Is Neobux a Scam?





is neobux a scamI first joined Neobux in 2009, and if you’re reading this, I was probably in a similar mindset then, as you are now. I had the same question, is Neobux a scam? I made a quick profit and quit Neobux. 4 years later I was looking for online opportunities and to my surprise, Neobux was still here!
In my defense, there were so many failing PTC sites and scams at that time, I didn’t feel safe investing my money and playing the long game, although now I wish I had. I wanted to put this short post together to answer the question, is Neobux a scam, for all those thinking about joining – with a list of 10 reasons that justify it is not.

Is Neobux a Scam? Top 10 Reasons it’s Not!

  • #1 Over 6 Years in the business! - one of the longest operating periods of any PTC
  • #2 Over 20,000,000 registered members – approx. 10,000 per day new sign-ups!
  • #3 Over 30,000 payment proofs – growing daily in the Neobux Forum
  • #4 Multiple & diverse streams of income – provides a stable and realistic business model
  • #5 Has always paid it’s members - cash-outs always received instantly!
  • #6 High emphasis on Security – lots of investment, protects you and advertisers
  • #7 Very responsive support team – I usually get inquiries answered in under 20 minutes
  • #8 Over 8,000 Success stories in the Forum – a huge amount of happy people!
  • #9 One of the top 100 websites in the world – more traffic than Flickr, ESPN and Netflix
  • #10 I’ve invested a lot of money and time myself!!

Why do Some People Say Neobux is a Scam?

shady character scamIf you type in the search phrase – is Neobux a scam – into the search engines, you will find people who do class Neobux as a scam. I know very well by publishing this post, I will have people comment that they have been ripped off, or had their accounts closed for no reason.
Neobux employs a very tight anti-cheat policy and is quite capable of catching people who try to cheat the system. One example of cheating would be setting up various accounts by using a proxy. Neobux specifically states in their terms of service 2.2 (TOS), only one account per person is allowed. Once people get caught, and have their accounts closed, of course they scream “Scam!!”.
Tip: Don’t use Proxies with Neobux, or any other PTC. It’s very simple to identify the additional HTTP header information that’s appended to connection attempts from a Proxy. It also devalues the ads that pay honest members and detrimentally affects the integrity of the program. Proxies — just say no!×
Another reason some disgruntled members identify Neobux as a scam is because they just don’t understand the system. For example, they rent referrals, that seemingly don’t click. The most common reason for this, is because of Neobux TOS 3.7:
The clicks you earn from referrals are directly related to the clicks you make. If you click at least 4 advertisements being a Standard / Pioneer member or you click at least 9 advertisements being a Golden member, you’ll receive all clicks made from your referrals.×
I would highly recommend to anybody to read (and more importantly, understand) the Neobux TOS before opening an account.

Is Neobux a Scam – Conclusion

With so much good press, happy users, forum feedback, and the fact that I’ve invested considerable time and money – it’s hard to justify Neobux being a scam, IMO it is definitely not. With something as big as Neobux, there’s always going to be negative feedback and accusations roaming around the web, especially in the stereo typically less than trustworthy industry of PTC.
The great thing about Neobux is, even after reading this, if you are still worried about investing money – then don’t! Start off as a standard member, which is free. There is never any requirement to put a single penny of your own money in to Neobux, to make a profit. If that’s not the definition of something that is not a scam, I don’t know what is!
Feel free to share your experiences with Neobux, good or bad, in the comment section below.

Make Money with Neobux




It’s very simple to make money with Neobux online. This short guide will walk you through step-by-step instructions and direct you to free strategies and tools on this website which will have you making money with Neobux in no time – with zero investment required.
For those new to, or unfamiliar with Neobux, it is like a Paid-to-Click (PTC) program on steroids! Neobux is one of the few legitimate online opportunities where you can make money from a 5 year old business, that boasts well over 20,000,000 members worldwide!

Step 1 – Sign up for a Free Neobux Account

make money with neobuxOur first step to make money with Neobux is to sign up for a free account. I have published a short guide in case you have any difficulties signing up – although the process is very simple. See my free Neobux guide if you run into any issues.
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Step 2 – Make Money with Neobux by Clicking Ads

Familiarize yourself with the dashboard and start clicking ads to make some direct cash. My free Neobux guide will also walk you through how to do this. How much you earn really depends on the ads available at that time, but if you login frequently, you can expect to earn around 5c per day by clicking all available ads, perhaps more.
Don’t worry, after you have familiarized yourself and explored the dashboard, we will start making a lot more money with Neobux through “renting referrals”!×

Step 3 – Get a Basic Understanding of Rented Referrals

making money with neobux onlineThe best way to make money with Neobux is to rent referrals. Don’t worry – you don’t have to refer anyone yourself, hence the term “rent”. By renting a referral, we pay Neobux a small 30 day fee – and receive revenue from our rented referrals clicks. Get to know and understand rented referral concepts with my understanding rented referrals guide.
Tip: Make sure you fully understand rented referrals. It is the key feature to make money with Neobux. Properly understanding associated costs and revenues will give you a great head start.×

Step 4 – Follow my Complete Strategy Guide

neobux free strategy guideI lay out for you step-by-step instructions demonstrating when and how many referrals to rent. I’ll show you a few simple acceleration techniques that will have you generating over $20 per day and also a Golden membership ($90 value) within a year.
Once you have your golden membership, it is a lot easier to make money with Neobux, as your revenue typically doubles, while costs remain the same.

