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About PTC

What is PTC?

I believe that many people had heard this abbreviation a lot but do not actually knows what is it. PTC stands for Paid To Click. Well, in another quarter, there are people who knows what is PTC and what are the PTC websites out there, but could not clearly explain what exactly is PTC all about.

PTC-Business Model

As you know PTC is a website which Internet users joined as members and get paid after each click of an advertisement. They will get paid most typically $0.01. As most of the websites are started at US, the denominated currency used would be greenback or US Dollars. If there are sites that promised more than $0.01 or $0.0125 per click, they are most probably believed to be scams.

Why is that so? Many would ask why is it scam when it actually pays more. Please allow me to explain the business model of a typical PTC site. The money that members get after clicking all the available advertisements actually comes from the advertiser. The problem with most PTC sites with the initial hope of being genuines and honest business which eventually turned out to be scam after going off the Internet out of the sudden is that they do not get business from advertisers. What they do to keep their site going is by putting their own advertisements which leds to some affiliated programs which ultimately benefit the PTC site in question. However, most PTC members just click on the advertisements and closed it after the stipulated time is up and their account get credit with the $0.01 or $0.0125 for premium members.

The fee for an advertisement is set at $19.10 in the case for Bux at 1000 visits. There are actually other sites that offer a lesser fee for hosting 1000 visits, but please beware that the PTC site could be a scam. Anything less could means that the business model is not viable at all. 1000 visits would cost the PTC site $10. And in the worst case senerio where all the members who had clicked the advertisement are premium members would cost the site $12.50. So each transaction would make them $7.40 in the worst senerio. Notwithstanding the money earned from selling referrals and premium membership above the primary business.

There are actually many PTC sites that went offline due to one reason or another. But the ultimate factor which I believe is viability of the business. Over the past few months, we have seen PTC sites which are reviewed to be genuine and good going offline like Paid.vg, Bux3 and DaddyBux.

Conclusion

Out of so many PTC sites, I only trust Bux which I got paid for more than 16 times and a substantial amount of money. If you are a member, you would probably realize that this site serves more than 100 of advertisements daily from genuine advertisers. This really is an assuring factor that Bux is going strong. Please be extra careful of PTC sites as it involved great risk when it comes to investing money into them buying referrals. So 'Click with care'.

Neobux

What is Neobux?


WWW.Neobux.com

Neobux is an innovative PTC (paid to click) site. Neobux is the innovation in PTC that you can actually make some money. You get paid by clicking on advertiser’s Ads, typically $0.01 per click. It doesn’t sound like a lot, but if you employ a good strategy, particularly with the magic of “Rent Referral”, you will be in an auto pilot state collecting money 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. You can easily make up to $9,000 per year extra money with Neobux.

And because rent-a-ref is such a unique and important feature, most of Neobux strategies are essentially related to how you deal with referrals renting.

Neobux-for Standard Member

If you are good at convincing people to join Neobux under your name, you can enjoy some extra nice earning in Neobux as a standard member.
Otherwise, it is very hard for standard member to make real meaningful money. “How about renting referrals?” you may ask. Sorry to tell you, it is not profitable to rent referrals as a standard member. You have to keep your AVG (average clicks per day per ref.) above 2.0 to make a profit. Otherwise, you could probably even lose money. Why? The reason is simple, you only get 50% earning from your referrals.

For the purpose of discussion, let us assume you paid $30 for 100 referrals, so each referral coasts you $3 per month. The referral has to click 60 ads (2 clicks per day) just for you to break even.

Your Earning=2*30*$0.01*50%=$3
Your Profit=$3-$3=$0

Is it possible to rent hard working referrals to keep AVG above 2, 3, or 4? Yes, it is possible, only if you are very lucky and rent only a few referrals. If you try to rent more than 50 referrals, then statistics rules, that is, an AVG of 1.5 to 2.0.
My recommendation is, don’t even try to rent a large number of referrals if you are a standard member. However, this is the tricky part; you probably need to rent a certain number of referrals (200-300) before you upgrade to Gold membership soon because it is easier to rent as a standard member than a Gold member.

Neobux-for Gold Member

Gold member, on the other hand, requires lower averge number of clicks (AVG) from referrals to break even. So if the AVG is above 1.0, you are basically in profit already. Lot of people may have written about Neobox on internet. Some showed their payment proof, some showed the basics of Neobox, and very few explained the details how they made money with Neobox, particulaily using the referral renting feature. What I am going to show you is the step by step implementation of a good and scientific sound Neobux Strategy. The banner above shows my current earning, it is not a whole lot now, but it matches closely to the earning schedule below, and I encourage you check back frequently to see how it goes.

