Direct Referrals: 10 Easy ways to get them

Msol2017
Mar 2, 2017
10 min read

The hardest part when throwing yourself to a PTC businesses is getting people to engage and participate in it. How do we attract and bring people to take part? You're in luck because it takes only 10 simple steps.

In PTC’s and GPT’s, earning lots of money can be summarized in two words - direct referrals. You earn commission from activities done by people who signed up under you. For PTC business newbies, referrers, looking for people who would willingly invest their time on PTC is one tough hell of a job.

Here’s the truth. Direct referrals are obtainable given that you invest in it. Meaning, it won’t be easy getting them without throwing a few bucks. But, if you want to play parsimonious, you can consider the following ways to get people sign up under your referral link or bring traffic to your site.

1. Use inviting phrases

The problem when promoting your business online is that you don’t know which words to use to attract customers. “Hey, come join me in a ptc site, registration is free!” - which is wrong. Yeah, registration is free but what’s in it for me?

The words you use when you try to get people’s attention should trigger their curiosity. Those words should be compelling. Sometimes, exaggerating can be really effective. Check out the image below.

The magic marketing words used here is “How I made $400 in 2 days”. If you try to evaluate the word choice used, you realized that it’s a bit impossible in your part and you begin to conclude “HOW?” Somehow, there is a part of you that wants to know how it’s done because you too is interested to make $400 in 2 days. It got 7,994 views with 53 replies. Out of those 7,994 people who viewed the post, there would undoubtedly try the method. It’s very effective and never lose its charm when used to get direct referrals.

Here’s another one that garnered 33,297 views with 996 replies.

It says “Stable Extra Income. $3400 (mahigit P168,000 pesos) paid on”. The phrase itself conveys PROMISE and ASSURANCE. The idea is to make your business sound amazing, impossible and at the same time achievable. It’s another effective and compelling way to promote your business well.

You don’t want to say “I have earned $1M in a day with this method.” because that sounds ridiculous and desperate already. The reader would find your business suspicious and conclude that it might be a scam.

Note: You can include the value a person thinks he/she will receive as an income for participating in your business. It doesn’t have to be specific but rather imaginary. It should sound a bit exaggerating but achievable.

2. Become visible in social media

This is probably the riskiest method for introverts out there wanting to earn money online using PTC referral business without getting noticed. Basically, you need to promote your business on social media by posting and sharing.

Famous social media and social networking services like Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Google Plus, Tumblr, Instagram, etc. offer commodity when it comes to promoting your business.

In Facebook, you could try posting and sharing your business. Who knows, maybe one of your friends, relatives or acquaintances might be interested. You can also create a landing page, group, community. People are desperate for money. If you advertise the page you created which covers what your business is all about on Facebook, you could earn likes and it may be shared and spread. Or on Twitter, you could have it followed by people hunting for money online. Social media is a powerful tool. It will not cease to bring new direct referrals for you and all you have to do is update your page every day.

Note: Do not force someone on social media to sign up under you. If someone finds your business convincing, he/she will want to engage. Inactive direct referrals will waste the slots available under your account membership type. For example, you’re a standard member of Neobux with allowable direct referrals of 300. Imagine if you somehow recruited your lazy cousin who's not that high-spirited with your business and barely clicks any ads in a day at all? It’s not just your cousin but also your lazy friend Johnny? And more? Let's say that there are 144 of them. You would then waste 144 slots which should have been intended for active ones. You would only receive a commission from the 156 active direct referrals you have. Even those 156 may not guarantee to click all ads in Neobux. See Neobux’s TOS 3.7.

Forums and Chat Rooms

It has been an argument in the net as to whether forums are considered as social media. In online marketing, it doesn’t matter what it is as long as it provides someone the ability to share their opinions and insights. You can actually take advantage of that by posting a thread, sharing your personal opinion about the products, services, or offers your promote online. However, you should not be abusive when creating threads in a forum and respect their policy if you don’t want to get banned.

