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.

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Total made for the month so far on CashCrate = $101.27
Total made for the month so far on TreasureTrooper = $87.00
Total made for the month so far on EasyMazuma = $25.50

........................................Total made so far in 2008 = $213.77

Sunday, January 27, 2008

New Goal: $200 a month

I have to admit, I've been sort of slacking doing surveys the past couple of days. Plus now that I've hit $200 for the month, I'm pretty satisfied with that and I'm probably going to take it easy for the rest of the week. I think my main goal each month will be to at least hit $200. That would be an extra $2,400 a year which would be enough to pay off most of my credit card debt. Hopefully, it will work out that way and I won't need to use the money for other things....

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Total made so far for the month on EasyMazuma = $25.50
Total made so far for the month on CashCrate = $97.25
Total made so far for the month on TreasureTrooper = $84.75

............................................Total made so far in 2008 = $207.50

Friday, January 25, 2008

Survey Tips

Total made so far on TreasureTrooper = $83.75
Total made so far on CashCrate = $91.99
Total made so far on EasyMazuma = $25.50

...............Total made so far in 2008 = $201.24

Yes! I broke $200!
I wonder if I can get up to $250 by the end of the month?...
The only way I could probably do it is by getting referrals...
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There are a couple of tips that you definitely need to know in order to make decent money doing surveys.

First of all, it is not uncommon to not get paid for doing some surveys. It's really frustrating to do 7-8 different surveys in a half an hour's time and to only have 1 credit for you. It's just part of the territory of doing "Get Paid To" sites. A lot of surveys will just sit in your pending box and eventually phase out after so long. Some people do the survey sites for a week or two then quit because the surveys eventually aren't crediting for them anymore. But if you know a couple of the tricks, and read the forums at the sites, you can figure out how to get more surveys to confirm.

There are 4 main things you need to do in order to get the maximum amount of surveys to pay you:
1) Finish each survey all the way to the end. For some, you will have to pay attention because it will just say at the top "Thank you for registering, now here are some more offers we think you would enjoy" and then it looks like the survey continues on, but in actuality you're done.
Most end with a red and white page with big bold print saying "Now Complete at least 2 of these Silver Offers in order to get your free gift." You are done.
That's it. You don't have to do any of that or sign up for that crap.

2) Confirm your registration emails. I would say about 1/3 of the surveys you do will send a confirmation email that you need to reply to in order to get paid. And definitely don't use your personal email address because you will be getting a lot of spam email.

3) Create a new email account everyday. I make them all in hotmail, but gmail and yahoo are good options too. If you use hotmail, it literally only takes 1 minute to sign up, and then you just leave the browser window open while you do surveys so you can toggle back and forth and confirm registration emails as they come in. Having a new email address makes it look like you are a different person each time you do surveys.

4) And probably most important is clear cookies! Go to your toolbar and choose "Tools" then "Internet Options" then "Clear Cookies." Clear cookies at least once a day, if not more. A lot of the survey sites leave a cookie on your computer whenever you complete a survey. If you clear them out, you seem like a new user each time you do a survey.

And one more tip, you can press Tab & Right Arrow instead of clicking "NO" over and over and over and over....

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Thursday, January 24, 2008

Total made for the month on EasyMazuma = $24.70
Total made for the month on TreasureTrooper = $81.20
Total made for the month on CashCrate = $90.11

.......................Total made so far in 2008 = $196.01

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Got Paid!

Total made so far for the month on CashCrate = $86.43
Total made so far for the month on TreasureTrooper = $80.70
Total made so far for the month on EasyMazuma = $24.70

.......................................Total made so far in 2008 = $191.83
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Sweet! I just got my CashCrate check in the mail today from my December's earnings



















It takes up to 2 weeks to process your check, and then another week to get it in the mail. So it takes a while to first get paid, but the checks definitely do come. I also got a $30 rebate check in the mail today from a Christmas gift I bought for my boyfriend. AND I got some books delivered from Amazon that I ordered last week, so today was a pretty good day. And tomorrow is my day off, so hopefully I can make up for the lost surveys I didn't do today.

Oh yeah, which reminds me, I have to check on that free $10 Exxon gas card for signing up for that pay survey I did last week. I'm going to do that tomorrow. Did I forget to mention that I got those posters that I ordered last week to do that pay survey? I got them Saturday and they are pretty sweet. I hung up the orange Dali in my kitchen. And Absinthe girl above my TV. I haven't decided what I'm going to do with the other two posters yet.

