Swagbucks Now In Australia!

Well, I suppose I was behind the times, but yep, it's true. Australia is just one more new territory just added by the Swagbucks Team August 23rd, 2011. That's really good news! Before, it was only available in Canada, USA and the UK.

I really love Swagbucks - I've redeemed $20 in Paypal certificates, and they truly do make it easy to earn points for freebies and gift certificates, as well as having fun at the same time. Plus, every so often they have Swagbucks Extravaganzas, Mega Swagbucks Day, and countless games, trivia, and promotional codes. Here is my promotional link,

I hope you enjoy it and I wish you all a happy new year.

PTC sucks!!!!!!

So, here I am, back from another hiatus, totally ticked off at all the effort I put into PTCs - personally I think they're dying.  So many clickers like myself aren't getting money, and there's too many dishonest admins, anyway.  And for the admins that are honest, they end up closing shop or giving out really scrawny payments in order to keep their sites afloat.  Unless you get a baseball stadium full of faithful followers you won't make much money off of PTCs.

So I've jumped ship.  Hmm...perhaps not totally jumped ship, though.  I've been in social networking long before I went to PTCs, and trust me they're paying more steadily than the PTC sites.  I know that from personal experience!  I mean I've gotten about $150 from Sidetick, $15 from Swagbucks, and $25 from MyLot, and all of them are still paying, and the admins are very active.  Maybe it's best to stick with the slow-earning-but-faithful guys, eh?

I'll be hopefully working with a marketing buddy soon, that I can get a small monthly salary.  That'll be a bonus for me as well.  I guess a few bucks here and there is okay, and that I can slowly work my way up from there.  All in all, I can't seem to end this rant on a negative note - not today.  I can honestly say that I've met some wonderful people in online marketing.  They're very polite, and it feels good to exchange ideas with them.

The Terms Rant

Recently there has been an influx of PTC sites which advertise ten cents a day and higher even as free members. Well, that's right up my alley because that's what I specialise in. The moment I see an advertisement that says "10 ads a day! $0.01 per click!" I'm in. I start clicking like a clickaoholic with this big silly grin on my face, then...

BANG!!! Honeymoon's over and reality sets in as we find out the cold hard truth....when we read the Terms and FAQs. Or for some unlucky ones, when we ask for our first payouts. I have come across three PTC sites that call themselves Revenue-Sharing sites. They have high click rates and cheap upgrades, making it look like a clicker's dream. But the Terms tell us they only pay anywhere from 1% to 6% of our payout request. Ouch. But can we call them a scam? Technically no, because it's stated very clearly in their policies.

Another policy I ran into was that we can only cash out 100% of our investment. Smart admin. They gave us reasonable upgrades and a bit expensive advertising, but we don't make any money. If we purchase a membershp upgrade for $10 per month, we can cash out a $10, no more. Still other sites will give us high click rates but will only convert our earnings into advertising. That means NO cashout no matter how much we invest out of our own pockets. Once again, as much as these sites tick us off, if these policies are stated in the Terms and FAQ sections, we have no-one to blame but ourselves.

To the admins that start up bux sites then suddenly stop paying, you're not off the hook. You have a responsibility to own up to what you state in your policies. Either pay out or get blacklisted by the clickmeister community as just another scammer. Sorry. Just had to say that! :-D

Bottom line is, always read the terms and FAQs in any program you join, be it PTCs, matrices, traffic exchanges, affiliate programs, and yes, big-hauncho MLM companies as well. You'll probably save yourself a lot of money and a lot of headache.

A Rant That's Worth A Pittance

I've been dabbling in the PTC world - or better known as the World of Pittance Earnings - $0.04 per day as a standard member, assuming the clicks are worth one cent. That's basically the the understanding, you join a bux site and you expect to get four cents a day, unless you get a lot of referrals. Some top marketers get a few hundred bucks a month, but they must have a few thousand referrals, nothing like us average Joes in the marketing world. But strangely enough a lot of us keep plugging on, a few months we'll come to our minimum payments of two bucks. Yep, 200 cents. Whoo hoo!!! Better than nothing, though, we can buy into some cheap matrix to generate a few more bucks - yeah, ten bucks in our AlertPay accounts! Not too shabby, eh?

Then a new trend begins...the infamous four to five clicks a day valued at $0.001 each. Yes, there's supposed to be an extra zero in there. That's a tenth of a cent. Oh don't' get me wrong, we do have a few generous admins that'll give us maybe ten ads or so, that's a big fat penny per day, perhaps a bit more.

Yet we're suckers. We'll click until our fingers fall off our hands. Anything for a free penny. Spend a lot of money advertising, chasing down referrals. If we're lucky we'll gain back the money. But hey, we're starting make some moneyyyyyy!!!!! Ha.

In online marketing we're supposed to aim to make a profit. Perhaps smart clickers like me will just stick with programs that pay us whole pennies, not just a fraction of a penny. If more clickers take our leads, maybe the skimpy admins will take a hint and smarten up.

Thankfully this smart clicker has found a couple of PTC sites that gives over ten cents a day. Check out my PTC page.

Internet Marketing

I'll be honest, I love working online and getting every penny out of the Internet as I can get. That does not mean that I condone scamming or spamming or being a pain in the butt. That simply means that I love getting free money and if I can get a chance, free stuff.

I'm a disabled housewife and mother of two lovely children. There's not much I can do in the real world, so I figured about a year ago, that I may as well see what I can do online. Anyway, so what do I do? I socialise on Facebook, I tweet out on Twitter, I'm a member of get-paid-to-socialise sites and well as writing articles. I know, not much, but hey, we do need to start somewhere.

Anyway, so I'm learning more and more each month, it's coming easier for me now. Learning a bit of HTML coding and creating some of my own banners, it won't make me an expert, though. I can't leave without a rant, and it sure gets under my skin when people say "This is the ONLY thing that'll work for you!" Hah. Really? Then why am I getting signups from various locations? Most likely those tools that are circulating around the Internet are junk, and people are only making money off them because they're affiliates and their downlines are upgrading, giving commissions to the advertiser and that's it. Real traffic comes in downline builders and traffic exchange sites, where we get real visitors clicking on our links. Sounds simple? Yep...that's because it is simple.