The Marketing Pond
In my post last week you may remember I mentioned a website called The Marketing Pond. This had been recommended to me by my colleague Sandy Mather as a good (and free) resource for anyone seeking to make a sideline income on the Internet.
Well, I duly joined The Marketing Pond and have been impressed by what I found. Essentially, the site lists several dozen websites under four main headings: Free Opportunity (the AGLOCO viewbar), Free Advertising, Easy Money and Click to Earn Programs. You can see the full list by clicking here.
These opportunities are the ones currently recommended by The Marketing Pond, and you can sign up with any of them via the links on the site. However, joining The Marketing Pond offers many other benefits as well.
To start with, you get access to a forum, where members discuss their experiences with the programs listed and reveal their methods for getting the most out of them. Members also get access to free resources, reports and products from the members' area. And you get regular emails from the site's founder, Valerie Underhill, with updates on all the opportunities.
One other big attraction, however, is that as soon as you join, you are given your own unique referral URL for The Marketing Pond. If anyone visits The Marketing Pond via your link and joins any of the programs listed, you will automatically be credited as the referrer. As many of the programs pay commission for referrals, sometimes down through several levels, this means you have the potential to earn ever-growing sums of money just by referring people to The Marketing Pond via your personal link.
I should say at once that you're unlikely to make a fortune via The Marketing Pond, but if you spend an hour or so a day on it, Valerie reckons that earning $500 to $1,000 a month should be perfectly attainable - potentially much more if some of the people you recruit to the multi-level programs recruit large numbers of new members themselves.
If you decide to give The Marketing Pond a try, I recommend signing up with all the opportunities, even if you don't have the time or the inclination to pursue every one individually. The thing is, once you've joined a program and entered your membership details on the Marketing Pond site, if anyone else comes via your link and joins one of the other programs, you will be credited as their referrer and get commission on any fees they generate. But if you haven't joined that program, any commission generated will presumably just go to The Marketing Pond instead.
If you only have time to join one or two of the sites listed, I'd recommend at least signing up with AGLOCO, even though the release of the viewbar software has been delayed. Click here to see my original post about AGLOCO. Another opportunity I like the look of is Clix Sense, a very professional looking site that pays you for reading adverts.
My colleague Sandy Mather, who has been a member of The Marketing Pond longer than I have, recommends myLot and Link Referral as two programs particularly suited to writers. I especially like myLot, as on this site you can get paid for joining in online discussions or starting your own. See the myLot website for more details.
Anyway, if you decide to try The Marketing Pond, I wish you every success with it. It's all free, so you can't really go that far wrong. There's also lots of useful advice and information available via the links in the left-hand menu. In particular, you should read 'Start Here', 'Ponder' and 'Newbie', the last of which explains all the programs listed in more detail.
Happy clicking!
Well, I duly joined The Marketing Pond and have been impressed by what I found. Essentially, the site lists several dozen websites under four main headings: Free Opportunity (the AGLOCO viewbar), Free Advertising, Easy Money and Click to Earn Programs. You can see the full list by clicking here.
These opportunities are the ones currently recommended by The Marketing Pond, and you can sign up with any of them via the links on the site. However, joining The Marketing Pond offers many other benefits as well.
To start with, you get access to a forum, where members discuss their experiences with the programs listed and reveal their methods for getting the most out of them. Members also get access to free resources, reports and products from the members' area. And you get regular emails from the site's founder, Valerie Underhill, with updates on all the opportunities.
One other big attraction, however, is that as soon as you join, you are given your own unique referral URL for The Marketing Pond. If anyone visits The Marketing Pond via your link and joins any of the programs listed, you will automatically be credited as the referrer. As many of the programs pay commission for referrals, sometimes down through several levels, this means you have the potential to earn ever-growing sums of money just by referring people to The Marketing Pond via your personal link.
I should say at once that you're unlikely to make a fortune via The Marketing Pond, but if you spend an hour or so a day on it, Valerie reckons that earning $500 to $1,000 a month should be perfectly attainable - potentially much more if some of the people you recruit to the multi-level programs recruit large numbers of new members themselves.
If you decide to give The Marketing Pond a try, I recommend signing up with all the opportunities, even if you don't have the time or the inclination to pursue every one individually. The thing is, once you've joined a program and entered your membership details on the Marketing Pond site, if anyone else comes via your link and joins one of the other programs, you will be credited as their referrer and get commission on any fees they generate. But if you haven't joined that program, any commission generated will presumably just go to The Marketing Pond instead.
If you only have time to join one or two of the sites listed, I'd recommend at least signing up with AGLOCO, even though the release of the viewbar software has been delayed. Click here to see my original post about AGLOCO. Another opportunity I like the look of is Clix Sense, a very professional looking site that pays you for reading adverts.
My colleague Sandy Mather, who has been a member of The Marketing Pond longer than I have, recommends myLot and Link Referral as two programs particularly suited to writers. I especially like myLot, as on this site you can get paid for joining in online discussions or starting your own. See the myLot website for more details.
Anyway, if you decide to try The Marketing Pond, I wish you every success with it. It's all free, so you can't really go that far wrong. There's also lots of useful advice and information available via the links in the left-hand menu. In particular, you should read 'Start Here', 'Ponder' and 'Newbie', the last of which explains all the programs listed in more detail.
Happy clicking!
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Nick at 9:45 AM 
1 Comments:
Nick, thanks for the tips and for all the useful info you come up with.
I was experimenting with both gather.com and mylot.com.
My current impression is that the tone of discussions on gather.com is better, though it would take some familiarity with the site to find the best reading. If you are planning to earn money by commenting and having people comment on your pieces, it's nice when the content is interesting.
Unfortunately I found mylot.com to be a chore to read. Many of the discussions seem to be mis-categorized (e.g. Grey's Anatomy TV Show is in the Travel section).
As far as making money goes, I don't know that either is worth spending a lot of time on, IF there is another way you can spend your time and get paid for it.
I hope that both these sites will mature so that good content gets paid more than the average.
I enjoyed the gather.com experience more, so far.
I'm writing this in August 2007. I fully expect things will change over the next few months and perhaps my opinion of both sites will be very different by then.
Cheers.
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