First Investment in Neobux

As we mentioned before, we are planning to take a new step forward. We will be investing in NeoBux as an experiment and to see some results.

We invested $20 ($10 is from our ClixSense withdrawal and $10 from our own pocket)

So what did we do to our investment? Simple. We extended 240 more days to each of our 20 rented referrals. This is to make use of the 32% maximum discount that is available in NeoBux. After doing so, we disabled our Auto-Pay. This is just an experiment but we are hoping that we will see good results.

So our status:
Investment: $20
Withdrawal: $0
Rented Referrals: 20
Direct Referrals: 4

Below is a screenshot of our 20 RRs extended by 240 more days:

Extending 240 days to our Rented Referrals

Stay tuned to our progress.

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First Withdrawal In ClixSense

Yup! You heard it right, as clear as the title says. We just received our first withdrawal in ClixSense.

First Withdrawal in ClixSense

If we will remember, we kept on saying that we will not withdraw our money yet for advertising purposes, right? But right now, we are receiving views from some free traffic exchange websites where we got some of our Direct Referrals in NeoBux. Investing in advertising is a big step forward. We are keeping everything in a slow manner and slow action at a time so that you, dear readers can catch up (hehehe). So there's nothing to rush on. LoL

So why did we withdraw our $10 in ClixSense? We will invest our earning in ClixSense to NeoBux so that we can make use of the discount of extending our rented referrals by 240 days. On our opinion, it's a great saving and a great opportunity to turn off our AutoPay. We hope that our earning rate will increase using this method. Though the fund is from ClixSense, technically, we are still investing in NeoBux. So we hate to admit it, we are not a free user anymore.

So what will happen next? Will we earn more or not? Stay tuned, brothers.

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23 Days after Our First Rental

It's been 23 days since we had our first referral. It's been a while too since our last blog post. We want to apologize for the late update. We had been very busy this October but we still managed to be active in clicking ads daily without a miss.

Just  a quick recap, our last blog post was about our experience in using NeoPoints in recycling our rent referrals. NeoPoint has been so useful to save funds due to the fact that we just earn it as a bonus in each ad we click.

To give you a quick view on our progress, below is a screenshot of our NeoBux status 23 days after having our first rent referrals (Oct. 1)

Our Rented Referrals - 23 days After

With a start of 10 Rented referrals, we managed to increase it to 20 with most of them having more than 20 days before expiration.
Our method?
AutoPay: Enabled
Auto-Renew: Disabled

Recycling RR who did not click for the last 5-7 days. Use NeoPoints in recycling 1 or 2 RR, use main balance if more than 2 RR to be recycled.

We want you to know that we haven't invested yet and we haven't extend RR for an additional duration. Though we haven't have our first withdrawal in NeoBux yet, having this progress is really great. We still have more than $1.2 in our Main Balance plus Pending NeoCoins. Regarding our NeoCoins, we just tried it out for fun and we chose to like a page using our Facebook account to earn 18 NeoCoins. There are so many offers that you can find in NeoBux and some of them are for free. Try it too to earn more.

Checkout our NeoBux status as of Oct. 23:

NeoBux Status - October 23, 2012

From our point of view and using the method that we mentioned above, Renting Referrals is giving us progress but it is slow. Though not all RRs are clicking regularly, from our opinion, they are giving us a little profit.

If you want to rent referrals, too, do it at your own risk. Our blog is to provide you real-life situation in NeoBux and our progress doesn't mean that you will have the same earnings, too. It will still depend on your activeness and determination.

For us, we are having fun renting referrals because we think that managing them is like a game in Facebook such as Farmville, etc.

We will do a little investing next time as an experiment, so please stay tuned.

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Recycling Rent Referrals Using NeoPoints

Learning that renting referrals is profitable based on click rates, we decided to rent 10 referrals. However, there is a catch. Will those rented referrals be active to click ads daily?

