Thursday, April 29, 2010

Ribena – Greatest Love Story Contest

TITLE: [PURCHASE+WRITE+ONLINE] Ribena – Greatest Love Story Contest
PRIZE:
• WEEKLY DRAW PRIZES FOR EACH OF THE 6 WEEKS:
1 x Nintendo Wii 1 x iPod nano (8GB)
2 x Topshop Vouchers worth RM120
1 x Parkson Grand Shopping Voucher worth RM240

• ROMANTIC TRIP FOR 2 WORTH OVER SGD1000:
3D2N holiday for 2 at The Pangkor Laut Beach Resort
Romance package includes:
- Return economy air ticket
- Return land or scheduled ferry transfer
- 2 night’s accommodation in a Garden Villa
- Daily breakfast at Feast Village, 3-course lunch at Royal Bay Beach Club or Chapman’s Bar and set dinner at Uncle Lim’s Kitchen or 3-course dinner at Feast Village inclusive of beverages

DEADLINE: 18 Apr 2010
WEBSITE/URL: http://www.ribena.com

DESCRIPTION:
Its your love story… with Romanticons!
Be it a fairy tale or a true story, write us an original or untold love story not in words but with your Ribena Romanticons! Let Berry and Lemon help you tell your love story and you could win a romantic island escapade for 2 worth more than RM1,000! You can even increase your chances of winning by sending as many stories as you want!

HOW TO ENTER:
You can get your Ribena Codes when you purchase either a 330ml Pouch Pack or 500ml PET Bottle that comes with a sticker bearing the Ribena Romanticons logo.
.01 Register online and validate your account.
.02 Key in your Ribena Codes. You can key in your codes at the ‘Collect, Match & Win’ weekly contest page.
.03 With your first code, you will immediately unlock a set of 15 Romanticons in your library.
.04 If you need more Romanticons to create your story, simply buy more Ribena to get more codes. Every subsequent code will unlock 5 Romanticons in your library.
.05 Start your love story by creating a title and compose your story with a minimum of 5 Romanticons. You can use up to 20 Romanticons for your story writing.
.06 Simply drag and drop the Romanticons in the spaces given to compose your story. Complete your story writing with a summary of 350 characters or less. Hit the submit button when you are happy with your story entry.
.07 You can submit entries from the beginning of the contest period right up to the end. However, the number of entries you can submit depends on the total number of Ribena Codes you’ve entered throughout the entire contest period.
.08 For example, if you’ve entered a total of 10 Ribena Codes to participate in the ‘Collect, Match & Win’ contest over all 6 weeks, you are entitled to submit 10 entries for the “Greatest Love Story Never Told” Contest. The more Ribena Codes you enter, the more entries you can submit for this contest!
.09 Judging will be based on the most creative use of Romanticons in your own version of the love story between Berry and Lemon.
Have fun writing your story today!

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Sunday, April 25, 2010

Review of AzoogleAds

While founded in 2000, AzoogleAds has recently exploded in both popularity and size in the performance marketing world to become one of the leading affiliate networks. Their commitment to a close and personable interaction with their publishers, high-paying leads, and fast payouts has secured their place amongst the cream of the crop of affiliate networks.
Features

One of many perks that AzoogleAds offers publishers is the ability of being automatically eligible for any campaign. Many ad networks require publishers to apply to each campaign individually, and it can take anywhere from a few days to even months before being accepted. With AzoogleAds, Publishers can start earning immediately from any campaign without having to wait or apply for anything.

Another, and perhaps AzoogleAds’s biggest, feature is their complete dedication and commitment to customer support (See the Customer Support section below for more information).

AzoogleAds also offers an optional toolbar to publishers. Their toolbar automatically keeps publishers logged-in and displays real-time report data including daily clicks, leads, payout, and even eCPC. The toolbar is a great option for publishers who regularly need or want to check their stats. It is available for both Internet Explorer and Firefox. Note: Some publishers have found the toolbar to be a bit buggy, occasionally crashing Internet Explorer.

While AzoogleAds has a decent amount of offers available in a wide variety of niches, and while they’ve definitely been successful on growing this number, they could still use more in order to compete better with the likes of Commission Junction. For example, their finance category lacks the larger, better-paying companies. That being said, AzoogleAds still offers one of the highest-payouts and carries a decent amount of offers available.
Control Panel

In late 2006, AzoogleAds completely revamped their control panel software to “AzoogleAds 2.0”.

