We’re getting serious now. In the last part of our walkthrough series we spent our time learning how to sync up your online accounts with the TARTLE data marketplace. As soon as you do that, data packets are getting created based on your activity in those accounts. However, we have other packets you can fill out manually and that is what we are going to delve into today. If you like the videos, you can check out TARTLEcast and watch Alex and Jason go through it, or if you are an audio person, just download that version of the show from Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Now, let’s get into it.
First, make sure you are on your dashboard. Once you’re there, look under the video and you will see a side scroll of a variety of different data packets that you can manually fill out. These are your bread and butter here, where you can make some money. These packets are full of questions that buyers specifically want the answers to. Or they are created by the community in order to attract buyers. Either way, they are specific and can be filled out with as much detail as you would like. That’s precisely what makes TARTLE data packets more valuable than auto-skimmed third party stuff that most people get from various media companies. You can find a large variety of packets including some on health, travel, operating systems, politics and more. You’ll be able to see the type of packet and how many questions there are. So if you have just a few minutes, you can do a quick five question packet, or you can do a 27 question packet if you have the time. Choose one and start answering questions.
Now, you might be wondering if someone would try to game the system at all. Could someone put in a bunch of random characters to fill out the field and have that count? Technically, it is possible but it isn’t a very good idea. If you fill out the packet with a bunch of nonsense and sell it to a buyer, that buyer can block you and never buy data from you again. Therefore it pays to put a little bit of effort in to put some real information in the answer fields. Not to mention, are you really here only to make money? Or are you here to help make the world a better place by sharing your data. If the latter, it makes sense to fill out your packets openly and honestly. Otherwise you are just submitting bad data. So, go through and fill it out honestly and save that thing. Now, you have officially created your first data packet in the TARTLE data marketplace.
You’ve also gotten a little bit of T-coin. What is that? We mentioned it last time but neglected to explain what we meant. What T-coin is, is a digital coin that gives you priority when a buyer comes looking for data. Basically, you get notified before everyone else. So, the more T-coin you have, the closer to the front of the line you get. That’s useful if a given buyer only wants a certain number of packets. So, with T-coin, your chances of making money selling your data goes up. You also get T-coin whenever you sell your packet, you even get a coin if you share the fact you just sold a packet. That makes it worth your while to set aside some time during your sign up process to go about filling out as many packets as you can and get yourself to the front of the line to sell more packets faster.
What’s your data worth?