But I think this blog just MIGHT be working! I'm actually getting traffic to this blog, and a couple people have even signed up on CashCrate, so I've gotten a couple of bonuses today. If anyone who signs up reads this and is serious about making some money, maybe I could help you out and link your referral link in my blog once in a while or something. I want everyone else to make money too!





Monday, January 21, 2008

Total made so far this month on CashCrate = $81.55
Total made so far this month on TreasureTrooper = $79.95
Total made so far this month on EasyMazuma = $24.70

...................................Total made so far in 2008 = $186.20

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Sunday, January 20, 2008

Favorite thing about each site

Total money made so far this month on CashCrate = $75.87
Total money made so far this month on TreasureTrooper = $78.20
Total money made so far this month on EasyMazuma = $22.65

..............................................Total made so far in 2008 = $176.72

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My favorite thing about CashCrate is that they have the best referral bonus out of all the survey sites. On top of the percentage you make off of them, you also get a $3 bonus for each referral that meets the $10 minimum payout for their first time. After you reach a certain level of status on CashCrate you have the option of changing the referral bonus to earning $1 for every referral that signs up and does at least one survey. I switched to this option mainly because it's instant gratitude and I've found that I earn a bit more money. Not everyone sticks around to make the minimum payout of $10. Though, I reached my first minimum payout in like one hour...

(If anyone is feeling generous today and wants to "donate" $1 to me, you could sign up and do one survey! And then once you see how easy it is to make a lot of spending money on this site, by all means GO FOR IT! You could be making money too)

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Besides being able to buy referrals, my favorite thing about TreasureTrooper is they have lots and lots of games to keep things interesting and motivating. Everything is sort of kept in "mystery" around the website and forum so that people have to figure things out for themselves. Such as what happens when you finally accumulate all the gem stones (i have 1 Ruby and 1 Emerald so far), or how to get through to the end of the "super" treasure hunt. I just started this, and I am already stuck on Act 2. There are 10 Acts total I think, and no one is allowed to give hints or to help. If you finish to the end, you get $100 automatically. Every month on their forum they have a smaller treasure hunt where you can win money or referrals. Usually they are brain-stumper type puzzles, or some riddle you have to find the answer to. Man, I really hope I can figure out how to get through this treasure hunt to get that $100....that would be awesome.

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My favorite thing about EasyMazuma is you can cash-out anytime you want. There is no minimum payout that you have to meet by the end of the month in order to get paid. You can cash-out as often and whenever you want. You just have to have a PayPal account. Oh yeah, and they have a jackpot that anyone can win too which is pretty cool. For every dollar that people make on the site, the owner donates a penny into the jackpot. You can see it grow every hour, and the highest I ever see it get to is usually just under $10, and it only takes a couple of days to get there. It's just a matter of collecting 9 puzzle pieces, and each survey you do has a 1/10th of a chance of getting you a puzzle piece. But as soon as you have 9 pieces, you can cash them in for the jackpot. You can hold them for as long as you like, but if you wait for the jackpot to get too high, someone else could buy it up. I only have 1 puzzle piece so far...hopefully I'll start getting more...

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I'm curious to see if I am getting any traffic to this blog. I just "pinged" this blog in a couple of different places, and entered it into google too. I set up a little traffic counter too. I tried to put it somewhere on the left side, like in the "about me" section, but It doesn't allow me to enter code. So I'll put it in this blog post. That sort of sucks because after I post so many blogs, the counter will disappear off the page and be useless... But at least I'll know in the meantime if I'm getting any hits.
Let's see if this works:

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Friday, January 18, 2008

Sweet! Two pay offers that I did a few days ago finally confirmed today. One paid me $9 and the other paid me $8. And I only spent $1. Now it's safe to cancel those in another week or two so that I won't get charged once the month is up. This means that I'm back up to being just under making $10 a day which is my original goal for the month.
$170.84 divided by 18 days is $9.50 a day.
I've only been putting in an average of 1 hour a day, give or take a little here and there.
So, do you think it's worth it to do these sites....? I do.

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Total made for the month so far on CashCrate = $71.99
Total made for the month so far on TreasureTrooper = $77.70
Total made for the month so far on EazyMazuma = $21.15

........................................Total made so far in 2008 = $170.84

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Referrals

Again, I didn't have a chance to do hardly any surveys today, I had an unexpected busy day today. But since I have a bunch of referrals (I have over 200 on CashCrate), it is almost guaranteed my money will grow each day on its own.

