Saturday, 23 July 2011

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Tue, Jul 19 – Earning With Ads

Earning with Ads
We have been working on new features that will allow you to use VirtaPay to earn a steady stream of regular money (US$, €, £, ¥, etc.) to your existing bank account. The first of those features to go live will be our Ad Sharing Program.
As you may have noticed, there are now ads on the VirtaPay website. Clicking the green link below any of the ads will take you to this blog post—for now. Once the Ad Sharing Program goes live, both the ads and the green link could earn you money.
Just Getting Started
VirtaPay is just getting started. We continue to refine our service, add new features and develop new ways to spend your VirtaPay balance. We expect that within the next year, our service could grow to over 100 times the number of users we currently have. This is great news for you—our EarlyBird users. This coming growth will give you tremendous potential to profit in the near future.
How will the Ad Sharing Program work?
In a matter of weeks the Ad Sharing Program will launch. If you join, your referrals will see your own affiliate ads 50% of the time. But it won’t just be your referrals, your ad viewers could grow into the thousands even if you only have a handful of referrals.
We will reveal more details about the Ad Sharing Program as we get closer to launching it. In addition, we may limit the number of users who can participate in the Ad Sharing Program. So please be ready to act quickly when it goes live.
There are many legitimate ways to earn regular money with VirtaPay. We are developing tutorials, the Ad Sharing Program and other new programs to help our EarlyBird users cash in on VirtaPay as we continue to grow.
Thanks for participating as we work to take VirtaPay to the next level!

Wednesday, 20 July 2011

Tue, Jul 12 – More New Features | VirtaPay Blog

Tue, Jul 12 – More New Features | VirtaPay Blog

Today we released more new features on the VirtaPay website. This is good news for both buyers and sellers.

Below we give an explanation of what has changed and what to expect.

For Buyers…

The changes are great news for buyers. You can now buy any item that has less than 50 ratings (Starter Items only) for just 1 cent. This means that you don’t have to worry about buying a higher priced item with very little feedback which may turn out to be a bad deal.

There is a catch however. In order to buy any Starter Item for just 1 cent, you must have no unrated items in your purchase history. So, if you always rate the items you buy, you can always buy Starter Items for just 1 cent… with no real risk.

For Sellers…

New Item Limit
The item limit for sellers has been raised to 5 items.

1-Cent Starter Items
The changes to the item approval system mentioned above are bad news for sellers who list low-quality items. It will allow buyers to see and rate what you offer and what you deliver without risk… for the first 50 ratings.

However, for sellers who offer high-quality items, the new system should help your items get into the Established Items category much more quickly. Buyers will now be more likely to buy your Starter Item and then rate it highly (if it’s good), because now there’s almost no risk for the buyer.

Sure, you won’t earn much profit until your items reach 50 ratings, but, once your item has 50 or more ratings, the price will automatically change to the price you originally set for the item and will stay there.

Wed, Jul 6 – New Features are Live | VirtaPay Blog

Wed, Jul 6 – New Features are Live | VirtaPay Blog:

What’s changed on the website?

This update to the website brought several big changes and a lot of minor changes. We’ll just cover

the big ones here…

  1. Login System — The first thing most users will notice is the login system now requires Facebook. If you don’t already have a Facebook account, just go to their website and get one (it’s free), then you can log in to VirtaPay.
  2. $100 Bonus — A $100 bonus will be added to your account when you link your Facebook account. This bonus will also be automatically added to the accounts of all new users.
  3. $25 Referral Bonus — You will now earn a $25 bonus to your account for each new user you refer using your personal referral link. To get this link, just log in and look at the bottom of the “My Account” page.
  4. Send to Facebook Friends — You can now send VirtaPay payments to your Facebook friends… even if they don’t already have a VirtaPay account. In addition, if they join VirtaPay to claim your payment, you’ll earn the $25 referral bonus to your account.
  5. Wall Post to Facebook — At the bottom of the “My Account” page (when you first log in) there is now an option to post to your Facebook wall. This will post your personal referral link to your wall. You can say whatever you want in the wall post, but the referral link is already pre-loaded for you.
  6. For Buyers — Payment for items now relies on your Facebook login. No more entering a username & password every time you want to purchase an item.
  7. For Sellers — As you may have noticed, the ability to add new items has been re-activated. This allows us to test the new Facebook integration features. However, it’s temporary. Any items added will probably be removed when the next feature set is released.

