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
Dramaticly Increase Your Earnings With Referrals
Get a Free Phone Number to Use for GPTs
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.
More GPTs that I've Started Working With
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.
The GPTs That I Make Money From
I love, love, love GPTs (get paid to) sites. Most of them have offers to complete for cash. Many of them are 100% free and pay anything from 20 cents to $1.50 each. If you're very organized, I'm not, you can complete trial offers for more money--usually varies from $2.50 to $30.00 per offer.
Below I've listed all the GPTs that I like and a little information about each of them. All are 100% free. So, feel free to join them all and give them a try.
Cash Crate
This one is my favorite. It's super easy to get offers to clear with this site. They pay super fast too. As long as your account has at least $10 in it, you will receive a check in the mail around the 21st of ever month.
Pros: pays fast, many offers to choose from, pays you 20% of what your referrals make and 20% of what their referrals make & gives you a $3.00 bonus the first time each of your referrals cashes out , offers 2 daily surveys that pay $0.80 to $1.00 each.
Cons: I haven't found one yet.
Minimum payout: $10
Tip: Be sure to verify your phone number so you can receive your first payment.
Fusion Cash
Fusion Cash has offers and surveys to complete. Fusion Cash lets you choose your payment method. They pay either by check, paypal, or direct deposit.
Pros: easy to use website, do not have to hit a submit button after completing offers, 20%/10% referral program just like Cash Crate
Cons: not as many offers as Cash Crate
Minimum Payout: $25
Squishy Cash
Squishy Cash is a neat site. I'm starting to like it almost as much as Cash Crate. It has a lot of offers to choose from. Best of all, the constantly run promotions that let you earn more. They have an inbox you can check for messages and they send you one for each promotion. For example, this week's promotion is they give you a free $1 for every $3 that you earn. Sometimes they even give you a promotional code you can type in for a free 50 cents. They always have something going on to help you earn more.
Pros: great promotions, many offers, many payment options, 20% referral program
Cons: you must clear your cookies before each offer so they can clear
Minimum Payout: $20
Clix Sense
The most trusted pay to click site out there. Clix Sense pays you to view 30 second ads. Almost all other pay to click sites try to base their site off of what Clix Sense has been doing.
Pros: low $10 minimum payout, very trusted
Cons: there aren't very many ads to view unless you upgrade your account (which is $10)
Minimum Payout: $10 via check
Treasure Troopers
Treasure Troopers is yet another site that lets you complete offers and surveys for cash. The pay by check monthly as long as your account has a minimum of $20. If you do not reash $20 per month, it will just roll over to the next month (just like almost all GPTs).
Pros: easy to use site, pays 20% of what your first level referrals earn and 5% of what your second level earns
Cons: I sometimes have trouble getting offers to clear. You must have your internet explorer security settings turned down and pop up blocker turned off to get offers to clear.
Minimum payout: $20 via check
Sparkle Dollars
Sparkle Dollars pays you cash to complete offers, but they also have a few pay to clicks offered each day. All you do is click on an ad, view it for a few seconds, and then they immediately credit your account. They offer a low, low minimum payout of $5.00 and regularly run contests and promotions as additional incentives.
Pros: easy to use site, low $5.00 payout is super easy to reach, offers pay to clicks
Cons: pays through paypal with $5 minimum, or money order with a $10 minimum, but charges a fee for the money order (I prefer to be paid via check)
Minimum payout: $5.00 via papal
Inbox Dollars & Send Earnings
I love these two sites. I've lumped them together because they work the same way. The sites almost look and navigate exactly the same. Both sites pay you to read email. All you do is open the paid emails they send you, click a confirmation link at the bottom, and your account is immediately creditted. They also have paid offers to complete on their site and daily surveys (I tend to not qualify for many of their surveys due to being a married white female). I don't earn enough to reach payout with them monthly (I will after getting some referrals under me though), but just clicking on the emails does add up over time and takes very little effort and time to do.
Pros: paid emails are a super easy way to earn, gives you a $5.00 sign up bonus, also has paid offers and surveys, run sweepstakes as additional ways to earn
Cons: doesn't have as many offers to choose from as some other sites
Minimum Payout: $30.00 via check
Bux.to
I love this site! It's a paid to click site. No offers or surveys to click. No contests or sweeps to enter. All you do is view 30 second ads for 1 cent each, which surprisingly really ads up. They also have an amazing referral program!
Pros: pays you 100% of what you referrals earn, lets you buy referrals from them if you don't have time to build up referrals
Cons: only pays via AlertPay
Minimum Payout: $10
Hits 4 Pay
How you earn with Hits 4 Pay:
Pros: easy to earn
Cons: not as many options to earn as other sites
Direct Earnings: Earn $0.02 for each validated email that you read
Second Level: Earn $0.01 for each validated email that your direct referrals read.
