Opinion Outpost Payment Update

Ok, I am continuing to cash out with several online paying survey sites that cost absolutely nothing to join and start. Here is an updated look at the total amount I have earned with OpinionOutpost to date. Think about it, get involved with a few sites, and you have multiple income streams. Nice Stuff!

Survey Spot Payment Update

Just wanted to post my payments received from SurveySpot. They continue to be the fastest paying site that sends me the most survey invitations.

Get Paid To Try New Products

Ok, so within the last few weeks I've been sent different products to "Test and Give My Opinion". Just to give you an idea of these things, I received:

1. 8 rolls of toilet paper from Quilted Northern on a new product they would like to release.
2. A bottle of Odor Eaters to test and give my opinion
3. A box of the New Special K Red Berries cereal to try
4. An ipod FM transmitter to try and keep for my car (very kool)
5. Most recently I received Body Wash from Gillette to test for the next week

Check it out:

Make Money Online by Selling Other People's Products

You need to have an offer in order to make money online. This is a common sense, and if you want to learn to make money online, you can start by selling other people's products. Affiliate marketing is one of the most profitable online business module, you earn when there are sales made through your promotion.

For over the years, affiliate marketing has created more internet millionaires than any other internet business module. The biggest problem face by most affiliates is this; they don't know how to start. I'm going to show you the step by step strategies so that you can learn to make money online using affiliate marketing.

1. Identify your goals. Make sure you know how much you want to earn from your online business. Set a goal and take action to make your goals come true. Always start with a goal.

2. Locate your market. You have to know which market you are going into. Depends on where your passion and knowledge are, choose one that you are familiar with. Make sure you do market research before going into the market. Know what your market wants and give them the solution, and you will be rich.

3. To make money online, you need a website. Learn to build a website; even if it is a blog or a lead capture page, you need to have one. The best is to go for a lead capture page. It is a one-page website with the purpose to capture visitor's emails and names thus you can contact them again. In other words, this is called list building. Use an auto-responder to do so.

4. Drive massive of traffic to your website. Without traffic, you are not going to make any sales. It is the traffic that is going to buy from you. As long as you take the necessary action, traffic will come.

There you have them, the 4 simple steps to learn to make money online. These steps are just the basic, but if you follow through each and everyone of them, I believe that you will be able to create an extra online income for yourself.

Discover how you can earn money online the fast, easy and automatic way. Claim your Free Download of 2 weeks e-course, Automatic Online Profits here, http://www.EasyAutomaticProfits.com This is a complete course from the head until the toe.

If you don't act on this information today you may never get the opportunity to take this life changing step again. Just follow the link and start your new life today!

5 Easy Ways To Make Money Online NOW

Nowadays making money online become a very popular search. Many people are looking to generate income from the comfort of own home because they can be theirs own boss, have more time for the family, friends and be free. A lot of us are struggling of the "rat race" working 9-5, we are looking for a better lifestyle, more freedom and time to ourselves. That's why I want to present you my easy ways to make money online.

Here are my top 5 easy ways to make money online:

1. Make descent money online selling other people stuff, it can be ebooks, software, audios, templates. I recommend you to go to Clickbank.com. It's one of the biggest sites offering many affiliate products. The advantage of being affiliate is that you don't need to bother about payments or card processing. Everything is handled for you, what you have to do is just to promote these products. You will be rewarded with 50-70% commission for each sale.
   
2. Do you have something to sell on auctions? Internet can be a great way to sell useless products for you and generate some money. Go to Ebay.com, the biggest auction site on the internet. That's a great opportunity if you have some reselling rights of digital products like ebooks, audios, software, templates etc. With reselling rights you will be able to sell legally someone other products and charge full amount. In comparison to affiliate programs where you get 50% here you get the all price.
   
3. You can offer services to other people. It can be web design, article writing, translation, data entry, research, transcription, virtual assistant. Some of them, like last ones, don't require any specific skills. That's why I think they are best and very easy ways to make money online. If you think that you are good in writing, designing or anything where is a high demand you should create a profile on Elance.com or Guru.com and offer your service.
   
4. Another easy way to make money online is creating a blog. Registering a blog is very simple and quick to do. You can set up blog very easily either on Blogger.com or Wordpress.org. You can make money from adsense ads on your blog, banners, text links, sponsored reviews, paid posts and other ads. There are many opportunities. Make a blog about the topic you are related to, you have some knowledge. It can be your hobby or interest. Remember that content is a king, write quality posts, rich of keywords and useful information.
   
5. Make money online selling own photos. You don't need to have any fancy camera, the more important is high resolution of your pictures. If you have already some big collection of good photos, register to iStockPhoto.com and start selling!

These 5 easy ways to make money online are my favorite. I choose them also because they are easy to implement for new person in internet business and most of them don't require much skills. The problem I found that many people have is that they are not taking action. Act now and don't read another page about "making money online". I already showed you many lucrative ways to do it, so don't think about it but do it!

More Info On How To Make Money Online - FREE

How do I make money online for free? is one of the most common question nowadays. Thousands of people are trying to make some money off the internet. But the only problem is, they are unable to find a reliable method to make cash by working online. Many of us require clear instructions about something we do not know about. I will shed some light on the above question which will hopefully help you.

There is one question that you should ask before earning online. Why do you want to earn online? If you can clearly state this then it will be easier for you. I think most people would want to earn a full time income online. This is due to the several advantages that it offers. But there are other people who are happy with their day jobs and just want to add some extra money money.

For the latter type of people there are some opportunities listed below.

1. Make money online for free by taking surveys: There are thousands of survey sites which will pay you for answering some questions. Some of them accept members for free while others require you to pay and join. You can join the free sites and when you complete surveys, you will be paid.

2. Make money online for free by clicking ads: You can join some websites which will display ads. You will be paid for the number of ads you click. The pay may be from one cent per ad to ten cents. It will require no knowledge and expertise. You have to just click and earn.

3. Make money online for free by reading emails: This is similar to above. The only difference is that you will receive emails. When you read them you will be paid.

The above three methods require no expertise and also pay very less. If you like it then you can join. But before you join do some research on the website you are signing up. There are always some good sites and some bad ones. Do a thorough a research especially on the paid membership sites.

