Check out mah Benjamin Pile.
Won the $2 lottery again.
Apr 092011
Mar 232011
Well, okay not so much “big” money… at least not this time.
There’s a chance to win $50 every 24 hours. You can win random amounts by answering surveys throughout the day.
This is the second time I’ve won $2 in the 4 hour lottery. :P
Hey, it’s free money and all I did was put my coins down for the next drawing.
Shazam:
Feb 212011
This is a post that I’ve brought out of the archives of ngwoosh.com (March 6, 2009) from when I kept up with this type of thing there. I’ve also edited out a lot of outdated information.
SwagBucks, SimpleGPT, ICS, CashPirate… whatever site you may be a member of, they all have one thing in common: referrals.
I’ve noticed a lot of people coming to my blog lately having searched for tips on getting referrals. I’ve also had a lot of people ask me about this in conversations. I’m not amazing; I don’t have a thousand referrals to each site I’m on, but I can tell you some great ways to get referrals and then the rest is up to you.
Start with people you know: Family, friends, neighbors, etc. — Just make sure that the people you’re referring don’t live in your household, as most sites allow for one member per household. Reading the site’s TOS is up to you.
Sometimes you’ll see offers for business cards, whether free or paid. You could do this and put together referral cards to hand out to people he knew. Get paid for an offer and get referrals from it. That’s a win!
You may also see offers for free/cheap t-shirts on GPT sites. You could use this to do something witty. “Ask me how I got this shirt!”
When talking to people, don’t shove it down their throat: Remember, you’re not selling cars, you’re just referring people. If somebody isn’t interested, shut up. Casually talk about it and see where the conversation goes.
Social Networking: Most people are members of social networking sites, or sites with a lot of interaction to them. Forums, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LiveJournal, etc. – Don’t spam your friends or the people you’re interacting with, but drop some info about these sites into your profile, or signature, and maybe make a comment here and there about how much you earned. Follow the rules no matter where you are, because if you spam or post your referral link where you aren’t supposed to (some forums have rules against referral links, for example) then you discredit yourself and the site that you’re linking to. Spamming will likely get you banned from the site you’re advertising as well.
If you’re active on YouTube and you make videos, or you’re interested in doing so, make sure to put a video together about the site(s) you’re interested in getting referrals for. People will view it, and people will join! Include your referral link in the video description.
Start a blog: There are several places to start a free blog, though wordpress.com does not allow blogs regarding these types of sites, so I recommend Blogger for free blogs. You can also look into getting a webhost and domain and starting a “self hosted” WordPress (or your CMS of choice) blog.
Start your blog about the site you’re trying to refer people to, or all of the sites you like and go from there. If you already have a blog, post about your sites!
Show proof! If you got paid by one of these sites you’re trying to refer people to, people like to know about it. I’m more likely to try a site that somebody can prove they’ve been paid by, and others are too.
Be creative! There are tons of ways to get referrals, and many ways that aren’t mentioned here. Maybe this will be useful to somebody, or maybe this will just sit in the archives.
Mar 132010
Everybody wants more money. Poor people, rich people, it really doesn’t matter what your financial status is. There’s always a reason behind it, too. Some people want to pay off debt, others want a new electronic device, but whatever the reason may be you don’t need to be missing out on these incredibly easy money resources.
The fact of the matter is, you’re already on the internet. Why not take advantage of this?
Let’s just take Instant Cash Sweepstakes as an example:
You answer a few easy questions and win cash or tickets towards a cash drawing. Do this once or twice a day (or as often as possible, it’s up to you) and you get free money. Tell your friends about it, and they get free money. While they’re getting free money, you get the same amount they do. They’re 3 or 4 question surveys; not hour-long surveys like some sites have with their empty promises of “GET RICH QUICK” – this isn’t like that at all. I don’t like to waste my time either.
Not into surveys at all? That’s cool. There are other sites, like CashPirate, where you can get a free trial for popular services (eMusic, Netflix, and more – also note that these are just examples, I am not saying you have to or should try these services) and get paid for the trial. If you’re not wanting to do trials, there are other ways to earn money such as surveys and clicking links. CashPirate pays out in eBay gift cards, Wal-Mart gift cards, PayPal, and Amazon.
There are also similar sites to CashPirate, like PrizeRebel. PrizeRebel mostly pays in items such as gift cards, or specific orders from places like Amazon.
Then you have sites like SwagBucks. Earn swagbucks (points, basically) by searching the web, recycling, completing offers, finding codes, and more. Trade those swagbucks in for PayPal (cash), Amazon gift cards, other gift cards, and tons of items.
Now, I’d like to point out that I don’t get paid to write these posts. Nobody hands me cash to sit down and spend my time maintaining my blogs. I don’t have any actual advertisements or ad services on here. I blog about these sites from my own experiences, and as little free time as I have I’m not a fan of wasting my own time; why would I want to waste yours? So check out the sites if you’d like to earn some extra cash. If you don’t look into them it’s your wallet that stays that much lighter.
Jan 012010
I haven’t been posting much in a while (see the updates on my SimpleGPT, SwagBucks, Points4Rewards, ICS, and CashPirate are all excellent websites to earn cash and prizes with to start your year off right.