Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Easy Surveys, Easier Money
This is exactly how I began making money online. This actually provides me with a decent steady flow of income monthly (about 25-30 bucks.) Hey, if the internet wants to fill up my gas tank once a month, I'll let it.
The two sites I want to talk about are Pinecone Research and SurveySavvy:
Pinecone Research
I've been with Pinecone Research for a little over a year now and they have steadily provided me with a few $5 easy surveys a month. They'll email you only to prompt you to start a survey and won't spam the crap out of you. Each survey is guaranteed to earn you $5, no more, no less. Most other sites can't promise you this. I'll take $25 bucks a month... I can't stress how legitimate this is. On occasion they will also send you neat stuff to try out and then review. So far I've received about 5 incredibly useful items. Some of my friends are involved with this site.
The Catch: it's invite only :( If they open it up, which they do from time to time, i'll be sure and post the link here.
SurveySavvy
Probably the only other legitimate survey site out there that pays $3-$5 per survey. Refer your friends and you earn $2.00 per survey they complete. That's complete passive income. Shoot, Why not?
Sunday, January 6, 2008
Internet Connection +30 Seconds = Easy Money
- Sign up
- Click Link
- View for 30 seconds
- Receive Money
The Catch: You won't make as much as quickly as you could with sites like Swatcash, but money is money, amirite?
Decent, legitimate site. View websites, make some easy money on the internet. This site pays decently for referring friends. So sign up and ask your friends to join. When you tell them how easy it is, they'll sign right up too.
Decent, legitimate site. Just like Clixsense, View websites, make some easy money on the internet. I have found this site provides more links to click per 24 hours than Clixsense, hence, more money in your pocket.
If you are only going to join one, join AdBux. If you want to essentially double your earnings per day, join both. I'll keep you posted on my earnings.
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
The Swatcash Tutorial
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:
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...
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.
Really Easy Cash. Want some?
For those ADHD kids who want to sign up right now, here’s my referral link. Sign up using this if you wish and get started making your easy money right now. If you are a bit more cautious and want to know a little about what you will be doing, I’ve explained it all below.
Gather ‘round children. I’m going to teach you a little bit about the type of website this is. It is known as a “GPT”, or “Get Paid To…” website. There are many different types of GPT sites out there, but this one pays you specifically for filling out surveys or offers. Generally speaking, you will sign up, open a survey, click yes or no about offers you want to read, complete the brief survey, and then BAM, you’ve just made some money. Do this for about 10 minutes and all of a sudden you have made a couple of dollars.
Why in the world will people pay you money for doing this? Imagine a stack of people. The people at the top are the large marketing companies, the people in the middle are the “middle men” (or women, calm-down ladies…) and unfortunately, we the consumers are the lowly bottom feeders. The marketing companies live and breathe for consumer information and will do just about anything to obtain it. They want to be able to learn about you so that they can market to you in a better and more direct way. This happens all the time whether you like it or not. The “middle people” (like the website I will show you) starts as a means to provide that consumer info to the upper people. Finally, we the lowly provide our information to the middle people to sell to the upper people, and we get a cut of that money. If you don’t agree with making some easy cash this way, I suggest leaving now because this is how it works and there’s no way around it, but don’t expect to make any easy money online then…For each one of these surveys, you will be prompted to provide them your name, address, phone number, gender, sometimes race, etc. Note: I did not mention credit card information. Free surveys do not cost you a penny! I never give anybody like this any info that would let them collect money from me, so you don’t have to either. Your money accounts are safe. It is strongly recommended that you do give them accurate information. In most cases you can get banned for providing incorrect info. If you’re like me, you want the money but don’t want to sell your private information. There are small ways around this that minimize what you have to give them, and it works extremely well while keeping you private. Here’s a tutorial about completing these surveys and minimizing the info you have to give them.
So to summarize, you give the survey sites a small amount of your info, you receive some money in return. Really, that’s all there is to it. If you’re comfortable making this easy money, let’s keep moving forward then.