Step 5 – Monitor your Success

free neobux calculatorIt’s not enough to just rent referrals and click ads. You have to figure out if you are making money or not! Luckily for you, I have a free Neobux calculator I designed in Excel. It is fairly self explanatory, but you can download and read through the instructions here:

How to Make Money With Neobux Summary

I want to stress how important it is to understand the basics of Neobux before you start trying to rent referrals. The guides on this website should help you accomplish just that.
Many people fail to make money with Neobux solely due to the reason they do not fully understand terms like AutoPay, AutoRenew and recycling – and do not apply these features to maximize their return.

Basic Neobux Guide




This guide is designed for those completely new to Pay-per-Click programs such as Neobux. It is extremely basic – so those familiar with Pay-per-Click programs might want to skip onto our more advanced Neobux guides. We will overview some of the basic principles of Neobux as well as some common pitfalls to avoid. This guide will cover 3 very basic topics:
  • How to sign up to Neobux
  • How to click on advertisements
  • Ads you must click on to get credit from referrals

Neobux Guide #1 – Signing up for an Account

1. This one is fairly straight forward. First visit the signup page here: Neobux Signup Page
You’ll see a screen like the one below, click register in the top right hand side.
neobux guide
2. Fill in the basic details:
neobux basic guide 2
A few points to remember:
  • Use a valid email address – you’ll need to confirm registration
  • Use a strong password – to protect your account from hackers!
  • Don’t forget to check the box at the bottom, saying you have read the Terms of Service
3. Important! Don’t close the next screen. You will receive a registration code in your email. It is a very long set of letters and numbers, so copy and paste them into the screen you see after you hit continue in step 2 above. If you don’t receive the email, check your spam folder.
neobux signup guide
4. That’s it! Click “Login” with your chosen username and password and you can now start clicking on ads and making money!
neobux guide signup success

NeoBux Guide #2 – Clicking on Advertisements

After you have signed up for an account, you can start clicking ads immediately. Login to your account and you will see a dashboard such as the one pictured below. All you need to do is click on the “View Advertisements” link in the top right.
viewing ads guide
You will be taken to the advertisements page. Note, Neobux employs an anti automatic clicker feature to deter people from having “bots” automatically click on the ads. You must also remain on the ad page for the ad for a variable amount of time (depending on the type of ad) for credit to be given.
clicking ads neobux
You can only click a certain ad once in a 24 hour time-frame.
Here is a breakdown of the available ads, money you get from clicking the ads and how long you have to view the ad as a standard member:
Type of AdClick RevenueAd Duration
Fixed Ad (Purple)$0.0015 seconds
Fixed Ad (Orange)$0.0015 seconds
Micro Exposure$0.0015 seconds
Mini Exposure$0.00515 seconds
Standard Exposure$0.01030 seconds
Extended Exposure$0.01560 seconds

Neobux Guide #3 Ads you must Click when you have RRs

Ok. I am not going to go into much detail about Rented Referrals (RRs) here. But I do want to plant some important information to consider when you come to renting referrals. As a standard member, you have to click a total of 4 ads in every day to get full credit from your rented referral clicks on the following day.
Furthermore, these 4 clicks have to come from either the Fixed Orange Ads, Standard Ads or Extended Ads.
Note: There will always be 4 Fixed Orange Ads to click as a standard member.×
If you do not click on 4 eligible ads in a 24 hour period, your rented referral income will be a maximum of the number of ads you did click multiplied by how many rented referrals you have. So for example, if I only clicked on 2 eligible ads and had 100 rented referrals, the max clicks I could get credit for the following day would be 2 clicks x 100 rented referrals = 200 clicks ($2.00)
One other thing to remember, your ads reset every 24 hours, not at midnight! For example, say you join Neobux at 8pm – that’s when you can start clicking ads. Your ads will reset (so you can click them again) 24 hours later, not at midnight. If you forget what time your ads reset, you can easily find out by clicking on the View Advertisements link. Toward the top of the screen you will see 2 times. The Neobux server time and the time your ads reset. Note they reset as per the server time – not your local time.
neobux ad reset

Neobux Standard Membership



There are several Neobux memberships available, the main population lies within Standard and Golden memberships. A Standard Neobux membership is free and where you begin, and where we will begin our overviews of the available Neobux memberships. We’ll also compare a few aspects of standard membership with golden membership.

