How do AutoSurf Companies Make Money?
Every autosurf company makes their money differently. What is often frustrating is that it is sometimes very difficult to identify the company’s methods. A company may give you a basic indication of where their income comes from but this is not always so clear.
I’m going to list as many ways I know about regarding how autosurf companies make money. Some of these ideas may be a little ludicrous and some may no longer work but I’ve made the list as comprehensive as possible.
I’m going to list these in ascending order of credibility so please don’t be alarmed or discouraged as you begin reading, after we have passed the less credible methods you will be able to appreciate how the good sites do make an income. Remember that Autosurf owners might make money from a combination of these ideas.
1. They steal your money. It’s a sad fact of life that there are some bastards out there who pay a few hundred dollars for a pre-designed autosurf website and do everything they can to get people to pay money into it. They may even pay their promised % in the first few months to attract even more investors. As soon as the autosurf owner gets enough of the money, he closes the site down and vanishes. I will show you how to prevent this happening to you later on.
2. They don’t make money! Instead they offer large affiliate commissions and create a great looking and popular website. They rely on always receiving more and more members to their site to fund the payments of the older members. This is known as a Ponzi system and it is a scam. Eventually there won’t be any new members and the site will collapse!
Don’t assume that the autosurf company deliberately intended to create a Ponzi system. They may have just been naive with their estimated earnings from other sources. As their site gets bigger they may panic and offer too-good-to-be-true promotions to attract more members quickly. In the short term though sites like this can survive and they can certainly pay the first members who signed up.
3. Selling advertising hits. This method is not really very credible but a few years ago you may have seen adverts, emails or auctions which offered webmasters the opportunity to receive 1,000,000 unique visitors to their website every month. An autosurf company could collect the payments from webmasters and make certain that every autosurfer viewed that person site during the month. The webmaster received his 1,000,000 visitors but chances are those visitors aren’t even in front of their PC when the webmasters site is shown. Very few webmasters pay money for site visitors these days, and even if they do, the price is a fraction of what it was a few years ago.
4. Selling Paid-to-Click Advertising. If you ever do a search on google.com you will see the top and sides of the results littered with small advertisements. If you choose to click on them then the advertiser pays google money. Autosurf owners can do the same. It is likely that most autosurfers are a great target market for finance companies, get-rich-quick systems, multi-level-marketing, online banking services etc. These type of companies may happily place small adverts within an autosurf site and may pay a few cents to the autosurf company for every surfer who clicks on it. This type of advertising costs the autosurf company nothing.
5. Investing in Other Autosurf Programs. I spoke recently to an autosurf webmaster who told me that this year he has made a fortune by investing his members funds into a site offering 4% returns a day. His autosurf offered only 1% a day and therefore he was taking his members money and making 3% profit on it every day for over 7 months! In some ways this is reassuring to know that the autosurf owner has made a great profit which he can retain in order to keep his 1% payouts stable yet it is also worrying because if this 4% site suddenly had a problem then maybe the autosurf owner would lose his members money.
6. Relying on Lazy Surfers. When I began to autosurf I spread $1000 between 10 programs. Most of these programs were therefore making me only $1 a day – hardly enough to get excited about. I’m determined to at least get my money back from these companies so I’m going to be surfing for the 100 days its going to take but I’m pretty sure there’s a lot of people out there who get bored. If you are likely to get bored before you surf enough days to recoup your investment then don’t autosurf. All the days you are not surfing your autosurf company can be investing your money elsewhere for their own gain. Also remember that some people will not be surfing daily if they go on holidays etc.
7. Investing in other Investment Programs. I know of a few autosurf companies who use their members money to invest elsewhere. Maybe the autosurf owner invests in forex trading which (if done professionally) can make very high returns. Others may invest in the stockmarket, on currency exchanges. You might find that a few conservative autosurf companies will put some funds into the bank or into a similarly safe investment to keep their company stable. Some of these investment opportunities are only available to people with a lot of money, so an autosurf can use its members money to enter the market.
