HOW ELSE DOES EMPOWR EARN MONEY?

Empowr also earns money through things such as their ‘Marketplace’ advertising and subscriptions. People have the option of selling items within the community at either

a fixed price that they themselves set the price for, or through an online auction. Empowr earns 10% off items sold on their marketplace.

Empowr also runs ads, as Facebook does, and earns a profit through the click rates. By actually purchasing a membership or ‘subscription’ you can have success to front of the line products, features, as well as increase you network value within the community. This means you get more engagement on you posts, which equates to potentially more money for you.

THE ‘COMPENSATION PLAN’

I wouldn’t really call it a compensation plan, however, I cannot really think of what else it would be called.

You’re probably wondering how the calculations work in regard to engagement on you posts turning into profit. Empowr claims to use an algorithm that calculates your earnings based on posts and interaction levels within your content etc. Empowr says that their users can expect to see anywhere from $0.60 to $2 per post in earnings.

In order to receive your payout, you must wait for your balance to mature over a 90-day period. As you post, you use advertising credits, once those credits get used up you will need to pay for more credits (or they charge you for more from you balance) and the profit made after credits plus earnings is what you actually get paid out on after the 90 days is over.

There are four different roles you can play within the community to earn money.

CONTENT ROLE:

This role is the role I have been referencing throughout the post, and is the most common role practiced throughout the community. This is just simply liking, sharing and engaging within the community to earn profits.

MARKETPLACE ROLE:

This role I spoke to once before, which is selling you own programs, software, or products OR helping others promote their products (such as affiliate links) and earning money off of what is sold.

EDUCATOR ROLE:

This is basically someone who understands the community and how to earn money, and wants to take it upon themselves to recruit and support others within the community. As they take people under their wing, they earn a small amount of profit from what their ‘students’ earn.

DEVELOPER ROLE:

This role helps Empowr come up with new and creative ways for members to earn through the community.

Overall, there are no real calculations, algorithms, or equations to show how much in advertising credits is coming off compared to what you earn. Empowr is unclear as to how exactly calculations are done between members which I find a little concerning.

SUPPORT AND TOOLS

Support is very minimal, I suppose assuming that the concept is fairly straight forward. However, there is an educator role that people play within the community to support and mentor those who may be struggling.

There is no 1-800 number or contact information for the actual Empowr company.

Tools are minimal as well, all you really require is just internet access and a computer to get started.

HOW CAN YOU PROFIT WITH EMPOWR?

As I mentioned above, Empowr is a social media platform that connects through Facebook and Google Plus to create a system where engagement between members creates profit for members. However, let me explain a little more about how this works.

Signing up and connecting is completely free, and is literally as easy as pressing a button to connect and get started. After joining, you’ll be shown different members within you geographical region who you can share with, like posts, comment and engage. It’s as simple as liking someones post, or commenting on different comments and creating engagement within the posts. You can also share you own posts and members can share, like, and comment themselves as well. The engagement part is huge for earning profit.

Empowr is what I would consider a third party program, so its not actually Facebook your directly involved with. Because of that you can actually share almost anything and everything, Facebook on the other hand has specific rules and terms of use that affect sharing content as well as certain things like dropping affiliate links for profit.

Once joining, you’re considered a ‘citizen’, part of the community. You pay no immediate fees or membership fees, however, this is as long as you don’t give them you credit card/banking information.

WHAT/WHO IS EMPOWR?

Empowr is pitched as a social networking site that pays its members to perform specific tasks through social media. The tasks could include liking pictures or posts, sharing posts, commenting etc. Most of what you already do on social media you could get paid for on Empowr.

Michael Pousti, Founder of Empowr

The company Empowr has gone through quite a few name changes over the years, and technically was established in 2002. Empowr was most recently known as Fan Box in 2007 and at one point referred to as Project Uplift.

Empowr has a very optimistic mission statement, and that’s to help half the planet earn $25 a day by 2025. This is an extremely aggressive goal, and Empowr plans on doing it by providing an efficient way for people to earn a little money on everyday tasks that they do anyway.

The founders have spent a lot of time within internet businesses, specifically Pousti, who founded and was CEO of college club.com back in the 90s. Pousti was also a computer engineering student who started a company called Higher Educational Resources Inc while he was in college. Having lots of experience within start up businesses, both founders are known for helping build multiple companies.

Empowr describes its platform as a democracy, where their citizens elect the company leadership. The more value the citizens create within the Empowr community, the more profits can be earned.