Paid Survey Sites Really Work

I just received my December's earnings from Cash Crate today. It wasn't very big this month because I hardly did any offers because of Christmas. I received $25.16, which is nothing to sneeze at since I only put in about 2-3 hours in on Cash Crate for the whole month of December. Plus, I don't have any active referrals yet. Cash Crate is very legit, pays fast, has a ton of free offers to complete, and their offers clear faster and easier than any of the other GPTs I work with.

If you haven't signed up with them yet, you must give them a try. It is completely free.

Bux.to is an awesome site. They have 30 second ads that you view and each one pays you a penny. What is so great about Bux.to is that they also pay you 100% of what your referrals make. It is the easiest site that I'm currently making money with. I open an ad and let it run for 30 seconds in the background while I check my email and do my Cash Crate offers. I flip back to the ad and check the timer every once and a while. When the timer is done, I just close the window, open a new ad, and flip back to what ever I was working on. That's it! Bux.to is free to join. Give it a try.

If you have your own blog or site you might as well earn some money from it by running some advertising on it. I have an entire website devoted to explaining how advertising and affiliate programs work. If you have a site of your own, it's worth taking a look at http://putyoursitetowork.googlepages.com/.

I recommend the following advertising companies. All three are free to join!

Widget Bucks gives you a $25 sign up bonus and have a low $50 minimum cashout. They also have a referral program in which you can make a percentage of what ever your referrals make with their advertising. You can try them out for free by clicking the button below.

Adbrite ads can run on the same page as Widget Bucks ads. Adbrite offers in line text ads as well as text link ads, which do not compete with Widget Bucks' commission based product ads. So, you can give them both a try at the same time and see how much revenue they bring in for you. Adbrite also has a referral program.

When looking for a free advertising program to go with to monetize your site, AdSense is the huge monster in the industry that everyone knows about. But there is a new advertising program on the market that may soon be the next giant. It is called NetAudioAds and they offer PPP (pay per play) ads instead of PPC (pay per click) ads. This is a very exciting concept! With PPC ads, you don't make money unless someone clicks on one of your ads and more and more people are beginning to ignore text and image ads. With PPP ads, however, a 5 second audio ad plays as soon as someone loads up your site. You get piad for each impression! This is going to be a great way to make money, and NetAudioAds also offers a generous referral program. Sign up for your free account today and give it a try.

I know that any time someone has some success with making money online for free, people want to know exactly how it's being done. In the previous post, I gave very improtant tips and tricks about how to be efficient and successful with any paid sites you choose to join. Now I will tell you about the sites that I've joined and currently work with.

I have chosen to spend the majority of my time on GPTs rather than paid survey sites because I can make more with them. Paid survey sites tend to reward your efforts with point or sweepstakes entries, whereas GPTs give you cash. In this post I will list the paid survey sites that I like and tell you a little bit about each one. I'm currently working on a similar post for the GPTs that I like, but since that list is quite long, it will take some time before that post is complete.

Paid Survey Sites I Like:

Pine Cone Research

Free to join

You can only join via invitation. If you get active enough with paid survey sites and GPTs, you will eventually receive an invitation. When you get one be sure to join. They email you surveys and send you payment per survey. For example, I completed a survey for them on February 28th and received a $3 check on March 4 for that one survey! It's a great site

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Survey Savvy

Free to join.

Member of the Better Business Bureau.

Complete your profile information and then they start to email you surveys.

There is no minimum payout. You can request your check at anytime.

You earn an average of $3 for each survey you qualify for and complete. You earn an average of $2 for each survey your referrals qualify for and complete and $1 for each survey your referrals' referrals qualify for and complete. If you attempt to complete a survey but do not qualify, you are entered into their monthly sweepstakes drawing for fifty $10 prizes.

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Your Free Surveys

Free to join.

$4 Sign up bonus.

Pays in $25 increments via PayPal.

Has surveys to choose from on their website and also sends you more surveys via email.

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Survey Spot

Free to join.

Member of the Better Business Bureau.

SurveySpot offers members three ways to earn cash and prizes:

• Every time you take a survey, you qualify to play an Instant Win Game with thousands of dollars in cash and prizes.
• Every time you take a survey, you earn an entry into SurveySpot's $25,000 cash sweepstakes, awarded every quarter.
• Certain surveys offer cash awards after you complete the survey.
  

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

Free Traffic Building Services:

Link Referral is an amazing site for gaining referrals and traffic. It's free to sign up and they let you have up to 10 different links. You have to sign up each link separately using the same email address, but a different password. If you have a website or blog, you can register it with Link Referral to get more traffic. If all you do is GPT and paid survey sites, you can choose your 10 favorite and register your referral links with Link Referral. You will most likely see an increase in referrals and traffic the first day you join Link Referral.

