Paid Survey Sites Really Work

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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
  

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.
  

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.