Vote Prices Reduced 10% to 20%
Subvert and Profit has reduced vote prices 10% to 20% to stoke returns on your content placed across the 20 social network sites we game. On YouTube and other video sites, it now costs only $1.00 per vote! StumbleUpon and Delicious votes now cost only $1.35 and $1.10 respectively.
Here are the new vote prices effective March 12, 2009:
Daily Motion $1.00
Delicious $1.10
Digg $1.35
DZone $1.00
Flixster $1.00
Furl $1.00
iLike $1.00
Imeem $1.00
Kongregate $1.00
LiveVideo $1.00
Magnolia $1.00
MySpaceTV $1.00
Mixx $1.00
Metacafe $1.00
Newsvine $1.00
Propeller $1.00
Sphinn $1.20
Stumble Upon $1.35
Yahoo Video $1.00
YouTube $1.00
Voting Referral Fees Retired
Subvert and Profit Users will continue to earn 5% of referred advertisements. However, to maximize the value of our content voting, we have eliminated social network transaction referral fees. The referral system had been mis-used and the fees had acted as an incentive to create multiple accounts which occasionally diluted the uniqueness of our system.
New Subvert and Profit Firefox Toolbar
Download the Subvert and Profit Mozilla FireFox Toolbar (see below for detailed instructions). The toolbar lives beneath the FireFox address bar, and automatically notifies you of new tasks. The toolbar completely replaces email notification of new tasks. When you have a new task, you simply go to Subvert and Profit, perform the task, and then use the toolbar to verify yourself. The toolbar means that you will get notified of tasks faster, you can troubleshoot your own verification issues, and the chances of detection are significantly reduced. Tasks are assigned to users who have the toolbar open, so if you want more tasks, you should keep the toolbar open and pay close attention to it.
Toolbar installation steps:
1. Open FireFox. (The toolbar will not work with Internet Explorer or Google Chrome.)
2. Go to http://subvertandprofit.com/content/toolbar and press the link to install the toolbar.
3. If needed, press the “Allow” button to allow FireFox to install the toolbar.
4. Press “Install Now.”
5. Restart FireFox.
6. Under the “View->Toolbars” menu, enable the Subvert and Profit toolbar.
7. Under the toolbar’s arrow menu (on the far left side of the toolbar), click “Username and Password” and then enter your Subvert and Profit username and password.
8. Press the “Update” button to update the toolbar. The toolbar’s status will appear on the toolbar itself and in the status bar. The toolbar will automatically update itself every hour.
9. If you are having trouble installing the toolbar, you may need to download the install file to your Desktop and then open it with the “File->Open” menu.
Pump Your Content on 18 Top Social Sites
New for 2009: Subvert and Profit has expanded our content placement to a host of new sites (listed to show you the 1/1/09 global Alexa traffic ranking), including DailyMotion (64th), del.icio.us (2,669th), imeem (171st), iLike (3,720th), Kongregate (1,235th), LiveVideo (1,371st), Metacafe (119th), Mixx (699th), MySpaceTV (7th), Newsvine (6,535th), Propeller (2,034th), Yahoo! Video (1st), and YouTube (3rd).
We have been working hard to recruit social users who will vote for your webpages, music, and videos. We are excited to announce that we are now accepting advertisements to reach these high traffic sites! Pricing will be similar to the pricing for our existing sites. If you are a social user, this means you can expect to earn more money, with payouts via alertpay.com. If you are an advertiser, this means you will be able to launch more targeted, diversified, and powerful campaigns with simple execution and credit card payments.
Downtime and Expansion
Dear Subvert and Profit Advertisers and Users:
Please accept our apologies for the recent downtime. Our domain host, GoDaddy, suspended our account until it completed a spam review. Unfortunately, in order to resolve the issue, we had to change our registration from that filed by one of our deceased founders. This process took us by surprise and we apologize for not being able to keep you in the loop. Thank you for your patience over the past week or so.
To be perfectly clear, we do not send spam. We only send important messages and voting assignments to registered users. Users who wish to opt-out may do so at any time by emailing us or logging in and pressing the “delete account” button. We have decided that we should take this opportunity to allow all of our users to opt-in to important messages (such as this one). If you do not opt-in now, you will no longer receive important messages. To opt-in to important messages, click the following link:
http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=2242913&loc=en_US
One of our email channels was domain-dependent and the downtime may have dropped your recent email to us, so please resend your email so that our team can address your needs.
On a lighter note, we have some very good news to share. We have taken the downtime as an opportunity to recode our site and to expand our content placement to additional social media sites including video, news, business, music and gaming sites both large and small. This will mean more profit opportunities for our social users and more exposure and more options for advertisers. Stay tuned for more information in the coming days and weeks and get ready to expand crowdsourcing to millions.
