About Direct Referals

In the past 3 months we've been receiving lots of tickets asking us to increase the direct referrals limit since it's currently easier to get them.

As you know we've introduced the NeoPoints exchange to increase referral limits but for many users that wasn't enough.

To make things simple and since these are the users who actually asked us the most to increase the direct referrals limit, we've come up with something very simple:

Ultimate Golden Pack holders: No direct referrals limit.
Cost: Nothing at all.
Conditions: Absolutely none.

Users with all other membership / packs are below the limits so there's no need for any change right now.

Speaking of direct referrals, in just less than 2 hours the first commissions from your direct referrals purchases will begin being credited. If anything goes wrong, just let us know.

This turned out to be more profitable for the users than at first anticipated which is absolutely great and it makes me very happy indeed.

The commissions can have a 10 minute delay so don't worry. Once they're marked "Paid" it means it has been credited.

Have a splendid week and enjoy.

How to recycle

Quote:

The only time I recycle is when they go under 20 days or are inactive for over a week

If that's your way to recycle, then it's really advisable to change it asap. If a referral has less than 20 days remaining time, then this doesn't mean that is not a good referral in any way.

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How do you profit from this?

The only thing that is needed to make money with NeoBux is a reasonable management.

When you are a golden member there are basically 2 ways that you can use in order to enhance your profit without getting more referrals and/or buying a golden pack:

1. You can reduce the cost and therefore increase your profit margin by using a renewing plan for more days to reduce the renewing cost per day in the long run.

2. Develop an effective recycling policy. You will need stats from your referrals and some time to study them. You need to search for clicking patterns of your referrals and use recycling with caution, when you believe that a referral is not going to click in a profitable way for your account.

Static/strict rules like recycling after X days of inactivity and/or below Y average are not the best thing you can do, because is like believing that all of your referrals will behave the same way.

What can really help is the past data of clicks per referral, because you can learn the pattern(s) of a referral.

Example 1: A referral who clicks in random days and have in total 8 clicks every 10 days. This one maybe is active only 1 day in ten (it sounds bad, but he/she is a profitable referral for golden members with at least 100 rented referrals and when they use at least the 90 more days renewing plan). Many would recycle him/her after 3-4 days of inactivity.

Example 2: A referral who clicks 2 ads per day 3 times in a week. He/she can be profitable for golden members in the long run, but many would recycle him/her as well.

Example 3: A referral who is clicks 1-3 ads every 7 days. He/she must be recycled.

There is no point to mention more examples (there are too many) the point is to find what your referrals are doing and act accordingly.

As a suggestion concentrate on older referrals when you recycle, because you have more data to judge them as precisely as possible.

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It seems my referrals know I am now golden and they click less because of that.

They have no way to know that

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I have read more than a few times that members' experienced that once you go golden the referrals seem to click less. What's up with that?

I have read more than a few times that aliens or ghosts or fairies or... are around us. Till now I didn't see anyone.

Seriously, what it happens is that some users when they upgrade to golden they tend to forget that it's important to manage their account effectively and they let everything on autopilot which results in less profitable accounts.

Finally, as the others already pointed out your current average is profitable (unless you over-recycling) and this is something important. Of course, there is always room for improvements.

How to use Flag-filters, Spread-sheets, etc.

Hello everyone,

I don't see too many golden member with
2000 rented referral posting their stats.

I was in profit with 2000 refs and see
the earning potential and have since upgraded to rent more than 2000.
Message posts before 128 still applies to golden with 2000 rented referrals.

Hope you can learn from my stats...

Membership
Since: 2009/07/10
[x]Golden 2009/09/18
[x]Diamond 2010/10/30
[x]Ultimate 2010/11/23

Current Strategies

AutoPay

• Always Off

Renewing

• 240 days

Recycling

• All refs clicking less than 6 clicks
  every 10 days gets red flag and monitored.
  Then recycled if clicking less than 4 clicks every 10 days.