Standard Neobux Membership Earnings

Let’s get straight to the good stuff! What do you get paid as a Standard member?
Type of AdYour ClicksClicks from DRs*Clicks from RRs*
Fixed Ads (Purple)$0.001--
Fixed Ads (Orange)$0.001$0.0005$0.005
Micro Exposure Ads$0.001--
Mini Exposure Ads$0.005--
Standard Ads$0.010$0.005$0.005
Extended Ads$0.015$0.005$0.010
*DRs = Direct Referrals, RRs – Rented Referrals
Note: Generally you actually get paid more click commission from Rented Referrals, but bear in mind you have to pay for these rentals, whereas direct referrals typically cost you nothing.
There’s a couple of advantages to direct referrals. The main one is you don’t have to pay a “rental fee” for direct referrals, or any associated AutoPay/AutoRenew fees. You will also get 20% of any NeoCoins and 12% of any Mini Jobs your direct referrals complete. You do not get any such referral commissions through rented referrals.
Tip: If you are confused by the terms rented referral, AutoPay, AutoRenew etc, please read our rented referrals guide which will walk you through the ins and outs of rented referrals.

Renting Referrals and Direct Referral Costs and Limits

The cost to rent referrals is the same for all memberships, as is AutoPay.
ReferralsMonthlyAutoPay
0 -> 250$0.20$0.0057
251 -> 500$0.21$0.0060
501 -> 750$0.22$0.0062
751 -> 1000$0.23$0.0065
1001 -> 1250$0.24$0.0068
1251 -> 1500$0.25$0.0071
1501 -> 1750$0.26$0.0074
more than 1750$0.27$0.0077
AutoRenew rates are also the same for all membership levels:
15 days30 days60 days90 days150 days240 days
0%5%10%18%25%30%
However, there is a strict limitation on the number of rented referrals you can have as a standard member. The below table shows these limitations for all levels:
 Standard
 Golden
 Emerald
 Platinum
 Sapphire
 Diamond
 Ultimate
300200020002000250030004000
There is also a limitation on the number of direct referrals you can have as a standard member. in fact you cannot have any direct referrals at all until you meet the following two prerequisites:
  • You have clicked on at least 100 ads yourself
  • You have been a standard member for at least 15 days
After you have met this criteria you are allowed 30 direct referrals. This limit increases by 1 each 4 days past 30 days for which you are a member. So for example, if you were a standard member for 102 days, you would be able to have 30 direct referrals plus (102-30)/4 = 18 – which gives a total direct referral limit of 48.
Bear in mind you can remove direct referrals who aren’t clicking enough ads, or have quit to make room for new ones. Out of interest, the limit for golden members is 200 instead of 30, plus you would divide days-30 by 2 instead of 4. So after 102 days as a golden member your limit would be 200 plus (102-30)/2 = 36 – which gives a golden limit of 236 opposed to 48 as a standard member.

How Much Can I make as a Standard Member

That depends on a number of factors – how well you manage your rented referrals, how many direct referrals you have, how many times your referrals click, complete mini jobs etc. I have put together a “theoretical” table below using different kinds of variables to give you an indication of what kind of profit is possible as a standard member.
DRs RRs DR Rev. RR Rev. Total Rev Expenses Daily Profit 30 Day Profit
050 $- $0.5450 $0.5450 $0.3395 $0.21 $6.17
0100 $- $1.0900 $1.0900 $0.6790 $0.41 $12.33
0200 $- $2.1800 $2.1800 $1.3580 $0.82 $24.66
0300 $- $3.2700 $3.2700 $2.1270 $1.14 $34.29
1050 $0.0109 $0.5450 $0.5559 $0.3406 $0.22 $6.46
20100 $0.0218 $1.0900 $1.1118 $0.6812 $0.43 $12.92
30200 $0.0327 $2.1800 $2.2127 $1.3613 $0.85 $25.54
40300 $0.0436 $3.2700 $3.3136 $2.1314 $1.18 $35.47
Assumptions: Rented Referrals and Direct Referrals click and average of 2.18 ads per day. Recycle value is 10% of daily profit. AutoPay/AutoRenew discount rates at 15% applied. Does not take into account your own clicks.×

