ScratchBackThe Fun Way To Do Online Advertising

We just fixed a little bug in the “cron jobs”. What that means is that you know how some people set their widgets to be 24 hours or 30-days? Well, there was a bug in the system that wasn’t clearing the tips when they were supposed to expire. So what happened was that a lot of tippers got a ton of extra exposure.

Ahh, beta. The good news is that it’s fixed, rewritten and working perfectly. For example, you can get a $10 tip and placement over at the Revenue Today blog for 30-days! Pretty amazing deal for the traffic and reach they have. Check it out.

Over at KarenSugarPants.com, Karen is doing something really neat with her ScratchBack widget. She’s donating all the tips she gets to a good cause.

Last month I made $45.66 through BlogHer ads and immediately turned it over to Lisa. I so desperately wanted it to be more.

When I saw this program over at ScratchBack, I knew I could create another way to help Lisa.

But this time I can offer you something back. A link on my sidebar. See over there where it says “Get In My Pants Top Spots?”

For $10, payable through Paypal, you can have a link from this site to yours for as long as there’s a spot available. So the first 20 people get on the list, and if #21 comes along, you get bumped but can pay again to get back on the team. Every dollar I receive from ScratchBack will be donated to Lisa and her family.

I sure would like to see Lisa’s family have a full team roster over there in my sidebar. Want to join the team?

(Also, if you want to do the same thing on your blog, by all means! The more the merrier!)

Pretty awesome way of helping someone. I just tipped her, will you!????

Super blogger, and cool dude, Technosailor.com has added ScratchBack to his blog and has the price for a tip set at only $10 bucks. A very low tip considering the high-level influencer he is and the people who read his blog. I highly suggest you get a listing over there before it fills up.

Oh yeah, he did a nice review of us too. Thanks Aaron.

I just posted this video in the ScratchBack admin “creation” page. Figured it should be posted here as well.

Click to play

Check out Don Chavez’s blog for a some really good opportunities to tip to a TON of exposure for only $5.00.

Last month, DonChavez.com had 248,077 visitors and 635,305 page views.

Visit http://www.shankrila.com/ for a really good deal on a tip. It’s only $2 for a tip, and they claim to have 20k+ monthly visitors and 400 or so RSS subscribers. It’s like a tech blog with a “life” twist.

ShanKri-la is a humble attempt to disperse information about technology that can make our lives a little bit easier, a little bit enjoyable and a little bit more manageable. We live in a world where our daily lives are a blur. Monday starts with a dizzying speed and before we realize it’s the weekend and you take a moment’s break and Monday is looming at you again even before you woke up from that Sunday night’s sleep that you were yearning for all week!

We’re not going to say who it is just yet, but we wanted to announce that a blog network has begun testing of the ScratchBack system across their blogs. The widgets we made for them are custom designed to match each blogs’ color. We’re pretty excited about it.

Hopefully we’ll get permission from the network to talk about it down the road when we have more data. Till then, keep your eyes out for widgets in new places you may not have seen them before. We’re taking the online tipping space by storm!

Right now the minimum you can setup a SB widget at is a $1.00 tip. We set it up this way to lower the barrier of entry for people with lower traffic blogs. The idea was that their readers would be able to participate for a low cost.

What we have found during the beta is that less than 50% of the people using the widget have their tips set at less than $5.00. So when we look at that data, we wonder if it wouldn’t be best to simply make the minimum tip to $5.00 for everyone. What do you think? Sound off.

Note: Our studies have shown that the people who price at $5.00 and above receive the most tips out of anyone. Why? Well, we believe it’s the psychology of the matter. If a tip “costs” more, it must be worth more?

Consider that when pricing your widgets, and let us know about your thoughts on the minimum?

Last thing. The PayPal cut on $1.00 really stinks. On $5.00 it is much more reasonable. So actually, having a higher tip amount means you pay less to PayPal.

Check out Blogaboutyourblog.com for a really great deal. They’re using the ScratchBack widget and you can tip them for only $5. That’ll get you exposure to over 500 readers!

Are you using the ScratchBack widget? Feel free to send us your blog and tell us why you think other SB users would want to tip you.

Over at JimKukral.com, my main blog, I’ve just released my new web show called the Daily Flip. It’s a show about marketing and being an online entrepreneur and stuff like that.

I’m using ScratchBack to help monetize it, check it out here on this video. See the arrow pointing to the ScratchBack widget on the right of the video?

We believe that using ScratchBack in this manner is a viable way to make money with your video or audio podcast content. The widget on JimKukral.com is only set to $10 for a week, as a starting point. A podcaster could adjust that to anything they wanted, based upon the “value” they put on their show.

For example, if you’re getting 2,000 video views a day on your blog, you may set your widget to be a month link, and make each link be $100 or more. That’s money that you didn’t have before, and more importantly, you don’t have to embed an ad in your video.

Give it a try? Visit ScratchBack.com today to get your own widget, for free!