Third Level: Earn $0.01 from each validated email that your direct referral's referral reads.
Minimum Payout: $25 via paypal
About Making Money With Opportunity Sites
If you are new to making money online, then be sure to look at my earlier posts (especially the posts titled "Introduction," "Paid Survey & GPT Sites Explained," "How to be Successful," and "Get in the Mindset to Make Money." Those posts are super valuable to anyone who is new to making money online or anyone who is serious about making money with GPTs and paid surveys. Use the right column to navigate through this blog. You can browse by topic or look through the archive which lists all of the posts ever made.
If you are wanting to make this a hobby, you can easily make $20-50 a month. To do that, I would deffinitely start out with Cash Crate. Then choose a couple more sites that you like. Good GPT choices would be: Fusion Cash, Squishy Cash, and Sparkle Dollars. A great survey choice is Your 2 Cents. And great paid to click choices are Bux.to and Clix Sense.
If you want to make serious money, then join all of the sites I listed above and spend a little time each week trying to get referrals under you, as well as working on completing surveys and offers. After you get the hang of dealing with this list of money making sites, then join and try out other sites that I have listed in the right hand column.
Things might be slow the first 2-3 months that you do this. My first 2 months, I only earned about $25 a month (from Cash Crate). But, after you get in a good rythm and learn which sites you like the best, you will see bigger earnings.
I know that some people who work hard to get referrals under them will say that you will make big money immediately, but that's not true. Anything that sounds too good to be true is. But, you really can make a steady income doing GPTs and paid survey sites if you spend a little time on it regularly.
I look at it as a job. I have to put time into it if I want to make hundreds a month. But the benefits are:
1) I choose when I work. I never have to call in sick or take vacation time. I work when it's convenient to me and my family.
2) I didn't have to apply, interview, or compete for this job and I'm in no danger of being fired ever. Working in the job force can be stressful. You're always worried about your job performance and whether you willl get laid off, etc.
3) I can spend time with my toddler while I'm also doing a few offers and surveys.
Things to keep in mind:
1) Do not EVER join a GPT or survey site that has a membership fee. If you have to pay just to join, then it is NOT legit.
2) Check your email often. Paid survey sites will email you surveys that you can complete for money or other incentives. Some of the offers you complete on GPT sites will require you click on a link in a confirmation email.
3) Give honest information. If any of the sites you work with find out that you are giving false information, they will cancel your account.
4) You do not have to have referrals under you in order to earn money, but you earn more and faster if you do have referrals.
5) The money will not flow in unless you spend some time on this.
Be sure to check out the rest of my blog for good tips to get you on the path to making money. Email me if you have any specific questions.
How to be Successful - Tips & Tricks
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
Paid Survey & GPT Sites Explained
By now I'm sure you've been exposed to just a few of the infinite number of paid survey and GPT (get paid to) sites that are available on the web. That's why you stumbled upon my blog; you would like to learn more about them. So did I a few months ago. I did a ton of research and experimented with well over 20 sites and will share with you all that I have learned and all that I will learn in the future about the money making opportunities that these sites offer.
First, you need to learn the difference between paid survey sites and GPT sites. Many GPT sites call themselves paid survey sites and many sites are both. So, it can get confusing at first.
Paid survey sites usually require you to sign up and then they email you surveys that you can either choose to complete or not. For each survey you are rewarded either a small sum of money (sometimes just pennies, but it can really add up) or points that can be redeemed for cash, gift cards, or sweepstakes entries. Most paid survey sites seem to only offer you sweepstakes entries for your efforts. While the odds for these contests are much better than winning the lottery, I prefer to focus my time on GPTs because they offer compensation for all surveys and offers that you complete. The surveys usually ask you questions about products your household buys and uses or questions about your television viewing habits, etc.
GPT sites have what they call offers. These usually require you to sign up for some annoying email newsletters or something of that nature. The purpose for these "offers" is to get you to submit your email, address, or phone number so that companies can reach you for future advertisements. Sometimes the offer will result in what is usually referred to as a silver offer. This requires that you sign up for a trial of some sort. For example, maybe you sign up for a trial membership of a book club. You get your free trial books and either keep them, agreeing to join the book club, or send them back and cancel the membership (which means you will be charged nothing). Accepting trial offers can be a real pain if you aren't wanting to put any money out at all because you will have to stay very organized and on top of everything so that you can cancel your trials before any money is due. I don't like having to worry about canceling things, so I just stick to surveys and 100% free offers. If you are willing to stay organized and do the trials, the there is the potential to make $1,000 to $3,000 monthly. Some GPT sites (such as Cash Crate) will go ahead and give you credit for completing an offer all the way up to the silver offer and then just closing the window to cancel out.
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