8. Links with autosurf information sites. Just as I am writing this article for you there are other webmasters who have websites dedicated to monitoring autosurf companies. Often they make recommendations as to which companies are worth investing in, which ones are problematic and which ones should be avoided. Over a few months or years these webmasters develop a degree of trust in the autosurfing community. Their website links to many autosurfs and the webmaster received a commission on every payment the subsequent new member makes. Commissions can range between 3% and 12% and the webmaster can make considerable money every month by suggesting people signup with the autosurf companies they are registered as an agent for.
If this webmaster also begins his own autosurf company then he is nearly assured that the visitors to his autosurf information site will respect him and will join his autosurf business too. Not only that but members of his autosurf site will make extra sure that any time they invest in new autosurf programs they will do it through the autosurf info site to ensure that the webmaster makes his commissions and therefore that his autosurf site will remain profitable.
9. Links with other Online Businesses. The paid autosurf industry was foundered on this business model and three years on the fonding autosurf company is still paying its members in full on time every month. Remember that any member of an autosurf business wants it to do well. As long as it does well then the member gets paid. It is quite logical therefore for an autosurf company to have a number of other online businesses which can be shown to their members. Some of the most successful autosurf sites have online travel agents, web design companies, payment processors, online auctions, online casinos and online shops connected to them. If they run these sites competitively then they have a ready market willing to support them.
If you aren’t sure how this would work, imagine if you were a major shareholder in a car company. I bet that you would really want to recommend that car to your friends, and if you should need a car in the future, wouldn’t you prioritize one from the company you have the shares in?
So what can we conclude from this? I hope that these examples above can help you to appreciate the following important facts.
• Some Autosurf companies are scams! You will lose money with them.
• Some Autosurf companies can make payouts for a few months and then be forced to close down. You may profit from them, you may get your money back or you may lose your investment if you are too late.
• Some autosurf companies can have credible incomes and may well run indefinitely making money for the owners and the site members.
If you can keep these three important points in your head then you are doing better than most people when investing in this industry.
I’m going to list as many ways I know about regarding how autosurf companies make money. Some of these ideas may be a little ludicrous and some may no longer work but I’ve made the list as comprehensive as possible.
I’m going to list these in ascending order of credibility so please don’t be alarmed or discouraged as you begin reading, after we have passed the less credible methods you will be able to appreciate how the good sites do make an income. Remember that Autosurf owners might make money from a combination of these ideas.
1. They steal your money. It’s a sad fact of life that there are some bastards out there who pay a few hundred dollars for a pre-designed autosurf website and do everything they can to get people to pay money into it. They may even pay their promised % in the first few months to attract even more investors. As soon as the autosurf owner gets enough of the money, he closes the site down and vanishes. I will show you how to prevent this happening to you later on.
2. They don’t make money! Instead they offer large affiliate commissions and create a great looking and popular website. They rely on always receiving more and more members to their site to fund the payments of the older members. This is known as a Ponzi system and it is a scam. Eventually there won’t be any new members and the site will collapse!
Don’t assume that the autosurf company deliberately intended to create a Ponzi system. They may have just been naive with their estimated earnings from other sources. As their site gets bigger they may panic and offer too-good-to-be-true promotions to attract more members quickly. In the short term though sites like this can survive and they can certainly pay the first members who signed up.
3. Selling advertising hits. This method is not really very credible but a few years ago you may have seen adverts, emails or auctions which offered webmasters the opportunity to receive 1,000,000 unique visitors to their website every month. An autosurf company could collect the payments from webmasters and make certain that every autosurfer viewed that person site during the month. The webmaster received his 1,000,000 visitors but chances are those visitors aren’t even in front of their PC when the webmasters site is shown. Very few webmasters pay money for site visitors these days, and even if they do, the price is a fraction of what it was a few years ago.