Other

• 16 clicks within 5 days gets locked
• I also keep track of daily clicks using the export list,
  it makes recycling decision lot easier.

Flag Filter Golden with less than 2000 refs, activity filter is 14/6

• White: 0 clicks and new refs,
  all new clickers are moved to red
  
• Red: 12 ~ 16 clicks every 10 days
  Moved to yellow
  
• Orange: refs that clicks below BEP
  and over 21 days old
  recycled on their first click
  
• Yellow: 16 clicks or more every 10 days
  Moved to green
  6 ~ 8 clicks every 10 days are moved to red
  4 clicks or less every 10 days are moved to orange
  
• Green: 12 clicks or less are move back
  to yellow
  
• Blue: profitable weekly clickers,
  clicking below BEP are moved to orange

Flag Filter Golden with Ultimate pack, activity filter is 17/7

• White: 0 clicks and new refs
  Move all refs that have clicked to red flag
  
• Red: 16~20 clicks are locked and moved
  to green flag
  
• Orange: refs pick out from spread sheet
  that has less than 4 average clicks over 4
  weeks in a row recycled as soon they made a click.
  
• Yellow: study and test group
  
• Green: average less than 1.2 are
  moved to yellow
  
• Blue: profitable weekly clickers,
  clicks at least 9 or 10 ad regularly,
  refs are monitored regularly

Strategies are developed to adapt to current refs/overall account situation.
Current ultimate pack strategies:
110204
http://www.neobux.com/forum/?/4/147947/schen2000-Golden-with-Ultimate-Pack/0/1947180/#m1947180
110419
http://www.neobux.com/forum/?frmid=4&tpcid=147947&msgid=2160439#m2160439
110506
http://www.neobux.com/forum/?/4/147947/schen2000-Golden-with-Ultimate-Pack/0/2195428/#m2195428

Current Goals:

• [x] To reach 5,000 Personal clicks 101115
• [x] To reach 6,000 Personal clicks 110105
• [x] To reach 8,000 Personal clicks 110320
• [x] To reach 10,000 Personal clicks 110513
• [ ] To reach 15,000 Personal clicks
• [ ] To reach 20,000 Personal clicks
• [ ] To reach 30,000 Personal clicks
• [ ] To reach 50,000 Personal clicks
  
• [x] To reach 250,000 Referral clicks 100923
• [x] To reach 300,000 Referral clicks 101026
• [x] To reach 400,000 Referral clicks 101221
• [x] To reach 500,000 Referral clicks 110127
• [x] To reach 600,000 Referral clicks 110226
• [x] To reach 700,000 Referral clicks 110325
• [x] To reach 800,000 Referral clicks 110419
• [x] To reach 900,000 Referral clicks 110512
• [ ] To reach 1,000,000 Referral clicks
• [ ] To reach 2,000,000 Referral clicks
• [ ] To reach 3,000,000 Referral clicks
  
• [x] To reach 1500 clicks a day 100925
• [x] To reach 1600 clicks a day 101026
• [x] To reach 1800 clicks a day 101122
• [x] To reach 1900 clicks a day 101124
• [x] To reach 2000 clicks a day 101128
• [x] To reach 2100 clicks a day 101130
• [x] To reach 2200 clicks a day 101216
• [x] To reach 2400 clicks a day 101225
• [x] To reach 2500 clicks a day 101228
• [x] To reach 2600 clicks a day 101229
• [x] To reach 2700 clicks a day 110101
• [x] To reach 2800 clicks a day 110111
• [x] To reach 2900 clicks a day 110113
• [x] To reach 3000 clicks a day 110120
• [x] To reach 3200 clicks a day 110120
• [x] To reach 3400 clicks a day 110213
• [x] To reach 3600 clicks a day 110223
• [x] To reach 3800 clicks a day 110304
• [x] To reach 4000 clicks a day 110320
• [x] To reach 4200 clicks a day 110403
• [x] To reach 4400 clicks a day 110417
• [x] To reach 4600 clicks a day 110519
• [ ] To reach 4800 clicks a day
• [ ] To reach 5000 clicks a day
• [ ] To reach 6000 clicks a day
• [ ] To reach 7000 clicks a day
• [ ] To reach 8000 clicks a day
  
