Incentive sites

An incentive site, also known as get paid to website or paid per click website or, more generally, referral sites is a website that pay people in gifts or cash for completing provided offers and referring other people, and is often referred to as free prize sites, because the user usually does not have to pay for anything. These sites are sponsored by companies in order to advertise their products. The sites are in turn paid for advertising and attracting new clients.
Funding
These sites are sponsored and funded by companies that advertise on their sites in order to attract large volumes of leads. By collecting user data that the user submits, companies can target certain areas of clientele and offer products accordingly. "They bring us great traffic and many repeat buyers. Many of our best affiliates are incentive sites," Says Gretchen Alaniz, and affiliate and promotions manager for CatalogCity.com. This sort of method is used as a strategy to attract new clients, as seen by Columbia House who offer free CDs to attract customers into purchasing full-priced CDs.
Process
Offer completion
On most cases, incentive sites pay their users in points and/or cash for completing offers. These offers usually require people to do one of these things: viewing advertisements, signing up for a site, entering a PIN code (through a mobile device), purchasing trial products or full products or completing surveys. This in turn rewards the specified user in cash, points, check, or its equivalent in so said website. The user is rewarded after a certain amount of time, or after certain requirements for such offer is met.
There are several types of offers, all of which impose different requirements to complete and/or offer different point ratios. These include, but are not limited to surveys, offers, coupons, phone calls, PIN submit, games, and downloads.
Referrals
Referring people simply means inviting them to the site under a referral link (unique to every user). Referrers in turn are either paid for every person they invited or a percentage of how much they make.
Scams
Some incentive sites do scam people and refuse to pay them; therefore, it is strongly advised for people to do some research before signing up for one.
One websites that often frequently cited as a scam include AWSurveys .

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