Using Adwords to Earn Uber Referral Credit
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Using Adwords to Earn Uber Referral Credit
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Re: Using Adwords to Earn Uber Referral Credit
#2Just wrote this up after running an AdWords campaign against my Uber referral link earlier this week. I know that this method is well-publicized for maxing out your Dropbox storage - has anyone else tried this for other services?
Re: Using Adwords to Earn Uber Referral Credit
#3Just wrote this up after running an AdWords campaign against my Uber referral link earlier this week. I know that this method is well-publicized for maxing out your Dropbox storage - has anyone else tried this for other services?
For Dropbox, I earned my credit by linking to my referral URL in the download page of my website, which gets about 1k hits a day. It took a while but I maxed about my Dropbox credit and have over 20GB on my free account now. This was basically an ad that I placed myself, so an Adword campaign should work quite well especially with a free advertising code.
Re: Using Adwords to Earn Uber Referral Credit
#4Just wrote this up after running an AdWords campaign against my Uber referral link earlier this week. I know that this method is well-publicized for maxing out your Dropbox storage - has anyone else tried this for other services?
Brand arbitrage is a mainstay of many affiliate marketers. Given that one can transform success with it into (large piles of) generally spendable currency, most don't spend too much time optimizing for (small piles of) gift cards.
Re: Using Adwords to Earn Uber Referral Credit
#5Just wrote this up after running an AdWords campaign against my Uber referral link earlier this week. I know that this method is well-publicized for maxing out your Dropbox storage - has anyone else tried this for other services?
Brand arbitrage is a mainstay of many affiliate marketers. Given that one can transform success with it into (large piles of) generally spendable currency, most don't spend too much time optimizing for (small piles of) gift cards.
Great point. I mentioned in my post that "there isn’t a huge amount of upside" financially, but I definitely got personal value out of just doing the experiment. I'd suspect that most of the truly lucrative affiliate opportunities are extremely competitive.
Re: Using Adwords to Earn Uber Referral Credit
#6The referral list in the screenshot is why I don't do this stuff. I initially posted my Dropbox referral link in a number of places, but as soon as I saw the e-mail address of my referrals, I immediately stopped.
I don't know if they could see my e-mail address as well, but it was extremely uncomfortable from a privacy perspective, so I ended up asking Dropbox if they would cancel my referrals.
Not that I don't want the storage, but it makes me uncomfortable that people I don't know might have my e-mail address, especially if I post the links in a context I believe to be anonymous or pseudonymous.
Re: Using Adwords to Earn Uber Referral Credit
#7The referral list in the screenshot is why I don't do this stuff. I initially posted my Dropbox referral link in a number of places, but as soon as I saw the e-mail address of my referrals, I immediately stopped. I don't know if they could see my e-mail address as well, but it was extremely uncomfortable from a privacy perspective, so I ended up asking Dropbox if they would cancel my referrals. Not that I don't want…
I actually think that in this case, Uber does a good job of protecting privacy. I don't see the email address or the last name of the people that I referred, just their first name. I'm assuming that means that they don't see my name/email either when they sign up via my link.
Re: Using Adwords to Earn Uber Referral Credit
#8The referral list in the screenshot is why I don't do this stuff. I initially posted my Dropbox referral link in a number of places, but as soon as I saw the e-mail address of my referrals, I immediately stopped. I don't know if they could see my e-mail address as well, but it was extremely uncomfortable from a privacy perspective, so I ended up asking Dropbox if they would cancel my referrals. Not that I don't want…
I actually think that in this case, Uber does a good job of protecting privacy. I don't see the email address or the last name of the people that I referred, just their first name. I'm assuming that means that they don't see my name/email either when they sign up via my link.
You really shouldn't see any of that. I do lots of affiliate marketing and companies rarely give any more information than whether or not people met the requirements for me to get paid - and how much they are paying, if I'm on a revenue share deal.
It's really none of my business who they are and would be an invasion of their privacy for me to know - in my opinion.
I guess an argument could be made for refer-a-friend programs working differently, but the default should always be sharing this kind of data only on a need-to-know basis.
Re: Using Adwords to Earn Uber Referral Credit
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I actually think that in this case, Uber does a good job of protecting privacy. I don't see the email address or the last name of the people that I referred, just their first name. I'm assuming that means that they don't see my name/email either when they sign up via my link.
You really shouldn't see any of that. I do lots of affiliate marketing and companies rarely give any more information than whether or not people met the requirements for me to get paid - and how much they are paying, if I'm on a revenue share deal. It's really none of my business who they are and would be an invasion of their privacy for me to know - in my opinion. I guess an argument could be made for refer-a-friend…
Well, according to Uber's referral program copy, in theory, you're referring your "friends" to the service. Aka people you know, and people who probably wouldn't mind you knowing they signed up. So I can at least see why Uber (and other referral services in general) might not think twice about sharing small pieces of personal information with the referrer. Not saying you don't have a good point, though, because I agree.
Re: Using Adwords to Earn Uber Referral Credit
#10Just wrote this up after running an AdWords campaign against my Uber referral link earlier this week. I know that this method is well-publicized for maxing out your Dropbox storage - has anyone else tried this for other services?
Brand arbitrage is a mainstay of many affiliate marketers. Given that one can transform success with it into (large piles of) generally spendable currency, most don't spend too much time optimizing for (small piles of) gift cards.
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