To manage our rent referrals well, we activated our AutoPay feature and set all "view" settings to "relative". If you are on your rent referrals' page, there are details there to view your referrals according to date of purchase, date of last click and date of next payment. You can change the setting from "real" date to "relative" to make counting of days easier.

As of October 6, 2012, we noticed that with rent referrals, it is easy too gain back the $2 we used from our main balance to purchase them. However, their clicking activities are quite alerting. A few of them are inactive while only two are active.

Recycling Rented Referrals using NeoPoints

Three of them had an average click of 0.800 so we decided to recycle them. If you will notice on the image above, we used our NeoPoints to recycle our rented referrals. Since NeoPoints are gained as a bonus to your click, it played an important role for such situation. It will make recycling rented referrals free which is a good thing for members especially to standard ones.

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Google Deletes PTC Blogs

The Click Brothers have learned that Google are deleting PTC blogs that are hosted on blogger.

According to Google:
"As with many powerful tools, blogging services can be both used and abused. The ease of creating and updating webpages with Blogger has made it particularly prone to a form of behavior known as link spamming. Blogs engaged in this behavior are called spam blogs, and can be recognized by their irrelevant, repetitive, or nonsensical text, along with a large number of links, usually all pointing to a single site.

Spam blogs cause various problems, beyond simply wasting a few seconds of your time when you happen to come across one. They can clog up search engines, making it difficult to find real content on the subjects that interest you. They may scrape content from other sites on the web, using other people's writing to make it look as though they have useful information of their own. And if an automated system is creating spam posts at an extremely high rate, it can impact the speed and quality of the service for other, legitimate users."

source: http://support.google.com/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=42577

We did some further research and checked some sources that will support this:

Why Blogger removing ALL blogs promoting PTC/PTS links/advices/reviews

They removed PTC investigation blog too !

Though the issue started three years ago, it is still very alarming for us. We also searched some PTC blogs (hosted by blogger) that are still online and one of them is http://ptctalk.blogspot.com/

We want to believe that Google had already stopped deleting PTC blogs but just to make sure, we will export our posts and articles from time to time. We are not a spam blog but to be in compliance, we will minimize our links. We are planning to redesign our posting activities and aiming for a blog with useful contents about PTCs while building the click brotherhood.

Thank you for always supporting us, brothers.

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We Just Proved It

For our yesterday's question about rented referral's click rate being $0.005 which is 5x more than our own click ($0.001), that is definitely TRUE.

Of course, what NeoBux' Help Page indicate is TRUE.

To prove this and to avoid confusion for newbies if this is really $0.0050 instead of $0.0005, we rented 10 referrals yesterday. Kindly see our blogpost for yesterday by clicking here

After renting 10 referrals, our main balance became $0.58**. Today, when we checked our account, it now shows $0.623 which means the additional increase came from our rented refs. Please see the screenshot below:

**Note: Screenshot for yesterday's balance shows $2.571 because we captured the image before renting and clicking ads. After the purchasing 10 Rented refs (RR) and clicking some ads, ending balance was $0.58 

Click Brothers' Rented Referrals after 9 hours from time of purchase.

Three rented referrals clicked 4 ads. If we will be computing our earning from those 12 clicks considering autopay is enabled:

Computing for AutoPay deduction:
$0.20 cost of 1 rented ref per month (divided by) / 30 days a month = $0.0067 cost of a rented ref per day
$0.0067 cost of RR per day * 3 RRs who clicked for the day = $0.0201 cost of 3 RRs per day
$0.0201 cost of 3 RRs per day * 15% discount for using autopay = $0.003015 discount for using AutoPay
$0.0201 - $0.003015 = $0.017085 or $0.017 DISCOUNTED Cost of 3 RRs with AutoPay

Computing Earning from Rented refs' 12 clicks:
4 ads clicked by each RR * 3 RRs * $0.005 click rate of RR = $0.06 earning from RRs' 12 clicks
$0.06 - $0.017 Net Cost of RR with AutoPay = $0.043 NET Earning from RRs' 12 clicks

If you are confuse about the computation, please comment below and we will answer your questions.

