Spotify Invites: I Have Loads!
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UPDATE 2: NO INVITE REQUIRED. You’ll need a Dutch IP address. Get a Dutch web proxy or VPN. If you need a Dutch based IP address VPN, use mine: (if you don’t know how to set it up, just google it. sorry there’s too many OS’es to cover all the instructions)
PPTP VPN
address: vpn.joshlam.com
username: joshlam1 to joshlam10
password: joshlamvpn
Alright, once you’ve connected, hit up this website. Under “1. Choose a product”, select “Open, It’s free!”. Fill in your account details and submit. Now, connect to the Dutch VPN every 2 weeks when your Spotify client does a location check. Hope that helps everyone! 
This doesn’t work anymore, see above for update. UPDATE: You don’t need an invite anymore. Here’s how you get Spotify without an invite: Use this web proxy with a French IP address and enter this URL: https://www.spotify.com/en/get-started/. Click yes to the warning and sign up using the Zip Code “69008″. Download the Spotify client and sign in. Done.
This isn’t Entrepreneurial at all. But in case you didn’t know, Spotify is the best free music streaming service ever. In my words:
It’s like having your whole iTunes library (but more), without the GB’s on your hard drive. And you can take it anywhere. It’s free and legal too, unlike your LimeWire music collection.
Eww, streaming. I hate streaming. That’s what I thought. But once you try Spotify, you’ll never to back to listening to YouTube videos. Period.
So why isn’t everyone using Spotify if it’s so great then?
1. Because you have to in Sweden, Norway, Finland, the United Kingdom, France or Spain. I sorted that excuse out for you already. Read this blog post “How To: Access Spotify from Anywhere!“.
2. You need to be invited.
Leave a comment below (enter your real email address in the email box) and I’ll send you an Invite within 24 hours. Excuse gone too. Don’t worry if I run out. I have loads (i.e. 100+) to giveaway.
I wrote this blog post after a bunch of Finnish people kept asking me for Spotify invites. Direct quote from one of them: “you are somekind of legend here cause my friend told about you and that you can help ”.
In Finnish: Kirjoitin tämän artikkelin jälkeen joukko Suomen kansan kysyi minulta Spotify kutsuu. Suora lainaus yhdeltä heistä: “Olet somekind tarujen tässä syy ystäväni kertoi sinusta ja että voit auttaa ”. No, haluan antaa kaikille Spotify kutsuu. Niin jätä kommentti, ja lähetän sinulle yhden.
HideIpVPN: Free UK and US VPN (50 Invites!)
Want to watch Hulu? Or BBC iPlayer? Use Spotify or Pandora? How about all of
them? These web services check your IP address to determine which country you are. For example, Hulu can only be used within the United States. In order to bypass this restriction, you’ll need to “trick” the website into believing you’re in Unites States, you can use an US IP address. There are two main ways: Web-proxies and VPN services. Web-proxies are often unreliable, show adverts and slow. Meanwhile, many VPN services requires a monthly fee to use. Well now you can with HideIpVPN. HideIpVPN is a brand new, and the only VPN service with an US and UK server.
What makes HideIpVPN special?
Advantages
- Hides your real IP address – provides a level of security and anonymity.
- Secure connection between your PC and the Internet (128-2048bit)
- Encrypts and compresses all traffic including Email, IRC, FTP, DNS, VOIP, instant messengers.
- Bypasses your ISP’s traffic shaping, including traffic throttling.
- No Logs are kept
- Anonymous Internet Surfing
- Amazing High Speed
Unlike HotSpot Shield, the speed is awesome. I got 1.5Mb/s using their UK server.
- Access sites restricted to US and UK residents.
This means you get the best of worlds across the pond. You get to use UK sites (BBC iPlayer, Spotify) and US sites (Hulu, Pandora, ABC, Fox, Amazon Video on Demand etc).
- No additional software is required (using the PPTP protocol)
- Works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
Disadvantages
Yes. There’s always bad news.
- No P2P or Torrenting allowed.
