Last week I was looking through some ads on http://www.kijiji.com/. The ad was for PT Readers Needed! Looking at the ad this seamed fairly simple and I could easily do it in my spare time, which was great and even more appealing, There was no cost to start up and a $1o bonus just for starting. Bonus!
The company is http://www.hits4pay.com/, and they have lived up to all their promises and I've given this work at home business a honest go. I was told that the best way to make money from this site was to get other people to join and the more emails they read the more I get paid for what they read as well as what I read, a novel idea.
When I decided take on this project I decided I would put a valiant effort towards any opportunity I took on and this was no exception. I did everything from reading my daily emails to placing ads and recruited new people. In a little over a week I've gotten 8 Direct Referrals and I've coached my referrals to get referrals of their own and I now have 12 2nd Generation Referrals beneath me. I'm actually quit impressed with my effort.
Now for the reason I'm quiting. It comes down to Math, which I was never really any good at in school, but I did learn enough to know I'm waisting my time. So lets do a breakdown.
How I get paid:
If read an ad I get $0.02 X 4 ads = $0.08
My Referral reads an ad I get $0.01 X 4 ads X 8 referrals = $0.32
My 2nd Gen Referral reads an ad I get $0.01 X 4 ads X 12 referrals = 0.48
All this gives me a grand total of $0.88 a day. I can't support a World Vision child for that let alone support my family, and this is also based on the idea that every referral will actually read the emails, from my current numbers I have 2 Direct Referrals actually reading emails and the same 2 are generating referrals of their own so 25% of my referrals actually work.
It's time for some fantasy math based on this math:
If I continued working at this for the next year at a rate of 6 referrals a week I'll have 312 Direct Referrals and 520 2nd Generation Referrals and if only 25% of them will actually do anything that means I'll make money off of 208 X 4 ads per day X 0.01 = $2.08 per day X 30 days a month = $62.40 per month for something that costs me about 1hr a day and essentially $2.08/per hour after a year of work. Not exactly the best value for my time.
Overall Rating for this Online Opportunity: 3/10
The only reason I even give it a 3/10 is because it's not a complete scam and you can actually make money off of it, but it is definitely a complete waist of time and resources.
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