However, it does not differ greatly from other the affiliate networks. Publishers can search through offers by text, browse by categories, and use optional filters such as eligible countries and traffic types.
AzoogleAds Control Panel
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One basic but important feature that is missing is the ability to distinguish between leads and sales. Currently, the only way to tell the difference is if there is mention of it in the offer description, and more often than not there isn’t.

AzoogleAds also does not list impressions, but only clicks and leads. However, they do offer the ability to save reports for future use as well as export statistic data by CSV.

Overall, their control panel is pretty basic and standard, but could definitely be improved if the above caveats were addressed.
Rewards

AzoogleAds has a special rewards program to help both motivate and reward publishers. Currently Azoogle offers a $50 bonus if $5K is generated in a month, $100 for $10K, $250 for $25K, and $500 for $50K+.
Signing Up

Applying for AzoogleAds is no different from the majority of affiliate networks out there. Thus, a W9 or W8-BEN tax form needs to be filled out and signed before publishers can receive payments. However, it should be noted that AzoogleAds requires these to be mailed in; they do not accept scanned copies via e-mail nor fax.

This is a bit of a nuisance as it creates a bit of waiting time, and other networks such as Copeac allow their W9 or W8-BEN forms to be signed electronically which takes seconds. It would be nice to see AzoogleAds adapt this.

In any case, this is one-time thing and once sent in and approved, publishers are set to go. It's important to note that publishers can still start using AzoogleAds before their tax forms are received, but just can't receive payments until then.
Referral Program

AzoogleAds does have a referral program, however they recently changed their payout structure. As of February 1, 2008, payouts are no longer paid for the life of a referral, but instead for the first 6-months after the first penny is earned.

In addition, referrers must also maintain a minimum revenue level of $1,000 on a monthly basis in order to receive referral payouts for that month. This revenue must be from actual affiliate commissions and not from referral income, making it extremely difficult to actually make any money from referrals.

These recent changes to their referral program have essentially made their referral program useless and defunct.
Payment

AzoogleAds pays NET-15, which means every 15 days, and is faster than most networks which typically pay out monthly. Publishers can choose to be paid via check or ACH (direct deposit).
Customer Support

One of AzoogleAds's shining points is their commitment to providing fantastic customer support. Each publisher at AzoogleAds is provided with their own personal affiliate manager. Many other networks provide this option as well, however where AzoogleAds stands out is that these private affiliate managers really are there to help you and are very available.

Most affiliate managers are available all week from 9-5 Monday to Friday, and many are even available on the weekends as well from their homes! They allow you to contact them via e-mail, phone, or even instant messenger. Adding your affiliate manager to AIM can be extremely valuable as you can get any questions answered nearly instantly.

Affiliate managers aren't there just to answer basic questions, they are more like personal assistants. They will help publishers find the best possible campaigns for their needs and find offers not publicly available. In addition, depending on the volume the publisher has, affiliate managers are even able to increase payouts and payment times!

AzoogleAds's affiliate managers are truly there for publishers and is one of the reasons they've taken off so well.
Additional Information

AzoogleAds geotargets advertising campaigns when advertisers request traffic to be from a certain area. For example, anybody outside of the US who clicks on an ad which is geotargeted as US-only, will automatically be redirected to another ad. This untargeted ad is part of AzoogleAds, but is not niche-targeted will receive commission if a lead or sale is generated. However, the downside to this is that it can be frustrating for AzoogleAds publishers to view the landing pages if they are not of the country that is being geogargeted. For example, a Canadian publisher wishing to view an advertisers landing page to research data to market the ad for their website, will not be able to see the landing page since they will be redirected to a completely different ad.

AzoogleAds.comWhile fairly rare, on occasion some of AzoogleAds's campaigns won't link or redirect properly. The clicks will be counted but visitors clicking on the ad won't be sent to the proper site. This is usually the advertisers fault and not actually AzoogleAds. When such an occurrence is reported to AzoogleAds, they will notify everyone via their news section in the control panel, and will contact the advertiser at fault. They will then compensate publishers by taking the network conversion rate average and paying out according to number of clicks generated. For example, if publisher A generated 100 clicks and the campaign paid out $20 per lead, and the network average conversion rate for that campaign was 4%, then publisher A would receive $80.

These caveats are minor, however, and do not take much away from the network.
Summary

While AzoogleAds has a few kinks in it’s armor that could easily be ironed out, their commitment to a close and personable interaction with their publishers, high-paying leads, and fast payouts makes them one of leading affiliate networks out there.

Any publisher or affiliate marketer who doesn’t at least try AzoogleAds is making a grave mistake.

