That is because this method is called doing real 'work'. There is no way netmoney1 will fail by doing these tests over and over. In reality this is a lot easier to do than ppc, mediabuy etc.Your threshold for breaking even is very low, literally low, because the value you get from getting a customer, providing a good service, is more on the referral side.
Technically netmone1, all you really need is to do around 10 of these services to see referrals come in. Don't even worry about it man, you didn't really lose 500 dollars, your fine! As you keep doing these, your efficiency will get better and you will notice tricks and tips to use.
I wanted to do something like this but use technology to automate the searching. Basically use sentiment analysis to analyze hundreds if not thousands of different reviews,comments, tweets from each company and run them through a bot that can analyze literally the sentiment level on each comment,review, tweet.
There are companies like http://www.sentimetrix.com , that are using Gate products to do all that. In other words, man this is the technology that was used by romney and obama to manage their online reputation by analyzing their tweets, comments, facebook comments automatically.
IF a good job is completed, then the provider literally opens up a new circle of prospects because all of these hotel managers/owners obviously must know other important business owners, it takes one to know another always remember that.