For a few years now I have clicked on ads at PTC (paid to click) sites every single day. Most of these sites pay .01 or .005 (yes, that is 1/2 cent!) if you click on the ad link and let a timer run down. A mentor showed me this method as a way to raise money to advertise or upgrade in programs without spending money out of my pocket. It takes LOTS of patience to earn money here unless you can generate referrals and keep them active. At two of these sites you must earn $30 before they will pay you and I may only earn 1 check a year from these two. I have a handfull of referrals at each of these sites, but typically they give up after a few days of clicking for pennies and go sign up for some program that guarantees them instant wealth.
Sometmes I am embarassed to tell people that I actually click for pennies which is why I don't get a lot of referrals for these programs. However, if I get someone on my list who really wants to join a program and doesn't have the money, I always suggest that they go the PTC route. It truly seperates the men from the boys. (or the women from the girls!) Some might say the sane, from the insane. Anyway, it lets me know right away how much someone really wants a successful online business. It only takes me about 10 minutes a day to do all my clicks at about eight different sites. If someone clicks for a few days and then stops because they feel it is not worth their time, then they don't want to be successful as bad as I did. I am looking for people who will do whatever it takes to succeed online. If you are not willing to click then you better be willing to fund the business out of your checkbook. Even if you decide to pony up for the easy way out, you still probably won't succeed if you don't have the ability to see the value of a penny and the time spent to make it. Sounds silly, but it is almost like a Karate Kid, type of test.
If you are familiar with the older version of the movie, Daniel is made to do all sorts of menial, repetitive duties that he feels have nothing to do with learning karate from his mentor, Mr, Miyagi. (For those of you who like the new version, Dre is totally irriated with Mr. Hon's insistence that he take his jacket off and hang it up on a hook over and over again,)
In reality, sometimes it is the little things that need to be perfected to be able to succeed in the bigger picture. If you are patient enough to click for pennies and fractions of pennies every day and then use that money to fund your business, no matter how long it takes or no matter how small the checks may seem, then you certainly have the "stick-with-it-ness" to succeed in an online business. Although I now make money through other programs and could stop clicking for pennies, I still see the value in spending minutes a day clicking and getting paid for it.
In short, penny clicking has been my "wax on, wax off" training. it taught me that I have to get up every day and follow my online business routine whether I am accountable to anyone else or not. Whether it seems to be getting me anywhere or not. It is the discipline to do it even when I don't feel like it or see the benefit that sets me apart from others that will fail trying to earn online. I just wanted it bad enough to do things that others would refuse to do.
Today, some of this mindless clicking all made sense. I had a Daniel LaRusso moment! I was doing my daily clicking and saw that I had accumulated $2.18 in my Clicksense account. Too small an amount to do me much good and still a long way from the required $10 cash out. I wondered if I could turn that amount into ads for one of my businesses. I checked and found out that I could purchase 180 clicks. I set up an ad for a program that I had been promoting in traffic exchanges and safelists with minimal success. I placed the ad, then refreshed the page. Immediately 30 clicks were gone. In seconds 30 people had seen my ad. I refreshed again and again. To my surprise, all 180 cicks were gone within less than a minutes. I checked the hit counter on my ad and saw that indeed the number of hits received had increased by about 180. I figured that I had just wasted $2.17 of click effort, but I also noticed some new clicks on my confirmation pages. I checked my Traffic Wave account and I had 3 new subscribers within a three minute time period. Amazing! I am not going to go out on a limb and say that this would happen every time. Maybe my ad was new and different for the 180 Clicksense viewers, maybe it was luck, maybe it was just a fluke. Whatever happened, I got three more people added to mt list today because I click for pennies.
Some people might think that getting started online is more trouble than it is worth, but the tiny percentage of people who look at things differently are the ones who succeed and reap the rewards. "First learn stand...then learn fly...nature's rule..Daniel-san, not mine."- Mr. Miyagi, The Karate Kid.