Upgrading to Golden Membership

As a standard member, to make more money with Neobux, you should have in mind at some point to upgrade to Golden membership. There are a couple of prerequisites that have to be met before you upgrade:
  • You need to have clicked on a total of at least 50 ads
  • You have to be a Neobux standard member for at least 15 days
Upgrading to Golden membership costs $90 per year. The main benefit of upgrading to Golden, is that your earn more from your referrals – both direct and rented. This is particularly important in terms of rented referrals, as your break even cost is dramatically lowered. Here’s a quick comparison between standard and golden membership click revenue:
Clicks from Direct ReferralsClicks from Rented Referrals
Type of AdStandardGoldenStandardGolden
Fixed Ads (Orange)$0.001$0.005$0.005$0.010
Standard Ads$0.005$0.010$0.005$0.010
Extended Ads$0.005$0.010$0.010$0.020
You also get a slight bump to your own clicks.
Remember that table above highlighting how much you can make as a standard member? Well here’s the same table with figures exchanged for golden members:
DRs RRs DR Rev. RR Rev. Total Rev Expenses Daily Profit 30 Day Profit
050 $- $1.0900 $1.0900 $0.3940 $0.70 $20.88
0100 $- $2.1800 $2.1800 $0.7880 $1.39 $41.76
0200 $- $4.3600 $4.3600 $1.5760 $2.78 $83.52
0300 $- $6.5400 $6.5400 $2.4540 $4.09 $122.58
1050 $0.1090 $1.0900 $1.1990 $0.4049 $0.79 $23.82
20100 $0.2180 $2.1800 $2.3980 $0.8098 $1.59 $47.65
30200 $0.3270 $4.3600 $4.6870 $1.6087 $3.08 $92.35
40300 $0.4360 $6.5400 $6.9760 $2.4976 $4.48 $134.35

Standard Membership Conclusion

Becoming a standard Neobux member is a great, risk free way to try out the system and familiarize yourself with the features. Neobux is one of the few programs online where you can make real money, from an established business with over 20,000,000 members that’s been around for over 5 years.
Admittedly, you can make a lot more money as a golden member, as demonstrated with the profit tables in this guide. However, the neat thing about Neobux, is you can start with absolutely nothing, and within my calculations, can achieve golden membership and over $20 a day profit within 371 days – no investment ever needed! Read my full zero investment Neobux strategy for more info!
As always, please feel free to post any questions or share any comments in the below comments section.

Neobux Strategy – Zero Investment!




We’ll supercharge this Neobux strategy and have you renting 10 referrals within 10 days utilizing some additional features within Neobux, aside from the mainstream ad clicks that generate you cash.We’ll then use the profits from your rentals to purchase more rented referrals until we have enough money to purchase a golden membership, after which your daily profit will rise above $20 per day all with zero investment. Sound good? Then let’s begin!

Step-by-step Neobux Strategy

First, sign up for a Neobux account.
  • Click Ads – Generate 20 cents in your first 10 days
Login to your account, and right at the top, click “View Advertisements”.
neobux strategy ads
When you click this, you will get a list of advertisements you can click on to earn money. There will always be a certain number of fixed advertisements that renew daily, usually around 20 or so. Unfortunately these have a relatively low yield – $0.001 per ad clicked. Your goal is to generate $0.02 per day giving you $0.20 over your first 10 days.
Tip: quite often you will see standard or extended advertisements – these give you $0.01 or $0.015 per extended ad per click – make sure you click these first if you see them, as they tend to disappear quite quickly and are equal to the money you make from 10/15 fixed or micro ads!×
  • Complete Mini Jobs – Earn $1.80 in your first 10 days
This will give you guys a great head start. Neobux Mini Jobs are simple tasks that advertisers pay you to complete via Neobux. You may have to search for a website and report its ranking in Google, or watch a YouTube video and give some form of feedback.
I spent about 60 minutes one day generating $0.79 with Neobux Mini Jobs to make sure they were legitimate ways of making extra money – they are. Your goal is to make $1.80 over 10 days, if you are dedicated this can be done in just 1 – cutting 9 days off this Neobux strategy.
neobux strategy mini jobs
  • Earn NeoPoints – 200 per day
We can use NeoPoints as a substitute for paying for rented referral recycles. Every time we recycle a referral it costs $0.07. Alternatively, we can pay with 93 NeoPoints that cost nothing except a little time.
Note: A lot of times NeoPoints are generated by installing software on your PC. I have seen adware and spyware within these programs – so if you are going to pursue the NeoPoint tasks that include installing software, make sure you have a decent anti-virus (like the free AVG) and a competent uninstall program like Revo Uninstaller (also free) to effectively remove the programs.×
After you have generated $2 or more, you can move onto the next step:

Renting your First 10 Referrals!

The fun part of this Neobux strategy begins! You can rent your first 20 referrals.
neobux strategyRented referrals cost 20c each for 30 days rental. You want to make sure of two things here. The first is to turn AutoPay on. AutoPay automatically adds a single day onto the 30 day rental period, every day that the referral clicks on an ad. It does so at a 15% discount on the standard 20c charge. So in effect, over 30 days, AutoPay will cost you 17c rather than renewing at 20c.
3c does not sound like a lot, but carry that over 1,000 or 10,000 rented referrals as some Neobux members have, and it sure makes a big difference. As you get more experienced with Neobux, you will likely fail over to just using AutoRenew for grater discounts, but AutoPay will be your best bet starting off.
Alert! from now on it is imperative you click on at least 4 of the orange fixed ads, standard ads or extended ads. There will always be 4 orange fixed ads every day for you to click. If you don’t, you will not receive full credit for your referral’s clicks! ×
Let’s do some math. Assuming an estimate whereby your referrals click an average of 1.8 ads per day, and that you make $0.02 from your own individual clicks, plus $0.12 from Mini Jobs (typically one job) your daily income will look like:
  • Direct Revenue – $0.14
  • Referral Revenue – 10 x 1.8 x $0.005 = $0.09
  • Minus AutoPay – 10 x 0.0057 = $0.057
  • Total Daily Profit – $0.14 + $0.09 – $0.057 = $0.17
We are going to invest daily profit back into Neobux for now, to generate better income. Re-investing just profit (and not total revenue before costs) will ensure we can maintain our rented referral base.

