Saturday 30 June 2007

June - The month in review.

This month I have earned (or rather - have been paid) the grand total of £25.06. - Actually, I have earned more than this but I am waiting to reach payout levels on some sites - this will happen in July.
Hopefully this will improve over the next few months as I will be signing up to sites that pay me to write sponsored blog posts.

This months earnings came from:

british rewards - £5.32
linemypocket - £5.00
alphapoints - £5.00
bloggerwave - £4.89
gainpay - £2.95
apairof - £1.00
found - £0.90

So:
Cashback sites have earned me £15.32 (61.13% of the months earnings)
PTR sites have earned me £3.95 (15.76%)
Paid blogging has earned me £4.89 (19.51%)
Finding money has earned me £0.90 (3.6%)

Friday 29 June 2007

Archerfish.

I have requested a payout from archerfish.co.uk.
I have been with this site for a year and have earned nearly £20.00.
Archerfish.co.uk is a PTR and PTC website which will pay you between 0.25p (1/4 of a pence) and 1p to click on ads. The value of each ad will depend on how much the advertiser has paid for placing that particular ad on the site, which in turn will correspond to how long you have to keep the page open, for example a 0.25p click had to be kept open for 15 seconds, a 0.5p ad window for 25 seconds. You can only have one ad open at a time - to prevent cheating.
Payout can be made by Paypal, cheque and amazon vouchers.
There are several sections in which money can be made:
  • Paid To Click - usually a few ads, there is a click competition in which every ten clicks one lucky clicker wins 0.5p. I have won over 85p from this competition!
  • Paid To Read Emails - at the moment there are about three or four emails a day - mostly reoccurring.
  • The top clicker contest - click the most number of ads in one week and win a prize.

Pro's and con's:
(+) quick to pay out after request. Pays in £GBP.

(-) takes a long time to get to payout (£3.00). Only people living in the UK can join.

If you would like to join, click on the links or the banner, thanks.
archerfish.co.uk

Thursday 28 June 2007

Doubling

I have decided to introduce a way of tracking the amount of money I make online. I have been reading posts on the Doublers Den forum and it has inspired me to adapt some of the principles of doubling to my project - there are ideas and stories of how people have made their money.
Doubling involves starting off with nothing, then finding 1p or £1.00 and then doubling it until you have reached your target - which is usually £1million!
In the rules of doubling, you have to spend or invest your current stake to reach the next level - say, going from £128.00 to £256.00. But, the tight-wad that I am, I cannot bring myself to spend my hard earned online cash. I will be using the target table to break the earning target into smaller chunks.
I have not heard of anyone who has actually reached the millon target - a few of the bloggers and members of the forum are making good progress in their challenge.
I have added my target table to my blog and I will be signing up to the Doublers Den shortly.

On a different note... I have had a couple of surveys in the last few days. I am also considering a mass cashout request from all the sites I am a member of.

Monday 25 June 2007

Bloggerwave paid!

Today I received payment of $10.00 from Bloggerwave - after conversion via paypal, I ended up with £4.89. which isnt bad considering. I have had the second article approved aswell, so there will be even more cash coming my way.

I have joined Adbux - but, at the moment I am not particularly impressed... There are three what I call 'static' ads - which are there all the time, and many other 'flash' ads - which pop up and disappear very quickly. As I go out to work during the day, I miss out on many of them.

I am still waiting for the owners of Paid 2 to start posting their ads. If there are going to be as many ads as they say, it should be good.

Saturday 23 June 2007

Paid 2

I have just signed up to a new 'paid to' site called.....well....Paid 2. It hasn't started sending out paid emails or paid clicks yet as the owner is waiting for 250 people to sign up first. (currently there are 134 - the site was launched on 21 june). It is owned by the same person who owns BritishRewards. The payout level is £4.00 and you get a little present for signing up.
They offer a very good referral rate too.
Please use my link or banner to sign up, Thanks.

Paid 2

Thursday 21 June 2007

New earning opportunity - Bloggerwave.

I have decided to try and increase the amount of money I am earning each month – to help with this I recently signed up with Bloggerwave – a pay per review blog advertising scheme. You log in to their site to see if they have any available opportunities, write a review of the website, service or product, publish your review in your blog and wait for it to be approved – payment will be received after the specified time.
I have been offered a couple of opportunities by Bloggerwave – and have accepted them both. I am hoping it will not be long before others appear.
The site itself is easy to use and doesn’t take long to sign up.
This could be a good money earner.
Bloggerwave

Wednesday 20 June 2007

More money.

I found 90p in a drinks vending machine today, which has made me break through the £200.00 mark!
I also had a survey from YouGov, it was one of their brandindex ones - worth 50p.
Shortly afterwards, i received a survey from ciao about IT - I qualified for it and earned £1.40.

Monday 18 June 2007

Masterseek

masterseek is one of the most comprehensive, world-wide, business to business, search engines available. It connects buyers and suppliers in the world-wide business community and provides quick and easy access to vitally important information of over 45 million companies in well over 75 countries. The information includes the profiles, addresses, contact numbers, and the products and/or services offered. You can also submit your own company to the site, with the potential of gaining a vastly increased customer base.
masterseek is a very popular site, and has lots of visitors The site itself is well designed and easy to navigate. It could be very useful if you are looking for a certain business.
masterseek

Sunday 17 June 2007

Blog advertising.

I have just signed up to a site that offers cash for writing adverts on you blog. I will give more details when my blog has been approved. I hope to write a handful of paid articles a week as time allows - this should bring in some decent money and boost my earnings significantly.