Step by Step-Neobux

Week 1 - Rent 100 referrals, you will need to have a Paypal account to pay. Neobux charges $25/month($6.25/week) for 100 rented referrals. Although you can start FREE to accumulate your earning to rent referrals, putting a small amount of money will accelerate the process a lot, and your earning will be much more than your investment pretty soon. Statistically, the number of clicks for a referral is 1.5 per day, so
Week 1 Earning =100*1.5*7*$0.01 (ref clicks) + 4*7*0.01 (self clicks)=$10.8
Cost = $25 (rent 100 referrals)

Week 2 - Rent another 100 Referrals, so
Week 2 Earning = 200*1.5*7*$0.01 (ref clicks) + 4*7*0.01 (self clicks) = $21.3
Cost = $25 (rent 100 referrals) + $11.3 (referral renewal) + 1.6 (recycling) = $37.9

Notes:
(1). You can only register as Standard Membership for the first couple of weeks, and the earning is $0.005/click for referrals (We simplied the calculatin here using $0.01 for the first two weeks).
(2). Neobux has a "Autopay" feature for rent referral renewal with 10% discount and assume 25% of the referrals will be renewed. i.e., so weekly renewal cost = 200*25%($25/100)*0.9=$11.3
(3) Assume 10% recycling rate, i.e., 10% of referrals will be recycled each week, the recyling cost = 200*10%*0.08= $1.6

Week 3 - Rent another 100 Referrals, and upgrade to Golden Membership for $90 per year. This is highly recommended because you will earn $0.01 per click for your referrals to double your earning. So,
Week 3 Earning = 300*1.5*7*$0.01 (ref clicks) + 10*7*0.01 (self clicks) = $32.2
Cost = $25 (rent new 100 referrals) + $16.9 (rent renewal) +$2.4 (recycling) +$90 (membership)=$134.3

In the following weeks, you repeat the same thing adding 100 referrals every week. You can reinvest the earning to rent referrals. Of course, you need to spend 10-20 minutes a day to click a few Ads, otherwise the earnings from referrals will not be credited to your account. A piece of cake. You can refer to the table and figure above for the earning and cost for each weeks. Please also note that you will need around $150 initial investment to get started to accelerate the earning.

Week 20 - By now, you should have reached the 2000 referrals limit by reinvesting what you have earned to rent more referrals every week.

Week 20 Earning = 2000*1.5*7*0.01 (Refs clicks) + 10*7*0.01 (Self Clicks) =$210.7
Cost = $25 (rent new 100 referrals) + $112.5 (rent renewal) +$16 (recycling)=$153.5
Profit = $210.7 - $153.5 = $57.2

From this point on, the earning and cost will be stablized, because you have reached the 2000 rented referrals limit. Since you can't buy new referrals any more, your cost will be only for referral renewal and recyclcing, which is $112.5 (rent renewal) +$16 (recycling)= $128.5. Your earning will still be $210.7 per week (same as week 20). Therefore, your weekly profit becomes $210.7 - $128.5 = $82.2 per week, or $356 per month! That doesn't sound too bad, right?



Neobux-for Ultimate Member

It gets harder and harder these days to rent referrals because more and more people are fighting for referrals. You will also need to use the Neobux Strategy - How to Rent Referrals if you want to maintain as a gold member. The referrals can be easily rented out even one minute after the clock because so many people out there are trying to rent the referrals. You snooze, you lose.

As an alternative, I paid another $890 to upgrade to Ultimate Pack because I have a full-time job and I want to spend less time on this. However, the money spent should pay off fairly quickly. It guaranttees that the rented referrals are delivered to you on time and on a accelerated rate, which is 200 rent referrals every 4 days, or approximately 300 referrals per week! Once you reach the maximum 4,000 rented referrals for Ultimate Pack, you can earn as much as $177 per week profit, or $9,200 a year! See Table 2 and Figure 2 below. I will explain the cost and earning for week 20 as an example.


Week 20 Earning = 4,000*1.5*7*$0.01 (ref clicks) + 15*7*0.02 (self clicks) = $422.1
Week 20 Cost = 4,000*25%*$0.25*90% (referral renewal) + 4,000*10%*$0.05 = $245
Profit = $ 422.1 - $ 245 = $177.1 per week, or $767 per month


Again, the assumptions are:

a. 1.5 average clicks per referral per day (AVG)
b. 25% referrals are renewed every week, or all 4,000 are renewed every month.
c. 10% referrals are recycled every week, or 40% of all referrals are recycled every month.
d. Autopay is turned on to get 10% discount on referral renewal.


If you want to want to try different assumptions, plug your numbers into the number equations above to get an idea. It is impossible for me to present all the scenarios in this article here.

In summary, the Neobux strategy for Ultimate Members is not a whole lot different than that for gold members. It wins because it has larger number of referrals which are basically your working force. No selling here, I have to mention that Neobux provides a lot of nice features for ultimate memebers to reduce the cost for account maitainence, such as 7 days for free recycling, discounted rate for recycling, discounted rate for referral renting, 30 days of vacation mode etc. You got what you paid for, right?
WWW.Neobux.com