Which means you can’t download The.Taking.of.Pendlum.123.DVDRip.MAXSPEED.torrent using HideIpVPN. Nor OpenOffice.org. Sorry.
- Only 100 free accounts are available per month on a first come, first serve basis.
- Free Service only has PPTP, not OpenVPN which is more secure.
Premium Service
HideIpVPN also offers a premium service with OpenVPN, rather that the free PPTP, which is more secure. If you need more security, I suggest using this plan. In summary, you’ll get:
- OpenVPN access (instead of the less secure PPTP)
- Dedicated static IP UK/US Addresses.
- Faster transfer speeds
Exclusive Invites!
Now when I mean free, yes it’s free. But HideIpVPN only provides 100 free accounts per month and the October ones are all gone already. But here’s the good news. Josh Lam dot com has 50 Invites for the free HideIpVPN
service. How do you get them? Follow the instructions below:
1. Use this special link.
2. When checking out, use the promo code “JOSHLAM”.
3. The cost of the product will be $0. Continue checking out.
Comparison: The 13 Twitter Advertising Networks (Update)
Make Money by Tweeting Adverts
1. MyLikes – So Far I’ve made $226.78
MyLikes is a new advertising network created by two ex-Google employees as an advertising alternative to Google’s AdSense. MyLikes allows you to create “Likes” of certain products. Advertisers can then allow publishers to
post “Sponsored Likes” on to their twitter account as a tweet (as well as Blogger blogs posts). MyLikes is currently the best advertising network for those with a low number of followers, as the payout amount is an industry-low of just $2. Instead of trying to reach $50 or even $100 just to cash out to PayPal, any small publishers can rely on MyLikes. The payments are also automatic, meaning that you won’t have to manually request a payout. The average cost per click is $0.48 – this means you only need 5 clicks per ad to cash out to PayPal! That’s amazingly easy.
Recommended for Twitter accounts with low number of followers.
2. Sponsored Tweets – So far I’ve made $612.13
Sponsored Tweets is IZEA’s brand new advertising network. IZEA is a social media marketing company and the world leader in sponsored conversations. IZEA operates a network of over 250000 bloggers and 25000 advertisers. Izea has numerous sponsored advertising networks prior to SponsoredTweets, including PayPerPost and SocialSpark. This being said, SponsoredTweets is geared more towards Web Celebrities like John Chow and Shoemoney, although smaller tweeters will still get opportunities.
Recommended for those with high number of followers (ie. 10,000+).
3. ad.ly – S0 far I’ve made $1490.88
ad.ly, not to be confused with adf.ly below, is the latest Twitter Advertising network, having just launched on the 22nd of September. Again, similar to Sponsored Tweets above, this service mostly caters to high
end advertisers (my two advertisers were Microsoft and NBC) wanting to connect with celebrities and other high-end Twitter users. In fact, founder and CEO Sean Rad says that he wants Ad.ly to be the Federated Media for Twitter. They have an impressive list of high-profile celebrities, including Kim Kardashian, Brooke Burke, Nicole Richie, Brody Jenner, Dr. Drew and Samantha Ronson.
Recommended for those with high number of followers (ie. 10,000+).
4. TwittAd – So far I’ve made $817.72
TwittAd is the original (and the first) Twitter advertising network. Currently, the payment system 
is “Pay Per Opportunity”,where you sell your background and allow 3 advertising tweet on your twitter account for a sett time (usually 7 days). Although there aren’t many opportunities, once in a while an opportunity once pop up, and it can be quite high paying too (one was $100! for just 7 days).
Recommended for those with a medium number of followers (ie. in the thousands).
5. RevTwt - So far I’ve made $165.99
Although RevTwt‘s website does look like a scam, I’ll admit it’s not a scam. RevTwt advertising are placed as a tweet, which is displaye
d on your Twitter Profile. There are no disclaimers for the ads, so your followers may find it hard to distinguish between ads and real tweets. Unlike Magpie though, RevTwt pays per click, not per view (a.k.a. Pay-Per-Tweet). This allows the system to be more open to click fraud, similar to Google AdSense, although their system in place seems to be able to detect fraud pretty well, by looking at RevTwt’s Twitter profile. If you have over 8,000 followers, you become part of RevTwt‘s Elite program, with higher paying ads up to $0.20 per click. Normal adverts pays around $0.05 per click.
