CashJuice is a social network for online entrepreneurs. "No, not another one" you may say. Exactly. But it's a relatively small community, which means your engagement value will be not as wider as Facebook or Twitter but it will be closer, which could be a good thing. The members include quite a few marketing experts that I personally know. So today in my CashJuice review, I'll explain what you can do to gain greater exposure for your business. Free to use but a pro option is also available.
CashJuice allows you to promote your business to other business owners. It allows you to;
- Post updates - Just like Facebook posts, allowing you to place link URLs and an image in the post. Affiliate links are allowed.
- Post "rotator campaigns" - have your post updates advertised on the CashJuice phone app. As the name suggests, your post update will show up on the app randomly among other members' updates.
- Follow other members, message each other, "like" each other's posts and leave comments.
- Join an ad exchange community (Traffic Ad Bar) and promote any sites (up to 5 sites).
- Follow other members, message each other, "like" each other's posts and leave comments.
- Extra advertisement on CashJuice members' dashboard - but this is a paid option. $5 for 5,000 impressions.
Free Membership
CashJuice is free to use, but there are some limited restrictions. As a free member, you can only post 3 x updates every 24 hours, run one rotator campaign at a time, and follow up to 200 members.
An upgrade is available for $29.50 (one-time fee), allowing you to post up to 10 x updates every 24 hours, run 5 x rotator campaigns simultaneously, and the maximum members you can follow will increase to 500. The upgrade option also includes free 5,000 impressions for the dashboard ads.
Pro Membership
Once you've paid $29.50 and have your account upgraded, there will also be a further "pro" (monthly premium membership) option available. It will cost $4.95 for the first month, $19.99 per month thereafter.
The pro option will allow you to post an unlimited number of updates, unlimited number of rotator campaigns, set auto messages to your referrals/followers but the maximum members you can follow will be 1,000.
Money-Back Guarantee
CashJuice is a ClickBank product and it promises a 56-day (8 weeks) money-back guarantee, so if you've paid for an upgrade but not happy, you can claim your money back via your ClickBank receipt.
20,000 Members?
The homepage does say "20,000+ members" however, within 24 hours of joining I saw my ranking ("League Position") shot up to around 500th. From the 3rd day onwards, my position is yo-yo-ing around 300th. (The position is updated every 10 minutes.) This shows that there may be 20,000+ registered users but the number of active users may be as low as 300-500?
It's not a bad thing, it means less competition - the smaller the community is, the deeper the engagement value can be. Your campaigns in the "rotator" will appear more frequently.
Earn Commissions
There are 2 ways to earn commissions;
- When you refer CashJuice to others and each time your referral upgrades their account of pays for CashJuice services such as paid ads. You will earn 15% of whatever they spend.
- This is only available if you are an upgraded member - earn commissions based on your activity, the activity of your referrals and downline. The more active you and your team members are, the more commissions you will receive
It's a traffic exchange site, where members promote their business with one another. You click any of the sites listed in the top bar, view a site for 10 seconds and earn a few points each time. You can use the points to promote up to 5 webpages (affiliate pages are allowed).
I personally don't have a lot of positive things to say about traffic exchange, unfortunately... The advantages may be;
However, traffic exchange has quite a few disadvantages;
No Point In "Exchanging Traffic"
The idea of "traffic" exchange is outdated now - in the old days, the number of visitors to your website would have affected the search engine ranking position but that algorithm is long gone. No matter how many people visit your site, 10 seconds of the visit each (then to leave) will add zero value in terms of SEO.
"Me, Me, Me"
Traffic/ad exchanges site is basically where everyone has an opportunity to sell themselves. The flip side of it is, members are hoping to draw the attention of other entrepreneurs, whilst barely any of them is interested in anyone else's businesses. It's a "me, me, me, look at me!" platform.
Landing Pages with Outdated Design
Landing pages that appear in a traffic exchange site often look outdated. And as you keep browsing, you'll soon notice that the majority of the landing pages are for "make money online" products. You may also soon come across with the same old catchphrases over & over again, such as;
- "Complete Autopilot"
- "24/7 Like Clockwork!"
- "Ka-ching!"
- "Make $3,456.78 in 7 Days!"
As online marketers, we all know that these typical phrases can only appeal to first-timers or get-rich-quick dreamers. Yet they keep appearing in traffic exchange, i.e. targeting fellow marketers. They're not very beneficial to the members.
10 Seconds - You Don't Even Have To View
As soon as you click a link at the top bar, the 10-second timer starts. But you don't even have to be physically viewing each site for 10 seconds. You can keep doing something else on a different tab of the browser, come back to Traffic Ad Bar from time to time and click. Imagine everyone else is doing it, then your ad won't be properly viewed either.
CashJuice App