Now coming to the people who want to earn a full time income online. Getting to a full time income for a beginner is not as easy as you think. You have to learn many things before you even think of making your move. The most important thing that you should learn is writing for the web. Since the entire internet is made up of content, you have to also be able to give good content. So start practicing to write now.

There are some sites which pay you for writing articles. Joining them will give you a start in the correct direction. Two sites that help you to make money online for free by writing articles are associatedcontent.com and constant-content.com.

Payment Update from Opinion Outpost

Just an update to ALL my payments this month from Opinion Outpost:

Focus Group Onlne Participation

So within the past week I have participated in 2 Focus Group Online Discussions and have been invited to another for August 8th, 2008. Each Focus Group pays $30-35. Here is how they work.

I got invited to all 3 Focus Groups through SurveySpot.com. Surveyspot sends me anywhere from 6-12 survey opportunities a day. Some don't pay, but there is at least $10 worth of surveys offered, not to mention the focus groups online. When you qualify for a focus group, survey spot tells you the incentive then a follow up email with instructions and a link to your group.

Here is a sample email from them:

Checks are Coming in Daily Now

Well, I got a handful of more checks in the mail recently. Not only from Opinion Outpost, but from SurveySpot as well. Opinion Outpost has been sending me 4-5 surveys a day that pay between 4.00-10.00. So the possibility on this site alone is great. Check out my checks below:

Opinion Outpost Continues to Pay FAST!

I've been receiving several checks from Opinion Outpost lately. They pay fairly fast and the surveys are short. Take a look at my earning of about $100 in a short time span. Not bad!

If you havent already joined, I highly Recommend Them.
Click Here to get started.

Got Paid Again! Thanks Fusion Cash!

Besides getting 2-5 checks in the mail per day now, I received a direct deposit from Fusion Cash. See below. They pay within 30 days and have very reasonable offers to complete!

Join Here!

Who Can Use a Few Extra Bucks just By Answering Questions?

Check out this site. If you have 1-2 hours extra a day, why not make some money online?
Basically, you get paid to take 5 minute surveys online for FREE. Some of the surveys send you products to test, like shavers and stuff, and pay you as well.

http://simplypaidsurveys.blogspot.com

Are Google AdWords FREE Now???

Here is an interesting new secret that shows all you need in order to get Google AdWords pay-per-clicks FREE!

A young gentleman from Chicago discovered what he calls an “oversight” on the part of 99.9% of all marketers that would allow him to get paid-for advertising at Google as well as all other search engines that allow sponsored ads.

And there is absolutely nothing about his “secret” that is illegal.

The Chicago business man boasts proudly that "…this is something that I caught onto just before 2000 when there was so much search engine craze running around, and started doing small just to test things at first … but I later expanded on after getting the hang of it."

This same fellow went on to start and operate eighteen separate online companies selling everything from DVDs, children’s toys & games, books, software, and sold not only his own manufactured products but became an affiliate for other web businesses – all the while applying his mastermind secret.

Over the course of nearly eight years the New Englander confesses "I’ve actually received over $87 million in advertising using my secret I never had to pay a penny for … and the greatest share of which was more recently in Google pay-per-clicks as well as other forms of pad advertising at search engines … all of which I got for free …”

His secret is so powerful that he is able to monopolize any available niche online, and can always secure the top spots just above the usual results featured at most popular search engines.

He still has to set up an account with the search engines – but after applying his secret he is removed from having to pay for any costs otherwise involved.

Again, the best part is nothing about his secret is illegal or takes money from the search engines.

The northerner revealed that in this nearly eight years’ period of time since applying his secret he’s done well over $300 million in sales revenue with a most diverse line of products, and most recently in the last three years netted nearly $168 million after really “buckling down and pressing my secret to its fullest potential.”

Now to everyone else’s fortune, the city slicker is releasing his secret for getting an unlimited amount of pay-per-click ads to the general public. But he’s not promising any of us for how long.

The gentleman says “We’ll see just how long I can make it available before it saturates things.”


It is currently available at:

http://freegoogle.net

…head on over there now and get it!


It’s in a very easy to read format and is quickly understood and mastered by anyone with even a 4th grade reading level.

While you’re there, scroll down and review for yourself the huge successes others are now having with this incredible breakthrough in targeted advertising now made freely available to the rest of us?

Im giving this a shot for success and will keep you readers in the loop.

Here's to your success,
-Chip

About Network Marketing

Many of us today want to make money. Those who don't think about it, god bless you, you probably live a great stress free life. The race to the finish and to make good money is always going to be there. Network Marketing is a shortcut that can really help someone interested in getting started with a home based money making opportunity.

Network Marketing allows us to earn income by referring others to do exactly what you are doing to make a few extra bucks. With that being said, Network Marketing can also be great because of the product or service you are promoting to others as it can add benefit to someone’s life to make it easier and more enjoyable!

The money is out there, it can happen passively, and you can make an extra $500, $1,000, $5,000, or more a month depending on how hard you work towards your goal. Network Marketing allows you to balance your time and energy by referring others to do the same thing you are doing. That is truly the beauty of Networking.

As long as you are in an honest, ethical, and reasonable home business, everything will take its place as you can be excited and willing to work for this company to increase your money and take advantage of all of the network marketing traits out there!

BlinkWeb Website Creation Software FREE

Well everyone, it is finally here. The BlinkWeb website software available for FREE right now on their site.

Their motto is "If you know how to point and click, you can create your very own professional, "sales letter style" website OR blog in minutes.

Sign up for a FREE account in under 10 seconds! And best of all, it's 100% FREE!"

Im playing with this online tool now and it is VERY nice! Take a look at the video below:

Very Important Survey Tips

Here are some Important First Steps to Ensure Your Success if you are signing up to take surveys online and get paid.

By now you have already taken a look at my startup guide that gives you the steps on getting started and receiving email invitations to get paid for your opinion.

Ok, the most important tip I can give you in being successful at making money doing online paid surveys is taking your time to signup to as many free paying survey sites as you can. It will take some time up front, but once you are done registering with all of the companies, then you can just sit back and pick from your email the best survey offers to complete. Remember, before you start a survey, the emails informs you on how much it pays. So pick and choose the best paying surveys.

