Anyway if you really were kidding, then I'll admit my post was out of line. But at the same time, I said in the beginning I was only doing this to see if it was a hoax. I even explained to to the people I invited not to get their hopes up (and told them to pass that along) because of the constant delay(s).

I'm not some gullible idiot. I said what I would do with this if it didn't work and I did it. I wasn't at all looking for a 'free and easy ride'. I'm going after a degree in criminal justice, not sitting in my living room looking for easy ways to make money online.

I'm through with i5, seeing as how they can't get it together and make this work. If you want to keep ridiculing me, go ahead (as I deserve it for name calling). Words typed on a post don't faze me at all. I said what I would do with i5 and I did it, am over it, and I'm moving on.

“What if this, what if that” is not a valid arguement. The sales pitch
is a question and how they can be rich rather than the product. Ads
are only effective if there are eyeballs. Your product does not have
enough eyeballs plain and simple.

It doesn't matter that the have been in business for 10 years or have
put loads of $$$.

Most of the websites you ultimately compare this to like google,
yahoo, facebook, Twitter and etc were not started to make money. They
were started as fun/no profit projects that became part of our culture.

So the next time you say this is a game changer, ask yourself if this
will penetrate the subconscious of the masses who use the Internet?
Probably not but it might as you say. Cricket will probably not
replace baseball as the US pasttime but it might as you say : )

BTW, the companies I mentioned above didn't take 10 years to “make
it”. Great web companies usually take off pretty fast

This will bring tears to your Eyes.I Think .He Is A solicitor ..
So Just Maybe add a little credence to TheBar…
What if you could make money doing something you probably do presently for no pay – surf the net? You do not need to build a website, make cold calls, or sell something, and most importantly, you do not have to shell out any money to participate. You simply download a free toolbar and install it on your web browser. When you want to earn some money, you click a button on the toolbar then watch and rate a short advertisement. That is how the system works. If you are willing to spread the word to your friends, family, your favorite charity or non-profit and have those folks follow the same process, you can earn when they earn. Too good to be true? Read further and judge for yourself.

The developer of this newly debuted toolbar is the Boloto Group of Scottsdale, Arizona. Boloto is a ten-year-old company that says it works to provide solutions to problems it perceives in the marketplace. One problem it saw is the substantial cost yet limited effectiveness of internet advertising. Its solutions, called Invite5 and Get The Bar, offer better ways for businesses to deliver advertising to a targeted demographic, gain feedback on that advertising, and do so at lower costs. At the same time, the Boloto system compensates participating consumers for their time and candid opinions. Boloto has spent the better part of its existence developing Invite5 and Get The Bar, which has taken years of programming, created four U.S. and world patents pending on the technology and cost millions of dollars in development.

So, how does it work? If you are an individual, you register and download the Invite5 toolbar and install it on your Firefox and/or Internet Explorer web browsers. The toolbar is unobtrusive and looks similar to any other toolbar you have installed, except this one has a button called “Ads.” On any website at any time you can click the “Ads” button, and a column of text ads appears on the left side of the screen. There are two types of ads. Ads colored blue and gray are called 10 cent ads, for which advertisers have paid – you guessed it – 10 cents. Such ads are tailored to the interests and demographic information you provided when you registered with Invite5. There are also green and gray ads from 3rd party ad networks, which are not related to your demographic. Click either type of ad, regardless of its color, and it pops up in a new window. Once viewed and rated on a one-to-five star scale, you get paid. Over time, as advertisers create more 10 cent ads, Invite5 will scale back, and then eventually eliminate, the 3rd party network ads altogether.

You can click up to 10 ads per day, and you earn a penny for the 10 cent ads and 1/3 cent for 3rd party network ads. The toolbar shows in real time your balance owed. Although a penny does not seem like much incentive to click on an ad, Invite5 has implemented a creative viral marketing strategy with a tiered payment system. While you get paid a penny for your own clicks, you get 1/3 of a penny for the clicks of everyone or every group you introduce to the bar and the people that they introduce and so on, down seven layers deep. You are not limited in the number of introductions that you make, nor are your friends, nor are their friends, so if it continues going viral those partial pennies add up fast.

Invite5’s website provides a calculator that estimates how much you earn if everything goes according to plan. Suppose you register 10 people. Then each of those 10 people sign up five of their friends and then those five sign up five of their friends and so on to seven levels deep. If all of the people in that matrix average three ad clicks a day for a month, the calculator estimates you would make over $50,000 that month. Now exact duplication with a down-line is virtually impossible, so let’s plug in some very conservative numbers. What if you have five personal sign-ups, three enrollments for everyone thereafter down to seven levels, and an average of two clicks each. That equals $983 per month, plus change. That can cover a lot of childcare, groceries or some other expenses in these dismal economic times. That would really be an economic stimulus package.

