Suggestion: Take Away the $3 Forum Posting Bonus

[U2BMATH]

Boy, you're a fast one! Nothing OLD about you, Buddy, hehe. Thanks for your appreciation of my post. For myself, I'm not sure I would go so far as to pay them $3.00 of my own money. But I would love the opportunity to promote myself here. I'd be willing to give up money that wasn't mine to begin with, hehe. That's still FREE in my book. To simply post messages every month to earn a slot in the spotlight, that I can do.

Oh, did I happen to mention I'm cheap like that? LOL
Mike

[oldbuddy]

Boy, you're a fast one! Nothing OLD about you, Buddy, hehe. Thanks for your appreciation of my post. For myself, I'm not sure I would go so far as to pay them $3.00 of my own money. But I would love the opportunity to promote myself here. I'd be willing to give up money that wasn't mine to begin with, hehe. That's still FREE in my book. To simply post messages every month to earn a slot in the spotlight, that I can do.

Oh, did I happen to mention I'm cheap like that? LOL
Mike

I just put in for my $3 bonus for August and the first week isn't even over yet, but let me tell you why being too cheap is not conducive to making money online (people notice)

I tend to go the other direction and it pays off. For example, I just joined a free auction website that lets you list stuff you no longer need to sell for credits, then use the credits to buy stuff someone else doesn't need. I see the potential there, so I just went out and purchased a brand new DVD for "First Wives Club". Most of the people I noticed active on the site were women, so I figure having a DVD about how wives got even with conniving husbands would appeal to them and the bids would go higher.

So why spend FIVE BUCKS (plus offering free shipping) to get free credits to bid on more free stuff I probably don't really need? It's all about recognition and this is just a start. Now if someone bids high and BUYS my CD with their free credits, would you think they might be a person that LIKES free stuff? So when I ship them the DVD you can bet there will be a promo in there about how I make free money online!!! Get it?

Now when I start blogging about this (real soon) you can bet it will lead to even more referrals that earn me more free credits so I can be more active and make more friends, then project that ahead for a year or two and you might see the vision. All the while I am adding to my image and building my following for almost NOTHING, instead of spending AdWords cash that just makes Google richer.

Oh did I mention, that FIVE BUCKS I spent will come back as credits that I can buy more stuff I can list for sale later and my net cost should be maybe a buck for a few more good leads.

Make sense?

[IceKittyNM]

Boy, you're a fast one! Nothing OLD about you, Buddy, hehe. Thanks for your appreciation of my post. For myself, I'm not sure I would go so far as to pay them $3.00 of my own money. But I would love the opportunity to promote myself here. I'd be willing to give up money that wasn't mine to begin with, hehe. That's still FREE in my book. To simply post messages every month to earn a slot in the spotlight, that I can do.

Oh, did I happen to mention I'm cheap like that? LOL
Mike

I just put in for my $3 bonus for August and the first week isn't even over yet, but let me tell you why being too cheap is not conducive to making money online (people notice)

I tend to go the other direction and it pays off. For example, I just joined a free auction website that lets you list stuff you no longer need to sell for credits, then use the credits to buy stuff someone else doesn't need. I see the potential there, so I just went out and purchased a brand new DVD for "First Wives Club". Most of the people I noticed active on the site were women, so I figure having a DVD about how wives got even with conniving husbands would appeal to them and the bids would go higher.

So why spend FIVE BUCKS (plus offering free shipping) to get free credits to bid on more free stuff I probably don't really need? It's all about recognition and this is just a start. Now if someone bids high and BUYS my CD with their free credits, would you think they might be a person that LIKES free stuff? So when I ship them the DVD you can bet there will be a promo in there about how I make free money online!!! Get it?

Now when I start blogging about this (real soon) you can bet it will lead to even more referrals that earn me more free credits so I can be more active and make more friends, then project that ahead for a year or two and you might see the vision. All the while I am adding to my image and building my following for almost NOTHING, instead of spending AdWords cash that just makes Google richer.

Oh did I mention, that FIVE BUCKS I spent will come back as credits that I can buy more stuff I can list for sale later and my net cost should be maybe a buck for a few more good leads.

Make sense?

You get the salesman of the decade award in my book, oldbuddy!! 

[U2BMATH]

98% good sense. I have a couple questions for you later, which I will post to this thread later tonight. Just checking in quickly before dinner. Send wife off to bed later in the evening, and I'll be back with the "unclear" questions to be clarified. But what I'm reading sounds intriguing! Would like to know more.

[bbellhill]

I been trying for hours to post a message and I just got in. No I think this is a good incentive for new comer lke me. It give a change to work harder knowing that I did get payed! 

[U2BMATH]

Actually, Old Buddy, I don't have any further questions, as I thought earlier. I re-read your post, and answered my own questions. Funny how things sound differently the second time around, hehe.

Good concept. Spend a little to make a little (or hopefully a lot). Makes cents for sure. Thanks for sharing the idea.