In the past 3 months since I have been on CashCrate, I have accumulated 212 active referrals. I got more than 658 people alone to sign up but out of those, only 212 have done at least one survey. I have 88 secondary referrals below them. Out of those 212 referrals, a good 30 people stay pretty active each month and consistently earn anywhere from $25-$150 a month. I make 30% of what they make and 20% of what my secondary referrals make. You only start out making 20%, but once you reach certain referral goals, you graduate to higher levels and earn more. Out of the $70 I have earned so far this month on CashCrate, $48.26 of it is from referrals. Like I wrote earlier in my blog, I found a REALLY good way of getting referrals right away, but I have dried up that venue, so it has slowed down quite a bit.



The one thing I like about TreasureTrooper is that you have the option of buying referrals if you cannot get referrals any other way. In the 2 short weeks I have been on TreasureTrooper, I have earned enough pearls to buy 8 referrals. Each time you finish a survey, it gives you little game to play where you get a chance to win a pearl. It is a 1 out of 3 chance to win one. Once you collect 8 pearls, you can buy 2 referrals to work under you. They are the next 2 people that sign up on TreasureTrooper that didn't sign up through someone's referral link. And I also pimped my referral link around a little bit in my old spot and managed to get 2 other people to sign up under me. So I have a total of 10 referrals. One or two of those people managed to get someone else to sign up underneath them, so I have 2 secondary referrals. I forget exactly what percentage I make off of them, I think I make 20% off my first level referrals, and then 10% or 15% of the secondary referrals. So far I have only made $1.25 off of them so they're not doing much at all, but it is better than nothing. It's pretty much pure luck if one of your referrals do really well for themselves making money. Especially if they can find lots of referrals to work under them.

The more referrals you have, the better chance that some of them will stick around to make money. I know of some people who post over on the CashCrate forum that have hundreds of referrals and I think one person has over a thousand referrals. Some of those people make a couple hundred each month just from their referrals alone. So there is definitely potential of earning big money on the surveys sites, but you have to really know how to get referrals, and it takes a little bit of time and patience.

I haven't gotten any referrals on EasyMazuma yet. The only way to get referrals on there is to get people to sign up under your referral link. I think the only place I will post that link will be on this blog, so I am curious to see if anyone even signs up for it. I will also be surprised if I actually get some traffic to this blog someday...


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Total made so far for the month on CashCrate = $70.46
Total made so far for the month on TeasureTrooper = $56.75
Total made so far for the month on EasyMazuma = $17.70

..................................................Total so far for 2008 = $144.91

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Tuesdays are my really long and busy days at work, so I didn't get to do much at all for surveys. I barely did anything yesterday either, so hopefully tomorrow on Wednesday will be a much more productive day making some extra money online...
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Total made so far in January on CashCrate = $67.28
Total made so far in January on TreasureTrooper = $56.25
Total made so far in January on EasyMazuma = $17.20

................Total made so far for 2008 = $140.73

Sunday, January 13, 2008

Credit Card Trial Surveys

I had a pretty productive day today. I hardly did any surveys yesterday, so today I wanted to try to catch up to my $10 a day rate if I could. I decided to do a couple of pay offers that paid pretty high and were really cheap to do. I did a really cool one where you had to buy 4 posters at $2 each. I've been wanting some Dali posters and other artwork for my apartment, so I ended up getting 4 really cool posters for $8, and got paid $11 for doing the trial. After shipping and handling it pretty much pays for itself. This offer confirmed within 15 minutes too which is really nice.

Another one I did that I haven't gotten paid for yet, was I had to sign up for some trial that costs $1 for the first month, and it pays you $8 through TreasureTroopers. I'll have to remember to cancel in a week or two, or three. I am also guaranteed a $10 ExxonMobile card just for signing up, so I'll have to check up on that. I'll post on here whether I get it or not. Plus the offer is still pending in TreasureTroopers, so once that goes through, I'll have like $8 more dollars in that account.

If you end up doing credit card trials, you really have to pay close attention to the terms and charges. I always make sure to write down all the cancellation information and save any emails so that I don't forget and end up getting charged a month later for some service I really don't want. There are some shady credit card offers in there that freak me out, especially the ones that ask for your social security number or bank account number. The cell phone offers aren't worth it either. Most of them text you a pin, and you enter it in the website and by doing that you end up signing up for some expensive ring-tone service that charges weekly or something. I usually don't even look at those.

So if you are pretty on top of it, and know exactly what you are doing, some of the pay offers can make you some money fast.