More Features Coming Soon

Our programmers are now working on Stage 2 of the Digital Delivery project. The new features being developed include many enhancements to the existing buying/selling process. Also included will be exciting new ways to earn a steady stream of real money to your existing bank account as a user of VirtaPay.

When the next feature set is released, we expect the quality of digital items offered by our sellers will become much better than it is today. There will be competition among sellers to sell the best quality digital items. The better quality items they offer, the more opportunity they will have to earn real money.

Thanks for participating as we work to take VirtaPay to the next level!

Tuesday, 21 June 2011

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Stage 1 of the Digital Delivery (DD) project has been live for a few weeks now. In that time, we have decided to integrate Facebook more deeply than we originally planned. It is very important that all VirtaPay users read this post to understand what Facebook integration features are in the works and why. Please read on…

Why Facebook integration?

From the time we gave our users the ability to sell items, certain people or organizations have been flooding the item listings with inappropriate items. This is an abuse of our service and resources. It also pushes out our valued users who are trying to buy and sell legitimate items.

The item spammers have disrupted our service to the point where many of our valued users don’t even bother to look at the items on the Buy page any longer. They are tired of seeing the spam listings. The spammers have been creating multiple accounts to post the same unwanted, inappropriate items over and over.

Although we have come up with many ways to slow the flood of inappropriate items, and have continuously deleted the multiple accounts of the spammers, it hasn’t been effective enough.

Facebook account required…

We will soon require all users to link a Facebook account to their VirtaPay account. Facebook provides identity verification services that will help eliminate the abusive users. We expect that by taking this step the problem of item spammers and multiple accounts will become far more manageable. In addition, it will help free our developers to continue working on new features and improving our service, rather than constantly struggling to find ways to stop abusive users.

We may eventually remove the requirement for all VirtaPay users to link a Facebook account. But, during our development stages,

while we are still developing our service, it will soon be a requirement for all users.

What features are coming?

Stage 2 of the DD project is in the works. The Facebook integration is part of Stage 2.

  • You will soon be able to log into your VirtaPay account using Facebook.
  • You will be able to send payments by pulling up your Facebook friends instead having to know the recipient’s VirtaPay username.
  • Your Facebook friends will be able to easily send you a VirtaPay payment.

Stage 2 will also include new features designed to help you begin earning a steady flow of regular money (US dollars, euros, pesos, etc.) to your existing bank account. These cash flow features will work whether you’re a Buyer, a Seller or both.

Wednesday, 1 June 2011

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QUOTED FROM VirtaPay.com Blog:

Wed, Jun 1 – Stage 1 Update (part 2)

Since the launch of Stage 1 of the Digital Delivery (DD) project, thousands of our EarlyBird users have been helping test the features. This testing has helped us fix problems and prepare a list of items for the next stage. Stage 2 is where things get really exciting.

What’s coming in Stage 2?

Most of the new features coming in Stage 2 are designed to help you begin earning US$ in addition to VP$.

It doesn’t matter whether you want to use your VirtaPay account as a Buyer, a Seller, or both—we are working to give all of our users the tools you need to start a steady flow of “regular money” to your existing bank account using VirtaPay.

Keep up the good work…

Buyers: Please check the website regularly and see if there are any new items worth buying. If you find one, please reward it with a high rating. Please keep in mind that Stage 1 is mainly for testing. We expect the quality of products offered to get much better in Stage 2.

Sellers: Please continue posting items for sale. Remember to focus on quality. Create your own digital product (ebook, photographs, etc). Offer something of real value. The buyers are not interested in products that are nothing more than links to other websites. If you learn to do this now, you will have a head-start on all of the other Sellers when Stage 2 launches. (Note: The maximum price for an item has been lowered to $25 because most of the high priced items listed were prohibited items.)

We don’t have an exact estimate for when Stage 2 will launch, but, we’ll keep you updated as we get closer. Thanks for participating as we work to take VirtaPay to the next level". Unquote

It seems as if this program is really developing - it is getting more and more exciting. Can't wait for it to eventually prove all the doom prophets wrong!