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Sometimes, the incentive cannot be monetary, because the recipient is not interested in money. What the recipient may be interested in is an indication whether it is worth investing in a reply.
We had changed "pays" to "helps" at an earlier stage.
I'll be fully honest.
This thing sounded like such a crazy idea that I was laughing half the time building it. At some point I had even made offered incentives automatically end with ", darling"
On what we are trying to accomplish: the "bloody brilliant" comment in the incentive link offers one explanation. Our explanation is simpler: we wanted to make some people answer our emails, and didn't know how.
MVP, thrown together over a few hours on a deadline.
Have you tried offering an incentive?
Care to elaborate? We would welcome feedback.
We are trying to figure out a way to make people respond online. Say, through email.
We are not spammers. This is in Arc, but written from scratch.
Edit: If you wanted to make someone respond online how would you do it?
Say for example, to your emails.
Please help us beat the clock.