When I first became interested in doing surveys for money FREE, I actually paid for a complete database list of these paying survey companies. This site updates the database with new companies on a daily basis and was very helpful in Launching my start. Here on my site, I provide you with only a few of the best FREE paying sites I have joined. There's always google to find more sites or you can join or you can like me and pay for access to a site with a massive list. I recommend keeping it free and checking my site for links to the best paying sites. Will keep in touch!

Basic Ways to Make Your Money Grow

Can I make money online?

How much can I make?

How much money will I have to spend in order to even start to make money online?

The truth is once all the mystique is taken out of it you will find it a piece of cake to make easy money online and you absolutely don’t have to spend any of your own money to do it unless you want to.

There are a few ways you can make money online for free and possibly make a living from them as well. Lets go over a few of your options. First lets look at paid to click (also known as PTCs) and paid to read (also known as PTRs). There are plenty of sites that offer this form of making money online service. PTC sites pay you for clicking on ads and watching them for anywhere from 10 seconds to a minute. PTR sites pay you for reading emails they send you and clicking a link within your email. These sites pay anywhere from a penny to five cents per ad you view. It doesn’t sound like much, but you take 10 to 20 sites that you click 10 to 20 ads a day that money adds up quickly. A lot of these sites will put $5 to $10 in your account immediately after signing up. Not a bad quick start.

The most efficient way to get the most out of PTRs and PTCs is one to check your email as often as you can. I usually check four to six times a day. A good tip is to run as many sites simultaneously as you can. So while one ad is running your running another ad from another site and so on. These sites usually have referral programs where you can refer other people to join and they pay you a percentage of your referral’s activities.

A good tip is to get as many referrals as you can. A great way to do this is by posting in forums with your referral link in your signature, by starting a blog or a website and adding your links, joining social networking sites and getting people to sign under you and just be creative!

Another way to make easy money online for free that a lot of people are using is blogging. There are many sites where you can start a blog for free like Blogger or WordPress. Once your blog is up, you monetized it with Google Adsense, Yahoo Publisher, Bidvertiser or some other network ads and so when people click those ads you make money. You can also put affiliate links on your blog.

Other ways to make money online from your blog is to talk about a product or service you offer and doing paid reviews from places like PayPerPost, Blogsvertise, Smorty and other paid to blog sites. I must mention however that Google frowns on doing paid reviews and will penalize you by dropping you Page Rank it they find that’s what you are doing. But you can still make money from it.

Another way to make money online is niche marketing. I am getting in to this way of making money online myself, and already see the huge potential of this way to make money online. Niche marketing is where you choose a niche to market, something that has a good search number but as well as low competition. Create a website that related to that niche, monetized it, start marketing the site and do the whole thing over for another niche. You can also use free hosts to put your sites on or pay for hosting it’s all up to you.

Some ways to market your site to get traffic and backlinks is article marketing, which is simply writing articles and submitting them to article directories, commenting on blogs that are related to your niche, social bookmarking your site and articles and once again posting in forums. The more quality backlinks you have to your site the higher it rises on the search engine results, which means more traffic, which means more money.

Now you can see that it is easy to make money online without throwing your money at it. But you have to remember that although it is to make money online you do have to put some work into it if you want to make a living at it.

I have money coming from Opinion Outpost!

Just wanted to share my payout history for doing some quick surveys from the site OpinionOutpost.com.

This site sends a few surveys a day and pays fairly well for the short time it takes to do the surveys. Check out my payout history below for $50+ dollars and less than an hour of work! Click the image to signup and start earning money for free!

OVGuide - Online video site for watching tv and videos FREE

Cool site on its way up!OVGuide.com is the Internet's most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to online video, including TV shows, movies, user-generated content and video games. They deliver an innovative, user-friendly way to search and browse relevant, high-quality video sites on the Web.Visit my blog for more info.

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Dont buy an iPod. Earn one completely FREE in just 2 days!

Besides getting paid well for online surveys, I always put time once a week towards winning a completely free ipod. They offer your choice of an iPod Shuffle, a $75 iTunes gift card, an iPod Nano, iPod Classic or an iPod Touch. And for alot of patience, they will even send you an 8GB iPhone.Check out my blog for step by step instructions!

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Make Money With MoreNiche FREE!

Another FREE BiG money maker I came across called MoreNiche. They supply tons of free tools and information at absolutely no cost. This one is worth a shot!
Follow their few simple steps and then just wait to see how much money rolls in.

Click the banner above to check it out and register for FREE.

What is MoreNiche?
MoreNiche is a high paying affiliate marketing program that pays its thousands of affiliates over $1 million every single month. They give you tons of free resources to help you make money which you will learn how to use by reading their free affiliate guides.

MoreNiche contains a collection of highly desirable products which you can easily advertise online. For every sale made from your account, they will pay you up to $175. By sending your visitors to them through specially encoded links YOU will be credited for any sales.

Some benefits of become MoreNiche affiliate:

* Free to join
* Earn $15 in your account straight away just for signing up
* Make 50 MoreNiche Forum Posts and receive another easy $10
* Upload your site (they will give you free sites) and get a further $10
* Generate some visitors to your site and we pay you another $10
* Total of $45 in your account within hours of signing up
* You will be provided with marketing tools, free websites and 1on1 support.
* Get prizes for great business ideas In the MN forum.
* Refer a friend and get $20 every time you refer an active affiliate to the program, you also make 5% of everything they make with MoreNiche - for life.
* Get paid twice a month, and you can choose from three payment options:
1. International Wire - direct in to your bank account
2. Epassporte - Online convenience & debit card option
3. Checks - direct to your mailing address

MoreNiche offers top-notch support, free webmaster help (Design, data entry, etc), and well converting products for you to promote on your site. Good luck!

I will keep you posted on my success of this program.

SurveySpot Pays Good!

Good morning fellow money makers. I have been doing surveys for this site called SurveySpot and recommend them as a must for everyone. Its completely FREE and they have great cash compensation and rewards. They also have a good amount of Product testing they pay you for.

Just yesterday I did a few surveys (maybe 30 minutes worth of my time) and I was chosen for 2 Product evaluations they are paying me to perform along with $16 cash. The Product testing pays between $5-10 each study so that's about $35 in 30 minutes from them. Not bad!