Recap Neobux Strategy and Full Speed Ahead!

Let’s put the above revenue and costs figures into a table, and run through the next few weeks. At making $0.17 per day profit, you can afford to rent 5 new referrals every week. We should do this until we make enough to purchase a 10-pack of rented referrals as follows:
RevenueExpenses
DayActionRefsRef ClicksYour ClicksMini JobsAutoPayRecylcingProfit
1Ads/MiniJobs0 $- $0.02$0.18 $- $- $0.20
10Rent 1010 $0.09 $0.02$0.12 $0.057 $- $0.17
17Rent 515 $0.14 $0.02$0.12 $0.086 $- $0.19
24Rent 520 $0.18 $0.02$0.12 $0.114 $- $0.21
31Rent 525 $0.23 $0.02$0.12 $0.143 $- $0.22
38Rent 530 $0.27 $0.02$0.12 $0.171 $- $0.24
45Rent 535 $0.32 $0.02$0.12 $0.200 $- $0.26
52Rent 540 $0.36 $0.02$0.12 $0.228 $- $0.27
59Rent 545 $0.41 $0.02$0.12 $0.257 $- $0.29
I’m making 2 assumptions here:
  • Your continuing to make money off Mini Jobs – which you should in the early days
  • Your generating NeoPoints to cover any recycling fees, which is what I did when starting out
Tip: Don’t be too put off about my note regarding Adware/Spyware and NeoPoints in the beginning of this Neobux strategy. There are other tasks there that generate NeoPoints such as surveys and signing up to free offers.×
Most of the items above are fairly self explanatory, but let’s elaborate, as it’s important you understand where the figures are coming from. We’ll be using this format for most of the remainder of this strategy.
  • Day – this represents the cumulative days you have been earning with Neobux
  • Action – this is what you do on that particular day to the left!
  • Refs – a cumulative count of how many rented referrals (RRs) you have
  • Ref Clicks – money you get from RR clicks
  • Your Clicks – money you get from your own clicks
  • Mini Jobs – money you generate from Neobux Mini Jobs each day
  • Less AutoPay – applied to all referrals, the daily cost of a RR
  • Recycling – charged at 7% of daily profit
  • Profit – this is your daily profit after all expenses

Day 60 On – Rent as many RRs as Possible

The table above shows us making $0.29 profit per day, or $2.02 per week. We can now afford to rent 10 pack. The more we reinvest our profit into referrals, the higher packs of rented referrals we will be able to afford. The below table takes us through to day 164 when we reach 300 rented referrals – the maximum number you can have as a standard member:
RevenueExpenses
DayActionRefsRef ClicksYour ClicksMini JobsAutoPayRecylcingProfit
66Rent 1055 $0.50 $0.02$0.12 $0.314 $- $0.32
73Rent 1065 $0.59 $0.02$0.12 $0.371 $- $0.35
80Rent 1075 $0.68 $0.02$0.12 $0.428 $- $0.39
87Rent 1085 $0.77 $0.02$0.12 $0.485 $- $0.42
94Rent 1095 $0.86 $0.02$0.12 $0.542 $- $0.45
101Rent 15105 $0.95 $0.02$0.12 $0.599 $- $0.49
108Rent 15120 $1.08 $0.02$0.12 $0.684 $- $0.54
115Rent 15135 $1.22 $0.02$0.12 $0.770 $- $0.59
122Rent 20155 $1.40 $0.02$0.12 $0.884 $- $0.65
129Rent 20175 $1.58 $0.02$0.12 $0.998 $- $0.72
136Rent 25200 $1.80 $0.02$0.12 $1.140 $- $0.80
143Rent 25225 $2.03 $0.02$0.12 $1.283 $- $0.88
150Rent 30255 $2.30 $0.02$0.12 $1.530 $- $0.91
157Rent 30295 $2.66 $0.02$0.12 $1.770 $- $1.03
164Rent 5300 $2.70 $0.02$0.12 $1.800 $- $1.04
I’m still assuming you are using NeoPoints to pay for recycling. At 300 referrals, there won’t be too much, perhaps 3-5 per day, which is the equivalent of 1-2 NeoPoint tasks. You can always subsidize with more Mini Jobs or more NeoPoints if you find yourself slipping below 1.8 referral clicks per day to keep on target.

Day 165 – Decision Time!

