{"id":2533,"date":"2014-08-27T11:59:59","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T15:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=2533"},"modified":"2014-08-27T12:06:36","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T16:06:36","slug":"ubers-referral-program-lead-gen-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/ubers-referral-program-lead-gen-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Uber&#8217;s Referral program \/ lead gen practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Tips at TC: Uber is cheating  Background: uber has a referral program that seems too great to be real. First time users get $30. Referrer gets $30.  Only I, as the lead generation (referrer) haven&#8217;t been getting credit  In the lead gen industry, doing a 50\/50 split means it&#8217;s a $60 total bounty. A 60 dollar rip. 60.oo in comm for a new user who downloads the Uber app, sets up their credit card, and takes a ride. [{ It used to be a 50-50 split where the user gets $20 &#038; referrer gets $20. For a total of $40} I never got screwed back then :-]  Except, Uber is only paying the first time user. They aren&#8217;t paying the referrer who did the leadGen (Aka me). You have a previous story where someone used a Tinder to embed their Uber code (my uber code is p9tds)  To confirm my hypothesis that I was getting short changed on doing Uber lead gen, I had my girlfriend input a new credit card on a new iPhone with a new account everything.  Anyway, thought you would like to know  Yes, I lead gen for work and lead gen as my hobby. I moved out to silicon valley because paypal was doing a 50-50 lead gen deal and was wrought with light college student &#8220;fraud&#8221; where smart users got multiple accounts. I did leads for 50% more but attached a credit card number (Note this is what Uber is doing as well.  Note: this is lead gen &#8216;cost per lead&#8217; and &#8220;cost per activated account&#8221;. An activated account is an account  &#8211; with a smartphone download &#8211; with a credit card  &#8211; with one Uber transaction  cc my blog (LARRY CHIANG) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\" >https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog<\/a> Re Uber&#8217;s lead gen practices<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Tips at TC: Uber is cheating Background: uber has a referral program that seems too great to be real. First time users get $30. Referrer gets $30. Only I, as the lead generation (referrer) haven&#8217;t been getting credit In the lead gen industry, doing a 50\/50 split means it&#8217;s a $60 total bounty. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}