Update: MyLikes’ average is $0.48 per click. You can earn 5 times more with MyLikes compared with RevTwt.
6. Be-A-Magpie – So far I’ve made $429.70
Be-A-Magpie, a company located in Germany, places relevant advert “tweets” which are placed along with your existing tweets. They pay according to 4 different models: pay per view, pay per click, pay per lead and pay per sale. Just like any other Entrepreneurial Teenager would do, I signed up for this service (with a sub account) to experiment with it. At first, the adverts were about Magpie itself, or Magpie’s parent company’s other product called Stock Pilot. And then I discovered they paid an extremely high €20-30 per pay-per-view tweet. You can cash out after you reach €50. Now, simple maths can tell you that with only 2 magpie tweets, you can get up to €50 in your PayPal already! So you might be asking, I made $429.70 (or €323.90) from something as simple as this? Well, it’s the truth. Read the blog post about Magpie, with the PayPal payment proof.
Update: Seems pretty inactive now. I’m not receiving any more ads from Magpie.
7. PayMeTweets
PayMeTweets pays you to retweet sponsors. In my opinion, they pay so ridiculously low (less than $0.100 CPM per retweet, or less than $0.10 per 1000 followers) it’s not even worth it. With my @joshlam account (with 45,000+ followers), the ads pay $0.20-$0.80, which is really low when compared to Sponsored Tweets ($110 per tweet) or Magpie (€32/$46 per tweet).
8. TweetROI
Unlike PayMeTweets, the payment terms are more reasonable. The highest tweet pays $2.5, and with a $50 payout, this isn’t too bad. Similarly to the other smaller advertising networks, there doesn’t seem like many opportunities available.
9. AdCause
AdCause is a Twitter advertising network with a twist. They allow you to donate a portion (or all of) your earnings to a specific charity of your choice. While this seems like a good idea, there doesn’t seem like a load of advertisers on this network once again.
10. twivert
Twivert is a Pay Per Click advertising network, similar to RevTwt above. On average, the payment terms is $0.01 per click. Sign up though this promotional link to get a $5 bonus. Overall, the payout is one of the lowest compared to the other networks, although the earning potential seems quite low.
Make money by Shortening URL’s
11. adf.ly
Adf.ly or “AdFly” is a Pay-Per-Impression advertising network. Unlike other networks, adf.ly shows an ad while your visitor is being transfer to their link – which might be an annoyance to your followers. Payment is based on CPM, with up to $1.5CPM for US visitors to $0.50CPM for International Visitors. View this sample shortened link http://adf.ly/59/joshlam where an ad (in my case this was simply adf.ly‘s website) is shown before being redirected to joshlam.com. Notice the “Skip Ad” button at the top right.
12. Tweetbucks
Tweetbucks allow you to make money via affiliate links, abet Tweetbucks will take a portion of the affiliate earnings per sale. To 
be honest, this is really a lazy man’s way to not signing up to ClickBank, Commission Junction or Amazon Associates and just create the links yourself. By signing up to these networks yourself, no third-party will take a portion of your earnings, which will mean more money for you.
13. adjix.com
Those shortened URL’s contain an iFrame which contains ads. The payouts are quite low compared to the two other service I mentioned above. I only suggest using Adjix if you have a large base of followers, otherwise you’ll find it quite hard to monetize this service. Personally, I don’t actually like this service much.
(14. Revtwt)
Revtwt has been previously mentioned above as a Pay-Per-Click network, but they also allow you to make money by Shortening Links.