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total so far on CashCrate = $62.79
total so far on TreasureTroopers = $49.40
total so far EasyMazuma = $13.85

..........total so far for 2008 = $126.04

Friday, January 11, 2008

Total made so far on CashCrate = $59.08
Total made so far on TreasureTroopers = $33.90
Total made so far on EasyMazuma = $8.25

.........................Total so far for 2008 = $101.23

Thursday, January 10, 2008

My goal was to get up to $100 today so that I would be within my $10 a day goal, but my eyes are going cross-eyes from looking at the computer so much. Between work and home, I am on the computer most of the day. My eyes need a break, so I'm off to bed. Maybe overnight $5 will be added when some late surveys go through or maybe some referrals will make decent money overnight. It's happened before....
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Total so far for CashCrate = $57.20
Total so far for TreasureTroopers = $31.90
Total so far for EasyMazuma = $6.20

............................Total for 2008 = $95.30

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

I found another "Get Paid To" survey site today called EasyMazuma that I think will be very promising. I didn't think I would add another site to my regimen so soon, but I liked this one. Plus this survey site has a pretty cool way of earning extra money...

In the words of the site owner:
"Let me explain what the Jackpot and Jigsaw pieces are.
1% of all of the money earned on EasyMazuma will be matched by me and added in the Jackpot.

When you successfully complete an offer, you have a 10% chance of winning one of the nine jigsaw puzzles. When you collect all nine, you can redeem the jackpot. When the jackpot is redeemed, it will reset to zero.

After you have the nine jigsaw puzzles, you can wait to withdraw the jackpot. The longer you wait, the bigger it will get. But if somebody else gets it, it will return to zero. So beware!
When I was doing the surveys, the Jackpot was only up to $2.43, so it will be interesting to see how high it ever gets. OH! And another really good thing about this site is that there is no minimum payment amount. You can actually request to get paid as often as you want whenever you want. They pay you through PayPal, so it looks like I might have to give in and finally get a PayPal account.

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Total made so far on CashCrate = $55.07
Total made so far on TreasureTroopers = $28.75
Total made so far on EasyMazuma = $2.35

...........................Total so far for 2008 = $86.17

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

I've realized that if I create a new email address every day, I have a better chance of more of the offers going through and paying me. It only takes a minute to create a new email address in Hotmail, and you just leave it open to reply to confirmation emails while you're doing surveys.

When you first start doing survey sites, it seems like almost everything goes through right away. But as you do more and more of them, about every 1/3 of the surveys will confirm and pay while the rest will sit in pending for weeks until they get thrown back into the offers again. You have to clear your cookies a lot to help with this too.

My old systems for getting referrals are not working anymore since anyone who would have signed up, has already signed up. So I'm trying to think of different venues of the internet and different ways to get people to sign up under my referral link. My best bet is probably through this blog.

I figure if I can get people to come to this blog, I could maybe get them to sign up. Everyone could use a little money. Especially if it's easy. This could work since people like to see results, and I am definitely showing results. It definitely is possible to make some decent money online. Especially if you have a little bit of patience. Hah. Or if you are really good at finding referrals and having them work for you, you can make money really fast. I always hope I'll stumble upon a super-referrer. Someone who is really successful, figures out the system and gets a lot of referrals too.

But seriously, when I first started the first survey site, I was really good at getting referrals. Since that has slowed down a lot, it takes a bit longer to make the money. So I have to actually "work" now and do some more surveys. If I were to do them all back to back, I probably do about 1 hour of surveys each day. But I usually do them throughout a span of 2-4 hours as I'm browsing the internet and doing other stuff. I think of it as trying to make at least $10 a day. If I can do that, I get about $300 at the end of the month. And I think unofficially I will be using all the money I make on these survey sites to pay off my credit card debt. My goal is to pay all $3,000+ of it off this year, and I think that is very possible. All of this would be EXTRA payment along with what I already pay each month. So unless we need groceries, or car repairs, or anything like that, all of this money will be going to pay off my f*ing debt! Good Riddance! Maybe finally, once and for all, that burden will be lifted off my shoulders...

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What I'm up to now on CashCrate = $53.30
What I'm up to now on TreasureTroopers = $24.35

...........................Total for the month so far = $77.65
I'm just under $10 a day...

