Can You Make Money Online?

No More Banners?

2007-06-20T06:27:00.000-07:00

Pity the poor banner ad. Cutting-edge just a few years ago, this pioneer of Web advertising is now scorned as hopelessly out-of-date, a neglected stepchild in an era of Web video, widgets, mash-ups and social networking.

But Web sites don't want to give up this key revenue source: Basic display ads still accounted for $3.4 billion in U.S. online ad spending in 2006, or 21% of the total U.S. online ad market, according to research firm eMarketer. So many marketers are furiously trying to jazz them up. [More]

Make Social Sites Pay!

2007-04-05T06:00:00.000-07:00

Here's a cool article I found: With the top YouTube users becoming paid shills for Coke, and the top Diggers being accused of taking ‘cash for Diggs‘, it seems that the users of social sites are looking to be rewarded for their efforts. In fact, there are already plenty of services that will pay you for your participation. Here are nineteen of the best, plus a few bonuses. [Read more...]

Good Paid Survey Site

2007-03-28T06:31:00.000-07:00

Opinion Outpost is one of the better paying survey sites. I've made several dollars here. Unlike other survey sites, this one pays $3-$6 per survey! Check it out here:

What's your opinion? Join the Opinion Outpost survey research and start earning cash for sharing it. You can earn cash for each survey you complete. Membership is free.

Get Paid to Surf the Internet

2007-03-21T18:50:00.000-07:00

Advertisers, search providers, and online retailers are paying billions to reach you while you surf. How much of that money are you getting?

Don't You Deserve A Piece of the Action?
AGLOCO gets paid by companies to reach their members through their "Viewbar" software. They give that money back to you. Check it out! [Link]

Get Paid to Try

2007-03-04T07:46:00.000-08:00

If you are unsure if this kind of site is for you, log on and try out a few of the free offers. I signed up for some of the free offers and waited until they credited. I cashed out at the minimum payout to make sure that I would get paid. I did get paid a couple of weeks later by the sites I have listed on this page. After being paid, I had the confidence that I needed to continue with the site, and by doing all free offers, I made $50 per site (x4 = $200 per day) from these sites on totally free offers.

How to Start a Get-Paid-to-Try Site

2007-02-27T04:38:00.000-08:00

Many people look for ways to make money on-line. The get paid to try sites are good money makers to both the administrator and the users that actually complete the offers. I am going to show you how to start a get paid to try site. This is a very easy task, but does take a lot of hard work and effort to build the site and keep it up, all while making your "customers" happy. (More...)

Get Paid to Try

2007-02-20T05:43:00.000-08:00

As a stay at home mom, I will search for just about anything on the Internet that will make a little bit of money that will help make the ends meet. I have been for the last month working with get paid to try sites. I have come to find that there are hundreds of these sites that you can sign up for. (More...)

Update To My Dec. 22, 2006 Post

2007-02-19T04:41:00.000-08:00

In my post on December 22, 2006 "It's easier pulling teeth..." than getting paid by "Snap Dollars," in all fairness I have to report that I finally received a check from them last week, four months after I requested it. I will never visit that website again though, but I'll continue with Treasure Trooper, Cash Crate, and the others I've listed on this site as they pay regularly and on time.

Don't Fall For This!

2007-02-18T10:18:00.000-08:00

The links I have on this blog are merely websites I am suggesting because I received pay checks from them. I do not get paid when I refer you guys. Here is an example of a clever scam: This guy has an ad that reads "I've Been Scammed 37 Times." He gives a list of places that are scams but lists two that are not scams. Uh huh. That is a clever way of an affiliate selling a product or service. Check it out here.

" Is being able to earn real money from the internet a myth?"

2007-02-10T06:25:00.000-08:00

That's a question that I asked myself for a long time, as I'm sure many of you have too. Well I'm here to tell you that it is not a myth. Myself and 3 other's have teamed together to review sites to see if they really do give away the money and prizes that they claim to. We have been at this non stop for 1 year this Feb. (07) and surprisingly, we have found several that are legitimate sites. (More...)