Scams
As much as I’ll like to promote some of these companies, I have to shame some companies as well. These companies are unlikely to pay you any money, even though you’ve tweeted their ads. Do not sign up for these networks. Here’s the list:
YakBurst
YakBurst is a scam. They will not pay you any requested funds from your account. It states that payments will be made from the 1st to the 15th every month. I’ve still haven’t received a singly payment from them yet from a request made 2 months ago. www.yakburst.com
I am currently reviewing the following sites: Adapt.ly, TwtMob.com, CrowdRally.com. As soon as I get accepted / paid I will add them here.
| Network | Advertisting Model | Disclourse | Referral Program? | Mininium Payout | Payment Options |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MyLikes | Pay Per Click | Required, Shown as: #ad | Yes | $2 | PayPal |
| Sponsored Tweets | Pay Per Tweet | Required, Customizeable | No | $50 | PayPal |
| Ad.ly | Pay Per Tweet | Required, Shown as: (Ad) | Yes | $50 | PayPal, check |
| RevTwt | Pay Per Click | None | Yes | $20 | PayPal, check at $100 |
| TwittAd | Pay Per "Opportunity" (usually 3 tweets and your background) | Required | Yes | $30 | PayPal |
| Be-a-Magpie | Pay Per Lead and Pay Per Tweet | Required, but Custom | Yes | 50 | PayPal |
| AdCause | Pay Per "Opportunity" | None | No | $25 | PayPal |
| Pay Me Tweets | Pay Per Tweet | None | No | $50 | PayPal |
| TweetROI | Pay Per Tweet | None | No | $50 | PayPal |
| twivert | Pay Per Click | None | No | $30 | PayPal |
| adf.ly | Pay Per Impression | None | Yes | $25 | PayPal |
| tweetbucks | Pay Per Lead | None | Yes | $25 | PayPal |
| adjix | Pay Per Impression | None | No | $25 | Cheque |
Changelog:
16/05/2011 Update 3: Updated earnings amount, Currently Reviewing List.
18/04/2010 Update 2: Added MyLikes, new jQuery sortable table and updated earnings amount
20/10/2010 Update 1: Added ad.ly and updated new earnings amount
You know you’re popular when..
..someone completely rip-offs your blog post.
http://tiluk.blogspot.com/2009/09/dapat-duit-dari-twitter.html
Doesn’t that article look exactly my article here? That’s because whoever owns tiluk.blogspot.com completely ripped it off my blog, without permission at all. There’s not even a link to my blog or article. I only realised it’s been copied by checking the inbound links of joshlam.com, where the PayPal image is hosted in the article.
Meanwhile, I’ve just sent a DMCA takedown notice to Google. Hopefully they’ll take down this website soon.
I’ve made my First $1000 Online!
That’s right, today, the 1th of August is a milestone! I’ve made a total of US$1058.77 from the Internet (With absolutely no initial investment at all!) It only seemed like yesterday that I’ve made my first ever $100 on the 8th March 2009, with my first Google AdSense cheque. Remember, this is not an instant feat; I started all the way back in October last year. There’s no thing in life that’s completely instant (even ramen takes 3 minutes to cook). I can teach you how to be like me, but in the end, it all comes down to your patience.
So what’s next? My next goal is to reach $10,000 by next year, which is a lot of money. No I’m not money crazy like the guy it the picture above , as I haven’t even spent much of my money yet, except for bills to keep my website going, and lending money to help friends start their own websites as well.
Oh well, I’m going to have a new blog post soon about how I made $1000 online. Watch out for it, meanwhile, do me a favor and subscribe to my blog
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RevTwt.com: Twitter Scam or Money Maker?
| Update: I now recommend MyLikes. You can make 5 times as much per click with MyLikes, as compared to RevTwt. Read the Blog Post about MyLikes here |
Once again, there’s another Twitter Advertising Network on the interwebs. Many people think 
their website looks too scammy to be true. Well, we’re going to find out.
