One of my best performing offers was an online bank called x.com (now PayPal)

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In three months I taught myself how to use Front Page and launched my first free stuff site free4women.com in late 1999. I made the free4women.com site with 2 pages, 1 page with the TOP 100 FREE STUFF offers online, all these offers I get paid $$. The other page was a collection of legitimate FREE beauty product offers for women. These offers were REAL free offers that I did not get paid for, but was a GREAT way to market the site to get traffic. I worked VERY HARD loooong hours to market my site with every tool available to me. I created a personality called “Janet” for posting in forums..ect, because free stuff surfers respond more to women online than men. I had spent about $500 of my own $$ and I made that $500 back before I was able to spend more, so the site was paying for itself and then some.

One of my best performing offers was an online bank called x.com (now PayPal). They offered $20 free to open a bank account online, and $20 for very person your refer, deposited to your x.com online bank account. X.com also sent a visa debit card for the account. The online form to open the account was one page, and short. You would see the $20 instantly in your new online bank account. I promoted that offer and made $2000 per week. I spent most of the $$ I made on promoting the web site. My web site was making $5,000 per month. I had an account with LinkShare.com and made about $10,000 for my first big check, it was scheduled to arrive in January 2000. I was worried about Y2K.

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