While Adsense is still a viable and impressive tool to make money with the internet, there is no doubt that it has certain limitations. It doesn’t work well on every site, and that’s a fact. RevResponse by Netline is marketing itself as an alternative to Adsense, but I believe that it could very nicely be a complimentary money-maker to work alongside Adsense. Overall I’m very happy they ordered this review so that I could take a closer look.

How RevResponse Works

RevResponse is NOT a CPC-based model like Adsense. In other words, you are not paid directly for clicks. You are paid commission by RevResponse for giving away free products and services. You can create widgets (such as the one to the right), text links, or banners that offer free products. If people take you up on the free offer, you will get paid by RevResponse.

How Much Does RevResponse Pay?

Something that I found to be very cool about RevResponse is that each time someone takes advantage of one of the free offers you provide, you will receive at least $1.50. In this case, advertisers are paying to give away their products so that they can make contact with individuals that receive them. They are in essence trying to build their marketing lists. RevResponse says that you will be compensated between $1.50 and $20 for each successful giveaway and has assured me that most of the offers are worth more than $2.00.

RevResponse by default will pay you via check, but also offers PayPal as an alternative. They have their minimum payout at $25 and are sending out payments 45 days after the end of the month in which the revenue is generated. I think they would probably have a more successful service if the turnaround was faster but I guess it isn’t that bad.

What Does RevResponse Give Away?

RevResponse provides you with the opportunity to give away free business resources. Examples of this would be free magazine subscriptions, white papers, and software trials, etc. You are paid whenever a person downloads a free resource. Payouts range from $1.50 to $20.00 per action depending on the offer that the person chooses. One thing that I noticed when I was looking through the list of resources is that they are all about business. Here are the categories of downloads that are available:

• Agriculture
• Automotive
• Biotech and Pharmaceutical
• Computers
• Construction
• Education
• Engineering
• Executive and Management
• Finance
• Food and Beverage
• Government
• Health Care
• Human Resources
• Industrial and Manufacturing
• Internet
• Information Technolgy
• IT - Data Management
• IT - Security
• IT - Software and Development
• IT - Storage
• Insurance
• Mechanical/Machine
• Meetings and Travel
• Multimedia
• Network/Communications
• Purchasing and Procurement
• Retail
• Sales and Marketing
• Small and Medium Business
• Telecom and Wireless
• Trade/Professional Services
• Transportation and Logistics
• Utility and Energy

Those of you that have blogs and sites that have anything to do with business should most definitely check out RevResponse, as you can see the free product categories are right up your alley.

Right now I think that many of you are looking for an alternative to Adsense and we have talked a bunch of different times about different revenue models. I like this model because it’s often a lot easier to give a product away than anything else.

Click here to sign up with RevResponse

RevResponse Co-branding

RevResponse came up with a great idea that will help each of you to get more people to download reports that you recommend. When the person follows your link to go to Tradepub (which is where they download their content) for their free report, they will find a page that looks very much like your site. Here’s a shot of what my page on looks like:

My page on RevResponse has been set up at courtneytuttle.tradepub.com if you would like to take a look. There’s no doubt that this feature will help each of you to get more downloads and commissions.

Please let me know if you have any questions about this service! I’m going to give it a thumbs up.