The most popular forum out there when it comes to internet marketing is BlackHatWorld. It comes with a different topic: blogging, SEO, affiliate programs, web designing and more. What’s more cooler is that it actually allows you to advertise for a fee of course.

Chat Rooms are designated venue, area or forum on the world wide web for communities of users with a common interest to interact and communicate in real time. You can publicly send a message to everyone if you want to promote your business.

But what type of chat rooms should I get in to promote my PTC referral business?

In that case, you need to target your potential direct referrals. Frankly, direct referrals are a bunch of desperate people who’s looking for something to do online. Game chat rooms are a good place to start messaging publicly. Users there tries to earn money or waste their time by playing. Garnering a few direct referrals wouldn’t be bad. If you’re playing COC (Clash of Clans), you can try posting one in the chat room.

Note: Spamming on chat rooms might get you reported and banned.

3. Advertise

There are plenty of ways to draw attention to your business, your referral link online so that you could have your direct referrals. One of the best-known ways is to join trusted PTC and GPT sites and advertise your referral link. What’s great when advertising in PTC sites is that they let you use your own earnings from clicking and viewing ads, taking surveys, completing mini jobs, playing the grid, and more. Rest assured, you will have a great number of referrals coming on to your site. You can also try spending a few pennies to advertise your downline builders.

Note: If you’re advertising a site or a page, you have to make sure that the site or page loads fast because viewers have a short time to take a look at what’s advertised to get them to visit your site or page and register.

You could also try to advertise on social medias: Facebook, Twitter, Youtube.

Advertising is even available in forums.

4. Downline Builder Tool

After all the hard effort of making money through Clixsense and Neobux, you finally stabilize your earnings. But still, there are tons of other PTC sites out there. If Clixsense and Neobux pay you $400+ a month, you can probably earn more by joining Grandbux and GPTPlanet and earn $800 a month if you’re able to stabilize your earnings there. You eventually become a PTC fanatic to the point that you need some sort of a tool to advertise all the PTC site you joined to in order to get direct referrals for them. Who doesn’t want to become filthy rich?

The Downline Builder tool is actually just a website where you compile and advertise all the PTC sites you joined to by placing the PTC sites’ banners and referral links on the site. You will surely get tons of direct referrals after advertising your downline builder tool to different advertising platforms. Here is one made and customized freely from Wix, https://yourptc2017.wixsite.com/ptc2017/sites-1 by yours truly. It includes reviews of the trusted PTC sites, guides for newbies, tips and tricks and more. Some downline builder tools include a list of scam PTC sites.

5. Blogging

None can ever beat blogging as the major tool to bring traffic to your site, invite visitors, get direct referrals and promote your business. Organically, most of the visitors come from searching in google.

You can discuss to your visitors your insights and opinions, the benefits you get, whatever topic that will ultimately lure them into participating in your business. Blogs allow your visitors to comment on your post so make sure to be active always to be able to address their concern and hopefully get them to participate. If you don’t have the budget yet to have your own website with your own domain name, you can temporarily build one for the mean time using Wix, Wordpress, Weebly. If you have, you can register your own name using Hostgator.

Guest Blogging

If you find it a dilemma to start your own blog, you can always visit blogs that others made and you can comment on their blog as a guest. Your comment should include some sort of a link to your site or a referral link. Posting for a popular site will bring you good traffic and possibly get you a direct referral.

6. Traffic Exchange Sites

Another alternative way to get more direct referrals is through traffic exchange sites. Thousands of users like you are also looking for direct referrals. The idea is to surf another member’s site while they surf yours where both earn points. One thing neat about these sites is that you don’t only get to have traffic on your site and direct referrals for your link but also earn for surfing sites. However, exchanging traffic might require a fee also.

The Downside

The problem, however, using this method is the tendency for other users like you to ignore and skip your ad since they’re only concerned with their own business of earning points and gaining traffic. Plus, the referrals you get from traffic exchange sites might not be that active as you thought. Therefore, although it brings you fast traffic, it does not guarantee that you get good direct referrals from that traffic.