• [x] To reach ROI 25% 110113
• [ ] To reach ROI 50%
• [ ] To reach ROI 75%
• [ ] To reach ROI 100%
• [ ] To reach ROI 125%
• [ ] To reach ROI 150%
• [ ] To reach ROI 175%
• [ ] To reach ROI 200%

Ref avg = Total ref clicks / # of Refs

Day:
100919
Total ref clicks:
1241
Recycle:
5.88$

Thank you for any suggestions ^^

SPREAD SHEETS:
(use at your own risk & check for errors)

1. Break even spread sheet for Standard, Golden (& 2nd year),
   Emerald, Sapphire, Platinum, Diamond , and Ultimate (& 2nd year) members
   last updated 2011/01/19
   last updated 2011/03/25
   
2. Basic generic export list to track export list
   last updated 2010/10/29
   
3. Advance ExportList_Mar_01_2011.ziplast updated:
   2011/03/01 (bits of makeover and improved)
   2011/03/25 (update the tables, to reflect the changes)
   
   About export list & instructions here
   
4. Daily Profit Calculator
   last updated:
   2011/01/13 (Renewing cost 1 ref per day fixed)
   2011/05/01 (sorry, monthly tab removed/not supported)

Read here for a How To Guide and FAQ

Useful Scripts and Threads Standard & Golden

NeoBux 2+ is not updated to v5. Spanghurt will be added as soon as the number of bugs reduces and works smoothly. This may cause some problems to the referrals listing pages.


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SCRIPT CHARACTERISTICS
✔ Calculates exact average in minutes
✔ Calculates the profit gained by each referral
✔ Gives break average with three decimals
✔ Simplifies dates
✔ Highlights referrals up to 7 different colours instead of 3
✔ Displays income/expenses of today, yesterday, the last 7 and 10 days
✔ Ability to leave comments to referrals
✔ Profit extra graph
✔ Easily exportable stats (daily clicks, averages)



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EVERYTHING RELATED TO REFERRALS

Kwah's Break Even Calculator
Very precise, updated with the 15% AutoPay discount, indeed very recommendable.


Strategy Threads
There are many strategy threads that I'd recommend reading as you learn a lot from the other users. Links:
All Strategies Put Together
All Strategies Put Together v2
Your General Recycling Strategy


Advice to get Direct Referrals
Some ideas to get direct referrals.


Referral Strategies Calculator
Good for analizing and classifying your referrals. Direct download: here.


Export lists by Schen2000
Keep track of your referral's clicking patterns, the profit they're generating and much more. For help using it, click here.

Basic
Advanced


Renting refs for Golden
Advice for getting your referrals easier.


Referral Gold and Trend finder v1.0
This simple program by CacoonHead finds out clicking trends and if a referral is Golden by compy/pasting your export list to it.



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EXCEL WORKSHEETS

NeoBux Easy Stats v4.0.0.3
Keep track of your progression. One and only excel sheet you'll need. Direct download: .xls/.xlsx.


NeoNumbers v3.1
Good and updated spreadsheet, a little lighter than the other one.


NeoBux Stat Tracker v1.1
A useful worksheet that calculates averages, exactly how to renew your referrals, projects profits over periods of time and more. Note that this is available for all members excluding Emerald and Platinum. Direct downloads: Excel 2003/Excel 2007 (also works on Open Office 3.3). For the tutorial, click here.


Make your own worksheet
AlvaroBar explains how to create your own Excel worksheet to study your referrals


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HELP & SUPPORT


How to click ads according the Server Time
Remember that if you want to get the money that generate your referrals daily, you'll have to click your ads. This page will explain how to click them according to your server time. Also, reggen666 has made a simple but useful worksheet that will tell you when you have to click your ads. Download .xls.


