Here's what the people trying to get you to sign up for Yuwie don't tell you:- It's new - and it's obvious sometimes. - According to "The Y Guy" (Yuwie's answer to everyone's friend on MySpace, Tom) they have been adding to their server capacity due to various problems caused by the explosive growth in traffic they've experienced. The main symptom being an extremely slow website at times. The most recent bout has apparently been cured, and according to Y Guy, hopefully it will last for awhile before they need to add more capacity again. In other words, chalk it up to growing pains, but it can be frustrating to deal with at times. I will say their customer service was fairly quick to respond when I recently emailed them a technical question. I received an instant automated response to verify receipt of my question, followed by a helpful answer from their technician in less than 24 hours...so their communication is pretty good.
- Getting Paid - it takes longer than you might expect. - The money you earn is totaled monthly, but actually paid on Net 60 terms. This means they pay you for each month's earnings about two months later. The reason, they explain, is that it takes about this long to get paid by their advertisers. Also, their mimimum payment amount is $25.00...so it may take quite awhile for you to reach that minimum. And here's why:
- The earnings themselves...they're just not very much. (So far, anyway.) - Much like most any other program you find that pays you for doing something that's incredibly easy...this one just doesn't pay very much. For September, 2007 they paid their members 10% of their earnings payout, based on a rate of .46 per 1000 member page views. (Example: Members with 5000 page views earned 23 cents.) The belief is that this pay rate is likely to increase as the site's popularity (and earnings) grow. If it wasn't for also earning a percentage of your referrals' page views as well, it would hardly be worthwhile. Obviously, most people aren't concerned about this because Yuwie is certainly growing by leaps and bounds. And it is, afterall, more than MySpace pays their members! But still, the earnings being so low (at least so far) leaves most people looking elsewhere for how to increase your Yuwie earnings.
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