Paid Survey Sites Really Work

I first started making money online back in November of 2007. I have researched and tried a lot of different online money makers (I never spent a dime! I only explore free opportunities). In my quest to earn from home, I've discovered many sites that pay (a few are easy to reach cashout, but most aren't) and a few that are scams.

If you're wanting to learn how to start earning from home, you might benefit from reading my story.

I just recently discovered Squidoo. I like lenses way better than blogs, so I've reorganized all of this info and put it on these lenses:

How to Be Successful with GPTs

Get Paid to Take Surveys

The Simplest Online Money Making Info Ever

Your referrals, or people you recruit to join a GPT or paid survey site under you, are your downline. You can easily go from earning $20 a month to hundreds by building your downline. I've even see people earn as much as $1,500 by building up an awesome downline. Anyone can have a huge downline. All it takes is time.

Below I've created a list of various ways you can advertise your referral link so that you can build your downline.

1) Email a quick ad to your friends and family.
2) Put a brief ad in your signature that you use in all forums that you post in. Also, get very active in a variety of forums to spread your link around.
3) Advertise in forums that allow it. Just make quality posts in forums that don't allow ads and let your signature do the work for you.
4) Make a blog or website.
5) Make a Squido lens (I will be doing this myself this summer).
6) Write an ad on your paper money. After I cash my GPT and paid survey checks I write the following ad on my money: "I made this money at http://cashcrate.com/394552" or I'll write "I made this money online. Learn how at "PaidSurveySitesReallyWork.Blogspot.com."
7) Make flyers and post them around where you live and/or travel.
8) Mail out ads either as letters or save money and mail out postcards. If it looks like junk mail from the envelope, people will toss it without even opening it, so a postcard is more likely to get read any way.
9) Talk in chat rooms that are about "easy money" or "working from home."
10) Put an ad in the classifieds.
11) Talk to passersby at a local college and hand out flyers.
12) Put an ad on your car so everyone sees your link when you're driving around.
13) Have a button made up and where it. It could read, "I make money online for free" or "ask me how I make free money."
14) Have business cards made and pass them out at every opportunity.
15) Put your referral link in your email signature

This post is all about GPT and paid survey sites that have great referral programs. All of these sites are completely free to join and really pay. You risk nothing at all by giving them a try.

Cash Crate
In case you haven't figured it out yet, Cash Crate is my absolute favorite money making site! To get paid by them the first time you have to cashout and confirm your phone number. After that, they automatically send you a check each month you make at least $10 (which is super easy with Cash Crate).

I just had a baby last month and haven't had any time at all to complete offers on my own or to recruit more referrals. I currently have 48 active referrals with Cash Crate and they have earned me $30.58 this month! I've made $30.58 this month by doing absolutely nothing. I don't even have to remember to cashout. They will simply mail me my check.

Their Referral Program:
Every Cash Crate member earns an automatic $3.00 each time any of your referrals reaches their $10 cashout for the first time. Each member earns a standard 20% of what ever their referrals make, plus an additional 10% of what their referrals' referrals earn. This is called the bronze level, which is where everyone starts out. As you gain additional active referrals, your percentage earned grows as follows:

Bronze - 0 Active Referrals - 20% First Level, 10% Second Level
Silver - 50 Active Referrals - 25% First Level, 10% Second Level
Gold - 150 Active Referrals - 25% First Level, 15% Second Level
Platinum - 300 Active Referrals - 30% First Level, 15% Second Level
Elite - 500 Active Referrals - 30% First Level, 20% Second Level

You can make a lot with Cash Crate with just a little bit of effort. Register with them for free and start advertising your referral link today!

FusionCash
This is a GPT site that pays you to complete offers and has a great referral program. They pay you:

• $1 bonus when your referral confirms his/her email address
  
• $2 bonus when your referral completes his/her first offer
  
• $5 bonus each and every time any of your referrals cashes out
  

Almost all GPT sites and a few of the paid survey sites offer a referral program. The way referral programs work is you recruit people to join the site you belong to (using your referral link for that site) and then you earn a percentage of everything they earn. Some sites pay for 2-3 levels.

You can earn money by just completing offers and surveys on your own, you can recruit referrals every now and then and have them earn for you too, or you can recruit full time and let your referrals do all the work for you. It's up to you. When you see people making $500-$1,200 a month with GPTs it's because they have a lot of referrals.

But, don't get discouraged. If getting a lot of referrals and earning a steady income is your goal, you can get there with a little persistence.

There are 2 things you need to do: 1) join sites that have great referral programs and 2) advertise your referral link to those sites. It's really very simple. All you need to do is invest some time in building your "downline" (all your referrals and your referrals' referrals) and then let it work for you.

In the next two posts, I will give details about sites that I've found that have good referral programs and I will also give tips on how to advertise your referral links.

Many people who are earning good steady incomes with GPTs and paid survey sites aren't willing to share this information unless you are in their downline. For some reason they want to keep it all a big secret. This doesn't make sense to me because I don't lose money by teaching you how to make money. All I ask is that if you find the information on this blog helpful, useful, or interesting then please sign up for these programs via my links so that I can build my downline too. Thank you and happy earning!

Unfortunately, when completing offers on GPTs you must supply authentic information. Entering fake phone numbers and addresses will get you banned from the GPTs. But, very few of us enjoy being bothered by telemarketers at our home phone number, or even worse, on our cell phones.

There is a solution, and it's free! K7 Unified Messaging will give you a free phone number that will accept voicemails and faxes. You can access your messages via their website, via your email, or both (it's your choice). It's 100% free and the only information they require is an email address. They never ask for your mailing address, phone number, etc.

I highly recommend signing up for a free phone number with them by going to this link and using that number when completing GPT offers.

This site is a completely free service. They have no referral program, etc. So, I don't benefit in anyway by referring people to this site.

I've gotten into a good rhythm with all of the GPTs and paid survey sites that I work with, so I've joined a few more to add to my monthly income. Here is a little bit about each of the free money making sites that I've discovered.

Deal Barbie
Deal Barbie is a GPT that is really popular, especially with stay at home moms. They have a $20 minimum cashout and pay with your choice of PayPal, check, or Amazon gift card.





Race 4 Clicks
Race 4 Clicks is an easy GPT site that has a super low payout and they give you a 50 cent sign up bonus. This site has ads that you can view for seconds and get paid and also has other free GPT sites that they pay you to join. The have a minimum of $2 cashout via PayPal and $5 minimum via check.





Race 4 Offers
Race 4 Offers is a GPT that is very user friendly and has a low minimum cashout of $10. They pay via PayPal or check. With Race 4 Offers you can make money by viewing ads, completing offers, and referring new members.