Help me! I'm new.
By faithluv2
@faithluv2 (19)
Philippines
August 7, 2009 5:14am CST
Hello eveyone. I've just signed up in myLot.
I have a lot's of questions about this.
1) How do I upload a picture?
2) How do I earn money here?
3) How much will I earn?
1 response
@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
7 Aug 09
You earn according to a complicated proprietary system which we are not allowed to speculate about (see the Guidelines). It depends on the quality of your participation here. Just how much you will earn depends on you - how much time you spend, how worthwhile your posts are and so on. As a guide, there are quite a few who, with application, make around $10 a month but it does take practice and understanding of what MyLot is about.
The other questions are all well answered by the FAQs.
@faithluv2 (19)
• Philippines
7 Aug 09
So if I post a relevant content, I would earn better? What's the maximum amount you can get per post? I just want to know so I can do my best in here. I don't want to do stuff without knowing how it works.
@faithluv2 (19)
• Philippines
7 Aug 09
And one more thing, do the ratings help and those stars with numbers? :-)
@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
12 Aug 09
There is no known 'maximum' amount (but the 'minimum' amount is zero!)
The algorithm (the way they work out the earnings) is complicated and I am quite sure is not simply based on a 'score per post'. As I said, we aren't allowed to speculate but I can assure you that the average user is not able to say accurately what might be earned for any particular post.
The best way to be here is not to worry about what you earn. The important thing about MyLot is contributing to and making good discussions: see the earnings as a bonus not as a goal. I can promise that the more you concentrate on meaningful and thoughtful responses and discussions, the more your earnings are likely to increase.
Many people use MyLot to improve their English, learn about new things, make friends and to generally enjoy themselves. There are those (I am sure you have seen them) who come on here blasting their trumpets about the sites you should join [as their referrals, of course] and so on. They are people who are hot and hasty and have not read the rules (or simply think they don't apply to them). You find them, unfortunately, in every forum and they are generally very quickly banned and removed. In MyLot, if you respond to such "discussions", when the discussion is removed, so is your response to it (and the cent or two you might have earned).
Learn the rules here ... the Guidelines are just examples of what you should and should not do ... honour them and try to make sure that others do too. That is what being part of a community is about. If you joined MyLot in the hope of making easy money, I advise you to forget that. MyLot, by itself, is not a money-spinner ... $10 a month is achievable for many (and some make more) but, even if that is your goal, you must expect to build up to it and work for it.
The real secret to earning from any system or project you care to mention is:
1) to understand what it does - and is good for - and to accept it for what it is
2) to know that, if you want to benefit from anything, you have to put work, commitment, something of yourself into it (and sometimes 'giving' is a way of 'promoting'), in other words, by giving something away for free and without limitation, you are increasing your reputation and credence and therefore making yourself an 'expert' in what you want to sell.
3) to care more and, indeed, only about people (who may be your customers or potential customers or just anybody) rather than your products (which may have taken you hours to produce or may be just 'things' you have bought in and just need to sell to make a profit). It isn't your 'products' (whether is be a candle you have made, an article you have written or a program you want to entice someone to join) but the people who are interested in them - or not - that should concern you!
What I am saying is that, once you find a place where you can give of yourself without expecting a 'return', then you are liable to find yourself rich in abundance and beyond your expectations (and that mere $$$ are only a part of it)!