Make Money Getting Telemarketing Calls

20 Nov

Posted by User Image Jay as Make Money Online

I’d posted earlier about a free online voice mail service that would be good to use when signing up for surveys and such online, so you didn’t have the hassle of people calling you at home.

Well, I just ran across Brring!, which makes it a bit easier to bear getting those annoying follow up calls.

What the service does is give you a phone number in any area code you choose. But instead of the number going to a voice mail service, so you aren’t bothered, the number forwards to your actual phone number at home. Why would you want that?

Well, before Brring! forwards the call to your home number, it plays an audio advertisement that your caller must listen to in order to talk to you. And you earn money each time one of your callers listens to the audio advertisement. So spread the number around to all those annoying survey sites, and you’ll earn every time one of them calls you at home.

You typically earn $0.05 for each ad played, but your first ten ads earn you $1 each. Presumably this works even if the incoming call is another machine that wants to play something prerecorded to you (like the political campaigns often use). There’s another thought, sign up for all the political parties using your Brring! number so you can earn from their annoying calls.

You also earn $1.00 for each person you refer to Brring!, so this program gets added to my list of ways to make money online free.

Click here to sign up for your own Brring! number for free.

Update: Thanks to people scamming the system, Brring! has stopped paying for each ad play (people were calling their own numbers just to earn from ad plays). You still earn by profiling your friends, by sharing your number, and by referring others. Without the ad play earnings, though, I don’t see much point to it.

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ScottUA (Who am I?)

November 21st, 2007 at 1:16 pm Quote
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Yikes! I’m not sure the money would be worth having to listen advertisers. Do they have some sort of mechanism where they test to see if you’re still on the line and you didn’t put the phone down?
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Jay (Who am I?)

November 21st, 2007 at 9:43 pm Quote
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That’s the great thing about this, it’s the telemarketers that have to listen to the advertisers to get to talk to you. You don’t do anything but what you already do, which is to tell the telemarketers you aren’t interested in whatever they want you to buy.
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Rosa (Who am I?)

November 23rd, 2007 at 11:23 pm Quote
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That sounds interesting. I think that I will sign up and see how it is. Most of them don’t even like hearing my answering machine and hang up when they realize that I am not going to pick up the phone, they will probably do the same with this so it’s a win, win situation. Thanks for telling us about this.
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November 26th, 2007 at 2:39 pm Quote
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Jay (Who am I?)

November 27th, 2007 at 7:00 am Quote
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Jay wrote:

Most of them don’t even like hearing my answering machine and hang up when they realize that I am not going to pick up the phone, they will probably do the same with this so it’s a win, win situation.

*laugh* That’s true, you either make money, or you don’t have to listen to a telemarketer.
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Rosa (Who am I?)

December 4th, 2007 at 10:10 pm Quote
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i love this site Jay. I am actually making money and have almost earned enough for the payout. Thanks for letting us know about this. I think I signed up under you.
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Jay (Who am I?)

December 5th, 2007 at 6:50 am Quote
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You’re welcome, Rosa!
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Dawna (Who am I?)

July 10th, 2008 at 9:58 am Quote
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I joined this site and requested payment which I haven’t received. I emailed them 2 times and they haven’t answered. I am also only getting paid for about every 10th call. I don’t know what is going on.
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Jay (Who am I?)

July 10th, 2008 at 10:37 am Quote
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Hi Dawna, I have received a payout from them. Recently they’ve changed their policies on earnings, though, and you don’t actually earn per call any more. You just earn for profiling your friends (so they can play targeted ads), sharing your number, and referring others. I’ll update the post to reflect this. Apparently they were getting a lot of people calling their own number just to earn from the ad plays.
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