Well, we’ve pretty much done all there is to do as a standard member. You now have a choice to make. You can either be satisfied with drawing out your daily profits, around $30 a month, or save up for 86 days or so and go golden. Let’s see where the latter lands us.

Day 270 – Getting your Golden Membership!

At or around day 270, you should have saved up enough profit to purchase a Golden membership, while maintaining your rented referral base of 300. The following table takes right up to day 361, just under a year.
RevenueExpenses
DayActionRefsRef ClicksYour ClicksMini JobsAutoPayRecylcingProfit
270Golden!300 $5.40 $0.02$0.00 $1.800 $0.32 $3.31
277Rent 100400 $7.20 $0.02$0.00 $2.400 $0.42 $4.40
284Rent 100500 $9.00 $0.02$0.00 $3.000 $0.53 $5.50
291Rent 100600 $10.80 $0.02$0.00 $3.720 $0.63 $6.47
298Rent 100700 $12.60 $0.02$0.00 $4.340 $0.74 $7.55
305Rent 100800 $14.40 $0.02$0.00 $5.200 $0.84 $8.38
312Rent 100900 $16.20 $0.02$0.00 $5.850 $0.95 $9.43
319Rent 1001000 $18.00 $0.02$0.00 $6.500 $1.05 $10.47
326Rent 1001100 $19.80 $0.02$0.00 $7.480 $1.16 $11.19
333Rent 1001200 $21.60 $0.02$0.00 $8.160 $1.26 $12.20
340Rent 1001300 $23.40 $0.02$0.00 $9.230 $1.37 $12.83
347Rent 1001400 $25.20 $0.02$0.00 $9.940 $1.47 $13.81
354Rent 1001500 $27.00 $0.02$0.00 $10.650 $1.58 $14.80
361Rent 1001600 $28.80 $0.02$0.00 $11.840 $1.68 $15.30
A few notes:
  • I have discontinued revenue from Mini Jobs – at this level it is irrelevant
  • I have added in recycling costs at 1.5% of the number of RRs – no more NeoPoints!
  • AutoPay rates go up, the more RR’s you have – this has been taken into account

Neobux Strategy Summary Conclusion

I do want to mention AutoRenew as an addendum of sorts here. We have used AutoPay throughout this Neobux strategy, as it attracts a 15% discount, regardless of how many RR’s you have. If you’re not against introducing some capital, you may want to use AutoRenew instead of AutoPay. The AutoRenew discounts are as follows:
15 days30 days60 days90 days150 days240 days
0%5%10%18%25%30%
Any AutoRenew strategy 90 days or over would incur a greater discount than the 15% AutoPay discount, but you would likely need to introduce new capital to pay for the extended rental times.
I also want to mention a couple of strategy acceleration techniques. In the early stages, it’s important to click on as many ads as possible and complete as many Mini Jobs as you can. As you probably gathered from this Neobux strategy – things are kind of slow at first, but then ramp up quite quickly. Any additional money you can make from clicks, Mini Jobs, or even by introducing a little capital can help expedite the timeline laid out in this Neobux strategy.
Another way to accelerate this strategy would be to refer direct referrals, through traffic exchanges, forums, Facebook etc. I personally purchased a very low cost ($8) set of video tutorials to help me achieve this, and would recommend it to anyone new to Neobux. You can see it here: Neobux Direct Referral Video Tutorial.
I hope this Neobux strategy proves useful to you, and wish you good luck!

Calculating Daily Profit


This can be trickier than you may think, so I wanted to put together a little guide on the accurate way to calculate profit from rented referrals based on the levels of AutoPay and AutoRenew you have chosen. For those who are really lazy and don’t want to understand how the numbers are calculated, you’re in luck! I have put together a really simple Excel spreadsheet for you guys, and of course it’s free. Head over to the Free Neobux Tools section to download it.

How I calculate Profit

Different people calculate profit in different ways. I look at it like this:
“What is my daily profit after paying for referral clicks (considering AutoPay discounts), sustaining my referrals (through AutoRenew discounts) and taking into account recycling fees.”
I don’t concern myself with the initial cost of referrals, this is more of an investment cost – not a daily cost/profit calculation. I want to know if – day by day – I am making money on my investment or not, while being able to sustain my rented referral base.

Accurately Recording Revenue and Costs

Revenue – the Simple One!

