This is viral marketing of the 21st century. These website's are affiliated with some of the largest and most well known businesses of today’s world. Big names include Blockbuster, Lovefilm, Coral, Gala Bingo and even Jackpotjoy.
I bet you’ve seen an advert for one of these companies on TV? Yes? Well, this is the new form of advertising. Advertising on TV costs around £1,000,000 (yes one million pounds) to be effective!
Even if a company does advertise on TV how do they know how many people are going to sign up? With this new method of advertising they are only paying for the customers they get.
For each customer which registers for a free iPod Touch and completes an offer the free iPod Touch website gets a commission.
The free iPod Touch website's cooperate with these advertisers through affiliate networks such as Affiliate Future, Traded and Buy.at.
The commission pays for your gift
1. You sign up and register for a 14 day trial with Lovefilm. This will give the free iPod Touch site £17.50 as you have given Lovefilm a new customer.
2. You then recommend the site to 2 friends. They also sign up and complete an offer with Lovefilm.
3. The site now has got Lovefilm 3 new customers and in return been paid £17.50 x 3 = £52.5
4. This is enough for them to give you your free iPod Shuffle which RRP's for under £50!
Sure the site only makes a small profit from each person, but imagine giving away hundreds of shuffles a week bought at wholesale prices. This is how the sites make their profit. Also, Lovefilm pays the site the least amount from all the offers, so if you completed Gala Bingo, for example, the free iPod Touch site gets a massive £30 commission.
Please remember to get things like and Apple Ipod or Iphone, you will need to choose custom offer, which isn't 99 refs. It has a calculator, which tells you how many referrals you need