Schen's Complete How-To Guide
Probably the most complete guide ever posted, it will answer all your questions. It doesn't make an difference if you're a newbie or a veteran, you'll learn tons from this thread.


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Maximize your profit
Program for maximizing your money when renewing referrals. Direct downloads: x86_x64/i386/ppc/exe/source code.












Please feel free to leave a comment or post a suggestion!

Break Even Point Average

Including membership type and number of referrals, here are those averages that you need to break even at the end of each month(s) or after 15 days. You can find calculations for Standard, Golden, Ultimate, Sapphire and Diamond membership (Emerald and Platinum are the same as Sapphire and Diamond, except the monthly payment discounts).
Computation methods can be found under the examples to calculate individual cases, follow them separately and sequentially or you might get false values.
Don't forget, while the break even averages can give you a base to efficient recycling, don't just rely on these. The past behaviour of the referrals are also as important as their averages.


Important: First renting is for 30 days without the 5% discount, which is gained by the 30-day renewals. In short: renewing for 30 days is cheaper than renting. To calculate the averages needed for the first "renting" month, just skip point 2. everywhere.

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 Standard  members:

• 1-250 referrals

*Renewing for 15 days:.....1,333
*First renting month:........1,333
*Renewing for 30 days:.....1,267
*Renewing for 60 days:.....1,200
*Renewing for 90 days:.....1,089
*Renewing for 150 days:...1,000
*Renewing for 240 days:...0,933

• 251-300 referrals

*Renewing for 15 days:.....1,467
*First renting month:........1,400
*Renewing for 30 days:.....1,333
*Renewing for 60 days:.....1,267
*Renewing for 90 days:.....1,156
*Renewing for 150 days:...1,053
*Renewing for 240 days:...0,983


Note: The break even average for standards is the same from 1-250 and also the same ($0,01 higher) from 251-300 referrals (as there is no membership cost involved).

Computation method for  Standard  members
Average needed to break even:
1. Check the cost of 1 referral (in cents) for your number of referrals on the Help page (for example: 20 cents between 0->250)
2.
Divide by 2 if renewing for 15 days,|
multiply by 0,95 (5% discount) if renewing for 30 days,|
multiply by 2 and 0,9 (10% discount) if renewing for 60 days,|
multiply by 3 and 0,82 (18% discount) if renewing for 90 days,|
multiply by 5 and 0,75 (25% discount) if renewing for 150 days,|
or multiply by 8 and 0,7 (30% discount) if renewing for 240 days.
Round the number you got to an integer if needed (for example 11,5 -> 12, 54,12 -> 54)
3. Multiply by 2 (as a standard, you recieve 0,5c after a referral click)
4. Divide by 15/30/60/90/150/240 depending on your renewing



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 Golden  members:
(including the yearly golden price)

• 200 referrals

*Renewing for 15 days:.....0,790 (0,667)
*First renting month:........0,790 (0,667)
*Renewing for 30 days:.....0,757 (0,633)
*Renewing for 60 days:.....0,723 (0,600)
*Renewing for 90 days:.....0,668 (0,544)
*Renewing for 150 days:...0,623 (0,500)
*Renewing for 240 days:...0,590 (0,467)

• 500 referrals

*Renewing for 15 days:.....0,783 (0,733)
*First renting month:........0,749 (0,700)
*Renewing for 30 days:.....0,716 (0,667)
*Renewing for 60 days:.....0,683 (0,633)
*Renewing for 90 days:.....0,627 (0,578 )
*Renewing for 150 days:...0,576 (0,527)
*Renewing for 240 days:...0,541 (0,492)

• 1200 referrals

*Renewing for 15 days:.....0,821 (0,800)
*First renting month:........0,821 (0,800)
*Renewing for 30 days:.....0,787 (0,767)
*Renewing for 60 days:.....0,737 (0,717)
*Renewing for 90 days:.....0,676 (0,656)
*Renewing for 150 days:...0,621 (0,600)
*Renewing for 240 days:...0,579 (0,558 )

• 2000 referrals

*Renewing for 15 days:.....0,946 (0,933)
*First renting month:........0,912 (0,900)
*Renewing for 30 days:.....0,879 (0,867)
*Renewing for 60 days:.....0,829 (0,817)
*Renewing for 90 days:.....0,746 (0,733)
*Renewing for 150 days:...0,686 (0,673)
*Renewing for 240 days:...0,641 (0,629)

Lowest possible average needed with the number of 500 referrals.