For those that do want to know the math behind it, let’s first focus on accurately understanding revenues and costs. These vary based on your membership level and how many rented referrals you have.
First, revenue from click commissions – this one’s easy:
 Standard
 Golden
 Emerald/
 Sapphire
 Platinum/
 Diamond
 Ultimate
Extended Exposure$0.0100$0.0200$0.0200$0.0200$0.0200
Standard Exposure$0.0050$0.0100$0.0100$0.0100$0.0100
Fixed Ads$0.0050$0.0100$0.0100$0.0100$0.0100

Figuring out the Cost of Rented Referrals

The cost to sustain rented referrals (and therefore your daily profit) is going to vary based on whether you have AutoPay and/or AutoRenew switched on and your level of recycling. There are several combinations of strategy that you can apply resulting in 4 different cost calculations as per below:
  • Option 1: AutoPay off and AutoRenew turned off
This one is the most simple. The daily cost is the cost of the referral multiplied by the number of referrals divided by 30. Note the cost of the referral is based on your membership level as below:
ReferralsMonthly
0 -> 250$0.20
251 -> 500$0.21
501 -> 750$0.22
751 -> 1000$0.23
1001 -> 1250$0.24
1251 -> 1500$0.25
1501 -> 1750$0.26
more than 1750$0.27
So if we have 700 referrals, our daily cost to sustain them would be:
$0.22 x 700 / 30 = $5.13, plus any recycling fees. Anything over that is my daily profit.
  • Option 2: AutoPay switched on, AutoRenew switched off
This one again is relatively easy to understand, although includes an extra calculation. The main thing to understand is that whether your rented referral clicks or not, you are still paying for that referral for a day, either through AutoPay, or by losing a days rental if they don’t click.
For the rented referrals that do click, you get a 15% discount on the daily cost of that referral. If they don’t, you need to take into account the cost of that referral divided by 30.
Let’s again assume we have 700 rented referrals, 400 of them click at least one ad, 300 do not click. Our cost calculation would be:
400 x ($0.22 – 15%) / 30 = $2.49 plus the ones that didn’t click;
300 x $0.22 / 30 = $2.20 – total cost is $4.69 plus any recycling fees.
Tip: To workout how many referrals have clicked in a particular day, go into your Neobux dashboard, navigate to the statistics page and divide your total AutoPay cost for that day by your AutoPay cost per referral.×
  • Option 3: AutoPay switched off, AutoRenew switched on
This is a common strategy in Neobux, for the more advanced user. We will basically AutoRenew at a length of time, that provides a larger discount than the 15% AutoPay discount rate. Many users AutoRenew for 240 days, which attracts a 30% discount rate! Like the first example, this one is very simple. We multiply number of referrals by the (cost of the referral – discount %) divided by 30 days.
Here are the AutoRenew discounts:
15 days30 days60 days90 days150 days240 days
0%5%10%18%25%30%
Let’s take the same 700 rented referral example we have been using and assume we AutoRenew for 90 days. Our cost calculation would be:
700 x ($0.22 – 18%) / 30 = $4.21 plus any recycling fees.
A couple of things we need to note on this example. It doesn’t matter if AutoRenew is set to 90, 150 or even 240 days – the cost of the referral is based over 30 days, so we will always divide by 30.
Important: Also, if you initially rent a referral for 30 days with intent to AutoRenew at >30 days – you may need to introduce new capital to renew after the initial 30 days as the profit made on that referral may not be enough to renew for 60-240 days.×
  • Option 4: AutoPay switched on, AutoRenew switched on
For this example, we will duplicate our cost calculation of Option 2, but apply the AutoRenew discount rates to the rented referrals that don’t click, instead of the full cost of the rented referral.
We will use the same figures from option 2, but assume we have AutoRenew set to 90 days.
400 x ($0.22 – 15%) / 30 = $2.49 plus the ones that didn’t click;
300 x ($0.22-18%) / 30 = $1.80 – total cost is $4.29 plus any recycling fees.
This is a great strategy for anyone new to Neobux. The AutoPay function helps spread out when your next payment is due on rented referrals (as they will not all renew on the same day) and typically gives you enough time build up revenue from click commissions to renew at the 18% discount rate while only having to introduce very little new capital or none at all.

Calculating Profit Summary

A lot of people miscalculate profit, which leads them to withdraw money too soon and not be able to sustain rented referrals. Neobux is not a get rich quick scheme and you must plan to re-invest some of that profit to sustain and grow your rented referral base to generate bigger returns.
Calculating accurate profit is very simple, just know whether you are utilizing AutoPay or AutoRenew or not, how many recycles you make and use the respective cost calculation from options 1-4 above. Better still, download my free Neobux profit calculator and let Excel do the

Neobux Golden Membership


Becoming a Golden member in Neobux is where the fun begins! Essentially, your revenue doubles, while all costs remain the same. There is an annual investment to become a Golden member, which is currently $90 per year. This post will take an in-depth look at the costs and benefits of being a Neobux golden member, and we will also compare and contrast some features with standard membership.

How to Upgrade to a Golden Member

Before you can upgrade to a golden member, you have to satisfy two prerequisites:
  • You have to be a standard member for 15 days before upgrading to golden
  • You have to click at least 100 ads yourself before upgrading to golden
upgrading-goldenOnce these prerequisites have been satisfied, login to your Neobux dashboard and click the green plus sign, next to your membership type in the top right of the screen:
As mentioned before, it is a $90 annual fee. You can pay via your main Neobux balance, PayPal, Payza, Neteller, or for a mere 30,000 NeoPoints!