SurveySpot offers three ways to earn cash and prizes:

1. Instant Win Game
Every time you take a survey (whether you qualify or not), you get to play an Instant Win Game with thousands of dollars in cash and prizes.

2. $25,000 Cash Sweepstake
Every time you take a survey, you earn an entry into SurveySpot's $25,000 cash sweepstakes, awarded to one winner every quarter! There are also smaller amount awarded to many more winners. Great chances here.

3. Cash Awards
Certain surveys offer cash awards after you qualify and complete the survey. Details will be included in the email invitation you receive, so read them carefully.

A few tips about SurveySpot.
-They will send you several emails a day. Not all surveys pay, so read the email because they tell you the compensation up front.

-If you receive an email invitation and the survey says it takes 30 minutes to complete but no money is compensated, Start the survey anyway, but for the initial screener question that determine if you qualify, just check off that you work for a marketing company. Doing this will get you in the sweepstakes as well as give you the instant win game. Personally, I don't want to do the 30 minutes survey with no cash reward, so I just spend 1 minute, choose I work in a marketing compnay (because they dont allow anyone in marketing to join in surveys). and take the Instant Win game.

Check out ovguide.com

Off topic, but check out this online video site for watching tv, videos and movies. Thought it was cool...



Here's a quick description:
OVGuide.com is the Internet's most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to online video, including TV shows, movies, user-generated content and video games. Headquartered in Los Angeles, the privately-held company delivers an innovative, user-friendly way to search and browse relevant, high-quality video sites on the Web.

With a unique interface, OVGuide.com categorizes and organizes more than 1,600 online destinations, offering both short- and long-form videos integrated into an editorialized directory and search engine. The site receives more than 12 million visitors, 60 million page views and over 9 million searches per month. A team of experienced editors review all content prior to publishing it to OVGuide.com, ensuring all sites are valuable and categorized appropriately.

BlinkWeb: Website Design Software

Blinkweb Website Design Software

I came across a soon to be released web site building software designed for total non-techies to use in order to build websites and blogs without needing any coding experience at all. They have released a short intro video about Blinkweb but that's about it at this point. The video is very impressive and should attract tons of Bloggers when release "soon".

I will keep you posted on the status as I will be following this closely. For now, take a look at the video for BlinkWeb here.

10 Mistakes in Affiiliate Marketing that Can Stop You to Succeed in Affiliate Marketing

Although anyone can start an affiliate marketing business but not everyone can achieve success in affiliate marketing. What is the reason? Well, there are 10 of them, actually. There are 10 affiliate mistakes that deter people from succeeding in affiliate marketing business. To avoid all these mistakes, you first need to study them and understand them thoroughly.

1. Believing that visitors would only click on their affiliate links. Although the task of an affiliate is only restricted to pre-selling, pre-selling isn’t just limited to displaying the affiliate links. It also entails enticing visitors to click on them by listing out the benefits of the affiliate products, giving positive recommendations by writing reviews to encourage readers to check out the products.

2. Promoting too many affiliate programs at the same time. If an affiliate markets 8 affiliate programs at the same time, he or she will have 8 affiliate marketing campaigns to handle. Most probably, the affiliate will find difficult to manage all his campaigns and unable to concentrate on each one of his or her affiliate programs in this situation and ends up losing money.

You should begin with one affiliate program; choose a program that you are passionate about. Then put your best effort to market the product. Test different marketing strategies to see which one works best. Once you are making a steady commission with the product, then maybe you can look for second affiliate product to sell.

3. Believing that using a single method of marketing technique is sufficient. There are people actually think that submitting a few articles to article websites will generate the amount of traffic they expected. But this is wrong. Focusing only one marketing technique will limit the number of potential buyers you can send to your affiliate merchant’s website

4. Failing to improve the performance of your marketing campaign. Many affiliates tend to concern on checking their daily commission only and have no interest on studying and analyzing their marketing campaigns performance. When their campaigns don’t work as expected or don’t generate sales, they will fail to make corresponding adjustments because they don’t know which aspects of their campaigns need to be improved. It is essential to learn every aspect of our marketing strategies. Which marketing techniques are attracted most visitors? How many unique and returning visitors generated? How long do they stay in our website? Where they come from? These are the questions that could help us enhance the performance of our affiliate marketing business.

5. Promoting affiliate products that are lacking of demand. Some affiliate programs offer extremely high sale commission to their affiliate. But the products aren’t sellable and thus earning nothing.

6. Failing to find an affiliate program with a proven record of consumer satisfaction. The trustworthiness of a company relies on how people view it. If the affiliate program has established good relationships with their customers, then it has established a brand which is recognizable for its excellent service. You will find easier to pre-selling such an affiliate product.

7. Failing to keep abreast with the latest developments in the industry. There will come a time when the marketing knowledge we know would become obsolete, more so in the field of internet marketing where everything transpires at a rapid pace. You have to constantly update yourself with the newest trends, techniques and news in this field to always keep your competitive edge.

8. Failing to invest on knowledge. Knowledge likewise evolves and you have to evolve with it. Buy noteworthy eBooks, special reports and the likes… those which would teach you the latest tactics to help you conquer your field.

9. Resting on your laurels once a semblance of success is achieved. Success is not eternal. You have to sustain it. If you leave your business alone once it shows the promise of success, you’re just setting it up for failure.

10. Though that affiliate program can help you become rich fast. No, affiliate program isn’t a “get rich quick” scheme. You have to put in a lot of effort and time, and some capital before you can make money in affiliate marketing.

Tips for Selecting a Good Affiliate Program to Promote

Your success in affiliate marketing part depend on the kinds of affiliate programs your are marketing.To make your affiliate marketing campaign works, you obviously need to participate in an affiliate program that offers worthy and quality products. Below are some tips that can help you choose an affiliate program that is good for you:

1. Affiliate programs that are associated with many experts in that particular niche usually are in certain level of standard and quality. Joining one of these programs will assure you that the products of the program you will be promoting are in good standard.

2. The program that is catering to a growing target market. This will ensure you that there will be more and continuous demands for your referrals. Ask question. There are forums and discussions you can participate in to get good and reliable feedbacks.

3. A program with a compensation plan that pays out a residual income and a payout of 30% or more would be a great choice. There are some programs offering this kind of compensation. Look closely for one. Do not waste your time with programs that do not reward substantially for your efforts.