To stay in the loop, remember to opt-in to important messages. Here’s that link again:
http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=2242913&loc=en_US
Until next time, Subvert and Profit!
Sincerely,
Ragnar Danneskjold
Votes now $1.50 and User payouts $.75
Effective May 16, 2008, each vote for your Digg, StumbleUpon or YouTube content will cost $1.50. Social network users will be paid $0.75 per assignment. You can also earn fees of 10% on advertiser and $0.10 per vote on social user referrals.
Subvert and Profit is a market placement agent for crowdsource voting on traffic-ranked content. Advertisers, bloggers and video/song promoters buy votes on their content from Subvert and Profit and our 15,000 worldwide unique users are paid to place votes and make comments on that content. Now our uniquely placed votes are more of a bargain relative to traditional online campaigns. As market factors change and as the page rank algorithms of our host social network sites vary, Subvert and Profit will continue to maximize value to our advertisers and users.
We enjoy helping you with content placements to maximize traffic as you Subvert and Profit!
New Payouts and Pricing
Most Excellent Crowdsourcers:
2007 was an awesome year for social media undercover marketing. We have enjoyed helping to steer ultra-low cost traffic to advertiser-placed content. With his unique concept proven and our reach expanded to additional social media sites, the growth in traffic has surpassed our expectations.
New Payouts and Pricing:
The crowdsourcing marketing revolution continues into 2008 with new ad placement pricing and increased user payouts! Effective January 16, 2008, each vote for your Digg, StumbleUpon or YouTube content will cost $2.00. Social network users will be paid $1.00 per assignment. You can also earn fees of 10% on advertiser and social user referrals. Ads placed and assigned before January 16, 2008 will carry 2007 pricing.
We look forward to helping your with your content placements to maximize your traffic as you Subvert and Profit!
Testimonials from our email queue
We thought we’d share these testimonials from our inbox:
December 2007
Hi Vasili,
I tested out your service yesterday – only bought 40 votes on Digg and 10 stumbles. I know I should have done more votes to make the article more popular – I’m not moaning
Anyway the system works and I just have a few more questions that will help me in the future:- … {best time to submit?; USA time? Buy diggs in batches?}…
Cheers for your time,
John
November 2007
Ivan,….
We made the homepage… I think the digg editor MANUALLY promoted the story since it was gone from the upcoming queue
October 2007
Vasili,
As of now, I have received 122K visitors the first day and 27K visitors today, of which probably ~100K came from Digg and another ~30K from Reddit (the story was on front page for >24 hours and in top 10 for >12 hours) and another ~10K probably from other sources.
This has been a great deal for me and I very much look forward to working with you in future.
Best wishes,
(Name redacted)
September 2007
Hello Ragnar,
The experience of seeing diggs accumulate, the transition from upcoming to popular the moment it occurs, and the mind-boggling barrage of traffic which comes next, is nothing less than euphoric. Each week I look forward to making digg popular. My only regret is that I didn’t discover Subvert and Profit until now.
Thank you Sir,
Ricardo
NEW: Pump your videos on YouTube via Subvert and Profit
And… action! Subvert and Profit has expanded to YouTube!
Now, upcoming artists, amateur comedians, and video podcasters can have content pumped by over 9,000 Subvert and Profit crowdsourcers worldwide.
There are three easy steps:
- Submit your video to YouTube.
- Post the video to Digg or StumbleUpon.
- Use Subvert and Profit to purchase votes for the Digg or StumbleUpon link.
We will provide that springboard of views to drive widespread organic traffic your way! With the traffic increase generated by a prominent position on Digg, your YouTube video could be the next Numa Numa Dance!
Crowdsourcing report
Social network users:
We’d just like to say thank you for your work on content placement and vote execution. With your help, we are currently running dozens of fresh advertisements every week. You are now among 5,000 users worldwide.
To maximize your earnings, set up accounts on both Digg and StumbleUpon. If you haven’t read the guidelines recently, refresh yourself today (http://subvertandprofit.com/content/guidelines). Many of you have taken advantage of our user referral program — but did you know that we will also pay you to refer advertisers? Check the site to learn more.
Advertisers:
We’ve had quite a bit of success assisting you in driving boatloads of traffic cheaply to your sites. Keep up the great work with creative headlines and eye-catching content to reduce the risk of being buried. We have removed the 30 vote limit for StumbleUpon advertisements.
Our users are ready to pump your new content, and we are here to serve you.
Until next time, Subvert and Profit!
Ragnar Danneskjold