It has been a while since I’ve posted about any alternative income streams. There is a new service called Brring! that allows you to get paid when your friends call. You play them a 10 second ad before the call forwards to you. Basically you set up a phone number with Brring! that forwards to your actual phone number but first plays the ad. You get paid $0.05 per call but right now they are paying $1.00 each for the first ten calls.
I’ve just signed up for the service so I can’t vouch for how well it works yet. Even though I’m a Tight Fisted Miser I consider it a little tacky to try to make money off my friends calling me. I plan to use this number for anybody other than friends and work. It will be nice to make some money off the telemarketers for a change. They are also paying $1.00 for each referral you invite. I’m going to give this service a try and if it doesn’t work than I’ll just stop using the number. If you’d like to try it you can sign up by clicking on the banner below.
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I’ve been “enrolled” for about a month. The quality of the message is not all that great, and is, indeed, pretty obnoxious. I, too, am giving out the number to folks I suspect would sell to a telemarketer. Last night a credit card company tried to call about something. Pretty entertaining to realize they were being as annoyed as they are annoying! (When I spoke with a rep, I simply said it was a number used to forward calls as necessary. Made $2 off them!)
Nice side benefit is their caller ID which I don’t have on our phone, being, well, stingy.
Glad to hear it works. I think the plan of just giving it to those who sell it to telemarketers is the best way to go.
My first thought when I saw this post was “Ooooh, that will lead to some major annoyances for telemarketers! Awesome…” I am glad that they offer some insurance that you can turn the message off for people you know, because I would not feel comfortable with my friends and family having to listen to an ad just to call me.
Jerry
http://www.leads4insurance.com
oh wow… how annoying, but pretty cool to make money from getting calls. How do they track fraud? I mean, couldn’t I set this up on my home phone and then just call from my cell 50 times a day? Seems like they would try to discourage that.
WOW- I’m sure they have some kind of limit on calls from one number in a day or some other way to detect fraud. There probably are lots of people coming up with schemes to cheat some money out of the deal though.
Wow, that’s a pretty good way to limit the number of friends calling you
Tight Fisted Miser – Do you have any updates on this alternative income stream? I am also looking to add to my passive income streams!
PFI- They nixed the .05 per call which makes this not worthwhile to me. I’m just going to cash out my $10 and leave it at that.