Computation method for  Golden  members
Average needed to break even:
1. Check the cost of 1 referral (in cents) for your number of referrals on the Help page (for example: 20 cents between 0->250)
2.
Divide by 2 if renewing for 15 days,|
multiply by 0,95 (5% discount) if renewing for 30 days,|
multiply by 2 and 0,9 (10% discount) if renewing for 60 days,|
multiply by 3 and 0,82 (18% discount) if renewing for 90 days,|
multiply by 5 and 0,75 (25% discount) if renewing for 150 days,|
or multiply by 8 and 0,7 (30% discount) if renewing for 240 days.
Round the number you got to an integer if needed (for example 51,66 -> 52 )
3. Multiply by your number of referrals
4.
Add 369,86 (half of the monthly cost of golden membership in cents) if renewing for 15 days,|
add 739,73 (monthly cost of golden membership in cents) if renewing for 30 days,|
add 2*739,73 if renewing for 60 days,|
add 3*739,73 if renewing for 90 days,|
add 5*739,73 if renewing for 150 days,|
or add 8*739,73 if renewing for 240 days.
5. Divide by your number of referrals
6. Divide by 15/30/60/90/150/240 depending on your renewing


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 Ultimate  members:
(including the yearly golden+ultimate price)

• 1000 referrals

*Renewing for 15 days:.....0,935 (0,667)
*First renting month:........0,935 (0,667)
*Renewing for 30 days:.....0,902 (0,633)
*Renewing for 60 days:.....0,868 (0,600)
*Renewing for 90 days:.....0,813 (0,544)
*Renewing for 150 days:...0,768 (0,500)
*Renewing for 240 days:...0,735 (0,467)

• 2500 referrals

*Renewing for 15 days:.....0,907 (0,800)
*First renting month:........0,907 (0,800)
*Renewing for 30 days:.....0,874 (0,767)
*Renewing for 60 days:.....0,824 (0,717)
*Renewing for 90 days:.....0,763 (0,656)
*Renewing for 150 days:...0,707 (0,600)
*Renewing for 240 days:...0,666 (0,558 )

• 4199 referrals

*Renewing for 15 days:.....0,864 (0,800)
*First renting month:........0,864 (0,800)
*Renewing for 30 days:.....0,831 (0,767)
*Renewing for 60 days:.....0,781 (0,717)
*Renewing for 90 days:.....0,719 (0,656)
*Renewing for 150 days:...0,664 (0,600)
*Renewing for 240 days:...0,622 (0,558 )


Computation method for  Ultimate  members
Average needed to break even:
1. Check the cost of 1 referral (in cents) for your number of referrals on the Help page (for example: 20 cents between 0->250), and deduct 3 cents above 20 cents (renewing discount for ultimates, for example if you have 1700 referrals (26 cents), calculate with 26-3 = 23)
2.
Divide by 2 if renewing for 15 days,|
multiply by 0,95 (5% discount) if renewing for 30 days,|
multiply by 2 and 0,9 (10% discount) if renewing for 60 days,|
multiply by 3 and 0,82 (18% discount) if renewing for 90 days,|
multiply by 5 and 0,75 (25% discount) if renewing for 150 days,|
or multiply by 8 and 0,7 (30% discount) if renewing for 240 days.
Round the number you got to an integer if needed (for example 51,66 -> 52 )
3. Multiply by your number of referrals
4.
Add 4027,40 (half of the monthly cost of golden+ultimate membership in cents) if renewing for 15 days,|
add 8054,79 (monthly cost of golden+ultimate membership in cents) if renewing for 30 days,|
add 2*8054,79 if renewing for 60 days,|
add 3*8054,79 if renewing for 90 days,|
add 5*8054,79 if renewing for 150 days,|
or add 8*8054,79 if renewing for 240 days.
5. Divide by your number of referrals
6. Divide by 15/30/60/90/150/240 depending on your renewing