Rented Referral Restrictions for Golden Members

Renting referrals works a little differently for golden members than it does for standard members. Firstly, you are restricted to a maximum of 2,000 rented referrals (300 for standard).
The main difference in renting referrals is when and how you are allowed to rent them. As a standard member, you can rent at any time after 7 days since the last time you rented. Golden members still have to adhere to this restriction, but unlike standard members, you only have 2 hours during a calendar day when you can rent. So for example, 9am and 9pm. You set these as your rental times once you become golden.
Following on from the above, it is much harder to rent referrals as a golden member. This is due to higher demand. So, say you’re sitting at your PC 7 days since you last rented, at the allotted times for your rentals (in this example, 9am or 9pm), there’s a fair chance you won’t be able to rent any referrals if you are not quick enough – there’s thousands of other members competing for limited referrals who will have the same hours picked as yourself.
Tip: Before you go golden, max out your rented referrals to 300 as a standard member, giving you a good head start as a golden member!

Using the Rented Referral Queue

The rental queue is a system Neobux employs to quell the frustration of not being able to rent referrals as a golden member. There is a fixed number of referrals you can queue to rent. In you first year as a golden member, that number is 55, in your second onward, it is 65. You have to satisfy several conditions in order to use the rental queuing system:
  • You must have sufficient funds in your rental balance
  • You must have waited at least 7 days since you last rented
  • You must have under 2,000 rented referrals
There are 2 types of rental queues, standard and express. Which leads me to the bad news.
  • It can take up to 2 weeks for rented referrals to be delivered via the standard queue
  • Rented Referrals cost 1.5x as much via the standard queue
  • RRs are delivered within 24 hours via the express queue but cost twice as much!
Double seems like a steep cost to pay, and compared to the standard cost, it is. However, bear in mind that AutoPay and renewal costs will be applied at the standard rate dependent on the number of rented referrals you have. It’s only the initial cost that is elevated.

Why Upgrade to Golden Membership?

There are several reasons. The most obvious is your rented referrals commissions per click double when you are a golden member. Here’s a comparison for the various memberships:
 Standard
 Golden
 Emerald
 Sapphire
 Platinum
 Diamond
 Ultimate
Extended Ads$0.0100$0.0200$0.0200$0.0200$0.0200
Standard Ads$0.0050$0.0100$0.0100$0.0100$0.0100
Fixed Ads (Orange)$0.0050$0.0100$0.0100$0.0100$0.0100
Note: You do not get any click commissions for RRs clicking on purple fixed ads, nor for Micro or Mini Advertisements×
In addition, as a golden member you get slightly higher performing rented referrals than a standard member due to the filter activity distribution Neobux employs. Depending on your membership, you will only receive rented referrals that have clicked:
  • 11 ad clicks in the last 5 days as a standard member (average 2.20)
  • 14 ad clicks in the last 6 days as a golden member (average 2.33)
  • 17 ad clicks in the last 7 days as an ultimate member (average 2.43)
Costs associated with renting referrals remain the same. This halves your break even point and makes it much easier to make a good profit.

Increase in Direct Referral Income and Number of Direct Referrals Allowed

The click commission for direct referrals also increases over a standard member
 Standard Golden
 Emerald
 Sapphire
 Platinum
 Diamond
 Ultimate
Extended Ads$0.0050$0.0100$0.0100$0.0100$0.0100
Standard Ads$0.0050$0.0100$0.0100$0.0100$0.0100
Fixed Ads (Orange)$0.0005$0.0050$0.0100$0.0100$0.0100
NeoCoin offers20%20%20%20%20%
Mini Jobs offers12%12%12%12%12%
On the subject of direct referrals, remember you are limited to how many direct referrals you can have dependent on your membership level, as follows:
StandardGoldenEmeraldSapphirePlatinumDiamondUltimate
30200250300400400Unlimited
These are starting values. The longer you are a member, the more referrals you can have. As a golden member, for every 2 days over 30 days you are a member, you are entitled to 1 more direct referral. For example, if you have been a member for 200 days, you are entitled to 200 + ((200-30)/2) = 285 direct referrals.

Increase in Allowed Rented Referrals

As a standard member, you are allowed only 300 rented referrals. As golden, 2,000. This number increases with “add-on” packs that convert your membership to Emerald, Sapphire, Platinum, Diamond and Ultimate as follows:
 Standard
 Golden
 Emerald
 Platinum
 Sapphire
 Diamond
 Ultimate
300200020002000250030004000

Neobux Golden Membership Summary

Ultimately, everyone that joins Neobux should have in mind to upgrade to a golden member sooner or later, as you can make significantly more as a golden member. The $90 per year may be off-putting to some people. I would remind you, Neobux has been around for 5 years and has over 20 million members – it’s not a fly by night type of business.
If cost is the main concern, check out my Neobux Strategy, where I demonstrate how to get a Gold membership for free, within 371 days or less!