The site is called Swatcash, and it is just like one of the GPT survey sites I described above. It’s also one of the most organized ones I have found. They have people running it that you can actually talk to and email. They will respond too, believe it or not. They have helped me on a few occasions. For you guys and tom-boys, Swatcash has a military theme to it which is sort of fun. For you ladies, don’t you like a man in uniform?
With SWATCASH, you can work free or paid surveys whenever you would like. There is no limit on the amount of money you can make. If you put your nose to the grindstone, you can easily make a dollar every two minutes, which is very decent money. If you’re like me, you don’t want to pay a dime (I don’t like that type of risk) so you can choose to complete the many free ones they have available. They tend to pay out about $1.00 per survey. Each survey has a dollar amount attached to it, so you know how much you will make before you take it. I find the $1.00 ones most worthy of my time.
PROOFI will always try my best to provide proof of money made. It just so happens I took a picture of my first check from Swatcash. Not bad for barely working, huh? (Click to enlarge.)

If you refer somebody to Swatcash, they will pay you 20% of what your referral makes. If your referral makes $200, you will receive an automatic $40 in your account for doing absolutely nothing. Passive income is the easiest money you will ever make. I have had referrals churn out a couple hundred bucks each, which is how I have received the most of my money. How does it sound so far? If you’re interested in signing up, here is my referral link. www.swatcash.com/ryan. I’d appreciate signing up using my link, but if for some reason you really don’t want to, remove “ryan” from the link. Just remember, the fairness gnomes will remember this and might make it hard for you to obtain your own referrals. Otherwise, click the link and sign up!
OTHER PERKS
Bullets – you obtain a certain number of bullets for each survey completed. These are used to “attack” other members to steal their SWATcash if you are so inclined. You can also trade them in for SWATcash.
SWATcash – SWATcash are not real bucks. They are imaginary, but they allow you to exchange these fake Swatbucks for items in the “arsenal”. You can exchange for items like Ipods, X-Boxes, $50 giftcards, $100 cash, and also “unrefered referrals”.
Paid Surveys – If you do want to pay a little money in order to make a lot more money, they have an option to take “Paid Surveys.” Most of them are trial offers that you pay for and in return they will pay you double or even triple of what you put in. I do not choose to complete paid surveys because they require credit card info. It is possible to use those credit-card gift cards so nothing is tied to your actual accounts; I just haven’t gotten around to getting one. The catch for these is that the companies count on you not to end your trial membership after it is over. Then they charge you for regular memberships. If you can remember to call the company and end your membership, then you’re just fine and have made a really easy $20 out of the process. They end up making the money back on poor little saps who forget to call. The paid surveys pay out a lot more money than the free ones. An example of a paid survey would be signing up for a Netflix trial account. If you can handle calling the companies after the offer has “approved,” I think this is the best method, and they are 100% legitimate.
If you missed it above, here’s my ref link. If you have any questions, I’d love to help you out. Also, you can check out the Swatcash forum and ask for help there. There are tons of people willing to help you out. Before you complete surveys, I'm currently building a “walk-through” to guide you through the process. It'll help you a lot.
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Make Easy Money... In Your Underwear!
No No, not that kind of money in your underwear... Perv. I'm talking about actually making money while doing nothing else except by sitting in your chair in your house (or wherever you may be) and clicking & tapping away at your keyboard (and in some cases, not even that).
I should start out by introducing myself. My name is Ryan, I'm 23, and I've recently graduated college, I'm on my own. That means I'm the only one supporting myself. I do have a full-time job. I also have this not-so-secret passion about finding that one thing that will let me retire by the time I'm 40 years old. So naturally, I am always looking for that way to make an extra buck here or there. Recently, I decided to look towards the internet for my huge future fortune.
I will be willing to bet that I'm like most people out there. When it comes to anything on (or off) the internet, I'm your #1 skeptic . Seriously, ask my friends. So if you're like me, this makes it nearly impossible for people like us to believe it when you read, "WIN AN IPOD!!" or "CLICK THE DANCING MOUSE FOR $400,000!!!" Well that's why I decided to start this blog. I will document my quest on finding different ways to make money legitimately online. This will only work under one condition: you actually believe that I'm a real "Average-Joe" writing this. Okay, you caught me. I'm actually way above average... And my name isn't Joe. Guilty as charged...