[tammypete]

I don't like that idea at all.  I would much rather have the $3 posting bonus!   It really helps out whenever you are close to cashing out and need that extra couple of dollars!

[jenniferhoder]

I like the $3.00 posting bonus! I really hope hey don't take it away.  It helps those of us who need all the help we can get in getting to $25!!!

[tallicadude]

Boy, you're a fast one! Nothing OLD about you, Buddy, hehe. Thanks for your appreciation of my post. For myself, I'm not sure I would go so far as to pay them $3.00 of my own money. But I would love the opportunity to promote myself here. I'd be willing to give up money that wasn't mine to begin with, hehe. That's still FREE in my book. To simply post messages every month to earn a slot in the spotlight, that I can do.

Oh, did I happen to mention I'm cheap like that? LOL
Mike

I just put in for my $3 bonus for August and the first week isn't even over yet, but let me tell you why being too cheap is not conducive to making money online (people notice)

I tend to go the other direction and it pays off. For example, I just joined a free auction website that lets you list stuff you no longer need to sell for credits, then use the credits to buy stuff someone else doesn't need. I see the potential there, so I just went out and purchased a brand new DVD for "First Wives Club". Most of the people I noticed active on the site were women, so I figure having a DVD about how wives got even with conniving husbands would appeal to them and the bids would go higher.

So why spend FIVE BUCKS (plus offering free shipping) to get free credits to bid on more free stuff I probably don't really need? It's all about recognition and this is just a start. Now if someone bids high and BUYS my CD with their free credits, would you think they might be a person that LIKES free stuff? So when I ship them the DVD you can bet there will be a promo in there about how I make free money online!!! Get it?

Now when I start blogging about this (real soon) you can bet it will lead to even more referrals that earn me more free credits so I can be more active and make more friends, then project that ahead for a year or two and you might see the vision. All the while I am adding to my image and building my following for almost NOTHING, instead of spending AdWords cash that just makes Google richer.

Oh did I mention, that FIVE BUCKS I spent will come back as credits that I can buy more stuff I can list for sale later and my net cost should be maybe a buck for a few more good leads.

Make sense?

hey, i added you to my buddy list. is there a way to send you a private message? making money online is the only way for me to make money due to my disability. i'm online 12+ hours a day so i have the dedication lol. maybe we could help each other 

[oldbuddy]

hey, i added you to my buddy list. is there a way to send you a private message? making money online is the only way for me to make money due to my disability. i'm online 12+ hours a day so i have the dedication lol. maybe we could help each other 

Actually the Buddy List here does nothing that I know of and Private Messages are not allowed. However, a Google search can find me pretty easy.

[Administrator]

It's unlikely that we'll allow off-site links in signatures anytime soon.  We spend too much time and money advertising FC to just give away traffic like that. 

As for the posting bonus, we may have to reduce it sometime in the future, but there would be an official announcement ahead of time for a big change like that.

Here's a question for you, though: how much would you pay for a text link advertisement appearing on every forum thread in between the first post and the first reply?

[oldbuddy]

It's unlikely that we'll allow off-site links in signatures anytime soon.  We spend too much time and money advertising FC to just give away traffic like that. 

As for the posting bonus, we may have to reduce it sometime in the future, but there would be an official announcement ahead of time for a big change like that.

Here's a question for you, though: how much would you pay for a text link advertisement appearing on every forum thread in between the first post and the first reply?

Now we have had official word right from the MAN!

A text link or even a banner would be very interesting to me. How much I would pay would depend on a lot of variables like what we could post, how much space, would it rotate with other advertisers and then I would need to try it and evaluate the R.O.I. before doing it again. I would lean more toward a cost per click model and bid for position in the rotation. It's also much easier to control from our point of view.

Thanks for chiming it! 

[dsawan]

dont like that idea of reducing the amt. i'd rather keep as is. No changes for now.

[tallicadude]

Bad idea.  The signature line can be incorporated into a contest.  The winner (s) can get a signature line for a certain amount of time.  If the bonus is taken away the forum will die people will stop posting which will defeat the purpose of a showing a signature line.  Less people posting mean less will click on the signature.

this is the correct answer! also the $3 is huge for someone like me who has no source of income.

[U2BMATH]

It's unlikely that we'll allow off-site links in signatures anytime soon.  We spend too much time and money advertising FC to just give away traffic like that. 

As for the posting bonus, we may have to reduce it sometime in the future, but there would be an official announcement ahead of time for a big change like that.

Here's a question for you, though: how much would you pay for a text link advertisement appearing on every forum thread in between the first post and the first reply?

I'd tip my hat to Old Buddy. If you and him could negotiate an acceptable arrangement for such a proposal, then I'd have complete faith and trust in whatever outcome was arrived at. He's obviously been doing what he's been doing for awhile, and knows enough to have the matter work for both FC as well as those who would want to participate.