"Scratchback enables me to offer cheap, Google-friendly advertising as a reward for tips, and the income is definitely better than depending upon 'ad-cents' on a tech-related blog. That amounts to a win-win for everyone, in my opinion." - Dazzlin Donna, SEO-Scoop.com

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Five Ways To Make Money As A Publisher With ScratchBack

November 21st, 2007 · 1 Comment

Thanks to DigitalKeyto.info for a great write up on ways to use ScratchBack to make money as a publisher. Good stuff! Couldn’t have written it better oursleves!
1. Keep the cost low and let it bump off, using it as a tip.
The lowest you can set ScratchBack is $1.00. After PayPal fees and ScratchBack’s cut, you [...]

Tags: Online Advertising · ScratchBack · Widget Design

How Do I Price My ScratchBack Tips?

November 19th, 2007 · 1 Comment

It’s totally up to you. One of the best things about ScratchBack is YOU decide how much you want to allow your readers to tip you.
However, there are some “best practices” to consider if you want your TopSpot widget to run effectively, and profitably! Here’s what our research has shown us so far. This in [...]

Tags: Online Advertising · ScratchBack · Tipping · TopSpot Widgets

Reasons Why Shoemoney & John Chow Should Use The ScratchBack TopSpot Widget

November 19th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Here’s why and how big publishers like Shoemoney and John Chow should be using ScratchBack.com. Or any big-time blogger or publisher as well.

99% of their readers can’t afford ads on their blogs.
No offense, but those ads are expensive to the regular working blogger like you and me. If Shoemoney and John Chow were running the [...]

Tags: ScratchBack · Tipping · TopSpot Widgets

ScratchBack Interview & Review At BloggingTips

November 16th, 2007 · No Comments

Bloggingtips.com gave us an excellent interview the other day. Here it is in full detail.
Kevin runs a great blog and is worth adding to your feed. Thanks BloggingTips! Oh yeah, don’t forget to tip them on their SB widget for only $5.00. That’s great exposure for you. They have over 1,000 rss readers.

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Become A Facebook Fan Of ScratchBack

November 16th, 2007 · No Comments

Just visit our new Facebook profile and click “Become a fan” in the right sidebar. We’d love to have you!
Send us your business pages and we’d be happy to become a fan of you too!

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Mashable Calls ScratchBack Widget Designs “Dismal”

November 15th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Not sure how to take this review from Mashable. One one hand we should thank them for the review, on the other, they’re kinda rough on us. Dismal? Ouch.

So, do you think the designs could use some work? Send us a new design and we’ll brand it for you!
Our internal numbers tend to disagree with [...]

Tags: ScratchBack · TopSpot Widgets · Widget Design

ScratchBack At Blogworld Expo

November 13th, 2007 · 1 Comment

If you have sent an email to us at ScratchBack with a custom design request or a tech issue… We assure you, we have the email and we’ll get to it. We just got back from the Blogworld Expo in Vegas on a red eye with no sleep and their are about 3,000 emails in [...]

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500+ Signups & Over $1,000 In Tips Taken

November 10th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Since the launch less than two weeks ago, ScratchBack has signed up over 500 users to the system. All with a spend of $0.00 in marketing and advertising costs. Not too shabby.
But even better… In the last seven days, the users who have created widgets have collectively generated over $1,000 in tips. Sure, not huge, [...]

Tags: Online Advertising · ScratchBack · Tipping

Free ScratchBack Custom Design Offer

November 9th, 2007 · No Comments

osWorld is promoting that they throw together a free custom design for the TopSpot widget. Nice deal.
‘ve been quite impressed with the Scratchback system as a buyer of links. I bought links on all the blogs in the 5starred top 100 (so long as the link was only $1 - I’m a cheapskate). Seeing drips [...]

Tags: ScratchBack · TopSpot Widgets · Widget Design

ScratchBack Affiliate Program On The Way

November 6th, 2007 · 5 Comments

I’m literally getting on a plane to the BlogWorldExpo in Las Vegas in a few hours, but I wanted to talk about ScratchBack’s plans for an affiliate/referral program.
We have a pretty solid background in Affiliate marketing here in the halls of ScratchBack. So it’s just a natural thing to put an affiliate program in place [...]

Tags: Affiliate Marketing · Online Advertising · ScratchBack