Saturday 16 June 2007

Apairof

YES! - I have just received payment of $2.04 (£1.00) from Apairof. I just hope that they start sending me some more emails.
Update: I have just sent an email to the webmaster about this.

A bit concerned.

There are two sites that I am a member of that I am a little bit concerned about, they are Gainpay and Apairof.

Firstly, Gainpay - The number of emails I have received has dropped dramatically from about 20 to 2. I am hoping that this is a temporary glitch as I have made a decent amount from them in the past.

Secondly, Apairof - A few days ago the site was unobtainable, now, there are no emails. I have asked for a cashout - so we'll see what happens.

YouGov surveys

I had a survey from Yougov this morning, for the princely sum of 50p. It covered various topics. The only downside to YouGov that I can see is that the payout level is £50.00. - and earning on average 50p a survey, it takes ages to achieve. But, if you are sent a survey, there are no screener questions, so you are sure to get the money credited to your account.

I also had a survey from Lightspeed Research. This time it was about the BBC. I qualified for it and was cedited with 150 points. 115 points are worth £1.00 paid via PayPal. You can swap your points for other stuff - such as HMV vouchers, crockery etc.

Friday 15 June 2007

More surveys

Today I was invited to take four surveys, two from ciao, one from ipsos and one fron surveys.com. I only qualified for two of them - one from Ciao about toothpaste etc which earned me £1.36 - and another from Ipsos which earned me 250 points.

The pros and cons of Ciao are:
(+) They send out interesting surveys, you can write reviews of products.
(-) They take a long time to credit your account and take up to 6 weeks to pay you when you cash out.

Ipsos pays you relatively quickly in points - which can be redeemed for WHSmiths, Boots or Argos vouchers. I will probably sell the vouchers to family or on ebay.

Thursday 14 June 2007

Payout arrived.

I got the $1.00 (49p) from Gainpay today. I am two fifths of the way to another payout - this 20c was reached in only two days. I hope the number of emails stays high.

Tuesday 12 June 2007

More survey invites.

Today I received two survey invites from Ciao.co.uk and Ipsos - unfortunately I did not qualify for either of them. This can get a bit irritating after a while. Ipsos gives you 10 points if you do not qualify - which is nice (at least you get something).
I am considering signing up to PayPerPost when my blog is over 90 days old - as I understand that there is good money to be made.
I have reached the $1.00 cashout level at Gainpay again - I am going to request a withdrawl.

Sunday 10 June 2007

Quick Payment!

Yippeeee...I have just received the £5.00 payment from Alphapoints.co.uk that I requested yesterday. Getting very close to the 200 quid mark. Not bad for a years work! (ha ha).

Saturday 9 June 2007

Suprise five quid!

Back in January, I signed up to Alphapoints.co.uk - another cashback and daily click site. After a couple of months clicking like a loony, it appeared that I wasnt getting any reward for it, so I decided to stop and concentrate on other sites. I logged in this afternoon to see if anything had changed.... lo and behold - my balance had gone up from 48p to £5.38!

The cashout level is £5.00 only each time. So I have requested the five quid. It says payment will be sent within 60 days. we'll see......

Wednesday 6 June 2007

I got paid!

After a quiet few days, I logged into my email account this afternoon to find I have been paid by LineMyPocket.co.uk (£5.00) and BritishRewards.co.uk (£5.32).
Happy I am!!!

Sunday 3 June 2007

I got a survey!

I have just received a survey from Pureprofile - all about paint - I qualified for it and earned £1.00 into my Pureprofile account. Payout is at £25.00 - To sign up click through to Pureprofile using my referral - this will help me immensely - I will earn £5 per referral - you can do this aswell if you join up and refer people. They also pay 5p for looking at ads.
Update: Conditions apply to the £5 referral scheme - you get the money when your referrals start earning - you get £1 for every £5 they earn. payment is capped to £5.

Gainpay

Another site that I use to make money is Gainpay. This is a Paid To Read (PTR) site - Each email is worth half a cent and there is a 30 second timer for each one. I have been paid over $30 (£15) by them. They are quick to pay out. Minimum payout is $1.00 for verified paypal.

To join using my referral, click the banner below.

gainpay

Payment Requests

I have requested payments from two cashback sites this weekend:
Linemypocket.com - £5.00
BritishRewards.com - £5.32

Linemypocket.com has a daily click section - I usually get about £0.23 confirmed a day from doing these - some of the other clicks take a while to confirm. If you would like to register, click the link above and make sure that this code is in the 'Referred By' box: r66062x. Minimum payout is $5.00

BritishRewards.com also has daily clicks - I normally get £0.15 a day from instantly confirmed clicks, and a varying amount from the other ones - which are confirmed on Thursdays. If you would like to register, click the link above for me to refer you. Minimum payout is £0.01
(For the instant clicks - I have to restart my computer at the beginning (or do it first when i turn the PC on) and clean cookies between each one)

If anyone uses my referral links to sign up - Thankyou - I am most grateful.

The Beginning.

This Blog is part of my experiment to see if I can make money on the internet, and if so - how much.

I started on my quest for cash a year ago - by joining survey sites, Paid To Read/Click sites and Cashback sites.

In the past year, I have managed to accumulate the grand sum of £183.11 in my bank and Paypal accounts. I have a fair amount of money in sites waiting for withdrawl once I reach the minimum payout level.

A breakdown of where the money has come from:


  • Found Money: £1.93

  • Survey earnings £50.17

  • Cashback earnings: £62.75

  • PTR/PTC earnings: £67.93

  • Interest from bank £0.05

  • Paypal opening £0.28

  • GRAND TOTAL £183.11



About Me

Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Female