4. Be aware of the minimum quotas that you must fulfill or sales target that is too hard to achieve. Some affiliate programs imposes pre-requisites before you get your commissions. Just be sure that you are capable of attaining their requirements.

5. Ask for program recommendations in the community forum of your niche. The experienced marketers who see your question may recommend you the reliable programs they have success with. Other things you can ask about are like is the program offers a real and viable product? Does the program provide a lot of free tools and resources helpful to affiliate? and any other questions you think are essential.

Make Money Online with Affiliate Programs: Getting Started Guide

Affiliates make money by referring customers to their merchants. There are many companies and webmasters offer affiliate programs to promote their online sales. When you sign up for an affiliate program, you will be given an affiliate link with an unique affiliate ID which will be used to market the product. When someone makes a purchase through your affiliate link, you make money (earn affiliate commission). Below are the steps to starting an affiliate marketing business:

Step 1 - Join an Affiliate Program
Clickbank.com is one of the best places to find an affiliate program that interests you as there are a ton of sellers looking for people to promote their e-books and info products. Before you join any affiliate programs, do a little research. Find out which products are most popular, the conversion rate of the products and visit the sellers’ websites to see whether their sales letters are convinced enough to generate sales. A conversion rate of 5% is reasonably good. This means that for every 100 visitors to the website, 5 visitors will buy.

Step 2 – Promote an affiliate program through a website
You need to have a website to promote your affiliate programs. Creating a website isn’t difficult nowadays. You can use an easy website builder to create a website with little or no technical knowledge. To learn more about how to set up a site with website builder, you can go to Google and enter the search term 'website builder' to find a site builder that is right for you.

Step 3 – Decide the Content on Your Website
As you are promoting e-books, you can write a review on each e-book with an affiliate link to the sales website of each e-book. If you do not wish to write reviews, you can create a product recommendation list on your website (e.g., ‘Top 5 SEO e-books,’ ‘Top 3 MP3 music download,’ etc.).

Step 4 – Drive Targeted traffic/visitors to Your Website
To earn affiliate commission you need to drive targeted traffic to your website. The more traffic your website gets, the more likely you’ll generate more sales. There are several ways to drive targeted traffic to your site in short period of time (2 to 5 days). Here’s how……

Pay-per-click (PPC) Advertising
You can get a lot of targeted traffic using PPC advertising. The two most popular and effective PPC advertising programs are Google Adwords and Yahoo Search Marketing. So how PPC advertising program works? PPC advertising programs allow you to bid for top rankings on the keywords of your choice. When someone enters a search term matches your keyword in the PPC search engine and press the search button, your contextual ad will appear on the sidebar of the search result page. If the visitor clicks through your ad to your website, you’ll be charged base on your bid amount. To learn more about PPC advertising, please click here.

Article Marketing
Writing an article related to your affiliate products with a link to your website in the article’s resource box and submitting it to many article directories can bring some free targeted traffic to your site. To get more and continuous targeted traffic, you need to write more articles. Try to publish a new article every week. Doing this for a year can drive truckload of free traffic to your website.

Post Messages on Forums
Another way to get free traffic is by posting messages on community forums with a link to your site on the signature of each message posted by you. Here’s a technique I learned from an affiliate marketer.

1) Run a search on Google to find out forums and message boards that are related to your affiliate products and try to join as many forums as you can.

2) Make sure that each one of your forums profile is edited to include your website link within the signature option.

3) Spend a few hours navigating the pages of the forums. You can ask questions and post informative and helpful replies to other peoples’ questions or messages to build your status. The more people trust you, the more likely they will click your link.

An Introduction to the Different Types of Affiliate Programs

Today, affiliate marketing programs is seen as one of the most important methods by online companies and merchants to market their products and services because implementing an affiliate program doesn't cost much money and it helps generate a consistent stream of online profit.

On the other hand, the affiliates see affiliate marketing as a feasible and low cost method to make online online by promoting other people products using a website or without a website (using Google AdWords PPC advertising program).

There are many affiliate programs on the Internet and not all of them are similar. The most basic affiliate programs fall into 3 categories:

* Pay Per Performance
* Pay Per click
* Residual Income Affiliate Marketing Programs

Pay Per Performance
Pay per performance (PPP) affiliate programs are what most companies and online merchants likes to use. The companies only need to pay when an affiliate referral translates into an action. The action can be a purchase or a lead. The affiliates will spend their own money to promote the affiliated company's products, This save a lot of money for the company. PPP affiliate programs can be futher classified into 2 sub-categories:

* Pay Per Sale (PPS) The title says it all. The company only pays the affiliate when a visitor referred by the affiliate make a purchase.
* Pay Per Lead (PPL) PPL is a little different to PPS. PPL affiliate programs usually used by finance and insurance companies. In this type of affiliate marketing, the affiliate will be paid a fixed commission whenever a visitor referred by him/her to the merchant's website requested a quote or filled up an online application form.

Pay Per Click (PPC) Affiliate Programs
PPC affiliate programs are most popular. You should have heard them a lot. PPC programs are probably the easiest way for web publishers to make money from their websites and blogs. The affiliate gets paid a certain amount ($0.05 to $0.50 usually) whenever a visitor click a banner or text ad displaying on the affiliate's website. PPC typically used by contextual advertising companies like Google AdSense, Yahoo Publisher Networks and much more.

Residual Income Affiliate Marketing Programs
In this type of programs, the affiliate not only compensated for every customer referred to the merchant's website, the affiliate is also paid whenever the referred customer returns to the site and buy another product.

The different types of affiliate marketing programs would deffinitely work differently for merchants and affiliates, and each would have their own advantages and drawbacks. To find out which types of programs work best for you, you'll have to know which one of them suit your need and characteristic most. And then start testing them.

Free Drop Shipping Business Start-up Kit

Several weeks ago, WorldWide Brands has given away a series of free video trainings about making money on the e-commerce world. I have written a post about it here.

Now, they announced that they are giving away one of their information products: Drop Ship Focus. Drop Ship Focus used to sell for $97 at Worldwidebrands.com.

It is a product source kit that jam-packed with loads of e-business materials. It contains:

* 23 audio interviews with top wholesale and drop shipping experts. These experts will give you tips, advice and insider information about drop shipping, liquidation, importing, fulfillment and more.

