I had a great experience a couple days ago where I actually got a chance to talk one on one with the owner of Yuwie! He was very nice, down to earth, and answered everyone’s questions. The conversation took place on Yuwie Radio, in a chat room. Luckily for me, the room was having some technical difficulties and there were less then 20 people in it for nearly half an hour. I took advantage of this time to ask Y Guy a few questions about Yuwie and what is coming in the future. The following is a list of questions I asked him and a summary of his responses.
What are some new features that Yuwie members can expect in the future?
Two major new features that are coming to Yuwie are a bands section and a feature called open social. The band pages should drive some major traffic and hopefully more revenue to be shared. Y Guy said that he was talking to a lot of bands and asked them to stop advertising with their MySpace pages and instead get a Yuwie page and start earning from their fans’ views to their pages and their music. He said that a programmer was finishing up the players for the Music pages and it should be working in a few weeks. One thing I am excited about is that you can also recruit bands just like normal referrals, and bands could drive a lot of traffic for my referral tree.
The other major feature is called open social. It is similar to facebook’s application add-on, except that it will be compatible with tons of other social networks like myspace, orkut, and other major networks. This will undoubtedly lead to cross network applications and more page views and advertising on Yuwie. According to Y Guy, open social is one of the best things that can happen, because instead of spending his time and money on developing new features for his members, he can allow creators of applications to do that for him and he can focus on finding advertisers and more ways to make Yuwie more profitable for himself and his members.
What is the best way that members can increase the RSR (Revenue Sharing Rate)?
According to Y Guy, one of the easiest ways to increase the RSR for the month is to add a News Feed to your profile. He said that if everyone were to add the News Feed to their profile, the RSR would be at least $0.80, which is more than double last month’s RSR. He told me that The news feed makes about $2.50 to $3.00 per 1000 views for Yuwie, so that adds to the revenue greatly. I suggest everyone add one, but only if it is something you are interested in.
What is the best way to get Yuwie referrals?
The easiest way to get Yuwie referrals is not to treat it as a way to earn money, but as a social networking site, just like Myspace or Facebook. If your referrals are not active and you are not active in the network, then you will not make much money. A lot of people think that they can join a program like Yuwie and get paid just for getting a few people to sign up, but you really have to use the network in order to get paid. The easiest way to draw referrals is to stop using your myspace or facebook pages and when you get comments or messages on those networks, just tell you friends that you don’t use that network as much now, but you like to use Yuwie now. Now all of your 100’s of friends on those networks are potential Yuwie referrals and more page views.
Overall it was a great conversation and I learned a lot about the owner’s views of Yuwie. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to leave them or send me an email.
Filed under: Social Networking | Tagged: get paid to, referrals, Social Networking, Yuwie
