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The latest marketing angle to leverage online advertising is a crop of sites that pay you to socialize - post in a forum, use a social networking site, etc.
As they explain it, they are making money from the ads that display on all those pages and, as a member, they share that ad revenue with […]

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A few days ago I decided to check out MyLot, a site where you supposedly earn money for making forum posts and interacting with others.  After my experience with Yuwie I wasn’t very optimistic.  But, to my surprise there’s something different going on at MyLot.  First, you can fill in an extensive, yet […]

I just spent a little time on Yuwie again, optimistically hoping for good things but realistically knowing better.  I think the site is actually getting worse!  I got a popup on almost every single page I visited and between every about 3-5 pages there was one of those detour ads… the kind where you have […]

Yuwie, one of the latest competitors in the social bookmarking crowd, offers to pay folks for using their site.  They claim you don’t need to do anything special to earn some cash, just view pages, post content, and have your pages view.  But, will it work? 
 After joining the site and spending a few hours poking […]