Talk About Micro Affiliate Payments
Feb 13, 2006 Business & Marketing
I’ve now officially received my two smallest affiliate checks ever. The checks are from AdBrite and when they say there is no minimum balance to receive a monthly payment, they mean it.
Last month I received a check for $0.11, eleven whole cents! I still have it. I’m not sure if I want to cash it or just hold on to it as a trophy until I receive something smaller. This month, I received a check for $0.49. May not seem like much, but I’m an optimist. I’m fine with quadrupling my earnings each month. If the trend holds on I’ll be nice and retired within (pause! gotta do some quick math!) within 12 MONTHS! From 49 cents to comfortably retired within 12 months sounds like a worthy challenge. My affiliate payment on month # 12 would be $7,381,975.04 to be exact. Who says micro-payments don’t rule?! Added to the previous 11 months, I’d have earned an annual side-income of $9,842,632.8 How’s that for a challenge Mr. Tew?
Seriously, its not really going to happen. I know how trends work in the online marketplace. I’d have to bootstrap some serious traffic (unheard of amounts, greater than the bandwidth MySpace pours out) to my sites to potentially be able to make that much off PPC clicks within 12 months. Doable? I don’t really think so. Am I going to try? Let me get back to you on that.
So this originally started out as a post to tell everyone about AdBrite and how much I admire them for keeping their word of no minimum payments. Now, based on that premise I wonder if they also have a policy of Maximum payments? Watch out AdBrite, here I come.
(Which reminds me, I should probably put AdBrite Ads on this site too.)
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