You can also sign up any company or organization through Invite5’s sister program, called Get The Bar. As long as the group lists your user name as the referrer, you will earn on any users the group enrolls, down seven levels deep, just like Invite5. So you can invite your favorite non-profit, church, school or charity to join. As the organization’s members join and view ads, the organization gets paid, and you get paid. It is the equivalent of an organization having an automated donation machine.

With Get The Bar, an organization can also use the toolbar to communicate with its members. The Get The Bar toolbar is customizable so any organization can upload their logo to the bar. When members join they will be able to place the organization’s logo on their toolbar as well. Clicking that logo will take the member to the organization’s latest news, updates or offers. So suppose your kids’ school district has the toolbar and inclement weather comes. Rather than having to watch the endless scroll of school names on television or search for the district’s website, you can find out if school is closed with one click on your toolbar.

Do you have a company with a website and a list of customers? Get the toolbar and invite your customers to join, which will make you and them money. You can use your company’s logo to inform your customers about your latest sales, your newest line of products, whatever. Boloto also has a widget that you can place on your company’s website. With it, visitors can make you money by clicking on the widget, regardless of whether they are members of Invite5.

If all this sounds vaguely familiar, it may be because Boloto Group has been testing another toolbar, similarly called GetTheBar, since last December. Boloto released it to a limited number of users in order to fine tune the program and work out any software bugs and also to see how well the concept took off. It exceeded their expectations, all the while using only the 3rd party exchange ads that were not specifically targeted to the demographics of the user, and frankly, not very good ads.

By this time you probably are shaking your head in disbelief, waiting to hear the catch. “Free” on the internet is a four letter word that never means free. Being a skeptic myself, I put on my lawyer’s hat and read through all the dreadfully dull fine print of the terms of service agreement, the end user’s license and the privacy policy, and there is no catch that I can find. It is all fairly boilerplate language similar to unread terms you have agreed to hundreds of times previously on other registrations.

If you have questions about privacy, I have found nothing of concern there either. The only personal information required to register for Invite5 is your name and date of birth, which is the same information you gave when you signed up for Facebook or MySpace. All other information you give is demographic: zip code, country, ethnicity, marital status, income range, gender, whether you are a homeowner, and whether you use tobacco or alcohol. That information is used to tailor the 10 cent ads specific to you. Boloto guarantees that none of your personal information is disclosed, so you remain completely anonymous to the advertisers.

You also have to give a valid email address, which will be used as your user name, but that can be a dummy account that you set up with a free provider. Once you earn enough funds to be paid – $10 – you have to give them an address and telephone number, but that is standard with any affiliate program. Upon earning $600, you will have to provide a social security number, which is required by the IRS for tax purposes.

What about other issues such as spyware, spamming, or charging for an upgrade? The answer is no to all of them. The toolbar is not spyware as it does not track any information about its users. Invite5 places a temporary cookie on your browser when you sign in to your account that is used to bring up ads that match your demographic information. Unlike many other sites, it is not a tracking cookie, because like many of you, Boloto believes that where you go on the internet is not its business. Invite5 advertises that it will always be free to users, and it has an incredibly strong anti-spam policy. Boloto’s definition of spam is broad, and anyone caught spamming will forfeit all compensation and be banned permanently.

When GetTheBar came out, some questioned whether advertisers would direct ad dollars, especially in a bad economy, to a form of media where the customer is incentivized to click on an ad for a product that they may have no interest in purchasing. The truth is advertisers give incentives all the time to consumers to pay attention to their ads, whether it be monetary or not. Why else are buxom blonds in ads that have nothing to do with being buxom or being blond? ZenithOptimedia, a British market research firm, reported that advertisers waste more than 200 billion dollars annually on advertising that does not reach its targeted demographic. Advertisers will gladly pay consumers to view an ad provided they are given a captive audience in the demographics the advertiser is targeting. In fact, advertisers already do it all the time – they are called focus groups.

Those concerns also assume that the only purpose of an advertisement is to make a sale; but that assumption is absolutely false. The purpose of a large percentage of advertising is branding, and many major advertisers have avoided big buys on the net because the dominant form of online advertising – pay per click – is too expensive and has a fraud rate estimated to be as high as 30% of the clicks. According to Emarketer, another market research firm, 2009 advertising expenditures in the United States alone will top over 300 billion dollars, with about 10% of that – 3o billion – spent on internet advertising. Of that 30 billion, Emarketer estimates over 8 billion dollars is spent per year on pay per click. That means click fraud accounts for up to 2.4 billion dollars each year. Furthermore, the internet’s share of advertising has continued to rise, despite the dismal economy. Advertisers may be cutting back, but the more traditional media of television and print suffer the most.

