Monday, March 31, 2008

Total made so far in March on CashCrate = $27.68
Total made so far in March on TreasureTrooper = $46.75
Total made so far in March on EasyMazuma = $11.10
Extras this month................................................$10 gas card

Total made so far in March................................ $95.53

Total made so far in 2008...$243.26 + $95.53 = $338.79

Sunday, March 23, 2008

I've been sort of lazy doing surveys lately...

Total made so far in March on CashCrate = $18.72
Total made so far in March on TreasureTrooper = $39.50
Total made so far in March on EasyMazuma = $10.50
Extras this month................................................$10 gas card

Total made so far in March................................ $78.72

Total made so far in 2008...$243.26 + $78.72 = $321.98

Friday, March 14, 2008

Extra Perk

Sweet! I got a $10 gas card in the mail yesterday. It was for signing up for a trial offer that cost me $1 for the first month. The offer paid me $8 on TreasureTrooper for signing up, and the company was also giving out $10 Exxon Mobile cards just for signing up. And if you cancel before the first month ends, you got to keep the gas card. They actually sent it out to me as I cancelled in the same phone call. So for spending $1, I earned myself $17.

There are many more offers just like that on these survey sites. I should take another look at them and see which ones are worth doing, it's been a while since I've done pay offers. Whenever I do them, I tend to do them all in one day to keep everything more organized. I always write down all the information for each one so that I cancel them in time before the month trials are over. If you keep good track, you can make some really fast money that way. ALWAYS make sure you read the fine print so that you are not surprised with any fees.

And even though I'm now only making an average of $25-30 a month from each site (it used to be a couple hundred a month), let me tell you, getting those small checks in the mail each month definitely comes in handy...

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Total made so far in March on CashCrate = $15.59
Total made so far in March on TreasureTrooper = $31.00
Total made so far in March on EasyMazuma = $8.25
Extras this month................................................$10 gas card

Total made so far in March................................ $64.84

Total made so far in 2008...$243.26 + $64.84 = $308.10



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Thursday, March 6, 2008

The longer you do surveys, the more you will start to recognize the different formats the surveys come in. From how many pages you have click "skip" through, versus the patterns of the types of yes/no pages. And you'll start to recognize popular survey companies that show up often. Consumer Expressions, Big Buck Surveys, Hunt for the Money. Oh, and the ones where you just have to sign up and confirm an email. And other random miscellaneous things to sign up for.

Because of the fact that you will see repeats of different companies putting surveys out there, it is essential to clear out your cookies at least once a day. If you are in a computer lab, you will do even better because of the different IP addresses to choose from. I have found that I generally get approved for at least one offer, per company, per day. I can get double that if I use a different computer with a different email address in the same day. There are at least 30+ different kinds of surveys and companies to choose from at any given moment. All of them generally putting out 5 surveys each giving you hundreds of surveys to choose from. Or more. So don't worry if you don't have any clue what I'm talking about. Just start doing surveys and after a few months you will start to really figure things out.

One of the main things that I do everyday is create a new email address too. It is good to use a different email address each day. Everyone swears that you get more approvals that way.

I'm really digging TreasureTrooper. They put up new surveys just about everyday. And they offer you SO many more ways of winning money through their forums with little contests. Plus I finally made it past Act 2 in the Treasure Hunt and already know how to get past Act 3 so I should be at Act 4 in another week or so. If you get through all 10 Acts you get $100. Anyone can do this and anyone can win as long as they finish. I heard Act 9 is pretty tough though....

CashCrate has sort of been slacking with updating their surveys lately. And they have banned the daily surveys from a bunch of people, me being one of them. So I'm sort of disappointed with that site lately. Doing the Daily Survey everyday brought in a good extra $15 a month. New people who sign up can still do the daily survey, just make sure you use the SAME email address everyday for your daily surveys... Thankfully TreasureTrooper has a daily survey too. I can make it up there.
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Total made for the month on CashCrate = $9.67
Total made for the month on TreasureTrooper - $22.50
Total made for the month on EasyMazuma = $5.40

Total for March................................................... $37.57

Total for 2008..................$243.26 + $35.82 = $280.83

Monday, March 3, 2008

Did a bunch of surveys today




I received my TreasureTrooper check a week ago and have already cashed it. Same thing with my CashCrate check. You can see my last CashCrate check from the previous month if you scroll down and go to the next page.


I did my taxes last night and am sort of disappointed that I'm not getting any money back. I actually owe $32 for my federal tax. The good thing is, I'm getting a $39 refund for my state taxes. So I pretty much broke even this year. And I guess breaking even is ideally what you want to aim for. But still, it's pretty nice to get a little money "bonus" each year. It would be nice if I got a refund to pay for my license plate renewal which just came in the mail today. My boyfriend is getting over $2,000 back! I couldn't believe it, I'm sort of jealous.
Hopefully he'll take me out to dinner or something.

