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Excellent earning through survey

I just stumbled upon a website where you can earn by doing some surveys and referring your friends. I just joined and did my welcome survey. The system is simple and clear.

Its 100% Free to join. All you need is to sign-up for a free account with the information requested. Activate your account and start doing the survey. I did the welcome survey and it took me just 5 minutes.

Other earning method for this program is referrals. If you can refer your friends, you get paid US$1.25 per person. You will be provided with banners and tools to promote this program. There is not geographical restriction for joining this program, but some surveys have location restriction.

Payments are done by cheque for members in the US and the international members can redeem their payments using Paypal.

I feel this is an excellent opportunity.

Just go ahead and sign-up. Please read the terms and conditions before you start working

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Pros and Cons of running an affiliate program

I have been running my own affiliate program for the past 3 years now. There are many gains are loss when you run your own affiliate program. It depends on you how you run the program. The losses can be converted to gains if you plan your program well. Well in my case, I had funded my affiliate program and it took some time to make money from affiliate programs. I was expecting this and it was planned.

Advantages of running your own affiliate program

Branding yourself - You can brand yourself when you run your own affiliate program. Just go to Google and search for HomeJob, you will get my website and I get lots of visitors from Google who search for Home Jobs. For the past 3 years I have established a brand.

Gaining confidence of affiliates - You can gain confidence of your members who have been working for your program, provided, you keep your promise, make the payments promptly

Easy to launch new programs - If you have a good number of affiliates who are working for your affiliate program, you can introduce new products and get your existing members to join the new programs. This is applicable only if your affiliates are happy with your existing affiliate programs

Disadvantages of running your own affiliate program

Responsibility - You have lots of responsibility like replying to the support request, managing your affiliates, making payments, but again part of your program

Overheads - You should plan your affiliate program well so that you can manage your overheads from the revenue generated from your affiliate program

Management - Management is a part of every business, you need to manage your program well. You may not be able to do all by yourself, you may need a technical person if you are not having any technical experience. I my case, I had to recruit moderators for moderating the work done my affiliates.

Conclusion - There are pros and cons for every business you do and it depends all on you , how you plan your program and manage it. I learnt a lot from the affiliate programs I am running and now I make good revenue from my affiliate programs and I no longer need to invest any funds to make payments to my affiliates. I have sufficient income from Advertisement and registration fees. My affiliate are happy as they get paid exactly on the payout date

My affiliate Programs

  • HomeJob Pro - New registration stopped from Jan 2008
  • HomeJob Ref - Currently going on , high income generating program