Make Over $200 a Month Just Clicking

2007-02-04T07:07:00.000-08:00

One hour every morning before work, I log on and click on the paid emails that are sent to me. Just click, read, delete. Then I go to the Get Paid to Try sites (these are the ones that send daily paid emails) and do their daily cash surveys.

Sign up to as many sites as you want, the more you do, the more opportunities you get for paid email and daily cash surveys, therefore the more money you can make. It costs zero money to do this and it's really easy, fast and fun. I myself am registered with four and I average about $100 per month, just one hour in the morning reading four emails and doing four surveys.

I don't have time for more than four, but if you do, sign up for 20 and make $500 per month! This is totally realistic, it costs no money on your part and it's not a scam (I have received checks). Make as little or as much as you want, depending on how much time you want to put into it.

Can You Really Money Online? Not Really!

2007-02-02T04:57:00.000-08:00

Theoretically, you can make money online, but it will cost you. Realistically, yes, but very little.

This blog does not make any money for me, so I have no reason to sell the idea. The truth is, if you want to make money, you would have to invest money (alot) in advertising to drive traffic to what you are selling. And even though you do get a lot of traffic, the odds are very low anyone is willing to whip out their credit card and buy anything. I had an affiliate link out there, and I got over 500 click-throughs in one month, but not a single purchase. Same thing with any affiliate program, including the famous "Click Bank." Overall, in three months I made about $20, and spent $400 in advertising. Statiscally, only 5% of the affiliates make 100% of the money.

In the "Get Paid to Try" programs, I made a few hundred, but you really need to keep on top of your "free trials" and cancel before your free trial is over so you will not be billed. I made more money with these programs than any other.

Adsense is a good one, but you need to have many, many website pages to generate any real income, and that is a lot of work. I did that too.

Purchasing a ready-made website that will make you $1,000 plus a day is pure B.S. Don't do it. I did, and I lost my money.

All in all, you can make some extra spending money for fun, but not as a full-time income. But if you are anything like me and you want to "give it a try" or see for yourself, I say do it. It was a lot of fun actually, and I learned a lot of things about a lot of different things!

Paid Surveys vs. Get Paid To Try

2007-01-12T09:08:00.000-08:00

There really is a big difference between "paid survey" sites and "get paid to try" sites. The paid survey sites are just that, surveys. There are no offers to try, no free product trials, just surveys. These are good if you like doing surveys and don't want to try any products, services, etc. The key is signing up for a bunch of them so you can have multiple sources of income, and very importantly, fully complete your profile. Otherwise, they will not send many, if any, surveys for you to do.

The get paid to try sites are fun if you like trying out new products free for a month or so, and these pay pretty well. You can realistically make at least $100 a month per website so if you sign up for several, say ten, that's $1,000 per month. Just remember to cancel your trial offers if you are not interested before the trial period ends so you will not be charged. This way it is pure profit.

They Paid Me Today

2006-12-28T10:26:00.000-08:00

Join Cash4Offers.com - Earn extra cash in less than 72 hours! Their claim is true. I joined this paid-to-read-email site about a month ago. Hardly any work was required at this one; they send out several emails a day, and at a nickle per email, it adds up fast. All the other sites pay about two cents per email. They also have get paid to try offers and some free surveys. Any questions I had they responded within a day, and when I requested payment, I was actually paid within 72 hours. This is a good one-easy money!