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 Sapphire  members:
(including the yearly golden+sapphire price)

• 400 referrals

*Renewing for 15 days:.....0,927 (0,667)
*First renting month:........0,927 (0,667)
*Renewing for 30 days:.....0,894 (0,633)
*Renewing for 60 days:.....0,860 (0,600)
*Renewing for 90 days:.....0,805 (0,544)
*Renewing for 150 days:...0,760 (0,500)
*Renewing for 240 days:...0,727 (0,467)

• 1200 referrals

*Renewing for 15 days:.....0,887 (0,800)
*First renting month:........0,853 (0,767)
*Renewing for 30 days:.....0,820 (0,733)
*Renewing for 60 days:.....0,770 (0,683)
*Renewing for 90 days:.....0,720 (0,633)
*Renewing for 150 days:...0,660 (0,573)
*Renewing for 240 days:...0,624 (0,538 )

• 2500 referrals

*Renewing for 15 days:.....0,908 (0,867)
*First renting month:........0,908 (0,867)
*Renewing for 30 days:.....0,875 (0,833)
*Renewing for 60 days:.....0,825 (0,783)
*Renewing for 90 days:.....0,753 (0,711)
*Renewing for 150 days:...0,695 (0,653)
*Renewing for 240 days:...0,650 (0,608 )

Lowest possible average needed with the number of 1000 referrals.

Computation method for  Sapphire  members
Average needed to break even:
1. Check the cost of 1 referral (in cents) for your number of referrals on the Help page (for example: 20 cents between 0->250), and deduct 1 cent above 20 cents (renewing discount for sapphires, for example if you have 1700 referrals (26 cents), calculate with 26-1 = 25)
2.
Divide by 2 if renewing for 15 days,|
multiply by 0,95 (5% discount) if renewing for 30 days,|
multiply by 2 and 0,9 (10% discount) if renewing for 60 days,|
multiply by 3 and 0,82 (18% discount) if renewing for 90 days,|
multiply by 5 and 0,75 (25% discount) if renewing for 150 days,|
or multiply by 8 and 0,7 (30% discount) if renewing for 240 days.
Round the number you got to an integer if needed (for example 51,66 -> 52 )
3. Multiply by your number of referrals
4.
Add 1561,64 (half of the monthly cost of golden+sapphire membership in cents) if renewing for 15 days,|
add 3123,29 (monthly cost of golden+sapphire membership in cents) if renewing for 30 days,|
add 2*3123,29 if renewing for 60 days,|
add 3*3123,29 if renewing for 90 days,|
add 5*3123,29 if renewing for 150 days,|
or add 8*3123,29 if renewing for 240 days.
5. Divide by your number of referrals
6. Divide by 15/30/60/90/150/240 depending on your renewing


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 Diamond  members:
(including the yearly golden+diamond price)

• 600 referrals

*Renewing for 15 days:.....0,932 (0,667)
*First renting month:........0,932 (0,667)
*Renewing for 30 days:.....0,898 (0,633)
*Renewing for 60 days:.....0,865 (0,600)
*Renewing for 90 days:.....0,809 (0,544)
*Renewing for 150 days:...0,765 (0,500)
*Renewing for 240 days:...0,732 (0,467)

• 1700 referrals

*Renewing for 15 days:.....0,893 (0,800)
*First renting month:........0,893 (0,800)
*Renewing for 30 days:.....0,860 (0,767)
*Renewing for 60 days:.....0,810 (0,717)
*Renewing for 90 days:.....0,749 (0,656)
*Renewing for 150 days:...0,693 (0,600)
*Renewing for 240 days:...0,652 (0,558 )

• 3000 referrals

*Renewing for 15 days:.....0,920 (0,867)
*First renting month:........0,886 (0,833)
*Renewing for 30 days:.....0,853 (0,800)
*Renewing for 60 days:.....0,803 (0,750)
*Renewing for 90 days:.....0,742 (0,689)
*Renewing for 150 days:...0,680 (0,627)
*Renewing for 240 days:...0,636 (0,583)

Lowest possible average needed varies on the term of renewing.

