Frequently Asked Questions

• General Questions

• • What is it?

    Reollie is an online tool that enables people to creatively promote their favorite brands.

  • How does Reollie work?
    • Advertisers post campaign initiative
    • Boosters develop ads with the creative design and sign with their soical profiles
    • The ads are published onto websites in the Reollie network

    
  • Why Reollie?
    Reollie’s ads are unique in that they are hand-crafted by individuals with unique blogs and social media identities. The personal nature of these ads adds an additional layer of character and depth that generic banner ads can’t capture. For companies, this means more effective campaigns. For boosters, this means more opportunities to share your passion for a particular brand.
  • Who should use the service?
    • Businesses that are looking for an effective advertising solution
    • Anyone interested in sharing their passion for a particular product or brand in a creative way
  • Is the boosting a personal endorsement?

    Not necessarily.

    
    

    A booster can boost ads for a variety of reasons, the personal endorsement is just one of them. For example, here are some boosting reasons:

    
    

    • "I like Dell because I am a happy customer" (Personal Experience)
    • "My dad is a store manager of the Whole Food Inc. I love my dad, and I love Whole Food" (Social Influence)
    • "I just broke up with my boy friend, and I am going to sell his stinky smell on Ebay" (Creative, fun)
    • "I don’t know why, but I like MacDonald" (Well, what do you think?)

    
    

    As you can see, the key for successful service boosting is to develop creative ad message and make sure the message fit with the booster online images.

• Advertiser Questions

• • Why is your advertising solution better?

    Online advertising was once dominated by content-based models (Google AdWords/Adsense). However, with the growth of social networking, word-of-mouth channels have been increasingly effective. In some instances, a well-known blogger can have a greater impact on a company’s reputation than even the most effective advertising campaign.

    
    

    Our solution leverages users' creative ideas and social influence to develop word of mouth ads. These ads are more personal, creative and interatcive.

  • How much dose it cost to sign up?

    Your credit card will be charged a one-time,none refundable sign-up fee of $5 USD when you create your account

    During the current stage, it is free to sign up.

  • How long will it take?

    Signing up should take you about 2-5 minutes.

  • How do I get started?
    • Register an advertiser account
    • Post your ad initiative
    • When a booster submit the boosting request, screen the booster’s profile, proof checking the boosting message. Once you approve the boosting, your ad is ready for display
    • After the campaign is over, rate your boosters properly
  • Where are my ads to be displayed?
    Your ads will be displayed on the boosters' web sites. Most of them are boosters' personal blog

    
  • Why does somebody boost my service?
    Boosters boost service with different motivations. For example.

    • Some boosters boost service to get paid.
    • Some boosters may boost local businesses for free.
    • Some boosters may boost services for free to build up their boosting profiles.
  • How should I manage the boosting?
    Depend upon your business nature and boosters’ requests; you may not approve all the boosters. Here are some common practices:

    • Check boosters' online profiles to make sure they fit well with your business images.
    • Check the booster's boosting hostory and current portifolios
    • Check the booster's rating .
  • What do you do about ad clicking fraud?
    • We track the IP of each ad clicks. For the same IP, only one click counts within 12 hours.
    • We developed a pattern analysis system. If the system finds anything suspicious, we will investigate it immediately.
    • If you suspect anything, please contact us immediately.

• Booster Questions

• • Why do I want to boost a service?
    There should be many reasons depending upon your personal scenario. The below just list a few

    • You will get paid
    • You may get more social capitals from people having similar business preferences. For example, if you a big iPhone fan, you will have a chance to know more fans
    • Get recognize for your expertise in certain areas
  • How much will I earn through this program?

    The Reollie ads can be either cost-per-click (CPC) or cost-per-1000-impressions (CPM) ads. This means that advertisers pay either when users click on ads, or when the advertiser's ad is shown. You'll receive a portion of the amount paid for either activity for your boosted ads. Although we don't disclose the exact revenue share, our goal is to enable boosters to make as much or more than they could with other advertising networks.

    
    

    The best way to find out how much you'll earn is to sign up and start boosting. There's no cost, no obligation, and getting started is quick and easy. Sign up now.

    
    

    Once signed up, you can view your earnings at any time by signing in and viewing your reports.

  • What are the different types of boosting?

    Paid Boosting:
    The booster gets paid when his/her boosted ads are clicked.

    
    

    Organic Boosting:
    The booster does not get paid when his/her boosted ads are clicked. However, we will increase the boosting score for this booster. The boosting score measures how good a booster is. Basically, a booster with higher boosting score will get paid better with paid boosting.

  • What information do you need from me?
    At the minimum, you should provide your name and living location. However, we recommend that you include a meaningful amount of information as advertisers tend to trust the most relevant boosters.
  • How do I import my profiles from other sites?
    At the moment, you can import your profile from the following sites by one button click.

    • Facebook
    • LinkedIn
    • Twitter
    • MySapce

    
    

    For other profile importing, we just need to ask you the web URL of your public profiles. More API support will come soon
  • What if my favorite services are not listed on your site?
    You can boost up services even if they are not listed on our site. For these services, you are given 100 points and each click counts for 1 point. After your points are used up, the boosting message will only stay in our site.
  • Where did my boosted ads displayed?
    You can display the ads on your own blog site by installing one line of JavaScript code in each of your post. Or if you allow your boosting to be displayed on others blog, you don’t have do anything with your post.
  • What is an ad player?
    An ad player is one line of JavsScript code that you can embed it into your post.
    
    It can be customized to fit your blog’s design. You can decide whose ads to be displayed on the player. It can be turned on/off. If there are no ads available, your blog readers will not notice anything.
  • Can I customize my ad player?
    Absolutely! As a matter of fact, you should always customize your ad player to make sure the ads fit well with your blog design.