4. Selling Paid-to-Click Advertising. If you ever do a search on google.com you will see the top and sides of the results littered with small advertisements. If you choose to click on them then the advertiser pays google money. Autosurf owners can do the same. It is likely that most autosurfers are a great target market for finance companies, get-rich-quick systems, multi-level-marketing, online banking services etc. These type of companies may happily place small adverts within an autosurf site and may pay a few cents to the autosurf company for every surfer who clicks on it. This type of advertising costs the autosurf company nothing.
5. Investing in Other Autosurf Programs. I spoke recently to an autosurf webmaster who told me that this year he has made a fortune by investing his members funds into a site offering 4% returns a day. His autosurf offered only 1% a day and therefore he was taking his members money and making 3% profit on it every day for over 7 months! In some ways this is reassuring to know that the autosurf owner has made a great profit which he can retain in order to keep his 1% payouts stable yet it is also worrying because if this 4% site suddenly had a problem then maybe the autosurf owner would lose his members money.
6. Relying on Lazy Surfers. When I began to autosurf I spread $1000 between 10 programs. Most of these programs were therefore making me only $1 a day – hardly enough to get excited about. I’m determined to at least get my money back from these companies so I’m going to be surfing for the 100 days its going to take but I’m pretty sure there’s a lot of people out there who get bored. If you are likely to get bored before you surf enough days to recoup your investment then don’t autosurf. All the days you are not surfing your autosurf company can be investing your money elsewhere for their own gain. Also remember that some people will not be surfing daily if they go on holidays etc.
7. Investing in other Investment Programs. I know of a few autosurf companies who use their members money to invest elsewhere. Maybe the autosurf owner invests in forex trading which (if done professionally) can make very high returns. Others may invest in the stockmarket, on currency exchanges. You might find that a few conservative autosurf companies will put some funds into the bank or into a similarly safe investment to keep their company stable. Some of these investment opportunities are only available to people with a lot of money, so an autosurf can use its members money to enter the market.
8. Links with autosurf information sites. Just as I am writing this article for you there are other webmasters who have websites dedicated to monitoring autosurf companies. Often they make recommendations as to which companies are worth investing in, which ones are problematic and which ones should be avoided. Over a few months or years these webmasters develop a degree of trust in the autosurfing community. Their website links to many autosurfs and the webmaster received a commission on every payment the subsequent new member makes. Commissions can range between 3% and 12% and the webmaster can make considerable money every month by suggesting people signup with the autosurf companies they are registered as an agent for.
If this webmaster also begins his own autosurf company then he is nearly assured that the visitors to his autosurf information site will respect him and will join his autosurf business too. Not only that but members of his autosurf site will make extra sure that any time they invest in new autosurf programs they will do it through the autosurf info site to ensure that the webmaster makes his commissions and therefore that his autosurf site will remain profitable.
9. Links with other Online Businesses. The paid autosurf industry was foundered on this business model and three years on the fonding autosurf company is still paying its members in full on time every month. Remember that any member of an autosurf business wants it to do well. As long as it does well then the member gets paid. It is quite logical therefore for an autosurf company to have a number of other online businesses which can be shown to their members. Some of the most successful autosurf sites have online travel agents, web design companies, payment processors, online auctions, online casinos and online shops connected to them. If they run these sites competitively then they have a ready market willing to support them.
If you aren’t sure how this would work, imagine if you were a major shareholder in a car company. I bet that you would really want to recommend that car to your friends, and if you should need a car in the future, wouldn’t you prioritize one from the company you have the shares in?
So what can we conclude from this? I hope that these examples above can help you to appreciate the following important facts.
• Some Autosurf companies are scams! You will lose money with them.
• Some Autosurf companies can make payouts for a few months and then be forced to close down. You may profit from them, you may get your money back or you may lose your investment if you are too late.
• Some autosurf companies can have credible incomes and may well run indefinitely making money for the owners and the site members.
If you can keep these three important points in your head then you are doing better than most people when investing in this industry.
posted by vincent at 7:43 AM