* 5 videos taking you through the whole process of drop ship and wholesale and giving you information your need to make money with drop shipping.

* 100 real drop ship suppliers with a total of 67,543 wholesale products you can drop ship to your customers.

These information and resources are what you need if you want to begin making money on eBay or start an e-commerce store to sell online. To get a copy of Drop Ship Focus, go to http://blog.worldwidebrands.com, click on video 4 on the top right menu and you will find the button to access Drop Ship Focus.

Another Excellent Free Great Paying Site - Vindale Research

This site has easy to complete offers and credits to your account very fast. Another high recommendation for anyone taking surveys or performing Trials.

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I recently signed up to TikTik Cash as I heard they are a great paying site with lots of reasonable offers. I can confirm they are as I have been paid $121.26 today for only 2 days worth of completing completely free offers!

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FREE iPod: More Helpful Tips

I suggest keeping track of all the high point crediting offers you have completed in a spreadsheet. That way, if for some reason you don’t receive credit, you can contact iPodsweepstakes with the date you completed the offer. They have outstanding customer service and will happily credit you for the offers you didn’t receive credit for.

**Offers usually credit in 5-7 days, some sooner, and some longer so please be patient.

***Clicking on an offer link gives you an entry into the daily ipodsweepstakes. They give out an iPod shuffle everyday an you will receive an email every day notifying you if you won or not.
You can click the link and close the window before it even pulls the page up. You only have to have clicked the link to receive the credit.

Here is the Rewards & Point system used by ipodsweepstakes

1gb shuffles - 1000 points
$75 iTunes gift card - 1000 points
4gb nanos - 2000 points
80gb classic - 3000 points
iTouch - 4000 points
iPhone - 5000 points

If you have anymore questions, don’t hesitate to email me and ask. I don’t mind helping out.

Create a Free Account and Complete Offers

Create a Free Account here Join ipodsweepstakes

Login to your account and start reviewing / filling out offers. Start with the offers that only require an email address or zip code. If an offer says you receive a certain amount of points for entering your zip code, that’s all you have to do. You can close everything else out because you will get pop ups. Same goes for the email address offers.

Make sure you check the email address you used to sign up for your account and the offers (use the same one) because some of the offers require you to click on a confirmation link through the email they sent.

There are also offers that require a Credit Card Number for a free trial. I found these offers give really high points and help reach your goal promptly. If you do decide to do FREE trial Credit Card offers (such as a blockbuster or Netflix trial) make sure you keep track in a spreadsheet and cancel your trial as soon as your points credited to your account. What I personally like about doing the blockbuster or netflix trials, is that you can cancel them online without having to call anyone. eMusic and eFax are like this as well.

How I earned 12 iPods Completely FREE!

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Besides getting paid for online surveys, I always put time once a week towards earning a completely free ipod. They offer your choice of an iPod Shuffle, a $75 iTunes gift card, an iPod Nano, iPod Classic or an iPod Touch. And for alot of patience, they will even send you an 8GB iPhone.

This site uses the same concept, where you click and join sites for points. They even start you off with a good number of points which makes it very easy for beginners.

My favorite thing about this site is that 75% of their offers give you points just for entering your email address and clicking submit, or by entering your zip code and clicking submit. I have been able to claim my FREE iPod in just 2 days of completing completely Free, no credit card offers. Use my Guide to start earning one now!

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Making Money Online without Spending a Penny - Home Income

This blog will guide you step by step on how to make money using the internet and not spending a penny. Pay attention and you can make extra income too. If my information is useful, please join a paying site from my blog. Enjoy and Good Luck!

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Checklist and Success Tips

A Quick Checklist of Success Tips for Paid Surveys:

* Sign-up for a new, free email account — Use Google or Yahoo
* Download & use Roboform to help fill in registration forms
* Sign-up for a free PayPal account if you wan to be paid by PayPal
* Decide your on your Goal, Write it Down.
* Decide on a Technique — How much time you will devote
* Make your effort correspond with your goal

Go Ahead, Start taking Surveys & Start Making Money!

Register, Confirm, Take Surveys & Earn Money — Everyday!

Paid Surveys will not make you rich, yet you can earn a nice steady income, plus there are prizes too! All of this can be completed at your home, online! Be honest with yourself on how much time you can dedicate to paid surveys and what your goals will be. When you begin to see the cash add up, you will be very happy!

If your desire is to make a full time income then you will need to register with all legitimate Paid Survey Companies.

Click below to start at InboxDollars. Immediately after registering, there is $5 already in your account!




Registering with as many legitimate free paid survey companies is one of the most important techniques you can use to earn money with paid surveys. This is because the more companies you use, the more paid surveys, market studies, opinion polls, etc. will be available to you. PLUS, the better chance you will have at winning any of the prizes.

To be successful with paid surveys and earn a good, steady income, you will need to devote 20 to 40 hours a week to it. Take as many surveys as you can, enter as many sweepstakes and contests as you can.
Check you new, paid survey dedicated email account at least twice a day for new offers to take surveys. By being quick to act, you can jump on opportunities many others may miss.

NEVER use your own money for any of the companies. Some of the “games” companies will ask you to play games for cash, yet first require you to make a deposit. If they offer a signup bonus, only use THEIR money to play games. You may be lucky and win enough to cash out with THEIR money!

NEVER participate with survey companies that require you to pay money to take them!

Establish a Goal

Step 3: Establish a Goal & a Technique for Yourself

Establishing a Goal
What do you want to accomplish from getting paid to take surveys? For example do you want to:

A. Take surveys for Fun and Win Cash & Prizes
B. Take surveys to Create a Second Income
C. Take surveys to take a Dream Vacation or buy a New Car
D. Take surveys to Create Enough Income to do this Full Time
E. Take surveys to Pay for College Costs
F. Take surveys to Supplement Your Social Security Benefits

Take a few minutes to think about what your goal will be for completing surveys. Then, most importantly, WRITE down your Goal & make a commitment to accomplish it! People who write their goals down and focus on them, usually succeed!

Links to Create FREE Email Accounts

Here are some links to create your free web based email address

Gmail

Gmail from Google

Yahoo mail

Yahoo mail with address guard

Windows live hot-mail

Windows live mail

I suggest you use another email address other than your personal one (gmail seems to work best) because you will receive a lot of spam in your inbox when you sign up for all these different offers.