Tip: Be sure to keep your ranking high with Link Referral by viewing other sites, posting to the forum, leaving site reviews, etc. You will see details on Link Referral's site.

Get Ref is another free site that will get you more referrals. It isn't as easy or fast as Link Referral. But, it's worth registering if you have enough time to put into it. It works like a GPT site, but instead of earning cash for clicking and signing up for offers, you earn referrals. You can also pay a small fee to upgrade your account and make cash as well.

Traffic Swarm is another GPT type traffic building site. It's free to join. You build up credits by visitting other members' sites. Then you can spend your credits to entice members to visit your site. Even if you only have a little time to devot to Traffic Swarm monthly, it will still trickle a bit more traffic to your site or referral link that you otherwise wouldn't have.

Five Hits is yet another free traffic building site in which you earn credits in order to spend them for free traffic. I just joined it today, but so far it really has my interest. It allows you to create banner adds and text links for members to view and click on.

Other Ways to Increase Traffic:

The easiest way to get more refferals and traffic is to put you link in your signature. Include your link in the signature on all of your emails and all of your forum posts. Some of your emails will likely get forwarded without anyone taking the time to delete your signature. This is free advertising! Also, start getting very active on various forums. Make sure all of your posts have your signture with your link so that you get even more exposure.

You can also use old methods of advertising. Post flyers with your link. Print out business cards and pass them around. You can even advertise your link on your vehicle. Then you're advertising yourself every time you leave the house.

Squishy Cash is a great GPT site that has many different types of offers and surveys to complete for cash. Squishy has a great navigation menu that allows you to sort offers to only show those that require one field submits (either email or zip code). A neat feature of Squishy is that its offers earn you cash and chips. You can redeem chips for sweepstakes entries or gift cards.

Squishy pays via check, PayPal, or Amazon gift card. They have a low $20 minimum payout.

Tip: Be sure to check your inbox with Squishy. It's a black button at the top right of the page. The administration sends you tips daily to your inbox. Often times it's about exclusive offers or sweepstakes that you can enter. One day I received a message that said that all offers that day were paying double! Today I received a message that had a link and gave me a promotional code to paste in after clicking the link. I was then immediately creditted 25 cents just for using the code!

If you're serious about wanting to make money with GPT and paid survey sites, you need to look at it as a job. You need to set aside time weekly to log into your favorite GPT and paid survey sites and complete surveys and offers.

I've received messages from people who try a few sites for one day, get frustrated and give up. The biggest thing to keep in mind is that this is free money! You didn't have to complete a resume or compete for a job position and you don't have to commute to work. So, don't expect to make $10-$20 per survey or offer. Sites that claim that are usually scams.

Most surveys and offers earn you just a few cents to sometimes $1.50 each. But, when you take the time to complete offers and surveys regularly it really adds up. If you get referrals under you, then you will really start to see profits.

I advise working on your GPT and survey sites 3 to 4 hours a week and checking your email (some of Cash Crate's offers clear after confirming an email and some sites send you paid emails) at least ever other day.

In addition to setting aside time to complete offers, you should dedicate an hour a week to advertising your referral link so you can get referrals under you. Every site that I work with has a referral program which allows me to earn a percentage of what my referrals earn.

You will be spending more time on all of this during your first month because you won't be familiar with the sites yet. Once you get familiar with the sites and how the offers and surveys work, you will be trucking along and getting a lot more accomplished in less time.

I work with a lot of GPT and paid survey sites. Cash Crate is my absolute favorite, though.

Cash Crate's site is super easy to navigate, they pay via check and do not charge a fee for the service, they have a ton of offers to choose from, they offer 2 daily surveys that each pay 80 cents, and they pay you super fast!

The best part about Cash Crate is that unlike many other sites, it isn't tricky to get your offers and surveys to clear. I never have to worry about deleting my cookies with Cash Crate.

There are 2 things that you definitely have to do with Cash Crate to earn the most possible: 1) be sure to go back and click the submit button from the offers' list on Cash Crate's site after you've completed an offer or you won't get credit (tip: Cash Crate won't let you submit unless you have at least looked at the offer, so sometimes it's a good idea to just go down the list and click submit on all of the offers just in case you forgot to submit one that you did), 2) be sure to check your email because some of the offers require that you verify your email address before the offer clears.

Cash Crate is super easy and pays fast. Even if you aren't looking to spend a ton of time doing GPT and survey sites and you sign up for only one site, be sure to make it Cash Crate.