Textual earnings?

borders_dude

I seen this on the aqa2u website:

Basically you sign up for free, offering some kind of information/service via text, you then advertise your special shortcode and the bucks start rolling in.

Well thats the simple version anyways.

Anybody do this to make some extra cash?

PasturesNew

No, I could never think of any information that people would pay to receive, coupled with the text length limitation.

borders_dude

PasturesNew wrote: »

No, I could never think of any information that people would pay to receive, coupled with the text length limitation.

That was my problem, although only found it today so am giving it some thought.

PasturesNew

borders_dude wrote: »

That was my problem, although only found it today so am giving it some thought.

Do the maths. Think about the cost of marketing.
Unless you are already tapping into a huge marketplace of niche info, it'd be a hard slog to get anybody signing up.

You get £0.07/text sent and you can send 14 per month. So for each subscriber you have a maximum of £0.98/month you can make from them.

Get 10 subscribers and that's £9.80/month.

Have you ever tried to get anybody to sign up to anything before? It's darned hard, especially if they're paying for it.

Then, where is the information coming from? You have to find the data/info/whatever they are paying for and fit it into 151 characters and actually send it out periodically throughout the month.... enough to hit the 14 texts max, without clumping them together and annoying them so they cancel.

Unless you already have a service/business/marketplace to tap into it's really not worth the effort.

Apart from that, the only route to take it to try to corner the needy and vulnerable and trap them into receiving stuff that's just b0ll0x and made up old tosh.

jasonwatkins

i'm sure there's another thread on this here where I did work out the number of subscribers you needed for your service to make it worthwhile and it was a huge number ..

i shall see if i can dig it out ..

*edit*

I didn't get it quite right, but i did find the thread here

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1637103&highlight=

Basically, Aqa charge you 10p to approve each text, so if you keep doing it for a while and don't get any subscribers then you actually end up out of pocket.