Seriously though, if you've found this blog, chances are you've browsed through about 10-100 other blogs claiming they are the ones that can show you how to make money online! Can they though? Probably so. Do you know who's behind those blogs? Probably not. I have read my fair share of those websites and being the skeptic I am, my immediate thought is that they work directly for the websites they are promoting. Or, they are getting paid to advertise for that particular website. There are a million things that can be going on and there is no way I can trust them after thinking that. That's how I feel, and if you're still reading, I'm sure you can relate.
Here are the rules that I follow and will continue to follow. They will be reflected in each and every post from here on out:
- If the money making method is too risky, I will not use that method. Because I am incredibly skeptical and very paranoid about giving out my personal info, I will only use money making methods that do not require me to tell people anything I feel uncomfortable giving. If it requires giving info, we will find a way around it. If you're looking for more risk and greater returns, go find another site or take up gambling.
- I will not waste my time. This also translates into "I will not waste YOUR time." No, I'm not going to sign myself up for something that earns me a quarter for an hour of clicking. That's ridiculous, and I'd rather get a part time job doing something productive. If I post it on here, rest assured it can be worth your time if done correctly.
- I will only post what I have done successfully, and will provide proof. Lots of sites like these have a million links and a brief description saying how they can work, not how they have worked. If I post a method on here, I will do my absolute best to provide any proof of earnings, in as much detail as possible, in order to prove to my fellow skeptics that it is legitimate. I will from time-to-time try out a few new sites and post how it goes. If they turn out to be a bust, you'll be the first to know.
- I will include full disclosures in all of my posts. Some sites I will attempt to make money with will accept referrals. This means, if I create an account, I can post a special link for others to join and create their own accounts. Here's the catch: If you sign up under my name, I may earn a certain small percentage, usually ranging from 0%-30% of what you earn. This does not take away any money from your earnings, it is just a bonus received from referring you to the site. This is where my site differs from MANY other sites. I will let you know when a link is a referral link. I will not be sneaky and try to get you to join under me. For instance, here I will post a link that directs you to a website: http://www.innocentlittlewebpage.com/i_just_tricked_you. Hover your mouse over that link and look at the bottom left of your broswer box (if you're using Internet Explorer). See? The link does not take you to the one I posted. It actually takes you to http://www.www.innocentlittlewebpage.com/checked_again?_now_you. I really hate it when people disguise their referral links and con you into giving them commission. I won't con you, I'll let you know what you are clicking. Use that trick I showed you if you don't believe me. Of course, it will always be much appreciated if you do use my referral link, but in no way will I deceive you. How does that sound?
You can also rest assured that if my hand is in any pockets of the websites I am explaining, I will disclose it. If I say that I am only a general member of the site, but I am by no means related in any way to the creators of the website, then I mean it. I did not start this blog to advertise sites, I started it to educate myself and others about money-making possibilities on the internet. - I will make myself available for you to talk with me regarding anything relating to making money or not. If you have questions about anything you read here or elsewhere, I would love to hear from you. I have email and AIM. Hopefully if you need help, you have access to either or both of those. My contact info is provided on the sidebar. If you want help, explanation, clarification, or even if you want to share with me your blackberry cobbler recipe, I want to hear from you. This goes back to the whole, "if I can't get you to trust that I'm a normal dude, then I'm wasting your time," which breaks rule number 2.
- If I find a way to retire by the time I'm 40, and nobody else can know about it, I will not post it. Sorry, if I hit it big on the internet (hahaha), sayonara. I expect that the chances are just as great as me getting into the NBA (and I haven't played basketball since grade school) as they are of me hitting it big. I'm a skeptic and I'm also a realist. The money I will be making may only add up to gas money for the month, or it could add up to paying my weekend bar tabs. I'll let you know a good estimate about ranges of what you can expect to earn with certain methods. Now tell me, how many other sites bring you that? "Three," you say? oh.
Lordy this is long... So, I hope you find this website easy to read and understand, informative, and fun. Maybe you and I can learn a few things. I hope you enjoy your stay!
--Ryan