Similar to Magpie, RevTwt advertising are placed as a tweet, which is displayed on your Twitter Profile. There are no disclaimers for the ads, so your followers may find it hard to distinguish between ads and real tweets. Unlike Magpie though, RevTwt pays per click, not per view (a.k.a. Pay-Per-Tweet). This allows the system to be more open to click fraud, like Google AdSense, although their system in place seems to be able to detect fraud pretty well, by looking at RevTwt’s Twitter profile.
Anyways, back to the experiment. In RevTwt, I entered my (test) Twitter account information and set it to automatically post an ad a day. This Twitter account has more than 22,000 followers. I was given the title of an “Elite Twitterer”, since I had over 8,000 followers (Which isn’t hard to do). Being an Elite Twitterer, I was given access to special adverts, wish paid more than the normal adverts. The highest is 20 cents a click, although the wherether the click is counted are based on a per country basis, which is different for each advert.
Simple math can show that if you tweet an advert worth 20 cents per click and get 10 clicks, you’ll get 2 dollars a day. That’s not much, but that amounts to $62 per month, or $744 a year! That $62 could cover your monthly phone bill easily, or it could even pay for a pretty nice meal.
Well here’s my verdict: RevTwt is NOT a Scam.
I’ve made a total of $71.69 from RevTwt so far, but I’m sure I could make even more if I tried even harder, e.g. placing more adverts.
Check my PayPal history below:
I’m not asking you to buy anything. Nor am I asking you to pay me for this information. But I suggest that you check out RevTwt – it’s one of those money makers that need little no work at all, except you should tweet often (hopefully you already do), and requesting payment (don’t forget to check) once you hit the $20 payment threshold. Done.
How I Made $429.70 By Doing Almost Nothing On Twitter
7th Jan Update: Magpie used to be a great money-maker. But there doesn’t seem to be any advertisers anymore. Visit this blog post comparing 12 Twitter Advertising Networks to join other networks.
Okay, I lied. I didn’t just use Twitter. I signed up for Magpie as well.
So what is Magpie? As many of you know, there’s currently a controversial new Twitter Advertising Company called Magpie, a company located in Germany. Magpie places relevant advert “tweets” which are placed along with your existing tweets. They pay according to 4 different models: pay per view, pay-per-click, pay per lead and pay per sale. Many people don’t like having adverts in
Just like any other Entrepreneurial Teenager would do, I signed up for this service (with a sub account) to experiment with it. At first, the adverts were about Magpie itself, or Magpie’s parent company’s other product called Stock Pilot. And then I discovered they paid an extremely high €20-30 per pay-per-view tweet. You can cash out after you reach €50. Now, simple maths can tell you that with only 2 magpie tweets, you can get up to €50 in your PayPal already! An example of the tweets are shown below.
So you might be asking, I made $429.70 (or €323.90) from something as simple as this? Well, it’s the truth. Check out my PayPal history:
Not Bad. So that’s all there is to the Magpie program. There’s so little work involved, anyone could earn a few euros with no experience.
I know Twitter is for real people, and asks the question “What are you doing right now?”, not “What are you advertising right now? “. But these magpie are actually relevant to your normal tweets, making them less like “advertising”, and sometimes they make it hard for someone to realize if it’s an ad or a real tweet.
Therefore, I’m closing the experiment down. But if you’ll like to experiment with Magpie and prehaps earn a few dollars euros, I suggest you to sign up for Magpie. Who knows, you might even get a few hundreds euros just like me!
Tell me how Magpie worked out for you in the comments! I’ll love to know!
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Last Chance For Shoemoney X
Shoemoney Motive Contest
Wow. Shoemoney just announced his new contest with Motive Interactive for June. And instead of just having one way of winning, there are three ways of winning fabulous prizes! So you have 3x the chances of winning!
For the Publisher who earns $500,000 or above with Motion, the top prize includes 2 First Class Tickets to Las Vegas, 2 nights Stay at the Wynn’s Fairway Villa, Bottle Service at Club Tryst and $5,000 Cash.
If you just tweet and/or blog (like me), you’ll still get a chance to win an iPod shuffle every week or a Xbox 360 Elite, just by tweeting or blogging about the contest!
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