Go Fly a Kite and GreenZap
So I got home from work today, and it was really windy but nice out, so I decided to try flying my kite in the park behind my apartment. Of course, by the time I actually got out there and got the kite all set up, the wind had died down and was swirling. I spent about an hour out there, and probably had the kite actually up in the air maybe 5 minutes of that. I've come to realize I probably should have just bought a cheap plastic kite instead of the cool looking stunt kite I have. Its just a little beyond my ability to keep that thing up in the air for very long without it tangling itself up and crashing to the ground. On a positive note, I let some of the neighborhood kids have a go at flying it, and they seemed to have fun, even though none of them did any better than me at actually getting it up in the air.
Its been kinda chilly the past few days. I had to turn the heater on tonight, since I was freezing after flying the kite.
On a financial note, I went ahead and signed up w/ greenzap today, after reading about it on Didi's journal. I did some research, and it sounds like they are probably legit. WARNING though... When you sign up with them, make sure to give them an email address you don't mind getting spam at, and don't list your phone number (You're not required to). There is currently no requirement for bank account info or anything else senstive either. All you need is your name, an email address, and a home mailing address, and this is all I would enter, at least until the company is fully up and running. The president of greenzap previously worked for a company SBD Group which is a direct marketing company (i.e. direct mailers, telemarketing calls, etc.) You can pretty much expect the information provided on the greenzap website to be sold to marketing companies to help pay your $25 sign up bonus. Other than that though, it sounds like they really are going to be the next PayPal.
On that note.....
Sign Up for Green Zap and get $25
Use mygreen as the promo code when asked for it, and I'll get $5. Then you can get tell your friends about it, and you'll get $5 for each one of them that signs up.
WHEN YOU SIGN UP FOR GREENZAP, ONLY ENTER THE REQUIRED FIELDS. DO NOT GIVE THEM YOUR PHONE NUMBER, AND ONLY GIVE THEM YOUR SECONDARY EMAIL ADDRESS.
These guys are definitely marketing geniuses. For only about $50 to $100 million dollars in estimated rewards payouts, they are getting the full benefits of word-of-mouth viral marketing. After only being available for less than 3 weeks, and even such only on a pre-registration basis, there are already probably close to a million people signed up for accounts. They now have a full and ready customer base ready-made to give them a bargaining chip with E-bay and Yahoo Auctions, etc. and various online merchants. PayPal was bought by Ebay not long ago for well over a billion dollars because of their wide user base. In addition... even if GreenZap itself doesn't take off as a payment system, they now have a million user mailing list with validated emails and physical addresses that they can sell to marketing firms. It gets better. Because you cannot sign up for GreenZap without someone else giving you their promo code, the marketing information GreenZap now has for you includes the fact that you have some sort of relationship with the person that gave you the promo code. In this way, they can correlate purchases made by your friends using GreenZap to items you are likely to be interested in (people who are friends often have similar interests) and can thus market those products to you. This kind of targeted information is GOLD in the marketing world, and is Easily worth $25 per user to the right marketing lists. In addition, they are essentially stealing PayPal's proven business model, charging users to recieve payments made w/ GreenZap. In fact, their fees are even higher than PayPal's fees, unless you are sending over $70, in which case PayPal's percentage-based fees would then outweigh GreenZap's flat $1.00 per transaction fee.
I think this thing is really going to take off provided it has deep enough financial pockets backing the company, and I'm definitely going to capitalize on it in case the $5 referrals are real. Hopefully it is fully legit. They have news releases on several major business news sites, and seem to be a real company. The fact that the founders of the company have some gray history with some ponzi and MLM schemes puts a bit of a cloud over this, and I'm not 100% certain it has the financial backing to be successful, but if it does, PayPal now has some serious competition. I'm printing up a bunch of flyers tonight and I'm going to post them on a bunch of bulletin boards around town.
Its been kinda chilly the past few days. I had to turn the heater on tonight, since I was freezing after flying the kite.
On a financial note, I went ahead and signed up w/ greenzap today, after reading about it on Didi's journal. I did some research, and it sounds like they are probably legit. WARNING though... When you sign up with them, make sure to give them an email address you don't mind getting spam at, and don't list your phone number (You're not required to). There is currently no requirement for bank account info or anything else senstive either. All you need is your name, an email address, and a home mailing address, and this is all I would enter, at least until the company is fully up and running. The president of greenzap previously worked for a company SBD Group which is a direct marketing company (i.e. direct mailers, telemarketing calls, etc.) You can pretty much expect the information provided on the greenzap website to be sold to marketing companies to help pay your $25 sign up bonus. Other than that though, it sounds like they really are going to be the next PayPal.
On that note.....
Sign Up for Green Zap and get $25
Use mygreen as the promo code when asked for it, and I'll get $5. Then you can get tell your friends about it, and you'll get $5 for each one of them that signs up.
WHEN YOU SIGN UP FOR GREENZAP, ONLY ENTER THE REQUIRED FIELDS. DO NOT GIVE THEM YOUR PHONE NUMBER, AND ONLY GIVE THEM YOUR SECONDARY EMAIL ADDRESS.
These guys are definitely marketing geniuses. For only about $50 to $100 million dollars in estimated rewards payouts, they are getting the full benefits of word-of-mouth viral marketing. After only being available for less than 3 weeks, and even such only on a pre-registration basis, there are already probably close to a million people signed up for accounts. They now have a full and ready customer base ready-made to give them a bargaining chip with E-bay and Yahoo Auctions, etc. and various online merchants. PayPal was bought by Ebay not long ago for well over a billion dollars because of their wide user base. In addition... even if GreenZap itself doesn't take off as a payment system, they now have a million user mailing list with validated emails and physical addresses that they can sell to marketing firms. It gets better. Because you cannot sign up for GreenZap without someone else giving you their promo code, the marketing information GreenZap now has for you includes the fact that you have some sort of relationship with the person that gave you the promo code. In this way, they can correlate purchases made by your friends using GreenZap to items you are likely to be interested in (people who are friends often have similar interests) and can thus market those products to you. This kind of targeted information is GOLD in the marketing world, and is Easily worth $25 per user to the right marketing lists. In addition, they are essentially stealing PayPal's proven business model, charging users to recieve payments made w/ GreenZap. In fact, their fees are even higher than PayPal's fees, unless you are sending over $70, in which case PayPal's percentage-based fees would then outweigh GreenZap's flat $1.00 per transaction fee.
I think this thing is really going to take off provided it has deep enough financial pockets backing the company, and I'm definitely going to capitalize on it in case the $5 referrals are real. Hopefully it is fully legit. They have news releases on several major business news sites, and seem to be a real company. The fact that the founders of the company have some gray history with some ponzi and MLM schemes puts a bit of a cloud over this, and I'm not 100% certain it has the financial backing to be successful, but if it does, PayPal now has some serious competition. I'm printing up a bunch of flyers tonight and I'm going to post them on a bunch of bulletin boards around town.