As a result, if a company is new or wants to roll out a new product line, Invite5 would be a perfect avenue because it is cheap and laser targeted to a captive audience. Networks promoting a new television show and movie studios preparing for the release of the latest blockbuster would love to have not only the inexpensive advertising, but the feedback from consumers on their campaigns. Where else can advertisers get 1000 impressions before a targeted demographic for $100? That price tag goes down further when you consider that an Invite5 user who likes an ad has the option to hit a built in share button and send the ad to their favorite social media sites. That feature has a dual effect: first, it allows an ad to go viral in an organic fashion, potentially reducing the cost of the ad to fractions of a penny per impression; second, it gives advertisers incentive to produce top shelf advertising, which in turn will draw in more consumers. Some people like to claim they pay no attention to advertising, but the truth is they do not pay attention to bad advertising. Over half the people who watched the 2009 Super Bowl did not tune in for the game – they watched to see the new 30 second ads advertisers paid 3 million dollars per pop to show.

The aspect that captures my attention the most though is how this system can benefit the average person and every underfunded non-profit organization. Think about how many people are struggling today with unemployment at near record highs and employers cutting benefits to those fortunate enough to still be employed. What could an extra couple thousand dollars per month do to benefit those people? Think of the foreclosures and bankruptcies that could have been avoided. Consumers’ time, opinions and hard earned dollars have forever been the engine driving corporate advertising and ultimately making corporations billions in revenue. This is the first time consumers can share in a piece of the pie for giving their time, effort and money.

As for non-profit organizations, which often do many thankless yet necessary jobs that make our communities better places to live, consider how much more good they could accomplish with not only the extra funds but the extra time presently spent on fund-raising. Imagine school kids not needing to sell coupon books or hold car washes because there is no room in the district’s budget for this or that. Think of how school districts could have the funds to hire enough teachers so that classroom ratios are lower and how districts could afford to pay teachers their real value. The possibilities are endless.

Too good to be true? Could be. Change is hard, and there are a number of powerful interests that have no desire in seeing change to the present system for it is making them billions. Maybe consumers will be too suspect of a free offer, having been burned previously. Boloto may not be able to get enough 10 cent ads up and running to keep the momentum going with users. Personally, I think Invite5 has a good chance of creating a paradigm shift in the way online advertising dollars are spent and paid. Enough consumers will get on board to show the suspicious that there is no nefarious purpose underfoot. The younger generations, who already rely on the internet for the vast majority of their information delivery, will have few qualms. Advertisers know consumers are flocking to the internet, and if an advertiser can capture a specific demographic for a fraction of the cost of current advertising, internet or otherwise, they will flock to Invite5 to purchase ad buys. As for Boloto’s preparedness, I find it hard to believe a company that has spent this much time and money developing Invite5 and Get The Bar would have overlooked the importance of getting compelling ads up quickly.

Personally, I have already signed up, and if you are an individual and wish to do the same, you can register by clicking this link here. If you are interested in Get The Bar for your company or non-profit, go to GetTheBar.com or EndlessFunding.com. But whether you register here or elsewhere, do yourself and your family a favor and sign up and then share your link with your friends, your church, you kid’s school district and your favorite charity. Maybe I5 will be a miserable failure, but if it is what exactly have you lost?

Suppose in 1998 someone gave you $1000 to invest in a little internet start-up from Menlo, California that had a nonsensical name. You are also given with that $1000 a reasoned explanation of what the company did and how they did it. Despite this explanation you are still suspect about the viability of this company, but hey, you have been given the investment money so it will not cost you anything. What would you have done? Made the investment or pocketed the money and went about your business? What if I told you that start-up was named Google? This is not to suggest that Invite5 is the next Google. But ask yourself this question: what if it is?

Ed./Author: J.Conley's Note: Since the publication of this article, the author has become associated with the Boloto Group in an unpaid position to promote Invite5 and GetTheBar. At the time the article was written, the author had never contemplated, discussed or considered any relationship with the company. JC

Especially when you call me a “dumbass” (and that's 2 words to those of us who have been to school), but you're the one who has found 897 people who are as gullible as you. Only to waist their time. Pathetic.

Secondly, I could never “fail” at making someone look like something that they already are, or was born as. Most of you are just a bunch of idiots with no life, because if you had one, you'd find a realistic way to get your money up.

Some companies need idiots like you to make their crooked money. They couldn't do it without you. And you have brought them 897 more idiots…wow. They just love your “dumbass”.

You people are not hustlers/”go-getters”, you just want a free and easy ride from the comfort of your living rooms. All for your opinions….lol.

