First you need to set goals. Decide if you want to make a little extra money and treat this as a hobby or if you want to make free online money making opportunities into a business and bring home a steady monthly income.

If you are just wanting to make GPTs and paid surveys a hobby, then I would suggest joining Cash Crate first. It is the easiest of all the GPTs that I've tried. It has a ton of offers to complete for cash. It is super easy to get your offers to approve with Cash Crate (no need to clear you cookies). Best of all, Cash Crate pays super fast. If you have fun with Cash Crate and have enough time to tinker around with some other sites, then try out a few of the other sites I've listed on this blog (in the right column) and choose the ones that you find to be the most enjoyable to you.

If you want to treat this more like a business, then I'll get you started on the road to success. You could easily join a whole bunch of sites, but if you don't get organized in the beginning it will be very hard to make money efficiently. The following tips will get you well on the way to making money online:

1) Choose a password that means something to you. Be sure that it is one that you will not forget. Use this password for you gmail account (more about this in step 2) and for all of your online memberships. You don't want to sign up with a whole bunch of different sites and use a lot of different passwords or you'll forget which password goes to which site. If you've already joined a few sites and used various passwords, don't worry. Just log into your account and change your password. You can always go to your profile or account information on these sites and your email address, password, and mailing address if necessary.

2) Create a gmail account with Google (this is a free email account) to use just for the GPT and survey sites that you use. Putting your email address out there through the surveys and offers that you'll be completing will result in a lot of junk email and you don't want that to clog up your permanent email address. There is a very important reason to make your money making email account with Google. Gmail allows you to put a period any where in the first portion of the address and it still act as your address. For example, if you email account were surveysavvy@gmail.com you could use s.urveysavvy@gmail.com or su.rveysavvy@gmail.com and so on. This is a huge tip! Many of the offers that you'll be completing are offered by the same companies and if you use the same address over and over, your offers will stop clearing. But, if you use the gmail account idea that I just presented, it will trick the companies into thinking it's a unique email address. What I do is move the period down one letter each day. So, Monday I would use surveysavvy@gmail.com and Tuesday I would use s.urveysavvy@gmail.com until I make my way down the address and it rotates back to the original address. Use your original gmail address to register with all of the GPT and paid survey sites. If you start putting periods in your registration address, you'll have trouble logging into the sites because you won't remember how you registered with each site.

3) Keep track of each site you register with as you sign up for your free accounts. First create a folder in your favorites called something like "internet earners" and every time you register for a money making site, save it to your favorites in this folder. As you experiment with different sites, if you come across one that you don't like at all you can delete it from your favorites so you don't waste time at it again. Like wise if you take any of my traffic advice that I discussed in earlier posts, you can create a folder called "marketing" or something similar and when you join a traffic building site you can add it to your favorites in this folder. Organizing your links in this manner will help a lot. Then on days that you have time to work on your money making opportunities, you can just go down the list of links in your favorites.

4) Create and Excel spreadsheet that has a list of all the money making sites you register with. Then add a columns for amount earned, minimum payout, fees, and payment method. These sites are willing to pay you for your participation because they make money by getting more users because it's all about advertising. Companies are willing to pay big money in order to get your contact information so that they can advertise their products and services to you. Always remember that these sites are in it to make money. Many of them will not pay you unless you ask for your payment by cashing out. If you update your spreadsheet weekly, it will be really easy to see when you reach your minimum payout with a particular site and then you can log in and cash out.

5) Set your computer to accept all cookies. Go to "Tools" in Internet Explorer, then "Internet Options," then the "privacy" tab. Once there set your privacy setting to accept all cookies. Many sites will not clear any offers at all unless you do this. Cash Crate was clearing about 85% of the offers I did even when I had my privacy setting set on medium.

6) Before you log into each site, clear all your cookies. You do this under "Tool" and then the general tab. If you have trouble clearing offers on certain sites, then you will need to clear your cookies before each offer (you have to do this on Squishy).

7) Almost all of the GPT and paid survey sites have referral programs. These are great; they allow you to make money on auto pilot. You make a percentage of what your referrals make. You get your referral link or banners by going to the referral section of each money making site. You can advertise your links on your blog, put it in your email signature, etc. You can get other referral and traffic tips in an earlier post I made.

8) Set aside some time to work on the offers and surveys weekly. You will not make money unless you put some time into this. It might seem insignificant at first...25 cents here, a dollar there. But it really adds up. For an example, the following chart shows how it is only January 8th, but I already have made $83.81 so far this month:

Site Amount
Cash Crate $25.63
Clix Sense $ 0.75
Fusion Cash $10.00
Inbox Dollars $11.75
Panda Research $ 5.00
Send Earnings $11.81
Snap Dollars $ 5.49
Squishy Cash $ 5.63
Swat Cash $ 1.00
This Site is for Real $ 2.25
Treasure Trooper $ 0.50
Your Free Surveys $ 4.00