooper. For those that don't know what it is, it's here (no aff link, not my site), but it's essentially the OTHER side of the sign ups.

HTML: 
http://www.treasuretrooper.com/howitworks.html
(when I linked it, it looked spammy)

For example, one offer is $25 to join the Pitney Bowes mailing shit, but there are tons of $1 "add your email and adress for free ringtones" offers. It's kind of unspoken rule that everyone that does it cancels ASAP and keeps the payout (against site terms to talk about it in their forums). When I did do it, I made about $600 in the end and probably spent $100-200 on the S&H. Not small, but not worth the hassle of quitting and forever getting mailing cards inviting me to eBay dinners and the "chance to make millions" :angryfire: I'm not a total ass though, and I did it when the sites didn't know the difference between a credit # and a gift card #. As a side note, the only offer I got royally screwed on was the Stamps.com offer. That was insane.

Is this kind of the other(poorer) side of the coin for AM? People who join the shit offers, knowing fully well, and then dropping out? What do you think of places like TT, the "make money at home" things? They must be making a good chunk of change right? It's crazy for someone like me to find wickedfire and see the complete other side. I've been reading these forums nonstop for 2 damned weeks already. Cheney's angry face is burned in my skull.
 


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Cheney's angry face is burned in my skull.
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LOL

But yea, the model that sites like treasure trooper and the "free ipod" sites are known as incentive sites. They pay you to signup for offers and then split the money, nothing new but everybody knows (especially the advertisers) that the traffic and signups are usually shitty and they're likely to cancel as soon as they get their $. I'm guessing that the advertisers are still making money from it because there are still plenty of incentive offers and affiliate networks dedicated to incentive offers. Read more here:

Best Incentive Affiliates
 
The poorer side of AM....That is not AM at all well sort of but not really. Its incentive marketing and to me that business model is retarded. A couple of years ago it use to be decently big. You could make some quick cash if you had a website like treasure trooper. True.com use to have a free trial that they paid you $38 for. And there were a ton of $1 processing offers that were rebills that paid you like $15-$30. Nowadays there are still some of those offers but not like they use to be. People would get gift cards and complete the offer fraudulently (ie. fake name, address, doesn't really want product) So it pretty much killed incentive marketing just stay away it isn't worth the time your better off learning AM.
 
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So it pretty much killed incentive marketing just stay away it isn't worth the time your better off learning AM.
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Yeah I definitely agree. Back then I was a little bit younger and a lot less aware of things. Plus ~400$ wasn't bad for it. I just don't understand why advertisers would even want to be a part of those sites. It seems like a crappy deal for them
 
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I just don't understand why advertisers would even want to be a part of those sites. It seems like a crappy deal for them
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Hello friend,

I think allow incentive is good if have quoata meet since it fast easy way to get lead.

Say boss want have 1 million lead by 3 month or you fire. But product is junk and no one want even in free trial.

So you allow incentive and you get 1 million lead quick.

Good luck bro
 
sumitdhawan09, that was an awesome response. Perfect reason.

amanda11, I am now. I just need to catch up on a billion pages of reading and about 100 new acronyms -- and I'm already a computer geek, too. People around here like to "scrub" polls or something? :p That's what I heard anyway.
 
The only real money is owning an incentive site and knowing how to push referrals.

I remember when I tried that stuff it was really my first taste for internet marketing. I had around 1000 cashcrate referrals and 300 something TT referrals.

Myspace spam FTW
 
It's harder nowdays to get accepted into networks if you're doing incentives, and if you have an incentive site and it's known to the network, you're treated as more of a pariah. I had one, and had to personally notify the network to remove the incentive site from my profile, and found that I was accepted to run campaigns much more readily,

In fact, when I asked to have the incentive site removed, a couple of my affiliate managers expressed how happy they were to remove the site. It's dead, and I doubt incentives are coming back.
 
Incent is still very big but you may not think of it as that. Im not talking about sites like TreasureTrooper.

What Im talking about are the "gratis marketing" sites - "free" gift cards, ipods, whatever. Yes, those e-mail and zip submits - what do you think they are? They're incent in its purest form. Those offers are still pushing tons of volume as everyone knows and they're working with major advertisers such as Blockbuster, etc. The advertisers pay less for incent leads obviously - but judging by the volume going thru gratis - the advertisers are also happy.
 
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