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Total made midFebruary to midMarch on TreasureTrooper = $15.15

Total made so far in March on CashCrate = $4.42

Total made so far in March on EasyMazuma = $
4.30

Total for March................................................. $23.87

Total for 2008.................. $243.26 + $23.87 = $267.13


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Saturday, March 1, 2008

SLACKER!!!

I pretty much slacked off for the entire month of February. I hardly did any surveys, and would go for days without even looking at those survey sites. I had a friend come into town for 10 days in the middle of the month who stayed with us, so I didn't exactly want to be on the computer while he was here. Plus the only room for the blow-up mattress is in our computer room. I sort of wanted a little break too. I had been pretty much going nonstop since I first started back in October. But it's brought in pretty good money, so I plan on continuing.

I did manage to do a couple surveys here and there and made a little bit of money. See, you definitely don't have to slave away at the computer in all your spare time to make some extra cash for the month. I made enough last month to cover my electric bill.

I also realized that TreasureTrooper's payment date is a little weird. Apparently they pay you 30 days from the date you started, not at the end of a month. So I continued to make January's money well into February, the 12th to be exact. That's sort of weird and it screws with the way I am keeping track of my earnings on this blog. So January's total (my first month on TT to be exact) turned out to be $92.70 (not $87) So I guess that last $5.70 would be technically part of February's earnings, so with the $11.15 that would really be $16.85 for last month. Oh yeah, and I have my minimum payment set to $25, so hopefully I can reach that by March 12th which is the next time I get paid.


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Total made in February on CashCrate.................... = $24.36
Total made in second month on TreasureTrooper = $11.15 (will carry into 1st half of March)
Total made in February on EasyMazuma............... = $3.05

Total made so far in 2008.............$218.90 + $24.36 = $243.26
I am not counting TT and EM since they will carry over

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Friday, February 1, 2008

January's Earnings

Total made in January on CashCrate = $106.25
Total made in January on TreasureTrooper = $87.00
Total made in January on EasyMazuma = $25.65

........................Total made so far in 2008 = $218.90
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So January is finally over, and now it's time to start all over again to try to reach my goal of at least $200 a month. Each month is really different, so I hope February goes well for me and that I get a lot of referrals.

I did a $25 cash-out from EasyMazuma the other day, so technically I have $.65 left on that site right now. Now I remember why I really don't like PayPal. They charge $1.05 just to transfer any money into your PayPal account! Then they charge another fee just to get your money out. I HATE THAT SHIT! Anyways, I always request checks to be sent to me from all the survey sites I do, but for EasyMazuma they only give you the option of PayPal, or a gift certificate to Amazon. I think next time I might request the Amazon gift certificate... IF they add new surveys to the site. I've sort of hit a brick wall on that site because I've done all their free surveys. But they add new surveys here and there, so the money will add up again...

Here are my past earnings through CashCrate:
Payment ID Date Offers Shopping Surveys Referrals Bonuses Total
65486 11/18/07 $69.95 $0.00 $0.00 $77.44 $35.00 $182.39
67567 12/04/07 $29.90 $0.00 $6.40 $200.67 $117.00 $353.97
70054 01/16/08 $18.20 $0.00 $16.00 $75.51 $38.00 $147.71
72902 Processing $19.30 $0.00 $11.20 $53.75 $22.00 $106.25

"Offers" are the regular surveys you do, and "Surveys" are the daily surveys you can do each day. If you do at least one daily survey every day, that's at least $28 right there ($.80 each). Sometimes you don't qualify for some of them, so I've never been able to get one done every day. I'm really glad I built up a good referral base because as you can see, I make a LOT of money off of referrals. Referrals are KEY to making a lot of money. But you can't just depend on referrals alone. I try to do a lot of surveys too, mainly to maximize as much money as I can possibly make. Bonuses are the $1 you make for each new referral that signs up and does at least one survey.


My earnings through TreasureTrooper, I've only been doing the site for one month now:
Offer Earnings Due: $85.50
Shopping Earnings Due: $0.00
Referral Commission Due: $1.50
Total Amount Due: $87.00

If you're wondering what "shopping" is on both of them, if you do any online shopping through the sites linked through CashCrate or TreasureTrooper, you earn a percentage of your money back through these two survey sites. There are some popular, decent sites listed. Alloy, Amazon, Wal-Mart, PetsMart, and MUCH much more. I don't do very much online shopping, so I haven't earned any money that way...yet. Supposedly if you do some shopping on TreasureTrooper, that is how you earn a certain gem that will help you win the Treasure Hunt I believe. I will talk more on that in the future.