Referrals at any cost

Congratulations! You've got good discussion here! May I know what do you mean by "the best way to get referrals is by offering and not demanding"?

I don't personally have any referrals on any of the sites that I am active at. However, I will agree with you that I'm sick of people that lie to others in order to gain referrals on their sites. Me, when I try to get people to sign up for sites I am completely honest with the people that I am connecting with. I explain to them that they are not going to get rich, and in most situations all that you are going to get out of your experience what you put into it. I think that honesty is the absolutely best policy.

Yes, I can get irritating when people just keep plugging away that they want you as a referral. I like to have Internet friends and I don't mind the occasional ask, but like everyone else, I don't like to be sold to. _Derek

If you have referrals and want them to help you earn then you must help them too. Just throwing your link out there and not being able to guide them is not going to do either you or them any good. I have referrals on several sites, some of whom I know and some I dopn't. Those that I can contact know that I can advise them and can help them, thus helping myself too. If they are happy then trust wll build up for future sites too when we then exchange and I become their referral rather than them being mine.

Yes, it really grates on my nerves to be honest Want me to be your referral? Then take the time to get to know me first, then show me what the website you are promoting is all about, without the waffle. Then maybe, just maybe, I may consider being your referral Do not just toss a link my way and say "join here to earn $$$"

If i were you, and you want to make money online, i would consider getting a blog and writing about how others can make money online. And on the site just offer them links to sites where they can get money from, and you can refer them to those sites, this way you are helping people to make some money and in the process you are building up your referal numbers. This could help you build up many more referals.