Computation method for  Diamond  members
Average needed to break even:
1. Check the cost of 1 referral (in cents) for your number of referrals on the Help page (for example: 20 cents between 0->250), and deduct 2 cents above 20 cents (renewing discount for diamonds, for example if you have 1400 referrals (25 cents), calculate with 25-2 = 23)
2.
Divide by 2 if renewing for 15 days,|
multiply by 0,95 (5% discount) if renewing for 30 days,|
multiply by 2 and 0,9 (10% discount) if renewing for 60 days,|
multiply by 3 and 0,82 (18% discount) if renewing for 90 days,|
multiply by 5 and 0,75 (25% discount) if renewing for 150 days,|
or multiply by 8 and 0,7 (30% discount) if renewing for 240 days.
Round the number you got to an integer if needed (for example 51,66 -> 52 )
3. Multiply by your number of referrals
4.
Add 2383,56 (half of the monthly cost of golden+diamond membership in cents) if renewing for 15 days,|
add 4767,1233 (monthly cost of golden+diamond membership in cents) if renewing for 30 days,|
add 2*4767,12 if renewing for 60 days,|
add 3*4767,12 if renewing for 90 days,|
add 5*4767,12 if renewing for 150 days,|
or add 8*4767,12 if renewing for 240 days.
5. Divide by your number of referrals
6. Divide by 15/30/60/90/150/240 depending on your renewing


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Calculate mixed averages:
Yes, all these calculations are nice, but what if there are users renewing for different terms? I will try to show you by an example.
First you need to know the break even averages for all the terms you renew according to your total number of referrals. Let's say you are a golden member with 200 referrals, and you renewed 150 referrals for 90 days, and 50 referrals for 150 days.
The break even averages are 0,668 and 0,623. The ratio of the renewed referrals is 150:50 (3:1). Multiply the averages with these, then divide by the sum of the ratio elements (number of referrals you have):
(0,668*150 + 0,623*50)/(150+50) = 0,657

So, as a golden member with 200 referrals (150 renewed for 90, 50 renewed for 150 days), you will need an average of 0,657 to break even.
There is a catch, though:
these mixed averages will be only valid until your referrals drop out of the proper renewing term. In our example, it's the first referral(s) who have his/their 90 days expired.
In this case (and we are still at our example), there are 3 ways to go:
* Don't renew your referrals, so you will need the break even average of the 150 days renewal plan (at least for the referrals you still have in the renewal "pot")
* Renew them for 90 days again, thus keeping the same needed average (and the same goes later for the referrals who were renewed for 150 days)
* Renew for another term, therefore you will need a new average until the first ones expire again (remember, under "expire" I mean that they ran out of the selected amount of days - for example if you renewed them with 5 days left for 90 days, when those 90 days expire you will still have your referrals, just doesn't count them in the specified renewal pot)


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Notes:
- Most of the averages are rounded
- Autopay not included
- I used "," as the decimal point (as there are countries using "." instead), just to avoid confusion
- Daily prices of memberships are always included
- Values in brackets are the needed averages excluding membership prices
- If you want to exclude the price of golden membership/golden packs, just skip point 4 in the calculation method
- Take a notice that first the rentings are always for 30 days
- Feel free to translate
- Sorry for my English (yeah, topic name was also a direct translation )

Advantages of Golden membership:
- $0.01 per referral click (standard exposure).
- Guaranteed 9 fixed ads to click per day.
- You can rent up to 2000 referrals.
- Extra graphs/stats to help you manage your account.
- More slots available for direct referrals.
- More bonuses in your second consecutive year as a golden member.