Click Brothers' NeoBux status as of Oct. 2

Looking at the screenshot, our main balance increased by $0.43 which is the NET Earning from RR's 12 clicks and direct purchases increased by $0.017 which is the DISCOUNTED Cost of 3 RRs with AutoPay. Our status matches with the computation made above (you can call us "genius for computing" LOL).

With all the evidences above and as a result of experimenting, we, therefore, conclude that $0.005 being the click rate of RR (which is 5x of our own click and 10x than Direct refs click for a standard member) is TRUE.

Now, the next question is "Is renting referrals really profitable?"

Well, according to click rate, yes it is, but what if not all your rented referrals will click? If that's the case, we might end up having losses in renting refs. Please bare in mind that even if renting refs has profitable click rate, there is STILL a RISK in using them. If you prefer renting refs, please do at your own risk. We are not encouraging you to do nor we are not discouraging you not to rent. Though there are few people who succeeded and earned $1000+ through RRs, there are also some who failed.

If you want to learn more on managing your rented referrals, please visit our NeoBux Manual (coming soon)

We will update you of our Rented Referrals from time to time. Stay tuned with us and join the journey of "Click Brothers - Two Brothers, True Stories, One Adventure in the World of PTC".

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Rent Referrals Click Rates in NeoBux

Reaching the our first $2, we got very excited about what will happen next. As an experiment, we didn't do any minijobs anymore and just focused ourselves in clicking ads and doing AdPrize. After how many days, we noticed that our earning's growth became much slower. Also, we were not as lucky as before because we didn't won any prize from AdPrize this past days. To show you our current NeoBux status as of today, please refer to the screenshot below:

Our NeoBux status as of Oct 1, 2012

What can we do to earn faster? Well, we know what you will say -  have referrals. But there are two kinds of referrals in NeoBux, the direct referrals and rented referrals. We have 2 direct referrals as of now and both of them are inactive. We are now deciding to rent referrals for blogging purposes and for us show you if renting is profitable in NeoBux. We will just use our own main balance to rent and we will not invest.

Before we proceeded to renting, we reviewed the Help Page of Neobux to check how much we will earn from renting refs. Below is the screenshot of what we've found out.

NeoBux' Click Rates

We noticed that click rate of rented refs is five times of our own click and ten times larger than direct ref's clicks. Is this really true? We want to check out by contacting Neobux' Live Support but they are unavailable. We will confirm this once we contacted them. Meanwhile, we went ahead and rented 10 referrals which is $2 ($0.20 each). With this, now our balance is below $2 which cannot be withdrawn (wished that we just transferred this to PayPal so we can have our first proof of payment LoL).

Click Brother's First 10 rent referrals

Going to a sample computation:

$0.005 x 4 orange fixed ads a day x 1 rent ref x 30 days per month = $0.60
$0.60 monthly earning for 1 rent ref - $0.20 cost of 1 rent ref per month = $0.40

Note: this is just a sample computation based on the following circumstances

• if rent ref's click is really $0.005 per click (5x more than our own click according to their help page)
• if rent ref will click 4 ads a day
• autopay and auto-renew is deactivated

To know more about rent referrals and how to rent one, kindly visit our NeoBux Manual (Coming soon)

To learn how to manage rent referrals, kindly click here (coming soon)

Further note: For those old Neobux members out there who will be able to read this blogpost about rent ref's click rates, please be informed that this is for blogging purposes and our aim is to show newbies out there a possible result in renting refs. This is to show that we also wondered and asked about rent ref's click rate. If so happen that you know the answer please just use the comment box and write a respectful comment thinking that this is newbie's blog.

We will update you of our progress in renting refs so stay tuned.

Update: Please visit our blogpost "We Just Proved It" to know the answer about the click rate of rented refs

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