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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Xionbux.com Payment Proof |Xionbux.com is a Scam or Legit review

Site Stats
Per click: $0.01
Per referral click:$0.005-$0.01
No. of ads: 4-5
Direct referral limit: 50-100
Rent referral price:$0.22-0.28 ($0.08 to recycle)
Minimum Payout: $2
Payment preocessing time: 24 hrs

Site Details:
Site Owned by: AJL Group Ltd
Provider Name: DnMehal Domain Name Solutions
Record Creation Date: 21-Nov-2009
Domain Servers: ns2.xionbux.com : ns1.xionbux.com
IP: 66.96.223.91
P Location: Laguna Hills, United States

Positives:
1) Have forum and showing payment proofs. I have personally been paid many times.
2) Good number of direct referrals(50) for free members.
3) Good for earning from rented referrals too because of low rental.
4) Admin is very active in forum. A good sign for the site.
5) Makes payment only to verified paypal and alertpay.So, a good step towards limiting the fraud.

Negatives:
1) A new site. Care should be taken before investing.
2) Can't load less than $5 to rental balance even from your main balance. I guess this limitation should be removed soon. This has been reduced to $2. So, this site is getting better day by day.

Strategy: Try to get maximum direct referrals. Since, you can't transfer your main balance to rental balance until you reach $2, don't cashout before that. Transfer it to rental balance and purchase referrals. I have personally felt that the rented refs are very active here and are not bots for sure. You can go for upgrade which costs $79 (it was $49 in the beginning) because earning potential is very high and upgrade fee is relatively lower.
You need to check the ads only once in a day after server refresh..

Update:
* Site is moved to new server. Site was down for 2 days. (18.03.2010)
* Site is now running smoothly. Server and host issues seems to be resolved fully.(23.03.2010)
* Had interaction with admin and few of the bugs will be correcetd very soon. (24.03.2010)
* Received a payment of $16 withing 6 hours of requesting. (25.03.2010)

- Forum: They also have a forum and you can see active members posting about their Success Stories and moderators as well who are consistently moderating and answering user queries.

- Paying: The XionBux.com is really a paying site and you can see the payment proofs on their Forum and on other Social Networks as well!

- Positive Feedback: If you search the Internet you'll only see Proud Users showing their Payment Proofs and also promoting the XionBux.com. You won't find any kind of Critics about the XionBux.com

- Security: The XionBux.com has no SSL Encryption but they have enabled the CashPin option for ensuring better security to the members.

- Decent Amount of Referrals: The XionBux.com offers a very decent amount of referrals to their members. The Standard members can have 50 Direct Referrals.

Some other Important things about the XionBux.com

* The XionBux.com started out in 20th Nov 2009 and started fully functioning on 7th March 2010.
* Users not active more than 30 days, this will result in the Account Termination and the balance will also be set reset.
* The XionBux.com has restricted China and Romania from accessing their site and countries like Egypt,Taiwan and Hongkong will have to upgrade for getting their payments!

Ending Notes: The XionBux.com is a paying PTC and we recommend you joining the site but we suggest you "Checking before Investing!"

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Domain: xionbux.com visit site External Website
World Rank: #41,229
Estimate Value: $30,180 USD
Estimate Income Per Day: $41 USD
Estimate Visits Per Day 13,781 information
Hosting Country: United States
Website IP: 66.96.223.91
Alexa Rank: #41,811 visit alexa External Website
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Site Stats:
Earn up to $0.008 per click and $0.0025 for every referral click for standard membership and up to $0.02 per click and $0.01 for every referral click for upgraded membership.

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Site Stats:
Earn up to $0.008 per click and $0.0025 for every referral click for standard membership and up to $0.02 per click and $0.01 for every referral click for upgraded membership.

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Site Stats:
* Earn up to $0.02 per click.
* Earn up to $0.02 per referral click.
* Instant Payments and Receiving System.
* Detailed statistics of your referral clicks.
* Payments via AlertPay and PayPal.

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Site Stats:
* Earn up to $0.02 per click.
* Earn up to $0.02 per referral click.
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* Detailed statistics of your referral clicks.
* Payments via AlertPay and PayPal.

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Earn up to $0.02 per click and $0.01 for every referral click

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Site Stats:
Per click $ 0.01
Payout $ 1.00
Total Users 1075
Users Online 21
Total Paid $ 53.81
Total Hits 14317

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* Earn up to $0.02 per click
* Earn up to $0.02 per referral click
* Instant Payment and Receiving System
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* Payment via AlertPay and LibertyReserve

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* Earn up to $0.02 per click
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* Instant Payment and Receiving System
* Detailed statistics of your referral clicks
* Payment via AlertPay and LibertyReserve