Note: You should avoid showing the sign-up page of the PTC you’re referring. In traffic exchange sites, it’s better to advertise or sell your referral link or links.

7. Make a Video

A video is another powerful tool to promote your business online, particularly your referral link in order to attract more referrals. You might think that making one is easy just like finding animations, giving it a background music and putting all of it together to put a show. NO, that’s not how it works. Your chance of finding direct referrals by just putting up a video with poor content quality is slim.

You can make one using your web camera, smartphone or video editing software like Sony Vegas. If you want to make quality promotional videos with awesome content the easy and quick way. then consider making one using Animoto. Animoto is an online video making service. You can produce superb videos out of clips, music, images, and photos.

Note: You can place your referral link at the end of the video and even in descriptions when you upload it.

8. Buy or Rent Referrals

Buying or renting referrals are PTC site’s newly bloomed idea to further improve the business model and profit; and for some who couldn’t find direct referrals for themselves, it’s very useful. The referrals you get to hire are individual members who have not registered on the PTC site under anyone’s referral link.

Rented referrals have an expiration date when you hire them. Usually, they’re hired for a month. After that, it’s up to you to rent them again or not. If you want to recycle the inactive referral, it will cost you a fee. The fee differs depending on what PTC site you joined. Of course, there are those which offer free recycling like Twickerz. Check out your ultimate renting referral guide here.

Note: Be very wary of renting referrals, it isn’t advisable for starters. There are a lot of reviews out there discouraging you from doing so. Check out Neobux’s review on referral renting.

9. Email Signature with attached referral link

The method works great if you have a large collection of emails. All you need to do is to simply attach your referral link to your email signature when you send a bulk email. Bulk email is an electronic way of sending an email to multiple recipients at once.

10. Do seminars or webinars, presentations, and workshops

Getting people to attend seminars, presentations and workshop is probably the most effective way to gain direct referrals offline. Doing webinars can be useful when doing seminars online to promote your business, referral link.

Before doing these things, you should see to it that you are following a program. The program details everything what you need to do and present during the seminar or workshop. You must also include in your discussions the benefits and the advantages of joining your business. Doing presentation simply takes a good speech and an understandable visual aid.

Note: Do not forget to always mention or talk about your referral link or site. It may be best to have a strategy where you will have your audience sign up first under your referral link in the beginning without them having a chunk of knowledge about your business. You can then explain in the end how they will earn more from it by showing them their own referral link and explaining its relevance.

And More...

The 10 ways mentioned above to get your direct referrals without spending much are the ones that are found effective and really working well. There are however other ways to do it but do not produce a result as good as the 10 mentioned above.

You can have a custom-made shirt with your referral link, site domain name, or logo printed on it. Who knows, 1, 2 or more might become your direct referral by just going for a walk, wearing the shirt.
You may find this a desperate way to get direct referrals. But in marketing, promoting your business, products, services using tarpaulins, billboards and blackboards works well in getting more sales. So probably, it should also work in getting your direct referrals.
You could go to parks, malls, and other public places and distribute flyers advertising your business. Always remember to include your referral link or your site domain name in it to give interested people an access online.
Business cards with your referral link or site domain name in it are useful during a formal introduction. You don’t just get to introduce yourself and your business; you also get to find your potential referral.
You can also try broadcasting your site domain name, your referral link maybe on a radio and hope to get an individual listening to it become your direct referral.
Cars are the greatest invention used for transportation. They’re also great for doing campaigns. How else did Donald Trump win the 2016 presidential election? If you stick your referral link or site domain name in it and have it driven anywhere, it might attract a potential direct referral for you. Just make sure that your link is readable.
Finally, the last possible, and yet, maybe effective method but at the same time risky. Do not get caught if you do this. After all, you’d already be a suspect after spraying your referral link or site domain name onto any public wall. Vandalism is a crime.