What has been the most effective way to get active referrals for you?

United States
August 30, 2010 1:23am CST
I was just curious what has been the most effective way to get active referrals for you in a site? For me it's actually been through a site I run showing payment proofs. What about you, what has been the most effective way for you to get referrals that are actually active for your sites that you're a part of?
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• Chennai, India
30 Aug 10
Actually keeping our referrals motivated will be the only key to keep them active. But it is not our part. Rather, it's the role of the site we refer them to. May be writing a short write up about the site before we send them to the main page of the website, will work. But, unless our referrals themselves are motivated, it's hard to keep them active. (I had some upgraded members to in my team, but they too gone inactive.)
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@GardenGerty (157615)
• United States
30 Aug 10
I have only been able to get active referrals on one or two sites, and I do that by posting about the opportunity on other social sites. It does not really work on MyLot. I was only trying to help some people out, whether they had joined a site with me or not, but MyLot regarded it as commercial and deleted it. I was not seeking referrals at that time, but rather doing maintenance. I hope you continue to have the referrals you need.
• United States
31 Aug 10
I am still curious if the person that made a Mylot Fan Page on facebook got a lot of referrals and is making bundles from his downline lol
• United States
31 Aug 10
I don't bother with referrals, as I am not a salesman. I don't pitch worth peas. I depend on my writing to obtain whatever cred I get here on MyLot.
• United States
31 Aug 10
I actually enjoy referring people to Mylot. It's pretty fun, to me. I still get a few weekly referrals to Mylot.. I haven't did any real serious promotion lately for anything other then my GPT site. I wish I knew where I was getting people joining as my referral from. I think it's Squidoo..
• United States
30 Aug 10
I have tried numerous unsuccessful tactics and have invested a great deal of time. The only method that truly works for me is being me and hoping people capture and gain trust in my reputation. I can tell you though that many of times I have guided people more than I really care to, but the way I see it if I can guide a person successfully then that person would be as active as me. Unfortunately here especially I have been taken advantage of. I have guided members continually about sites to later find that they did sign up but not in my down-line either in someone else's or on their own. Then after the sign up they will come back to me with a zillion questions about how to earn. Now is this fair, it is not fair in my eyes is quite disappointing actually. Wait here is the kicker they actually then have the gull to be upset if I do not help hold their hand them thereafter. Uh hummmm So long story short I can only be me and hope my reputation does it for me.
• United States
31 Aug 10
I use link cloaking things so people don't chop out my referral link until it's too late and the cookie is already there :X Especially if they were referred by me. Only problem with them is that sometimes the referral link actually gets dropped. The only time I chop out people's referral links is when I feel they didn't really help me at all about the site or said a one-liner expecting me to join their referral link based on no expectation of what the given site is about. I was actually a bit angry before. I got "force-referred" to Mylot by a deceptive "application" but I made sure I had periods of inactivity on Mylot so the guy would up and quit so he doesn't bank off my referral earnings that he gets as he doesn't really deserve them :X I am not arguing though. I love Mylot! I don't love the fact that I got force-referred, though!