Wednesday, January 2, 2008

The Swatcash Tutorial

Swatcash is a GPT site that is an excellent source of money for everybody. Whether you are a college student, stay-at-home mom/dad, or even just a person who has a full time job but still wants some extra money on the side. There are a few things that you absolutely need to know before starting a site like these. Swatcash is one of many different sites, but most, if not all GPT survey sites work the same way. If you can follow this tutorial for Swatcash but decide you want to try another site, the same principles apply, so listen closely.

First things first.

Email:
You are going to need a separate email address from your regular "oh Hi OMG how are u friend?" email address. This new address will become swamped with spam. I highly suggest opening a new Gmail account. Pick a name, throw gpt on the end of it if you wish (i.e. namegpt@gmail.com) and activate the account.

New Voicemail:
Many offers will require you provide them a phone number. I don't want to give anybody I don't know my phone number, and I'm sure you feel the same way. Go ahead and sign up for a free phone number and voicemail at SimpleVoiceBox. A quick search for "free voicemail" on google will show you a few others you're welcome to try. Keep this number handy!

Okay so let's get started. Hopefully you've already registered at Swatcash, so we can go through this together. If you haven't, now would be a good time to do it. Here's my Swatcash ref link.

You can only sign up ONE account with swatcash per household. If you do any more than that, you risk getting banned. Last May when I first tried Swatcash, my old roomate also signed up (same household). I emailed the site owners and let them know it was two separate people just living under one roof. They didn't have a problem with it at that time. Go ahead and give Swatcash the info they ask for. They won't do anything with it except use it to send you your check. You're welcome to fudge your info, but you risk not getting paid.

After you're logged in, find the "offers" button.



You'll see a pagefull of offers. The top section is usually higher payout "paid" surveys, and the bottom ones are generally the free ones. Look for some that look the the ones below. They say "Fill out the survey with valid information." Click one of the links on the left. They look like this:






I clicked "COU Gift Card", and the following screen popped up:
OMG A HOLIDAY GIFT FOR ME!!! From this point on, anything you read in your offer browser is complete BS. You won't win anything, but that is not why you're here. We want that quick $1.00 for completing the survey. Here is where you enter in your new fancy gmail address. Click to continue.
You will be prompted to enter in some information. Name, Address, Phone number, Zip code... Here's where I need to be careful with my wording. You need to fill in correct information in order to get credit. You have your name, but they don't specify your proper name or a nick name do they? Which address are they speaking of? Your past address? Your current one? What if you accidently hit the wrong key and misspell your address by one letter? All I'm going to say is, do your best to fill in the most correct info you can. Otherwise, it may not credit you and you run a risk of getting banned by Swatcash. That's just a guess, I have no proof to back that up. Like I said, I'm cautious. After you filled in your info, submit it.

You will come to a screen like this:



Go ahead and click "No" to every offer unless you actually want to click "Yes." You're going to do this about a million times. It's going to get just a bit exhausting. Sometimes, it may force you to click "yes" to one offer. All this does is take you to another screen for you to click "No." I found a shortcut to speed this up. Click on the first "no" box. Press "Tab" on your keyboard followed by the right keyboard arrow. Keep pressing Tab and over arrow again and again and again. If you get to a page with an offer and you don't see a yes/no box, look around for a "submit" and "skip". Unless you actually want to complete the offer... click "skip."

Do your No/Skip combo moves for a while and eventually you'll come to a screen that looks like this:


Finally! You're near the end. Scroll all the way down, do not worry about completing the two offers it may say you need to complete. Press "next page" or whatever variation they have on it.

You'll come to a "GOLD OFFERS" webpage (or a variant). Scroll down, next page.

Now, "PLATINUM OFFERS!" Sheesh... You cannot go any further now. Go back to your Swatcash offers page and click "Completed" next to the offer you completed. Congratulations! You now have 1 dollar pending, and hopefully it'll accept in the next hour or so. Be patient, they should eventually clear. I've had some take a week to approve, but it still happened. Now clear your cookies. For Iinternet Explorer, go to Tools --> Delete Browsing History --> Delete cookies. The advertisers place a cookie on your browser and that's how they know you completed the offer. If you do two offers from the same advertiser, you may not get the second one approved if you don't clear your cookies.

Repeat this process over again and you'll speed up each time you do it. Do this 15 times and you'll be able to cash out on the 15th! Can you believe you can make money on the internet this easily?

A final word: Do not go crazy and do ALL the free offers on your first day. I did and found that only about half the offers cleared. Do a handful each day. Five a day for 30 days is $150 for the month. Not bad!

I hope this tutorial helped you out. Shamless promotion alert: tell all your friends to come here and read this. Maybe it'll help them too.

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