Atm I'm trying to make some money with bum marketing techniques, but because I saw the ad for free 50 dollars worth of clicks I thought that I'll try PPC. Now I've registered my acc (I had to choose Starter edition to get free credits) and gave em my credit card. Here is the joke, I have a message on my adwords account that I have to pay initial 10$ to start the campains. And I've already given them 5$ to activate the account. Weird, eh? Will I get the free $50 in the next few days or must I pay some more money for the account to be activated? Has anyone already recieved the bonus? Thanks for help in advance PS: here is the link if anyone wants to get the bonus http://services.google.com/marketing/links/awo_smb2007_10/
It is a marketing tactic by google that has proved to be quite successful. Basically, you get the $50 free (-$5 admin) after you deposit actual money. The $50 is non-existant money that costs google nothing... you can look at it as a 'trial' at a reduced rate (as you have to deposit $10 or so and have the card validated etc). Other webhosts then can use this as an added bonus to duping customers into taking out webhosting packages that are not really suitable, but the incentive is that you get 'free' stuff like $50 adwords credit. Basically google want to get some real money from you so that they simply do not have people only using the free credit... nothing illegal what they are doing, it is just another way how marketing is used to give people the sense they are getting something for free when they are actually paying for it.
Usually it's just the activation fee that will be charged, maybe contact them and ask why? Also it says you will get the credit after 2 business days (I'm guessing this is 2 business days after paying the activation costs) Brennan
Ganceann, thanks for your reply, it really made this thing clearer Brennan, yeah I approved the $5 payment for activation of my account but if I go to the Billing Summary section I can see those $5 being there at Charge, but the actual Payment is 0, so it seems as if they can't charge me $5 until I actually buy the smallest amount of clicks (minimum= $10). Weird. So my balance is -$5 as written under the Balance remaining section even though they stated that those $5 will be used as a payment for activation AND for $5 worth of clicks. I'll wait for a few more days and contact them then. Thanks for tips
Yes, the catch was that even since the account activation is $5 the smallest payment possible is $10. Bah, even though I don't like their ways I still gave them the $10 they were expecting from the very start... But that's okay... I'll wait for the free $50 worth of clicks now and hopefully make more then $10
I doubt it... However, you can try to make another account with a different credit card on the upper link .... I'm no adwords expert so make sure that this is not a violation of googles TOS
what they do is take it out of the $50.00 they give you once you enter your cc info. If you would like me to go into further detail on how to do this feel free to pm me