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Make More Money Online

Sign up with TrialPay [to allow customers] to choose from dozens of other offers and get the product you're selling for free. Say the customer chooses "Send Flowers with 1-800-Flowers." Then, 1-800-Flowers will pay you a fee for each customer you refer. Sometimes, that fee is more than you would have gotten from selling your product. ...read full article

TrialPay Can Help You Get Freebies Online

"With the economy in the dumps, you might hesitate before buying discretionary goodies like video games or pizza. But what if you could get those things for free by doing something you might already be inclined to do — like signing up for a trial of Netflix or buying coffee from Starbucks.com? Mountain View, Calif.-based TrialPay offers just that kind of deal, which it bills as a win-win-win for consumers, merchants and advertisers." ...read full article

A New Way to Get People to Pay

"...TrialPay is driving inefficiencies out of the web to the benefit of the consumer. [This service has] a way of turning some of the money that a retailer is willing to pay to acquire a customer into savings for that customer - unlike paid search, where the money goes to the search engine company." ...read full article

A Referral Service That Ensures Someone Actually Makes a Sale

"Online shoppers who can't decide whether to pull the trigger on their next purchase may be surprised at a new alternative: an offer to get it free. The offer is not a swindle, nor is it a return to the insanity of the early days of the dot-com boom, when retailers practically gave away goods in order to attract buzz and customers. Rather, it is a new marketing method that relies on a web of business relationships to give consumers free goods, as long as they buy something else from a long list of well known online stores."...read full article

5 PayPal Alternatives

"TrialPay is a particularly unorthodox payment option. It pairs merchants with advertises to boost sales for both and offer consumers a chance to get products they're looking at for free."...read full article

TrialPay Helps Turn Browsers Into Buyers

"The [TrialPay] technology lets Zagat lure new users with a tantalizing offer: If they accept another, unrelated marketing pitch, such as taking out a new credit card or spending $65 at Gap Inc., they get a free subscription to the Zagat Web site...the gambit is paying dividends for Zagat [about 10% of those who open the new e-mail offers sign up]...Even better is that Zagat gets paid by the partner Web merchants for directing business their way —sometimes even more than the $24.95 cost of a yearly Zagat subscription."...read full article

TrialPay Turns Indecisive Customers Into Buyers

"If you're an online shopper, you probably want to get something for free. If you're a seller, you want to make more sales. And advertisers, they simply want to reach more eyeballs. TrialPay is an alternative payment method that promises to make everybody happy." ...read full article or watch the video

TrialPay Offers Double the Savings for Valentine's Day

"The idea is that everyone wins. The customer, who may be on the edge of buying something, will appreciate getting an additional product. Merchants can move more of their stuff. And advertisers can turn their ads into dollars and new customers" ...read full article

Lessons for Thriving in the Recession

"Here are what I'll call the valley's "Fantastic Four" and the lessons they offer to the rest of us...TrialPay: The goal of this startup is to help other e-commerce companies boost sales and acquire new customers more efficiently...Lesson from TrialPay: Find ways for other people to save money." ...read full article