Grow up! The real world is not so easily manipulated. Get a real job and maybe get some training, like Christian or your guidance counselor suggested.

But wait, that would require leaving your house….never mind.

Remember, this thing is gonna blow!!! ROFL. I'm done. If you guys want to waist your time/lives, good luck. Silly fu*****.

I said in my first post, if this shit doesn't work out, if it's a hoax, I'll explain that to my 897 people, which I've done.

If you're trying to make me look like an ass, you failed. You only made yourself look like one. =)

I still haven't seen any “i5″ billboards.
No commercials.
Not even those annoying fliers that people stick in your car windows/doors.

But whoa, this thing is gonna blow!! any minute now…any minute now…

cindyevans-

“I joined on 9/22/09 and now have over 94.00 accumulated in my account.”

If this were a 3rd world country…no, wait a minute, that would still suck. Never mind. African slaves probably got more than that for their time.

plasmix1-

“Did Robert Donnelli, CEO of Boloto Group Inc, have an interview with the New York Times?”

Hahahaha…lmao. Now c'mon dawg. I'm surprised that the New York Times worker didn't curse your azz out for that. You dead wrong. That was funny though. Good one.

I answer emails for a company (at my job), and I can just imagine the person's face when they read your question. You know…that wtf???-who??? kinda look?

Mike Jones? Who?!!

Who?? Robert Donnelli?? Is that the fat, Italian guy who owns the neighborhood deli? Oh yeah, that was a great interview!

Haha…they told you to go to the Library to get more info. Could you imagine the Librarian's look? I'd just leave it alone dude.

It's not late in the game. What are there 3-4 hundred mil facebook users now? Still growing too.

Here's the thing, and one of the reasons I got into this even before I saw the huge potential. Many of the members of my social site would be tickled pink to make 20-50 or even a hundred bucks a month or so from this.

The average internet user who just fiddles around at myspace and facebook could do the same with very little effort just sharing it with those they already interact with online on a constant basis.

Most are not full time marketers who expect high results when they focus on a particular project.

Here's the other thing I was trying to point out. Many of the members of my team have become actively involved in our team building project and are learning new skills in the process.

Of course at some point I will be introducing the entire team to other income streams etc. Right now our focus is i5 and teaching them to duplicate what I do and pass that knowledge on to their individual teams.

Of course this won't replace Google. I love Google as a search engine. They send me a ton of traffic. I can't stand Yahoo, and the feeling is evidently mutual. LOL

Having said that, Adwords sucks and you likely know it. Conversion rates and ROI are horrible. Big players have dealt with it just to keep their name out there.

Just converting sales from their campaigns isn't all the big boys consider when advertising as you also likely know.

Brand recognition etc. all play a part.

Us small timers are more concerned with ROI and our bottom line.

I will be using the ad exchange myself. At least to one extent or another.

You asked what sites I have that generate millions of page views? Here are three out of dozens I have that generate 1.5 million between them and growing continually.

http://www.internet-work-marketing.com My main marketing site
http://www.skin-and-scalp-treatment.com My retail site
http://www.perpetualincomeprograms.com My social network

Back to our topic here, there are numerous aspects of i5 we havn't even touched on yet. The mobile and TV market build into the system as an example.

Should be very interesting to watch things develop this year, not to mention my own toolbars stats.

BTW, a company I'm a partner at is doing a Spanish application of i5. We also have several other countries who want to come in under our banner since our I.T. staff has incorporated an all inclusive language script into our custom toolbars API application.

Whew….now that I think of it….I do have a bunch on my plate. LOL

Cheers,
Zac

Rather than shoot for Google, aim for something smaller and more attainable
like beefing up your resume with a new/improved skill set.Not even
Microsoft, Yahoo and countless “Google killers” are having a hard time
competing. While I think there's a possibility this company can actually do
it, the probability is highly unlikely based on stats.

What are some of your websties generating millions of pageviews?

I have numerous websites and generate millions of page views per year.

I also run an online retail business. So 10k+ individuals and numerous companies building a large downline for my company to earn income off of is a no brainer.

Couple that with the fact that It's enabled me to build relationships with many individuals I might never have met online, and been able to help them increase their business skills online.

You see I have supplied general online training to my team as we have been building this together these last 6 months or so.

Small audience? Think again. I can personally tell you just on my team some of the companies who will be sharing their custom branded i5 toolbar with their data bases have as many as 50 million subscribers.

I've numerous companies in that category. Just a percent or two joining the program with them would mean millions not even counting the viral aspect to this.

And I'm just one team involved. I've spoken and conferenced with the CEOs involved. The numbers are indeed enough to have Google's attention.

Won't be too long now. You'll see.

Cheers,
Zac