Sunday, January 6, 2008

Earnings

Earnings so far on CashCrate: $44.44
Earnings so far on TreasureTroopers: $13.85
>>>>>>>>>>>Total so far for 2008: $58.29

Saturday, January 5, 2008

New Site: Treasure Troopers

I got a great lead from someone about another "Get Paid To" site called: TreasureTrooper
It's about the same as CashCrate in that you get paid for doing free surveys, but they add a little twist to it. At TT, for every survey you finish you get to play a little game of chance at the end. If you guess right and win a Pearl, you accumulate them and can trade them in for 2 referrals for every 8 pearls! So instead of spamming your link all over the place, you can just "buy" referrals to work under you and earn you money. I spent about 1 hour doing surveys on TT my first night, and I made $7

I guess the more surveys you do, you get more chances at finding gems and/or diamonds hidden amongst the pearls and if you find them you win prizes. Plus for every survey that confirms, you get CASH, plus virtual coins that you can trade in for other things. I'm still trying to figure out and learn all the new things on this site, and I really like it so far. I'm definitely digging both websites and hopefully I can make even more money this month than I did last month.

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Earnings for the month on CashCrate: $40.03
Earnings for the month on TreasureTrooper: $8.85

......................................Total for the month: $48.88

Thursday, January 3, 2008

So I'm brain storming, trying to think of different websites off the top of my head that I already know of where you could possibly make money online, and E-trade is the first that comes to mind. I don't know much about stocks, but I could definitely learn. And I wouldn't want to spend any of my own money, so anything extra that I don't need for bills could be used to join E-trade and to buy and trade stocks online...If I can actually learn how to do this and be successful at it, I think I might be onto something...Dare I even say that it would be possible to make a Million dollars strictly off the internet? In one year? Or would that be setting myself up for failure? It reminds me of that one guy who traded his way from a paperclip to a house...that would be too weird. but it would be so amazing too! Almost surreal. Part of a new generation that makes their money digitally, virtually, on the internet. Like those people that deal in real estate on the game Second Life. Even if I don't make a million dollars, I could still make a decent living on the side. Maybe there's an "E-Trade For Dummies" book or something, that I could buy with the $25 gift card I have to the bookstore. I just checked out the site and some of the stuff looks really complicated, so it might be something I have to research a bit first. Because I could potentially lose a lot of money on the site if I make some dumb decisions and don't know what I'm doing.

Ok, so maybe definitely E-Trade, I'll have to look into that a bit more.

Another one that comes to mind is DidYouRobBillGates.com. I've probably heard the ad on the radio a hundred times but have never actually checked out the website. Well, I just checked it out now, and it's something you have to pay for to join this business venture that this guy set up. Plus it looks like you deal with herbal supplements and pills, and I don't really want to do that. It's not really what I'm looking for, so I can cross that one off the list.

I just googled "Get Paid To" which is slang for the type of survey sites you can make money on.
At least 10 different websites come up, with possibly more on the next page. So I think I am going to save that for tomorrow or this weekend to give those a look and see if they are worth trying.

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My earnings for the month so far on CashCrate is: $33.51



Tuesday, January 1, 2008

CashCrate

So far, all I have been doing to make money online is this website: http://cashcrate.com/368781 for about 2 1/2 months now. This is where I got the idea to start this blog.

I really have no idea how I found it, all I know is that I usually never bothered with these survey sites until now. For some reason I clicked on the link, signed up and started doing some surveys. I saw how freaking easy it was to make money on there, and I've been really successful so far! I spent like 3 hours the first night on there and made about $50 with $90 pending. I was pretty impressed.

Here is what I have earned so far on CashCrate:
October = $182.39
November = $353.97
December = $147.71
Total for 2007 = $684.07
Not bad for doing this in my spare time!

I started halfway through October and was surprised at how much I made. I continued into November with a goal to make at least $10 a day. By this time I was REALLY psyched and figured I would be able to maintain this rate and be able to cover my rent each month!
Well, for December it slowed down a bit, but
any amount will definitely help me out, so I am happy with it.

And now so far for January 1st, I am already up to $8.31 at this moment, so I'm hoping I can do the $10 a day goal for this month and make my rent again!

New Year, New Plan.

I am starting this money-making blog as sort of an experiment, for myself and for anyone who wants to make money online in their spare time. I want to see how much money I can make on the internet. I am going to search for and try out different money making websites, etc. and post about my successes and failures here. And I will only try things that are totally FREE. I don't want to spend any of my own money because they always turn out to be scams.

I am doing this because I lost my second job last month and want to figure out a way to compensate for that loss. As it is now, I make just barely enough money at my full-time job to cover all my bills and expenses, so any money I make online will be for spending money. Ideally I want to pay off most of my debt this year too, so hopefully a lot of it will go towards my credit card bills.

If anyone is interested in making some extra spending money, this would be a great blog to bookmark and check out often. I will be posting and updating my earnings and giving a run-down on how well each website works, that way YOU can try them out if you want without going through the hassle of finding what works best for you.