Brring-Brring! Calling All Money Makers!
Making money online is pretty easy but those who have made the mega-bucks doing it are the people who have managed to successfully bring their online knowledge into the offline world.
For example, consider affiliate marketing - the great part about doing it online is that you can reach literally millions of people with the click of a button but the downside is that most of them won’t trust you enough to actually make a purchase or sign-up to anything. On the flip side, earning commissions offline only lets you reach a small number of people but it’s exponentially easier to build trust and make the sale.
Hence, I was extremely interested when I heard about a service called Brring!
It’s a new concept that appears to bring online advertising concepts into an offline world.
How Brring! works
Brring! helps you make money by playing an ad to a caller when they call you on your phone.
How it works is that when you sign-up with Brring!, you’ll be given a unique phone number which you can then give out to people. When they call that number, they’ll hear a short 10-second ad before being redirected to your regular number and connected to you.
When the caller first dials the Brring! number they’ll connect to Brring! and hear the ad. Once the ad is finished, they’ll be connected to your regular number to talk to you.
You still get to keep your regular number and if you don’t want some people (like your boss) to hear an ad, you can just give them your regular number and they’ll connect to you directly like a usual call.
Useful features and how much you’ll earn
If you give someone a Brring! number, there are rules in place so that those who use your Brring! number don’t hear the same ads repeatedly.
Another cool concept is that you get to choose the area code for your new Brring! number. You could grab an area code from the rich part of town and impress all your friends!
According to the Brring! FAQ, you’ll typically receive around $0.05 per ad played but some ads can earn up to $1. Sounds a lot like Adsense on your phone!
The service is 100% free to join and right now they’ve got a special offer where you can earn $1 for the first 10 calls that you receive.
There’s an affiliate program too
The Brring! affiliate program is quite unique in that it can be used by groups or individuals and each referral made will earn $1.
For example, I could start an affiliate fundraising group with my local archery club and invite all 50 members to join Brring! They could each then pledge 100% of their Brring! earnings to the group. If each of them were to then get 5 referrals each, there would 300 people joined and Brring! would send a check to the fundraising group for $300.
Furthermore, selling the idea to a group of people that you know offline will be a lot easier than to a bunch of strangers online!
This could be a moneymaker
The downside to the system is obviously that your friends may get a little annoyed at hearing ads whenever they call you and they may stop calling. However, I see other potential uses for the program.
If you’re like me, your name and phone number has somehow found itself on some annoying telemarketer’s list which then got sold to someone else and you now receive quite a few annoying phone calls from people trying to sell you vacations and timeshare apartments.
The Brring! service may just let you make money from those sales calls!
You could easily keep your regular number just for your friends and family and then whenever you’re asked to give your phone number online or when you buy something - use your Brring! number!!
When you’re called back by all those sales people and telemarketers, they’ll hear an ad and you’ll make money!
Sweet revenge for all those 3am phone calls selling lottery tickets!
Who you gonna call?
Is it a huge moneymaker? That depends on how many calls you get!
Three or four calls a day on a Brring! number could be the same as getting an extra three or four Adsense clicks and it adds an extra income stream to your earnings.
Personally, I really like the idea of using it a “giveaway number” to keep your regular number private and to make money from those calls from annoying telemarketers.
If you’d like to try out the service, you can call (718) 337-8746 and hear an example of the type of ads that your callers will here.
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That is a USA number at the end. Just thought you guys should know.
by Israel
sounds like a quid pro quo and an extra revenge bump for those annoying telemarketers. my kind of game.
by johnCard
I wonder if you can attach it to a 1-800 number.
by Steve
Is this only open to the US residents or internationally?
by Etienne Teo
It sounds great but I don’t think it is suit for all country…
Kumiko, where’s country provide this service???
by shy guy
Blech. Can we please not have every facet of our lives attacked by marketing? Sure you’ll make money, but at what cost?
by Arthur
ohhhhhhhhh…..that is SWEET - i’m gonna take my number off the do not call list. WOt wOt!
by jackbravo
I wonder how well this would interact with predictive dialers that do most sales and collection calls.
I also wonder how this would affect the ability to caller ID screen calls.
by Frank C
Lol I get a bunch of spammy callers trying to sell me crap so that would be fun but it would confuse the heck out of my poor mother!
by Caroline Middlebrook
I get about 2 phone calls from friends a day.
So I could earn maybe 60 bucks a month just to annoy my friends.
A good idea would be to get a new phone with a new number. Then apply brrrring to the new number and spam the brrrrring number all over the internet. Finally set You new phone to silent mode so it won’t annoy You.
Unfortunately I live in a country where phone marketing hardly exists. I have a mobile phone for more than 6 years so far and not received even one single marketing call.
However I get spammed by marketing textmessages. Does brrrring have an answer to these?
by YoLearnChinese
Okay, question: I’m not seeing information on how or when this Brring service pays out. Am I just missing it, or do they not have that information up there at all?
Seems rather half-assed, even for a beta test…
by Aedon