A while ago, I got into the referral thing and began posting my referral link to Expertscolumn and Triond in many of my publications. EverytimeI submitted an article, I would include an invite asking people interested in online writing to join Expertscolumn using my referral link.
Sometimes I would also mention the benefits of logging on simultaneously to Triond as well as Expertscolumn. Since Expertscolumn allows you to republish your articles, you can earn double the income by publishing first on Triond and then reposting the same on Expertscolumn.
In this manner, I got a total of 5 referrals on Triond and double that on on Expertscolumn.Ten referrals, amazing! Hold the WOW! Because of all the 10 referrrals only 2 have published on Expertscolumn. And for some reason they don't seem to be active anymore, in the last couple of months at least.
People, why don't you publish some more... There are so many things to write on. Come on, Get into the habit of posting articles. You want to be a writer, don't you?
The rules are quite simple:
1) Publish only original articles. And republish articles with the same penname only!
2) Your article(they call it column here!) has to be at least 200-300 words long.
3) You cannot put any number of links anywhere into your article. Only three links per article and those should necessarily be put below your column.
And if are new and want to join Expertscolumn, find my referral link below:
http://expertscolumn.com/referral/6578919d

Comments
Good question, a lot of people seem to think they want to write articles and sign up to do so. But then they back out and don't ever write anything. There are others that sign up and might not publish for a couple years and then decide to start writing.
Maybe they just followed your referral link to see what the site was like rather than with any serious intention of publishing. People often only check something out, dip their toe in, then back off and never use it again, so if ANY of your referrals are publishing then I think you should consider that a success!