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I have to say, this is the easiest Survey Site I have found. I'm newer to Online Surveys and was nervous doing these at first. I found doing all the free offers is the safest route to go if you are new to doing surveys. We have many FREE Surveys that pay Cash!

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Best tips to increase your earnings

Ways to maximize your earnings

Join lots of sites:
You can find heaps of legit paying survey sites at Paid Survey Reviews

Use the referral program:
You earn money from referring other people to sign up to do surveys.

Make a blog or a website.
You can show other people how they can make money doing surveys and include some proof of payment. There is also an opportunity to earn money with your blog or website by showing ads or selling links on your site. Here is a link to a site called Blogging For Money that shows you some basics on Monetizing your blogs

Doing Online Paid Surveys

Things you should know about surveys

If you are reading this then you are probably interested in earning some money from doing paid surveys or want to find out a little more about them.

Paid surveys are real and not all scams I can assure you of this and if you join the right ones you will make some money but how much you make will depend on lots of factors.

To start with you should understand what is required of you and what you should expect from the survey company's you join so I strongly recommend you read the FAQ's, Terms of Service and most importantly their Privacy Policy so you know exactly what they will do with your personal information, you do not what them giving it away to third parties.

All good survey sites will keep your personal information confidential and never pass it on to a third party if they do this then it is more then likely the site you joined is a scam. This is why I stress the fact you read their Privacy Policy. If you are unsure about a site your thinking of joining then I sagest you visit a few forums and see what other people are saying about them or check them out at the Better Business Bureau

Factors affecting your earnings

Demographics are the major factors that will determine how many online surveys you receive as they are generally targeted to a specific group of people. I.e.: a company wants to find out what brand and how much beer men between the ages of 20 to 40 drink on an average day. (Well they are not going to send this to female, non drinkers or people not in that age group.)

The best way to make sure you qualify for the most possible survey invites is to keep your profile up to date and with accurate information including your sex, age, location, ethnicity, and family structure. The more information they have about you the more likely you will get surveys.

Making the Most of Paid Surveys

The best way to make the most money from paid surveys is to use their referral programs by inviting friends and family to join under you in some cases you will make more money this way then by doing the surveys. Try adding referral links to your signature in your emails. Just be careful how you do it you do not want to be accused of spamming

Join lots of sites there are literally hundreds even thousands of sites you can join just be carful and do your research before you join them. This website Paid Survey Reviews has a list of what I found to be the best survey sites as well as a link to proof of payment it also contains lots more useful information that will help increase the amount you earn doing online paid surveys.

Understanding Online Paid Surveys

There are a lot of misconceptions about the paid survey program and the most common one is that they are all scams. This is not true there are a lot of legit sites that pay you cash or rewards for your participation (some more then others) of cause there are lots of scams but you can protect yourself if you follow a few basic rules.

Rule#1:
Never use your primary email account to join these sites there are plenty of free web based email accounts and I recommend and use Yahoo mail with address guard. This will help protect you from spam mails.

Rule#2:
Always research the company before you sign up check with the Better Business Bureau and check out what other people have to say about them at forums. This will help you protect your identity and avoid being a victim phishing or identity theft.

Rule#3:
Read their FAQ, privacy policies, terms and conditions to understand exactly what you are signing up for. This will help you avoid singing up for something you were not aware of like subscribing to 3rd party mailing list or agreeing to have your personal information sold.

If you follow these 3 rules you have gone a long way in protecting your self and avoiding the scams.

Paid surveys is market research conducted by almost all businesses this is how they determine what the consumer would want. It is a legit tool that nearly all businesses use and it helps to shape the market place with products that are wanted.
Companies are willing to pay for this information and this is where you can profit as well as have a say in the products they will release.

Survey sites are engaged by businesses wishing to find out facts and statistics about a targeted audience and the survey site will pass it on to their members that meet the requirements of the study.
A good survey site will protect your personal information you can determine this from there privacy policies so make sure you read them very carefully.

You need to understand that not all payed survey sites are the same some pay money others give you entry into competitions and at least one I know of rewards you with lollies.
Every site has there own method of rewarding your participation so it is very important to follow Rule#3 so you know exactly what to expect from them and what they expect of you.

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Mystery Shoppers Get Paid

Mystery Shopping

Below is a list of mystery shopping sites. The sites listed are legitimate companies. I found the sites on ShadowShopper.com. ShadowShooper tries to get you to pay for a Silver or Gold membership, but it is possible to see the company names without spending the money for them. If you sign up for ShaddowShopper as a free member when companies need people in your area, they have access to the database of the free members and will email you directly.

www.beyondhello.com - eyeglasses, contacts, eyeglass accessories.
www.mymysteryshop.com
www.serviceexcellencegroup.com/shopper.php
www.experienceexchange.com
http://www.gapbuster.com
http://sgmarketing.com - Banks ~ After you complete your first successful shop you have access to their phone shops. This company responds very quick to reply to emails.

The Guide to Successfully Completing Offers

This post is to inform you how to successfully complete an offer from start to finish. After reading this, you will be able to signup to one or more sites and be instantly start earning real cash!

Here is the information.

To complete an offer you must give information such as name, address, phone number, e-mail address and date of birth. "Get Paid To" sites require you to input your personal information in a truthful manner, but there are ways to keep advertisers from calling you at all hours of the night.


Email Address
Use one main e-mail address when signing up for survey sites, in order to ensure that you get all updates and correspondence from the sites.

I personally use gmail as they provide the best and easiest to use service. Signup at gmail.com

Cookies, Cache and Internet History
Clear your cookies, cache and history on a daily basis. This is how companies track if you completed an offer. When you click on the link from whatever "Get Paid" site you are using, it has your account number embedded into the link. When the offer completes the advertiser's website places a "Cookie" on your computer, then notifies the site that you completed the offer. Don't worry, cookies are harmless to your computer. It takes a few simple steps to clear your cookies.

1. Go to "Tools" in the taskbar on the top of your web browser.
2. Click on "Internet Options"
3. Click on "Delete Cookies", "Delete Files", and "Clear History"

Do this between** offers and you will see a greater number of offer approvals.

