Down On Our Luck

Ok, so I’m not rich from Big Crumbs yet, but I steadily get paid $12 - $25 every month. Not bad for writing a couple of blog posts and buying an ad or two on some key websites. Here is the referral breakdown for my April 2008 earnings:

If you have been following these posts, I hope you can see the potential here for some easy, passive, supplemental income for your eBay business or any other online business you may run.

I find it funny that the number one search that brings people to my Cash Back Squidoo Page is “Big Crumbs Scam”. I hope the visitor finds the page helpful enough to convince them that Big Crumbs is not a scam. It does sound too good to be true, but they really do pay and they pay when they say they do.

Watch my blog for details on a contest that I’ll be running for Big Crumbs real soon. It won’t take a ton of work to enter and I hope it will be fun for entrants as well as myself.

If you’ve been visiting my site for a while, you know that I am a big supporter of Big Crumbs and it’s one of the very few referral programs that I participate in. Now that it’s the 5th of April, I can be 99% confident that all of the March earnings are up to date and post about my results this month.

It’s not quite as good as February and no where near January, but it’s still extra money in my pocket. I think part of the drop could be due to the economy, but I still wish Big Crumbs would email it’s members a reminder to shop every 2 months. I think this would be unintrusive but yet enough to keep members coming back. This is about the same time-span that Ebates uses for reminding their customers as well.

My direct referrals have jumped by 10 this month so I’m now at 67 and starting to realize that 1,000,000 directs may be pushing the goal, but I’ll keep trying. I’ll be looking at smaller goals along the way as well so here’s to 100 in two months.

Feel free to let me know what you think.

I can’t believe February has come and gone already, but here we are in March again and it’s time to take a look at my earnings from Big Crumbs for February. This is one of the few referral programs that I participate in because it doesn’t take a lot of time and it ties hand in hand with selling on eBay. I always wait a couple of days before reviewing my results because they tend to back post earnings due to the commission reporting of some affiliate programs. Now, without further ado, here are my results that will be paid to me in April.

My results are a little worse than what January brought, but the total overall sales are more, which is a good thing; hopefully more people are remembering to click through before making their purchases. I’m sure the variance in earnings occurred from people shopping on different sites with smaller cash back percentages. Also, for the first time in my 15 months as a member, my 1st level referrals have the highest purchase total. This is a result of my direct referrals growing from 43 at the end of January to 57 at the end of February. I know, it’s still a long way to 1,000,000, but I’ll keep plugging. On top of the $23.55 from my referrals, I will also be paid $1.37 in cash back from my own purchases.

Please note that these results may not be typical earnings with Big Crumbs as I have been a member for just over 15 months now, but they don’t care if you’ve earned $1 or $10,000, you’ll be paid out what’s owed to you.

I have been in a debate with myself whether to post about my earnings with Big Crumbs here or not. I think I’m going to start a post monthly regarding this, I have seen other people do something similar with their Squidoo results for the month so I’m going to go for it. I would like to point out that my results may not be typical, but I do want to make sure that anyone interested in Big Crumbs knows that results like these are possible. You’ll see that I’m not filthy stinking rich from this, but extra cash that will be paid to me in March is always nice.

I really find it interesting that most of my referral commissions are coming from my 3rd and 4th level of referrals.

As far as working towards my goal of 1,000,000 people referred to this great shopping site, in January 2008 I had 13 different people sign up underneath me which brought me to a total of 43 direct referrals as of 1/31/2008. That leaves me with only 999,957 more to go. February is already off to a great start with 1 person signing up yesterday.

If you live in Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, or Australia you are now eligible to sign up for Big Crumbs and start getting some of the best shopping rebates on the web. There’s nothing to lose and it’s totally free. Besides,they’re even better than ever after adding the features in the upcoming paragraphs.

For the last couple of weeks now, Big Crumbs has been holding out what they have under their sleeve to make them one of the best rebate sites on the web and they finally revealed it today. They have gone 2.0. One of the best rebate sites on the web is now a social network as well. You can now email the member that referred you as well as people you have referred. Build a network of friends to share shopping tips with as well as other things. The website is now Verisign secured as well as scanned by Hackersafe daily for even more added peace of mind.

Just like My Space, you’ll have the ability to make your profile visible to the public or not and you’ll be able to block certain users from contacting you if you so wish.

The best part about everything is they have added more cash back offers, the ability to make shopping lists, and a place where you can promote your eBay store if you have one.

I’ll be updating more as I get to explore the new site some more.

There has been something brewing at Big Crumbs for the last couple of weeks now, but they were not able to reveal what it was all about. It looks like everyone will find out in a couple of hours now, it looks like they have changed ISP’s along with updating everything about their online cashback program.

I’ll come back and post as soon as I have more information.