Social Networking For Money
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Gather.com is a free site where you earn points for posting comments, posting pictures, making groups, and inviting friends. It's just like any other social networking site except it pays you money. Currently each point is worth .02 cents. The amount of points you receive for each activity depends on the popularity of your posts. Right now they have a promotion where you can get a $20 gift card just for getting 5 friends to sign up.
Your points are redeemable for gift cards unless you get over $50. If you get over $50 you can redeem them for cash via paypal.
A writer on Associated Content wrote an article saying that after creating an avatar, making a group, and posting three articles she had already written she had over 200 points when she checked her account the following day. It took her about an hour to do, and the points keep accumulating as long as her group and articles receive traffic.
Gather is also surprisingly easy to use. The layout looks clean, it's easy to navigate, and it loads fast. Earning points definitely doesn't feel like hard work on the site.
Crystal, why no email contact via your site. Or is it there and just hard to find.
I am the blog coordinator for RecruitingBloggers.com
It's a group site for recruiters who blog but I have included Richard Becker, a communication specialist who writes about blogging but not recruiting.
He sent me a link to your site and
I like what I see. The explanations are simple and easy to read. And the topics are intriguing.
If you'd like to talk to me about cross posting to RB contact me at recruitinganimal @ gmail.com
I'm not sure it's a match (you and RB) but it might be worth talking about. I can simply subscribe to your feed on the site but it might be nice to actually have you on board.
And since you are only 21 but already have a career plan in mind you might like to write about that as well.
Regards,
The Recruiting Animal
Hi Crystal!
Is your gather.com link the one to add your friends? It didn't really look like it. I wanted to use your link since you are the source for the information (and so you get credit for the gift card!)
Pam Hoffman
http://seminarlist.blogspot.com
Interesting idea...I'm not quite sure the overall business model will work, but I hope they prove me wrong.
Pam, thanks for asking to use my refferal link. I had a link up but I decided to remove it. I'm enthusiastic about the site in my post and I was afraid it might look like i'm just trying to get sign ups for the gift card lol. I have seen a lot of sites that do that, especially ones that write about making money online. Here it is if you want to use it:
http://www.gather.com/inviteLanding.jsp?parentMemberId=406313&tc=13
Recruiting animal, I like your blog and I will e-mail you soon for more information. I appreciate you contacting me about this. Thanks for stopping by :)
Crystal,
have you checked out Yuwie yet. It a social networking site that pays its a lot like myspace. You get paid per 1000 page views and of course referrals are the name of the game. here is my refferal link if your interested.
http://www.yuwie.com/yuwie.asp?r=14298
I'm having a lot of fun with it, but I can't get any refferals
Thanks,Dondo