NEVER delete cookies while you are in the middle of filling out an offer because it will cease to track your progress.

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How far should I go?
When doing the FREE offers, typically the response is to complete an offer "with intent to participate."

Well, what does that mean?
From my experience, and many members of "Get Paid" forums, intent to participate means to fill out the first two pages-
Page 1- postal code/zip code or e-mail address
Page 2- Personal info such as name, address, phone number, etc.

Typically I will only fill out that information at first. If the offer doesn't approve the first time, then I will fill it out completely.

You NEVER have to pay for anything on free offers- so when you get to the silver, gold and platinum offers, you can stop. You don't have to buy anything to get these ones to approve! I also have heard that leaving the confirmation page up can help with the approval.

In regards to daily surveys, once you receive the confirmation page, then you have gone far enough. The page will say something along the lines of "congratulations" and then tell you that you are entered into the $50,000 draw.


Keeping Track
Some offers require a Credit Card (CC) to complete the offer. This typically requires you purchasing something, paying shipping & handling, or paying for a trial offer.

Many of these offers do not send confirmation e-mails (they want you to forget you ordered it)- so it is a good policy to read the Terms of Service (TOS) of EVERY paid offer, and write down the phone number that is listed for customer service or cancellation. Once you complete the offer, look for an account number or account name, and make sure you know what e-mail address you used to sign up for the offer. This way you can contact the company once the offer clears, and cancel your free trial to avoid further charges.

I use one e-mail address for all CC offers, and I usually only do one or two at a time so I don't forget about them and wind up paying extra money for something I'm not using.

***If you want to do a CC offer, but do not have a credit card, or don't feel comfortable using your credit card, you can always try purchasing a pre-paid credit card :) You can get them at your local mall or online- just google "Pre Paid Visa" and you'll have a ton of sites pop up. Just make sure the site you are using allow pre paid cards. I personally just use my own credit cards and keep meticulous track of the offers. If I am in doubt, I call my Credit Card company and explain the situation. If the charges are unauthorized, your credit card company will work with you.

Are you doing more than 1 "Get Paid To"?
Many people participate in several sites at once, which can get a bit tricky when trying to track offers that you have completed. A recent development is the banning of members who do the same offers on different sites, which is a cause of concern for many multiple paying site members.

One recommendation that many sites users have suggested is to keep a spreadsheet with the site used, the name of the survey completed, the date it was completed, and what e-mail address was used. For instance:

"Get Paid To"	Advertiser	Date Completed	E-mail Address Used
SWATcash	Winning Surveys- Xbox 360	09/12/07	SCSurveys@gmail.com
TreasureTrooper	Winning Surveys- Computer	09/15/07	TTSurveys@gmail.com
TreasureTrooper	Coastal Vacations	09/20/07	TTSurveys@gmail.com

This will help with organization of offer completion and will keep you from overlapping offers, and potentially getting yourself banned from all "Get Paid To" sites. It (banning) has happened to others, don't believe it won't happen to you if you are not mindful about what you are doing.

Will I get telemarketers?
Well, it is possible if you use your home phone number, but if you live in the US, there is a few companies that offer a free phone service. I am not a member of any, so I can't comment as to which is the best, I can only list them. http://www.k7.net , http://www.aimphoneline.com/ , http://numbr.com/.

What do I do? I have several offers pending?
This is completely normal for any Get Paid web site.

Many companies give the Get Paid site program several offers at one time. They are looking for unique information. If you do every one of the offers from that company in a short amount of time; chances are that you will not have a great approval rate.

To keep this from happening, it is recommended that you complete between 5-10 new offers per day- and try not to do too many from the same survey company. In addition to limiting the number of offers completed, make sure to rotate e-mail addresses.

If you have offers in pending that you really want to go through, you can re-do them, but try to limit re-doing offers to 2-3/day, and only if the offer has been pending for 2 weeks or more.

If you find that your approval rates are very slowly or most offers are getting denied, then it means it is time for you to create a new e-mail address or two.

Credit Card Offer Suggestions
Many of the Credit Card (CC) offers are very appealing, but do pose some risk ($$$ risk). If you fail to cancel a trial in time, or do not calculate shipping & handling into the overall profitability of the offer, you may end up an un-happy GPTer. Here are some suggestions to keeping you happy AND getting you paid for completing CC offers!

1. Use a pre-paid Visa Gift Card. You can buy them at your local mall, grocery store, or at several online retailers. But be careful, make sure doing so doesn't violate the TOS with the offer you are completing.

2. Track all offers carefully. Use one main e-mail address for all CC offers and keep all confirmations!

3. When you first see a confirmation screen pop up, write it down as well as the customer service phone #. This keeps you from stressing just in case you don't get a confirmation e-mail address.

4. Read the Terms of Service (TOS) VERY carefully! Some of the sneak hidden charges or fees into the offer via the TOS- so take the time to read carefully- it can save you a lot of frustration.

5. Only do 1-2 CC offers at one time. Many people forget to cancel trials or send back samples (when required), and end up getting charged the full-amount instead of the promotional FREE or S&H only. By doing 1-2 at one time, it is easier to keep track of.

6. Check your CC statements carefully every month for unauthorized charges- this is to protect you. Some companies try to sneak stuff past you- so make sure you know what you are getting charged for!

7. If you have an un-authorized charge on your card, or you don't know what you may have ordered, make sure to contact the company listed. If they do not respond, contact your CC company and dispute the charges. One time a site I paid stopped answering all calls and returning emails. I called my CC company to warn them that there might be false charges. Luckily, it all worked out before I got to the point of asking them.

Paid Surveys Do Make Money

There are so many survey companys who are desperate to pay you for your opinions.

Avoid the sites that ask for a sign up fee in return for a list of top paying surveys, these surveys are public knowledge. When I was first looking to make money online, I personally have paid for a list of the "Top Paying Surveys" sites. I am happy to share a list FREE so everyone can benefit and enjoy making some extra cash at no out of pocket costs.

I have found the most success in gaining extra income by signing up to online survey sites. Visit the links on my blog to sign up to the highest paying and most reliable survey sites I have found after tons of research.

If only I was able to find a blog like the one I am creating for FREE public use, I would have saved money and had all the top paying survey companies available.

Stay tuned for more information along with my current winnings, success and failures.