TrialPay, Less Than 1 Month, More than $1000

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TrialPay, Less Than 1 Month, More than $1000

September 19th, 2007 Add Your Comments

I’ve been with TrialPay for just under 1 month now. For those of you not in the know it’s an online payment system that allows people to get something from you for free by accepting an offer from somebody else. The somebody else tends to be one of the major online retailers (ebay, Real, Blockbuster etc etc), some of the offers are completely free others require the customer to buy something. When I first found this I thought it would be a great way of earning a little extra money for not much work. I had software that I was already giving away for free all that was required was a slight change in the download process. 1 month down the line and I’m delighted at how great that little change has been.

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It went of like a rocket ship and I couldn’t believe how much money I was earning with TrialPay, I was checking stats 2,3 even 4 times a day just to make sure it was real. Of course after about a week things settled down to a more realistic level, realistic being a couple of transactions a day. What has made no sense to me at all is the distribution of customers. I know for a fact that before TrialPay it was about a 50/50 split between the US and Europe of people who downloaded. After TrialPay the split changed to about 90/10 in favour of the US! The biggest loss was in UK visitors, they just weren’t and aren’t prepared to go through a TrialPay checkout process. I’d love for somebody to be able to explain it to me, some American friends have suggested that maybe it’s down to coupons. Americans are well into using their coupons from one thing to get something discounted or for free. In the UK we don’t have much of that so maybe that can explain the difference. Either way I’ve had happy visitors from Spain, France, and Israel all the way to Australia it’s just the Brits that don’t like it!

So in less than a month I’ve made more than $1000 for no extra work and very little inconvenience. Will be interesting to see what the second month brings but in the meantime if you’ve got a product that you currently give away for free then TrialPay is really worth considering.

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One Response to “TrialPay, Less Than 1 Month, More than $1000”

Chris Thornton September 20, 2007

I too, have earned nearly $1000 with TP, selling software to people who had already determined that they were not going to buy it for the regular price (they were uninstalling, or were caught using a pirated registration code).

TrialPay can also be used to pay for non-software goods, such as “keep this site running” donations. Anywhere that you’d expect to see a “donate/PayPal” link, really. I’ve got some tips and ideas, as well as a WordPress plug-in, available at my site: http://www.alternativepaymentresources.com
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