Paid Surveys

2006-12-27T08:15:00.000-08:00

"Paid Surveys" is different from the "get-paid-to-try" sites. Paid surveys will show up in your email a few times a week, and you earn $2-$5 per survey. They vary from questions about soda, finances, cars, food, shopping, etc. and you are paid strictly for your opinion as opposed to get-paid-to-try sites where you earn money for trying new products or signing up at other get paid to try websites. Since the paid surveys are only available when they send them to your inbox a few times a week, it is best to sign up for ALOT of paid surveys if you want to make more than a few dollars a week. You can search for individual paid surveys or you can sign up at a place that has a very large listing all in one place. Get Paid For Your Opinion
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It's Easier to Pull Teeth Than Get Paid From This Site

2006-12-22T12:52:00.000-08:00

I joined SnapDollars.com October 5, 2006 and immediately started working on earning some money. By October 27, 2006 I had earned a whopping $37.56! At first I had close to $100 in those 3 short weeks, but items that were approved for payment mysteriously dropped off my account. I decided this wasn't the site for me so I requested payment Otober 27, 2006 so I could close my account. Finally, on December 11, 2006, my request was "approved" and I was supposedly paid. Today is December 22, 2006 and I still not have received payment. I can't imagine where it is, and since their customer support is practically non-existent I cannot get a reply from them. This is one place I would definitely stay away from. If anyone has had better luck with SnapDollars.com, please post a comment!

Get Paid to Try Sites

2006-12-21T20:05:00.001-08:00

Get Paid to Sign up, Paid Surveys, Paid e-mails - Most beginners start here. These advertisements for the most part, are true. These are known as "get paid to try" websites. It's a quick, fun and easy way to make money online in a few weeks. In a month you can earn anywhere from $25 to a several hundred dollars, depending on how much time you want to put into it. Just make sure they are the "free to join" sites because there are a few out there that will charge you $34.95 just for a list of these sites that are free to sign up for anyway!

Many of these websites also pay to play games where you simply sign up, start playing mostly arcade-type games and get paid. Try InboxDollars or SendEarnings if you are interested in getting paid to play games.

Google AdWords

2006-12-20T09:03:00.000-08:00

Google Adwords is a very simple, user friendly advertsing medium. It can be used for several different things, including driving traffic to your own website or blog, or if you are an affiliate, driving traffic to your merchants' website. You are charged per click on your ad and the ad will stop running once it has reached the maximum dollar amount you specify per day.

You can have your ad key word targeted or site targeted. You can set up specific URL's you would like your ad to appear on, and Google has a huge list of available websites for advertising your ads. These available websites are grouped by what type of websites they are, e.g., social networking, hobbies, employment, etc. If you use key words to target your ad, Google pretty much does all the work. All you have to do is enter one key word, and Google will come up with 100 more for you, using their key word tool. A word of caution, however, if you are advertising one of your merchants' links and it happens to be a paid survey site, the keywords survey or paid surveys or any variation thereof, is very expensive. These keywords go for $10.00 per click. When I use the keyword survey for my own website however, those keywords are about 15 cents per click. What I do when advertising for one of my merchants' paid survey websites is to site-target rather than key word target. It is a whole lot cheaper that way, and for five bucks a day I get about 100 clicks on my ad per day.

Amazon.com Associates Program

2006-12-20T09:00:00.000-08:00

Become an Amazon.com Associate - Amazon.com has an amazing associate program. They give you your own storefront to use, a great way to promote products if you don't have a website. If you do have a website, you can choose individual products you wish to promote on your website, or you can integrate the storefront into your website, or link to it as a free-standing store. You can set the store up and edit it to give it the look and feel of your own website. Plus you've got the Amazon.com name more people trust.

Affiliate Programs

2006-12-20T08:59:00.001-08:00

Affiliate Programs - This is a fun and easy way to generate some income by becoming an affiliate. You may need a website, newsletter or blog to promote and advertise merchants' products and/or services, and the merchant will supply you with text ads and banners for placement. You get paid commission whenever someone makes a purchase from a banner on your website. You can promote and sell just about anything on the web, from goods to services. The best way to do this is to focus on one product in particular that interests you. For example, if you really love photography, just focus on promoting cameras, photopaper, photo copiers, etc. rather than a bunch of different, unrelated items. This is called finding your niche. One of the top programs is Commission Junction. They have everything imaginable to promote, if you decide promoting is what you want to do. There is also LinkShare, MaxBounty and Perfect Paycheck.